Mentalechoes

I’m a pretty online kinda guy. I wouldn’t go so far as to give myself a geek label because that doesn’t do anything to improve my image with women, but if I lived on a planet with no women I would probably be called a geek. The funny thing about being a geek is that [...]

Every so often I go through this stage where I feel that life needs a sense of danger to really let me know I’m alive. And I’m not just talking about having a bit of a scare like I might not make it to the train station on time to make my train to work [...]

I’ve been pondering for a while the next direction in life. Turning 40 has had some sort of profound affect on me in the way I view the world. It’s as if all of the value systems I was using suddenly underwent a massive shift in order in the same way that an apartment block [...]

I have a friend who is something of a philosopher, a person of deep thought who has spent a large part of time on earth plumbing the depths of the human condition, determing what the really important things in life are. He was over last weekend and I asked him what it is that is [...]