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Category: deep thoughts

  • The Crumbling Line Between IRL and The Internet

    I used to keep my internet life completely isolated from my real life. I’d never reveal my real name online, and rarely reveal my internet activities in real life. I remember setting up modem games of the original Doom with Cailen by email, because I didn’t want to give him my phone number (and of…

  • Freud and The World’s First Documented "That’s What She Said"

    So I was reading Freud’s book A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis because I had a particularly vexing question about the practice of psychology and went straight to the best source of information. Just kidding! Freud ruined psychology. More like Sigmund Fraud! HAH! But for serious, I rescued the book from my parents’ garage sale, and…

  • Book Review: Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies

    I can’t properly review Fifth Business, since: 1) It’s often considered one of the best novels of all time, so obviously it’s good; and 2) It’s one of those books that I read when I was young – forced to in some high school English class – and it had quite an effect on me.…