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  • Passive Karma’s Gonna Get You

    Do you ever think that luck can literally run out? Portrait of my past few days: Lost my iPhone Got dumped. My new receiver, approximately two days outside the return window, died and left me without the comfort of depressing movies and TV. But I can’t complain, can I? The last few months my cup…

  • A Degree of Modesty

    Last week I decided to pop by the university and get a PhD. Since then, a lot of people have been asking, “do you feel any different now that you have a PhD?” Well yes, of course I do. Whenever I insist that someone call me “doctor Phronk”—whether it’s government documents, or my friends, or…

  • Toaster Chicken, the Galaxy, and the Perks of Being Social With Social Media

    I recently came across these in the supermarket: Two words that should never go together are toaster and chicken. So of course I bought a box, and was soon obsessed with toaster chicken; mostly because “toaster chicken” is so fun to say, but also because FlatJacks are surprisingly good, in a chicken nugget sort of…