Removing My Cravings for Carbs and Sugar – Part 3
Here’s an update on my progress to remove my cravings for crappy carbs and sugar. I’m now starting my fourth week in this 12 week process. As I talked about last time, my plan was to eat nothing but...
View ArticleRemoving My Cravings for Carbs and Sugar – Part 4
On my recent trip to Europe, my new eating system was pushed to the limit, and during a few of the days there I cracked under the pressure of my distant Sicilian relatives shoving wonderful, evil,...
View ArticleAn Example of How Imagination Works – Jake and Scoop
I’ve always had a vivid imagination. I have many work passions, and fortunately I live a life where I can live out all of those passions… except for one, which is fiction writing, my very first...
View ArticleA Few Random Things
I’ve had a brief but severe cold (I’m going to post about being sick soon), and a few technical problems last week, so I’m behind on blog posts here, but I wanted to give you at least a little...
View ArticleGiving To Charity
I have always felt, strongly, that you need to walk your talk. If you give advice or advocate for something, you’d better damn well be doing that stuff yourself. Otherwise, you’re a huge hypocrite,...
View ArticleBack In Shanghai
Back in the 1990’s, there was a chunk of worthless swampland across the main river in Shanghai called Pudong. It looked like this: I’m visiting there now, and just a few days ago, I took a picture of...
View ArticleWe’ve Updated This Blog With New Features!
You may have noticed some changes here lately. Here are the updates we’ve made to the Caleb Jones Blog, many of them in response to your requests: 1. Optimized the speed; this blog is much faster now....
View Article1982 Was The Best Year Ever… For Movies
I’ve been doing a fun thing lately where I play some of the movies from my childhood in the early 80’s in the background as I work on more grunt-work tasks. It’s been super fun to go back and revisit...
View ArticleThe Eclipse
In the late 1970’s, when I was about seven or eight years old, my parents took me out on our deck overlooking the Willamette Valley and the distant mountains beyond. They told me that an “eclipse” was...
View ArticleGrowing Your Own Food
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to this lately. It’s something I’ve officially added to my medium-term plan. I’ve never been interested in growing my own food, and to be honest, the thought of it...
View ArticleMy Home Is Surrounded by Forest Fires
Ash fell from the sky. ~ The first line of Brandon Sanderson’s book, The Final Empire For the second time in my life, ash is literally falling from the sky, covering my home, my yard, my street. The...
View ArticleThe Punisher
In certain extreme situations, the law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacy, it is necessary to act outside the law. To pursue… natural justice. This is not vengeance. Revenge is not a valid...
View ArticleThe Story of My History In Business – Part 3 – Moving Out
This is the next installment in an ongoing series where I talk about my history in business, starting all the way back when I was a child to now, my mid-forties. Feel free to read parts zero, one, and...
View ArticleAt Freedomfest 2018
I’m writing this while at the Freedomfest conference in Las Vegas. It’s the largest gathering of libertarian (or libertarian-leaning) folks in the world. Most of the sessions here focus on investing,...
View ArticleWeather Sucks
Here’s the problem with weather. I want it when I want it. I don’t want it when nature throws it at me. Hot, sunny weather is nice. It really is. But if I’m in the mood for mild weather, I don’t want...
View ArticleHow I Became A Libertarian
I’ve received several questions from readers in the past of how I became a libertarian. As I talk about in my primary book, most people tend to form their political opinions from their parents. They...
View ArticleFive Movies I’d Like To See Made Someday
As I talked about at the beginning of the year, I’ve cut way back on my movie watching lately, primarily due to the ongoing cultural collapse, Hollywood’s ability to make good movies has greatly...
View ArticleSleeping Arrangements
Sleeping arrangements with a live-in couple is always interesting. After living with Pink Firefly for about nine months and sharing the same bed with her at night, both of us have had to re-learn how...
View ArticleI Just Saw Kiss In Their Final Concert Tour
I never really got into the music of Kiss. I like harder music, so I’m more of an old school Ozzy Osbourne and Judas Priest type of guy. I never disliked Kiss; I just never got around to their stuff...
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