Pet peeves, despite being fundamentally annoying, can be fun. Or rather, one can laugh at them. Or rather, one can laugh at the people who have some silly pet peeves. Or, you can commiserate and list out your own. Today, someone shared with me several of their pet […]
This year of 2019 is the year of the pig. An according to one website, “though not wasteful spenders, they will let themselves enjoy life”. And, as I have declared this my year of joy, I have to say hear hear to the year of the […]
I am going to admit that I loved the Cure in college. You know the band with the guy with the weird eye makeup. Robert Smith. He was so moody and so catchy. Probably not a real catch in real life. But who am I to even say […]
I was just on a flight from the east coast back to Los Angeles and thus I had some time to work, pitter patter, and watch the Expanse. I had never seen the Expanse before but it was on some list of recommended science fiction shows. I like […]
When I travel abroad, I am often quite fascinated by the restrooms. Bathrooms can serve as cultural windows and thus I often use the restroom right after I land in a new country. It gives you immediate insights into what you are about to find. I know this […]
Everything these days seems to be either about personalization or psychometric profiling. I suppose that by now you have heard about the little problem that Facebook has been having the past few weeks. Apparently, according to the news media companies, voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica harvested private data […]
Have you done a Buzzfeed or Facebook quiz lately? know that the majority of those online quizzes are silly, non-scientific adventures that are meant to sell you something or get your information for a marketing database. I know that and as a psychologist I am not offended […]
I readily admit I buy many items from Amazon. I know that I have a couple of facebook friends that urge others to not shop at Amazon as they want to encourage mom and pop shopping. I am all for shopping at small businesses. However, sometimes, it […]
When I first joined Twitter I was naive, cautious and generally unaware as to the twitter verse norms. It took me a while to catch on to how hateful and vitriolic the twitterverse can be. I just would tweet like a little fluttering bird. I mostly tweeted, in […]
This week has been excruciatingly hard and long and somewhat depressing. I have seen and heard the fear that two other people have in regards to their future and longevity. I needed a distraction. These days, distractions come in the form of social media, exercise, just watching the […]
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