Gary Scott

189 posts

Trading Places

There are a lot of things in the world that it would be fun to be for a day:  tiger, eagle, killer whale, Ferrari F430 GT, and maybe an oak tree.  But there are about a million things that would also suck.  Here’s my list of top five living or […]

Loop

Sometimes I’ll cue up a song and play it over and over again, often ten or twenty times or more in a row.  I’ve found that it’s a process of emotional focusing.  A certain song will elicit a feeling that I want to duplicate and maintain for an indefinite period. […]

On Path

Throughout my life I’ve read hundreds of books on philosophy, religion, comparative religion, healthy living, and spiritual growth.  These are topics that fascinate me.  So I read and study.  It’s not a lifestyle for everyone but it’s the one I’ve chosen.  I own it, I live it, and it’s mine. […]

The Honker

Ok.  So, there’s this asshole who lays on his horn every day before leaving the parking structure under his building across the street from my office.  I know that he’s just trying to alert pedestrians before he pulls out onto the sidewalk.  However, he blasts his horn twice for about […]

Analysis

Ernest Hemingway said we all need to have a “Built-in automatic crap detector.”  A severe, unswerving, unrelenting ability to try and figure out what a person is saying without any fluff.  Cut it to the very marrow.  Try this.  Take any common daily communication and then whittle it down and […]

Smoothies

I’ve recently returned to the habit of making smoothies.  The delicious concoction of fruity goodness, yogurt, bananas, some protein powder, and other stuff.  The smoothie could be man’s greatest invention.  I’m the first to admit that the word “smoothie” just isn’t particularly masculine.  The name sounds more like a salon […]

Pope

They said that the vestments are sitting in a back room at the Vatican waiting for the new Pope. Not knowing the jacket size of the new Pope until he’s elected they have several vest sizes to ensure a good fit: small, medium, and large. Unfortunately, there’s no 2XL.  I […]

Bugs

I’ve determined that nothing awakens your inner blood-lust and desire to kill like a fruit fly buzzing around stupidly in front of your computer screen.  So dumb and little flying there in my direct line of sight.  I don’t know why they make me so angry.  Maybe it’s because fruit flies are […]

Which One?

OK.  You’re driving down a two lane road and hit an intersection.  The light is red.  Blocking the right lane in poll position is an eighteen wheeler.  Blocking the left lane in poll position is a loaded dump truck.  Which lane do you pick? Common logic says that you don’t […]

Snow Days

What’s up with schools and the current trend of preemptively canceling classes for the threat of inclement weather?  For fear of sounding like my dad, they never cancelled classes due to the threat of bad weather when I was a kid.  I remember once, it was 385 degrees below zero, with a dark side […]

Cooking

Did you ever take a second to read the cooking instructions on the side of a frozen burrito?  Basically, it says “Microwave on high for 2 ½ to 3 minutes.”  That sounds simple enough.  I can do that.  Or, it gives you alternate oven cooking instructions “Preheat oven to 350 […]

Cursive

I heard that kids today aren’t taught how to write in cursive anymore.  Is this a good thing?  What if they have to read something someone else has handwritten in cursive?  If no one in their generation can read it either, how will they know what the note says?  How […]