Rants, Recollections, & Random Reflections v. 4.0

  • We Can Judge the Heart of a Man by His Treatment of Animals

    We Can Judge the Heart of a Man by His Treatment of Animals

    Immanuel Kant said that. I took the image of the lizard in my hand after this little one had taken a long car trip on the hood of my car. It wasn’t going to survive in the parking lot, so I caught it and took it to a bush nearby. When the lizard was on…

  • Making New Friends

    Making New Friends

    This isn’t a rant about the lonely male epidemic. I choose not to talk to humans as much as possible. Clearly my immediate family are an exception. As well as people that I see on a trail, on the course, or anyone walking a pet. They’re obviously people worth acknowledging. Sometimes. This is more so…

  • What Used to Be Mine

    What Used to Be Mine

    When I was in college I decided to build a personal/portfolio website. My online name had always been vertseven. A combination of my graffiti tag “vert” and my favorite number “7”. Nothing too fancy. When it came to buying a domain name, I initially wanted vert.com. But somebody had it. So vertseven.com was an easy…