It used to be that a story about an athlete dropping dead on the playing field was big news. Now it happens so often that it’s starting to become background noise. Think about it. Two years ago, we might hear one, maybe two stories a year about people dying while
A couple months ago, I was working on a project at my job. The goal was to identify potential system problems and send a message when something hinky was detected. I decided that when an issue was detected, I’d send a message that began with the words “System Notification” followed
You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! Now that Christmas is behind us, we can all start to recover from eating too much good food and listening to too much bad conversation. Hopefully you were able to bite your tongue and get through an afternoon with
You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! Years ago, I went to lunch with an attorney who worked at the same company I did. We were going to be driving by a Staples store on our way back to the office and had been asked to
You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! I’ve been trying to understand how it’s possible that so many people have come to believe things that are absolutely unbelievable. I think I’ve finally figured it out. For most of my life, I’ve prided myself on being the
You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! I think most of us have heard a story about that guy who was the picture of health, and then he keeled over from a heart attack. It’s a true story. I’m That Guy. As I was getting prepared
You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! There’s a strange inverse relationship between how old you are, how deadly COVID-19 is, and how likely you are to have a bad adverse reaction to one of the COVID vackseens. COVID-19 impacts the elderly more than it does
You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! I’m a heterosexual white male. Which means no one cares what I think. I’m not allowed to be offended by anything. Nobody wants to hear me bitch. But I’m going to anyway. I have a problem with the “C
Now you can listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! Saying that the vackseen-resistant strains of COVID-19 are caused by unvacksinated people is like saying that bacteria became resistant to antibiotics because people weren’t taking antibiotics. It makes no sense. But people continue to claim that the vackseens would
Tyson foods is now among the companies that have announced that they’re going to force employees to get vacksinated. Because asking nicely didn’t seem to work. Tyson CEO Donnie King said, “We have spent months encouraging our team members to get vaccinated—today, under half of our team members are.” Tyson