Now, with comments
A big howdy out there to everybody who still reads my little piece of the blog-o-square. Whilst I no longer get 10s of thousands of hits a day, The Strategic Retreat is still doing surprisingly well. Build a better chocolate chip cookie or make a snarky post about celebrities and StumbleUpon will beat a path to your door. I suppose that since I haven’t kept up this blog for 6 years or so, that’s all I can ask for.
I’ve started writing again so I thought it best to give an update as to the current state of affairs. The biggest change is that I’ve enabled comments. When I first started this site I wanted a place to rant and poke fun in peace, without any crazy assholes interfering with that. But times, and people, change. I’m no longer beholden to the whims of others for fear of harsh words. I also have much more respect for feedback and contrary opinions than I once did. Maybe I got all kumbaya whilst backpacking through Asia, maybe I’m just less of a jerk now that I’m older. It’s hard to say. What’s easy to say is that people who are sure they’re right, without considering the benefits of peer review, are often the craziest assholes of them all. If you block out dissenting opinion you’re not allowing yourself to grow or face -and correct- flaws in your beliefs. And that can only lead to one place, a shack in Montana. I don’t want to live in a shack in Montana. So, here we are.
My life has changed a lot over the past half decade; for better and for worse. I’d like to focus on the better whilst still trying to improve the worse. I’m not entirely sure of what direction I’ll be taking this site; cooking, travel, politics, photography. I’m going to do what I feel until a focus appears organically. Hopefully, whatever I do, it’s helpful and informative to my readers, failing that; I hope to entertain. Suggestions are welcome, but may not be heeded.
So, in summary; I’m going to tinker around and fix up the site, I no longer have crippling agoraphobia/anxiety/depression/sleep-apnea so you can comment, I spent the last year cooking and traveling so I should have some interesting tales and recipes to share. I hope you like what I throw down, if not; try not to be a dick about it. I’m Jeff, I look forward to spitting words at you.
- I’m Back! - May 11, 2017
- Refusal of ALS Ice Bucket Challenge - August 27, 2014
- Yahoo Travel Doesn’t Know From Night Markets - August 23, 2014
- The Murray Affair - August 9, 2014
- San Francisco Gay Pride Parade 2014 - June 30, 2014
- Tom Robbins and 4 Ladies - June 10, 2014
- And I or And me - May 14, 2014
- How Weird Street Faire, 2014 San Francisco - May 5, 2014
- Sleep, School and Work - April 27, 2014
- Astrology is a lie - April 7, 2014
ok so i’ve only read a few of your rants and stopped halfway. i’m sad that im Evan taking the time to wright this but jeez! your such a whiny negative person. and you’ll probably read this and be thinking that you’ve still accomplished something by making me so angry and maybe you have but its a shity thing to be proud of. yah, you sound like and asshole, you put your efforts into hating things, its unnecessary.
Hi Kathrin,
I appreciate your feedback and appreciate that you disagreeing with me. I totally get how others may not look at Singapore the way I do. To me, it’s my second favorite “home country” and a place I truly understand and love.