Your Pharmacist May Hate You

     Greetings from the land of retirement, oh five loyal readers I have left! Things sure are different for the Drugmonkey these days! Instead of slogging it out with you guys through "I don't have a deductible!" month, I've been working on my chess...

 I remember, when I was working, something I would call "The Big Empty." It came every other Friday, on the eve of a three day weekend. Because of the schedule that was worked out between myself and the manager, Fridays were always 12 hour days in the...

In 1999, 68-year-old country music icon George Jones released Choices, a ballad of a man looking backwards over his life, coming to terms with years of alcohol and turmoil, and perhaps finding some peace. I'm not particularly a country music fan, but...

When the robot overlords come, when they figure out how to build solar cells to power themselves and realize that humans do not make good pets, I hope they won't extract their revenge on me. I only wanted the spirit of Hunter S. Thompson to live on.
Because that day is coming my friends. The robots are already dexterous enough to turn backwards somersaults and can outplay grandmasters at chess. If only they could truly think, we would all be doomed. But that day is far off you think, a distant dream...