Professor Harbinger's School for Villains

The human mind has developed over two million years of hominid evolution. It developed to divide people into two groups: the in-group and the out-group. When animals go about the process of surviving in the world, they must deal with competition. And interspecies competition, competition between different species can be intense. Lions and hyenas bothContinue reading "Bigotry and the In-Group"

I drink too much caffeine. I know this. I can feel the ragged edge of my fatigue if I do not intake a substantial amount of the stuff in the morning. I get withdrawal if I stop drinking caffeine. I suspect a lot of people would experience the same if they stopped their daily caffeineContinue reading "Unproductive and Unprofitable"

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery My instincts are the instincts of the maximillalist. I instinctively add instead of removing. I have great respect for those thinkers, like the late Bruce Lee, who canContinue reading "Nothing Left to Remove"

I have overhauled the Guide to Ohto County today. Or rather. I have illustrated the page with a host of photos of the valley. So I recommend that you have a look and enjoy the new mood and ambience that the photos provide. If you had trouble imagining the country before. We hope that thisContinue reading "New Photos"

Sacralizing is a word I am increasingly interested in. I feel that modern life has been deprived of meaning, it has been rendered profane. I don't mean this in the religious sense. Much of religion has been rendered profane by the modern world. I don't mean religious. I mean sacred. I mean imbued with meaningContinue reading "The Sacred"