You Can’t Hide from Google

According to Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is.” It’s the same sort of thing with the Internet – it’s so vast and mind-bogglingly big that you can’t even comprehend how it exists as a thing. But it [...]

One Year Later, A Little Bit Smarter

Welcome to the new and (hopefully) improved Ordinary Mer. There are still some minor things I want to tweak, but for the most part, this is it. Almost a month ago, I realized I needed to take a break from writing, not just for work (though that was my primary reason), but also for myself. [...]

A Crisis of Existential Proportions

“To be, or not to be – that is the question.” Hamlet might have been on to something. After all, at some point, we all question our own existence. What are we here for? What is our purpose in life? What am I meant to do? Now, it seems, those same existential questions are infiltrating [...]