Blog of Josh Hall

Cops can ruin your day. Maybe even your life.  Don’t mess with them.  Even if you detect them trying to ensnare you in mind games, don’t call them out on it.  Just respond with unemotional facts.  Seek resolution promptly.  Nothing is worth the fight.

The English language is stupid. It’s ludicrous.  Rules, then exceptions to those rules.  Logic, then words that defy that logic.  We’ve have this stupid language for centuries, and we just continue with the madness.  There is no end in sight.  Sometimes, I wonder if the AOLers and shorthand IMers are pure evil or truly revolutionary […]

Have you ever looked at states with straight border lines and wondered why they were straight and how true those straight lines were?  I have.  I want to play with those straight lines. I want to buy property right on the line in one state, then buy the adjoining property in the other state and […]

If you’re doing are doing a great job, or are contributing positively more than others, you get the privilege of speaking bluntly and saying how it is.

Splitting the check evenly should only be attempted for socially close indivuals in numbers 4 or less.   It’s just a mess otherwise.  Someone is going to short change the group.  Someone is going to order more food than everyone else.  You’re going to come up short and 1 person is going to end up paying […]

I stumbled on Austin Kleon’s list here.  I’ll break down his list, and add in my own advice and support for each of them.  After all, all advice is autobiographical and all I’m doing is stealing like an artist.  A lot of these are already similar to a Hall’s Rule of Social Order, and some […]