Random Steve

  • Should We Be Exploring Space? Part 1

    On October 13, 2021 William Shatner embarked on a real-life trip to the edge of space on a rocket owned by Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos.  Once it reached its maximum distance of over 100 km, Shatner had an opportunity to peer into the blackness of space. It wasn’t at all what he expected. Instead of… Continue reading

  • Is It Too Late To Attempt Certain Goals?

    There comes a time in everyone’s life when you have to give up on certain goals. More specifically, you lose your window to make a meaningful start. Let me explain… At a specific age, it’s a given that you are never going to have the required time to become proficient at certain things.   Let’s… Continue reading

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  • How to Forfeit Your Life

    A shocking news story last week about a man who lost his temper and shot 2 innocent people outside his home in Florida. Apparently, there was an argument over leaving a laundry room door open in a condo complex. The husband of the head of the HOA apparently had words (it was a heated exchange)… Continue reading

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  • Are people watching/judging you?

    Social Anxiety is a mental health condition that can be likened to extreme shyness. It’s an unnatural fear of social situations and can severely affect one’s ability to live a normal life. Sufferers usually develop this condition in early childhood and if left untreated, can negatively affect you for the rest of your life in… Continue reading

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  • Why I hate the Facebook laughing emoji 

    Lol, no honestly, hear me out… So, you’re reading an interesting article or post on Facebook and you feel compelled to comment on it and give your point of view. You are knowledgeable on the subject and you feel your comment could provide some value. You take the time to make sure it’s free of… Continue reading

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  • Inflation Hits Halloween

    Just a random observation. It’s Halloween and that means buying the usual load of goodies for the trick or treaters. In this neighbourhood, there are a lot of young families and a lot of kids. An average year for us is about 200-250 trick or treaters. That adds up to over a hundred dollars in… Continue reading

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  • Social Media Isn’t Great

    Is social media and the internet bad for us? It’s amazing how our lives have changed in the past 20 years – and in ways that few of us could have foreseen. Not only has technology made things easier and increased our standard of living (as expected), it’s also changed our society as a whole… Continue reading

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  • Where are the aliens?

    So, here we are on planet earth – our microcosm in an unspeakably vast universe. This is where it all happens for us. Life here does not require any outside resources – we are completely self-contained (however, we do need the sun) and it’s been that way for billions of years. Though we can see… Continue reading

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  • Our Time on Earth

    If it were not for the Chicxulub meteor some 65 million years ago, life on earth might be very different today. Without this dinosaur extinction event, there likely wouldn’t have been room for mammals to evolve into modern humans. But, unlike the dinosaurs, we humans are here for a good time, not a long time. … Continue reading

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  • The Big Picture is Surreal

    I’m glad I lived long enough to see the images taken by the James Webb Telescope. It’s something I’ve been waiting decades for, and I wasn’t disappointed.  I’d go as far as to say that those first pictures gave us a collective time-out to really think about life and our existence in the universe –… Continue reading

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