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Who Posted This Job, Casper?
What? 100 LinkedIn applicants have already responded? It was posted an hour ago! Oh no, I bet one of them has better skills than me. Who posted this job, Casper?

Bob Deakin
Aug 71 min read


Wait a Beat. The Audience Knows When It’s Off
I’m sure you are a nice person but tempo is important. Wait a beat. The audience knows when it's wrong.

Bob Deakin
Jul 311 min read


Hyperbole: The Best Thing to Ever Exist!
When I am screamed at that something is the best, I know it’s hyperbole, bordering on a lie.

Bob Deakin
Jul 102 min read


Getting Better All the Time; But How Much Time Will It Take?
You never know the stories within the story until you write it. I’m getting better all the time; but how much time will it take?

Bob Deakin
Jul 32 min read


Soda Jerk Wanted
I can’t believe my eyes. It’s the ad for the job I’ve been waiting a lifetime for: SODA JERK WANTED.

Bob Deakin
Jun 265 min read


Prime Suspects Identified in Global Oxygen Waste Crisis: Men in Department Stores
Prime Suspects Identified in Global Oxygen Waste Crisis: Men in Department Stores

Bob Deakin
Jun 121 min read


Grammar Checkers Have 𝗚̶𝗼̶𝘁̶ No Rhythm
Back to soul. I like rhythm. Grammar checkers have guilty feet. They love commas more than rock stars love weed.

Bob Deakin
Jun 52 min read


GEO: Where’s My Invitation to This Party?
GEO is no knight in shining armor or backstage party, but I want in. It’s a different game, scoring with comportment versus mass.

Bob Deakin
May 292 min read


The Goober
There he is. The Goober. Every morning at nine he settles into his nest at the corner table of the library.

Bob Deakin
May 222 min read


Yeah, I'm MC1R. You Gotta Problem With That?
𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐡, 𝐈’𝐦 𝐌𝐂𝟏𝐑. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭?

Bob Deakin
May 152 min read


Growing Concern Over Inability to Recall Useless Information
What is happening to my mastery of instant recall? It has never applied to mathematical formulas or world history—more like who played Screech on Saved by the Bell.

Bob Deakin
May 91 min read


Elusive Serendipity
Time and patience have turned the tide. Yes, the buzzards still circle, but the wise now outnumber the lunatics.

Bob Deakin
May 12 min read


Passively Impudent
LinkedIn is a social network with boundaries. I’ll be passively impudent if you will.

Bob Deakin
Apr 241 min read


One American Town: An Interview with Author Donald Connery
It has been 30 years since Kent resident Donald Connery wrote One American Town, the story of a nameless small town, its virtues, its characters, and how it deals with the prospect of change.

Bob Deakin
Apr 38 min read


I’d Love to Be Your LinkedIn Connection: Here’s My Credit Card
It’s the internet, we don’t know each other, and people steal stuff. I wish to at least assume that you are human, or be able to prove it in court that I had reason to believe.

Bob Deakin
Mar 272 min read


My Life Used to Be So Much More Than a Keyword
The erosion of identity and the cruel joke of being human in a quantified world is that my entire life has been reduced to a keyword.

Bob Deakin
Feb 202 min read


Cybersecurity Is Your Own Business
Why do you have 700 emails in your spam folder and 15 in your inbox? Because there are people who want your information.

Bob Deakin
Feb 62 min read


Advice to Authors: Send an Email to the World!
Authors receive more advice than bad golfers as they approach a publish date. My advice to authors: Send an email to the world.

Bob Deakin
Jan 154 min read


Jesse Learns Henry's Law: Everybody Out of the Pool!
Henry’s Law is responsible for raising the pH of a customer’s pool, and Jesse is entrenched in a battle to stop it.

Bob Deakin
Jan 23 min read


How to Make Your Pool Water Glisten and Lights Twinkle Like a Pro
Jesse the pool guy wishes everyone a happy Holiday season as he prepares his client’s pool for a Christmas Eve bash.

Bob Deakin
Dec 12, 20253 min read
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