Welcome to The Point Of The Story!

Epitaph: A Preface to Passive Income Adventures To Come

5 Min Read

...but no matter how many wheels I re-invent, guess what? If it doesn't put food on the table for my kids, a roof over my wife's head, and a handgun in the Bible case of my beloved mother, than what in hot Hades have I been good for?

How To Find Out What Happens When A Scientist Doesn’t Have A Social Life

4 Min Read

What happens when the brightest minds are banished to the back of the room?

Indubitably, sparks will fly and things will go boom...

Best of the Best of 2019-The Doctor Edition

2 Min Read

Unlike the wholly unauthorized Boss Lady’s Edition of the Best of 2019, this time around I have actually commissioned a Top 3 list from a dedicated reader. These picks come to us courtesy of my pensive friend and former colleague, The Doctor.1As a bonus for the dedicated few who actually read these footnotes: “also the […]

Shower Tips, Part 1

2 Min Read

Speaking of showers and judgy assholes,1See: Lawnmower Man that reminds me… During my second year of grad school, I lived with three of my fellow physics grad students. They were all [astro]nuclear physicists and my main research tool was Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), so we decided to lean hard into the whole “nuclear” theme and […]

Taking Over the Mean Streets of Tumblr

5 Min Read

Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of my pursuit of passive income via slanging kimchi on Tumblr. Now that I think about it, I guess I’m sort of an aspiring internet drug dealer–but the GOOD kind of drug dealer, like, say, an anesthesiologist. You can read about my descent into the light underbelly of the […]

No, Olive You, Man

9 Min Read

Everybody needs at least one constant truth in their life to keep them sane. For me, that one truth was that I could always count on olives to be intolerably nasty. I knew from an early age that olives and I weren’t going to get along. For example, when I was 9 I had gone […]

Advice For That Inner Jackass Dropping Out Of The Class