Introduction Howdy all, as I wright this It is late March. Everything is in bloom, lawn work season is upon us, and I am running around as busy as a bee. This time around I figure I will be catching up woth some unfinished articles and book reviews. As far as challenges go my brother…
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30 Minute Yoga Routine
Summary |I have been doing yoga off and on for several years now, followed along to several pre compiled routines, and slowly tweaked them to my own liking and needs. What I put together here is a something that is quick to perform – it only takes 30 minutes to complete, something that has an…
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Amusing Ourselves to Death | Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By Neil Postman | One day, as I was contemplating the shear volume of media content that humanity has created—and the inability of one single person to consume a meaningful portion of it–I came across a book titled “Amusing Ourselves to Death.” Intrigued, I immediately bought the book and placed it in my bookshelf where…
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PostBordem Minizine Winter 2024
Introduction | As of the writing of this article, it is late December 2024 and the New Year is upon us. A time to stay up late, celebrate, and set new goals for ourselves. I have a challenge for my readers. Write those goals down, make a list of say 10 things that you want…
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Oswald, Fiddlebender Brawl Deck – 60 Cards, MTG
Introduction | Howdy, and welcome to the PostBordem Blog. For those unfamilar with my site, each quarter I give myself a challenge then, after completing that challenge, I write about it. So what do I have cooked up this time around? My current challenge has been to play some competitve Magic, a trading card game…
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PostBordem Minizine Fall 2024
Introduction | As of the writing of this article, it is early Fall. The leaves have changed color and the temperature has dropped giving us Southerners a much needed reprieve from the sweltering summer heat. As for work, things have slowed down so I am now taking two days off instead of one. I quickly…
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3 Months Without T.V., YouTube, or Video
| As I write this, I am on the final week of my 3 Months Without T.V., YouTube, or Video Challenge. For the past 3 months, I have deprived myself of, fasted from, limited my exposure to “video content.” So how was it, and what did I learn? Let’s start with my main objective for…
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Have a Goal? Log Your Progress with Loop Habit Tracker
Made by Alinson S Xavier | “We are what we repeatably do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” – ’The Story of Philosophy’ 1926 paraphrasing Aristotle There’s an App for That What’s the number one factor that separates success from failure? Persistence. I’m going to assume that those of you who found…
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NetGuard – No-Root Firewall [Android]
Made by Marcel Bokhorst, FairCode BV | As the name states, NetGuard is a firewall application. It is a highly rated app available in the Google Play Store, but why am I suggesting a firewall you may ask? Well, here are five good reasons to have an app like NetGuard installed on your phone: Reasons…
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Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy
By Bret Contreras | Do you work out, want to work out, or are you getting back into the swing of things? Are you looking for a new routine? Want to increase your physical education knowledge? Have you already learned the basics of, “Eat more, lift more,” but still find that something is missing. |…
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Why America Doesn’t Work | How the Decline of the Work Ethic Is Hurting Your Family and Future—and What You Can Do
By Chuck Colson & Jack Eckerd | Day after day the prisoners hauled the same mountain of rubble back and forth from one end of the camp to the other. After several weeks of this meaningless drudgery, one old man began sobbing uncontrollably and was led away by the guards. Another screamed until his captors…
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PostBordem Minizine Summer 2024
Introduction | As of this writing, it is May which means that summer is almost upon us and already we’re feeling the heat here in Alabama. For the past two months, I’ve been busy. Three weeks of online courses, two weeks of training in Florida, another website built (www.triple-t-lawncare.com), and finially started my new job….
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WEBTOON Round Up: Spring 2023
1) To Not Die | If I had to describe ‘To Not Die’ in one word it would be… fluid. This series is all about fighting, street fights to be exact, and so it uses a lot of impressive visual effects such as comic streaks, panorama shots, and blury camera effects to depict all of…
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WebToon Round Up: Fall 2022
1) Odd Girl Out | This was the webtoon that got me into webtoons. It’s ongoing and was good enough to get a K-Drama adaptation made of it. Here’s the official summary: “After a successful winter break makeover, Nari is finally ready for her high school debut. But somehow, she ends up friends with the…
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
By Simon Winchester | As someone who likes both words and biographies when I saw the title The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary I knew that it was something that I had to pick up. I don’t regret that choice. Delivered in a…
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Strixhaven Silverquill 35 Card Black & White Themed Booster Pack 2021
Introduction | It’s currently the spring of 2021 and it’s been a few weeks since Wizards of the Coast released their newest plane in the lore of Magic the Gathering, Strixhaven. All the best magic casters gather here where we can find the largest library in the multiverse as well as the five colleges of…
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Zendikar Rising 35 Card Green Themed Booster Pack 2020
Introduction | Howdy, and welcome to the PostBordem Blog. When I first set this website up I wasn’t sure what it was going to be about, but things have normalized now. Currently I am working on my God, Games, & Ends Meat Initiative, so for the next year or two I’ll be reviewing Magic the…
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The Book of Psalms
| Psalms. The biblical book of songs. Likely you’ve seen or heard a few of them such as “The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.” or “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they…
Continue Reading Podcast #0: Bluegrass, Steel Guitar, & Electro (Royalty-free Music + Channel Theme) Part 1
| Howdy there, readers, listeners, viewers…!? This is Trey with PostBordem and if you’ve found this site you either know me personally or have fallen down the rabbit hole of niche content creators. Either way, thanks for checking out this site and for checking out this post. Why the zero in the title you might…
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The Defining Decade | Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now
| Let’s be honest the people who need to read this book the most are the ones who are the least likely to. Maybe you fall into that camp, so I’ll do my best to summarize it here. “The Defining Decade” is not a book about fictional people. It is a book about real people….
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If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord Volumes 1-4
| One hundred and fifty. This is the number of instances that my Google Play Books’s word counter could find the word “cute” in the first four books of the light novel series “If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord”. So cute is a good word then to describe this series…
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On the Run | Fugitive Life in an American City
| In high school, I sold Little Debby snack cakes during our morning break. I never made much but at least I could throw some money down on my phone bill or put some gas in my truck. For the young, poor blacks of 6th Street depicted in Alice Goffman’s book “On the Run: Fugitive…
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