The Snail Shell

I'll stop promising posts I don't deliver. This blog is getting terribly self-referential, and as I guess Godel, Escher, Bach says...

Thanks, Mike! Yessir, as of May 26, I am the big twenty-one. I'd say something about being a responsible adult now, but really the onl...

They won the Seattle Seahawks stadium beverage rights ! Rock on! This is either the first step towards, say, Great Lakes Brewing Co. inste...

Okay, it's time. I've got stuff about Budapest too, but it's less interesting, so we'll go in reverse chronological order. ...

Sorry! By "Wednesday" of course I meant "next Wednesday after I get back from Morocco" and by that I mean "later t...

... going to Amsterdam tomorrow, got to sleep a bit! I have some good stories! Not great, but interesting enough that if you've taken ...

I do not want to even know that you are installed on my computer, except when I need you to play movies. This is not debatable, because you...

is that it makes you feel like you're so much funnier than you really are -Da"drunk blogging instead of .vomitting for once"n

First of all, does anyone know how to make a webpage where users can click and drag stuff all Googley-like? For example, Google calendar? ...

I went to Koninginnedag. It was in Amsterdam. Pictures are up. My schedule for the next few days is absurd. It looks like this: Thursday...

This cracks me up for a couple of reasons: 1. It's not even anywhere near Christmas 2. Santa Claus is "de kerstman" (because C...

Alarmist ? Yeah. But partially/mostly true? Also, yeah. More and more, it scares me to think that (eventually) there will be another big...

Back from London, which is huge. I was visiting Erik, a friend from high school (and middle school, and grade school...) who's going to...

A real champ , and also, I like this magazine. But somehow, it seems like the same old story. I feel like I know everything I'd need to...

The following is a list of people in Scotch'n'Soda that I don't know at all. Like, I wouldn't recognize them if they hit me...

Okay, my mp3 player (Samsung YP-U2J, don't ever buy it) has refused to connect to my computer, rendering it pretty useless (unless you w...

Hey! Just back from a grand trip with my family. More on that later. Right now, an unrelated thought: Brussels Airport just went on strik...

You know, they call rap and hip-hop "black music" here? Just throwing that out there. Yeah, so two things happened over the last ...

Panic at the Disco isn't emo, guys, really! That's like a black guy in the pre-civil-war South saying "hey guys, I'm not bl...