The Snail Shell

Spurred on by encouraging friends, here are some more things that are good: Truckasaurus . (warning: myspace burns your eyes and is loud) ...

Don't worry, this won't become a habit. The last thing I'd want to be is cloying. But shut up, I have liked the following thin...

I remember hearing some theory in some psych class about how there are stages of life, and they're something like ages 0-1, 1-2, 3-5, 5-...

EDIT: censored the title. I'm okay with irritating my parents, but I remembered my grandma reads this too, and I think being a rebellio...

"Happy Journey" is a thing they say a lot in India. (Well, as much as we say "Bon Voyage", I guess.) And so it was! A ...

I'm going to India. This is very cool. Most of my free time has gone towards preparing for that; not so much for blogging. Other cool...

I feel like this turned up somewhere in my computer science education. Maybe it was one of those classes I took off to the side. Some logi...

I was going to give you some explanation of what happened today, and it'd be kind of clumsy because it involved a streetcar rut in the r...

I just got shots to go to India. I got shots last year for yellow fever, tetanus, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever (actually a series of four...

One reason I run this blog is to give you guys an insight into my mind, so I offer you this animation that is scary . (makes noise) The sa...

One thing that's frustrating about our modern urban adult everything-is-nice lives is that things are seldom the best or the worst of an...

I read a blog * earlier today** about this quote. Apparently it's from Kurt Vonnegut, from Timequake , and of course like all Vonnegut ...

It's post 500! I would be embarrassed if I told how you long I've delayed writing anything because I wanted to write something spec...

President Obama, You should not smoke when you are president! There are simple reasons. Because you will die by smoking, and then you will n...

I know Jesus said to forgive those who trespass against us, and Mohammed probably did too, and there's got to be a few awesome Hindu epi...

Hey! Welcome to 2009. Thanks for checking back in. Hope your holidays were as nice as mine. Do you have New Year's Resolutions? I do...

Granted, "a lot of time" is relative. Maybe 30-45 minutes, total. Two things: Consider the Lobster , an article by David Foster ...

Hey readers! All of you! I know at least some of you must have Chicago ties. I'm going to visit some friends there in a bit, and I kn...

Me: Whole Foods's cheapest apples are $1.99/lb, and Safeway's cheapest are $1.50, but for $1.99 at Whole Foods you get organic gala ...

Hey, if you're a relative of mine and you want to buy me things, and you've already been over the previous guide for if you want to ...