The Snail Shell

"We're constantly creating our world by naming, categorizing, applying value judgments to things." -not quite a quote from Fol...

Wow, read this . It seems very appropriate. I mean, not for me. I am thankful that I don't particularly have to doublethink to enjoy m...

I had a date with Tom Robbins tonight. Something else interesting: I organized all the areas in my life that I want to make sure I'm mak...

Which means that if you'd like a detailed recap of the last year of my life, in three days I will be sending out my first annual (shut u...

First of all, pictures are up ! Holy cow they took our temperatures with a camera. That was my first impression of japan, and it happened be...

Still, it's not . Things that make me happy: This essay about how transit-oriented development is not just liberal wackiness. (augh, I ...

You have made someone I care about very worried about swine flu. Getting swine flu is like getting the regular flu . Under 2000 people have ...

In case you missed it, I was doing the Hunger Challenge last week. Dramatic as that sounds, all it amounts to is feeding myself using only...

First, let me just do one thing: Hey? Hey? You can see the rest on jluxenberg's photostream . Topic switch. I had a funny dream last n...

Things have been quiet around here. First I decided to cut out politics, because it wasn't doing me much good. (for the record, I feel...

That I haven't posted photos yet from last weekend or even elaborated much besides "I bought a coat and then last weekend was cool....

On Saturday Sarah and I set out to find a coat. A trench coat, really. Any long brown coat would do. A suit would be nice but not necessa...

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...