The Snail Shell

I was listening to a thing on the radio about health care. They also mentioned the bank bailout. From what I understand, the bank bailout ...

http://www.trackyourhappiness.org You sign up, they send you a couple texts or emails (or twitters) every day, you record how happy you are ...

I guess today is Ash Wednesday! Christian readers will note that this means today is the start of Lent, which is the season of 40 days (plu...

I had a funny experience the other day when I was trying to buy a plane ticket to visit my friend Ram in Thailand. My friend Julie booked a...

This guy Shinzen Young came to Google in California and gave a talk. I watched his talk on a video-conference. I have since begun meditat...

I am doing this now. Hunting for an apartment of my own. This is fun and stressful! Three big general points: - it's the biggest chunk...

Countries that do observe DST may begin and end DST on different dates AND those dates can change from year to year. Tell me about it, right...

Hey. Apparently I'm going to the Olympics. This is pretty fantastic. I live in Seattle, which is pretty close to Vancouver, but when ...

or, Sometimes (not often) the antidote for programming is more programming, or, I have a button that does ANYTHING! I was feeling crummy ton...

I woke up at 6 AM this morning. I think this is because I drank a lot of Belgian-style beer last night. It was pretty fab. 30-some brewer...

So I'm looking for religions, learning about religions, practicing religions, right? And my current one has been Nichiren Buddhism . I...

(but sometimes I pick up lyrics or song and want to say them a lot, but in such a way that people know that i'm referencing something. ...

I'd really like to have a real spiritual experience. You know, like Zen dudes talk about: all of a sudden you get it, you're sittin...

I got to reading this book by this guy . A Brief History of Everything, by Ken Wilber. Please forgive him for the big picture of his noggi...

When you have a bunch of blogs you're subscribed to and you go away for a few days, stuff piles up! And then, because I am crazy, I fee...

Number of comics in the good-old-fashioned dead-tree newspaper here in Cleveland today that are about trying to party on new year's but ...

Happy blahblah! Christmas has passed, and as long as you didn't spend the weekend drinken de kerstman onder tafel , you're ready fo...

Naming things at work is hard. I mean, and at home, and everywhere. Say I'm working on a project to resize videos (to pick some random...

I've realized two things recently, and the second is more fun than the first: 1. My whole complicated relationship with Christmas? It...

I was riding my bike, listening to French tapes, and I totally rolled an R! Like all casually, back of the throat sort of French-style R ro...