The Snail Shell

is here . I mean, not really.  The speech is a little (a lot) excessive, and I didn't hate school hardcore.  I didn't hate it at a...

I just re-read my dream journal from last night.  Sentence number one: "I could do that shake-your-hand snappy thing!" You know ...

I was talking yesterday with a friend who doesn't cook much, but he wants to start.  I wanted to offer an encouraging word about how ...

Or cupcakes or something, the new thing that people talk about I guess.  I could certainly get on board with a dream craze.  Y'know, Inc...

Point: I'm not focused enough ! Counterpoint: I'm too focused ! Okay, so actually I'll just give a quick "right on, bro...

If you do something once, it's hard to say whether you actually like it or not. (It will probably be different from what you already do...

Changes are afoot! It's a good day for blogs. First, research. I'm just starting the journey back into academia right now. (y...

In between delicious morsels of bloggery, I have cooked up the following things to talk about, but none has made it to a full-time post: - I...

Can we please stop talking about Apple? Just for a week, what if the sci/tech news stopped reporting about the latest iphone thing? I have...

This time I ask you for advice. Have you ever donated to something in a foreign country? I'm looking to donate to something, and it...

The rights of not-straight-people have come a long way in my lifetime. But so has the name of the group! This is a post about the latter. ...

and it turns out it's not actually hard, going back to the 60's even, even though to be fair I don't actually know a damned thin...

This ... urgh, I mean, I guess... I have to write about this! It's delightfully, terribly, depressingly, humorously, really bottomed-ou...

but only the left one. Unrelatedly, no matter when or where you are, you're better off with the attitude "_____ are people too...

They don't really organize well. Or, they do, but it's into three camps: programming, travel, and research. I have to plan for all...

- The new Doctor Who season finale is really good. The whole season was top notch: acting, writing, probably directing too but I didn'...

I've got a new lungi, Outkast and Passion Pit on the stereo, a Doctor Who season-finale-part-1 queued up, a loving family enjoying Fathe...

Meh: I watch soccer for the first time in 4 years, it's USA-England, big game... and it ends as a 1-1 tie? Eep: not being able to record...

This is pretty nice. I sometimes alternate between bits of feeling wonderful and feeling kinda out of it. Now I'm on an upswing. That...

First, are you a grad student? Or anyone else who reads a lot of PDF's, and needs to save PDF's as well as metadata on all of them ...