The Snail Shell

This is wonderful: lolfoods .  It's so simple, and yet I bet you can't get through the whole page without cracking up.  Is it the pa...

Buying furniture makes no sense.  I'm moving in a year.  And yet, I need a place to put things.  My furniture doesn't have to be roc...

The secret lovey-dovey world of web browsers. Having worked on Chrome, I can say this is pretty much true.  There's a little bit of ...

Apparently they made some movie about The Facebook Dot Com, and it's a big old hairy intrigue-filled deal about the Rise of The Facebook...

I have a drawing.  Pencil on paper.  I would like to scan it and have an image of any format that looks kind of like the drawing, and is ema...

A year after Burning Man means a year after I first encountered Nichiren Buddhism means a year after I started actually doing some ritual ev...

Last year I kept getting asked "what IS burning man?"  This year it was more "what do you DO at burning man?"  I don...

7AM tomorrow: we go to Burning Man again.  Should be interesting, a year later!  I feel less crazy in the head than I was then.  It's g...

1. It is most likely not about you. I am in a stressful spot at work.  You can't really have stress unless you have responsibility, an...

Awesomeness Reminders : this is cool.  Super low tech, and maybe helping people's lives.  (maybe hurting them too!  there's a case t...

Or, time to put my money, quite metaphorically, where my mouth is.  (to do so literally would just be putting money in my mouth, and even I...

Suave shampoo or conditioner costs $1 for 22 oz. Since I got it in my head that it's worth it to spend $35 for a haircut now (it total...

Not killing enough experiments .  Especially with my Android apps, I'm not very comfortable with unpublishing them or otherwise letting ...

1. News is unfair.  Nobody knows the whole story.  I recently heard about a right-wing talk show host investigating Oregon state representat...

I've noticed an unusual fellow creeping into my speech recently: the phrase "managing things."  I usually accompany the uttera...

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...