The Snail Shell

Jesus Christ. I just heard about  Mac deprecating Java . Java is English. Not the best language, but a pretty okay language that a lot of ...

Thoughts in your head exist in a wonderful state. Each thought is like a whole tree of spindly little branches and leaves connecting to othe...

Here's the link , and I provide it so that you can friend me if you also use Goodreads. I won't do this often either, but my modes...

Quick: name a tablet computer! Name 3! (err, Galaxy Tab, Xoom, grumble grumble Ipad) Say you tell me that I should get a Vortex Nebula tabl...

Life can go all sorts of ways! Here are a few I'm thinking of, in descending order of preference. 1. the Dynamo. Love your job. Do som...

Somehow, even though I spend all my time staring at fluorescent rectangles, there's not enough time to organize and output all my though...

So there are "board games". Unfortunately, when you say "board games", somehow Scrabble, Monopoly, Settlers, Risk, Bang!...

A day after lucid dream 3 (so, night before last) came lucid dream 4. A day! As with programming, rapid iteration == fun. In this one, I r...

- I was flying around the galaxy, until I realized I wanted to talk to some people, so I said "the great thing about all these stars an...

On my research blog here . Somewhat interesting! No linear correlation between how long I slept and how awake I feel. Nor between the Wake...

Let's assume we only care about the "stomach" variable. I have 9 days where I ate grains, and 19 days where I ate no grains. O...

Linear regression between mood and energy mood = 0.825810375087 * energy + -0.0729595387559 r=0.758294792793, p=1.88373127793e-06, stderr=...

I've come across two sources since my last post about happiness that make me want to discuss it more: 1. " The Geography of Bliss ...

Notes from this time: - Looking at your hands or feet to stabilize the dream really worked. It felt like they came into focus, and I was ab...

God, here I am talking about a Tim Ferriss book again. Whatever. The deal was "buy the 4-hour body, get the 4-hour workweek pdf free,...

So I've managed to graph my personal data of the last month, and here are some preliminary results. On days 9-27 I ate no grains; on day...

It happened the night before last.  First, some background: I'm reading " Lucid Dreaming " by Robert Waggoner, and it's se...

I thought he was just another of those old dudes my dad had records of. He's a singer-songwriter. He was active in the 70's. Both of...

days skied at vail/beaver creek, Colorado: 4 vertical feet: over 75000 free chocolate chip cookies ingested: 3 (two at beaver "not ro...

Phatic speech is speech that exists to fulfill a social task, not to convey some meaning.  For example "what's up?" doesn'...