The Snail Shell

I tend to draw a line between consumptive and productive pleasures. You can get enjoyment out of eating an ice cream sundae, watching a movi...

Okay I guess one last blog/buzz about business cards.  There it is. Woo! How to make one yourself: 1. Find a QR code generator. I like th...

I'm going to a conference for the first time ever. I will probably meet a lot of people. Maybe I would like some of them to remember me....

Every time I touch down in CLE, I spend a week surrounded by people who love me. Okay, of course, going home to visit family and friends is ...

Cold brain = the part of you that thinks like a computer. Hot brain = emotions, gut feelings, instincts, procedural memory, the stuff that...

So here I rail against people using their phones when they're hanging out with friends. (in general with the " multitasking is bad ...

- need? Do you do the things you do because you must in order to survive? - guilt? - duty? (you feel like you have to, for one reason or a...

I've got a couple of projects I'm working on now. Both are mobile apps. I think I'll try standing desks some more. I'm int...

Flow , by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, is one of the more influential books in my life. So I got The Evolving Self,  Csikszentmihalyi's foll...

I think I got a taste of what mindfulness tastes like. My main focus was my rising and falling stomach. I caught most every thought that cam...

First, short thought: when you are not-doing, that too is a thing you are doing . You cannot do more or less. All you can do is redirect ene...

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...