The Snail Shell

Lately I've felt very goal-oriented. I have a hard deadline to move out, so all the moving has to happen before then. So, too, does my w...

(I am posting this right after two more posts; if you're not RSS/Google Buzzing this, scroll down to read something a little less esoter...

I used to like soda. Then at some point I started to get this rather visceral feeling of sugary fuzz on my teeth after drinking it. Also, I ...

Last weekend: first silent Buddhist retreat ever. Man man man I have like 3 posts worth about this. First, some very basic human thoughts: ...

I love this app . Turn it on, put it in your shirt pocket, forget about it. It takes one photo every 30 seconds. On later iphones it can mak...

In high school, I juggled a fair bit with the St. Ignatius Circus Company . It was sort of fun. Like everything I did those days, I did it f...

Imagine you're a housewife. In 1900, you'd wait until your house got very dirty, you'd sweep for an hour, and then your house wo...

Googlebook (ahem, "Google Plus") is out. I like it. It might actually let me quit Facebook. But it's not a toaster; I can'...

I had always figured that, since I pretty reliably drink about 150mg caffeine/day (5 cups of tea, 1.5 cups of coffee, or some combination, a...

Normative Heuristic Microethic #3. I'll try not to say much here, because Sebastian Deterding says it better . Flip through the entire...

or, Normative Heuristic Microethic #2. And dear family: I'm allowed to swear on the internet if I'm just copying someone else's ...

Or, "normative heuristic microethics, part 1." You can skip the next paragraph if you want. I'm searching for something. I t...

And I don't like UPS. If you send me a package via UPS, here is what will happen: I won't be here, because I don't stay in my ...

So I did the no-grains experiment a couple times , and I generally found that eating no grains made my stomach feel a little better. After ...

(although a well-researched post about the effects of coffee on attention would be really interesting. Someone go write that.) How much is...

It's terrible marketing , and it's also all of the challenges in my life right now. Doubt : meditation. I was all "why have I...

Contradiction 1: it's better to be mindful of what you're doing, but  the way to adopt a better behavior is to automate it . Inter...

It's a nice place to walk around. I like the Mission, both hipster-Mission (16th and Valencia) and Hispanic-Mission (24th). (is it okay ...

I'm 25. That means I've lived 25 years. Hah! I've still got my piece on the game board of life, and it's doing pretty all ri...

Thanks to the Internet, we all know all the facts. When you learn something, you're just decreasing the lookup time. Sometimes this is...