The Snail Shell

I don't know if anyone likes these posts, but at the very least, it's a good list of things I found interesting once and might want...

This thought has been running through my head a lot recently. (Anyone know the actual quote?) Think about the first time you had vodka. I...

1. Sgt. Pepper's (A Day in the Life) 2. The Bends (Street Spirit (fade out)) 3. Speaking in Tongues (This Must Be The Place (Naive Me...

I am thinking that almost all instances of people being awesome occur in situations of plenty, and almost all instances of people being cru...

This is part of a work in progress; I have a lot of ideas floating around and I'd like to track their progression over time. Tourism...

I'll be going through Angkor Wat or Hampi or something, and I'll think "this is like a scene from Myst or Riven." My stan...

Maybe. I am still meditating, but not as much or as effectively as I was in September or October. The biggest reason is continued travel. S...

Email doesn't ruin real-world relationships . Facebook increases your social support a lot . The internet is good for you. This is good...

"Things are as they are": this seems about the fourth thing you say after you live in a place for a while. First, "place X ...

Well, a live version of "My Sacrifice", to be exact. So Creed. They look kind of like meatheads. They have rather shaved heads t...

I went out to get some change. I had only 500-rupee notes, and I owed a guy 44 for laundry. It's late at night, most things are closed...

http://gettingstronger.org/2011/11/obesity-starts-in-the-brain-2/ Long article, kind of tough to read, and he's proposing a new under...

I don't like to post a big list of "here are interesting things"; I'd rather formulate them into useful and easily-digest...

Guess I'm late to this party (sorry, I'm in Nepal!), but http://mobro.co/dantasse ... it's at least a moderately important cau...

From Bill Bryson's " A Walk in the Woods ": "Many landowners also discovered that they sat on great seams of coal just...

I just read this book, Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English . I got it because I had read Mindfulness in Plain English and it was very good...

Buddhism aside (whew! I do worry about this blog getting religious.), I read a thing about how people had the best moods when either their...

A bunch of them, recently. Sometimes I wonder if that's okay to do. I wonder this more whenever I read or think a lot about Buddhism, w...

I've kind of taken it for granted my entire life that working for money isn't a good idea, that things aren't worth worrying ab...

One question with undertaking a quest like "get enlightened" is: how do I plan to do this? I'm not prepared to give up my car...