The Snail Shell

Implementing a general rule that causes a lot of bad edge cases. For example: in India, there's a rule that you can't leave and ...

Check this the hell out. Internet browsing plus real data making a positive change in my life. tl;dr: I used to get canker sores a lot, the...

Ok I guess I talk about much more trivial things all the time, and it's enough of an issue that I better say a thing on Ferguson, so th...

Interesting way to think about solving the world's problems . In short: Do you think it's worth it to give $3 to clean oil off a...

Reading down facebook, clicking on every god damn thing because I'm tired, ended up reading http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/charlotte-k...

My parents and I were marveling at the pretty Pittsburgh bridges, and expressing our disappointment that the new Innerbelt bridge in Clevela...

Which is weird, right? For most of civilized history, spring is when things start, and fall is when things end. But for most of my life, an...

Avoid Finite Games Daniel Lemire is a blogger who's vaguely related to computer things and I'm not sure why I still read him, but ...

I'm gone already. How did that happen? Props: - my friends who live there. It feels like (surprise) a city of transplants, but the n...

Okay, so ideally, you give something back to the world, right? You consume resources and stuff, but hopefully you do things that are so nic...

Every day: ride my sweet new shiny impractical single-speed bike to a train that I can put my bike on, thus making a long commute doable.*...

They do get names, though. My latest addition: Jeppe Laursen. Q&A: Q: What is it? A: An SE Draft Lite  single speed urban bike. ...

I feel a need to assert my identity. As if I need to start drawing lines, like "I'm a Mission guy, not one of those wacky SoMa ner...

Shiny, popular, fun, but your parents would still like it: I give you A.C. Newman. I needed a bike for my 3 months here, commuting ~5 mi...

I think this is mostly a post for my future self. I have a pretty good record of a lot of my life on my blog, but the last year or so has b...

Yes! I don't even know if I can remember all the parts that are on it, but at least I talked about a bunch of them in the last post...

I was going to just post when it's all done, but I better start posting or I'll forget some stuff. Here are some parts I have now, ...

http://www.psychologytomorrowmagazine.com/inscapes-enlightenment-and-science/ more from the same guy:  http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.co...

Is this really what we want, as a celebration of world peace and togetherness and what have you? Rabid competitions, where bumping your leg...

2013 hasn't been the easiest. The careful reader may note that I posted a lot less here in 2013 than most years. Work has been difficul...