The Snail Shell

Great year for music! In my humble opinion. Let's start off with the mild disappointment of the year: Purity Ring, Another Eternity ....

(disclaimer: not an interesting-to-read post, probably, more of a log-for-logging's-sake.) Weirdly bored? Like, I finish work and I d...

This is the best game that you can play without any physical things. It is hard to explain but easy to play. So, channeling Aaron Tarnow, I...

Back in 2008, I graduated and got a job making $80,000/year. This makes me a pretty lucky fellow, for sure! But how lucky? This was around ...

Lost a couple of the greats these last couple of months. Here's a handful of thoughts. So they started a family - they had 6 kids. Fo...

This NY times editorial is maybe the first one in the last five years that includes musings about New York or San Francisco neighborhoods ...

door (v): to open your car door and hit a biker who is riding by Luckily it wasn't bad, just some cuts and scrapes. I was riding bet...

Read this great post . I agree with it so much, and also with the blog's title. ("almost no one is evil. almost everything is brok...

One of the shadiest stops on my India-Nepal-Bhutan part of the trip was in the town of Mahendranagar. Nepal border town on the far west sid...

... is a pretentious-sounding thing I've kept hearing myself thinking recently. When you're watching a movie, reading a book, pla...

by "snake people" I mean "millennials" This is not an exhaustive list. 1. "Finding a good relationship is a se...

As Detroit goes, so goes the nation Rich young people are getting it; they're moving to San Francisco and New York and Boston and S...

I've been working a lot recently. Right now it's for 3 CHI papers. CHI is a big conference in our field, so we kinda submit everyth...

Here's a model ( more info ) that I thought was an old Buddhist thing but is actually just from Jonathan Haidt, like a number of other ...

As I understand it, Bernie Sanders held a rally in Seattle, some Black Lives Matter protesters stormed the stage before his speech and took...

I mean, that term is too loaded. It's either Bad (if you're republican) or Good (if you're not). Obv I think Good is closer to...

We need a word for this. Articles where it's not a wider issue, but just one person doing one bad thing, and everyone freaks the hell o...

From today's Eat That Read This : """ A Squirrel Hill resident wrote in to the PG to bemoan the fact that residents...

Before this move, I knew of two reasonable ways to get furniture: 1. cheaply, whatever you find, yard sales and stuff. 2. IKEA. I sort o...

Soma Smoothie ES. 2010. 60cm. Kept in great shape. It's big, it's light, drop bars, amazing parts. It's kinda perfect for every...