The Snail Shell

Week before last: conference in Cologne. Here are some things about going to a conference in Cologne that are great: - The public trans...

Global warming :  What's really warming the world? (yes, it's people.) It's good to have a few solid links on hand for debates...

Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain  starts out with a guy lost in the desert babbling about "quantum foam", the super ti...

Reading this rant about "Hot New Food Cities" and agreeing, yeah, often a neighborhood is "up and coming" exactly as m...

When I was about 18 and started to think for myself, I realized that we are way too far in one direction in this country and I should basic...

I grew up using these "Dobie" sponges: but in the last couple years, I (like most people I know) have started using these gu...

After a short bit of googling it looks like my man Bernie is falling behind. I was surprised to find that this made me sad. I'm disap...

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot Sounds good to me. Or rather, sounds like ...

I guess I'm into this talk . In short (b/c it's 1hr long and a little new-agey): You can approach decision-making by maximizing so...

ugh so apparently: this was not just a random bit I happened to stumble on, this was an unusually bad bernie stumble some people on the i...

From the start I've liked Bernie slightly more than Hillary. I'd vote for Bernie and be pretty excited about it, I'd vote for H...

yes of course you would it is of course the raddest Rock Star, Jimi Hendrix, known for his amazing guitaring on songs like hey joe, vood...

Lending Club: I put in $x in 2010/2011, and now I have $1.31*x. Kiva: I put in $x around the same time, I now have $0.88*x. (this is fine....

I was just thinking about the guy who convinced us that the filmy feeling on your teeth was Bad and you should brush them to always feel mi...

ok here is the mnemonic  for "is this skin mole something I should worry about?" It's real dumb: Asymmetry - if it's as...

Ingress was pretty fun, but I'm done with it for now. Hit level 14 (out of 16). I liked running into people on the street who were al...

Our heater has a knob to turn it on or off. The knob broke. I went to a hardware store and an appliance store, and neither had ever heard o...

Condensed summary of a friendsourced Facebook thread. Here are some options friends recommended for buying a suit in SF: Indochino Suit ...

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...