The Snail Shell

Here's a hypothesis about a way my brain works sometimes. Epistemic status: talking out of my ass. You know that feeling where you...

" I found the best burger place in America. Then I killed it. " Small Brain Ok. Let's imagine burger places could be reduc...

Spelunky is a video game. It's pretty fun, and pretty difficult. I played through Spelunky classic and it took hours upon hours to ev...

I can't believe I've never posted this Simpsons clip . (0:00-0:55, minus the Lisa bit.) Bart pumps Groundskeeper Willie's shed ...

A friend recently suggested that maybe a useful guide to think about phases of your life could be "what is the big challenge you'r...

A little context: the route I usually use to get to work, Valencia St, has bike lanes. It's also full  of cars parking in the bike lane...

David Bowie in The Man Who Fell To Earth , not quite Mothmanning but it's the best visual I can come up with The new Adventure Zon...

ok yes please do it ok thanks California! San Francisco! What have we got here! Here's how I'm planning to vote so far, but open ...

So, a fun thing to do is to try to figure out how old the "Young X" is in whatever hobby/interest you're looking into. I join...

... but are not moving there for about 5 years. it us Why buy a house? 1. Why should we buy a house? We want space for two kids...

Andreas Wannerstedt is the instagram 3d Bees and bombs . I love this diagram of land use in the US. This, pretty much . Quit doin...

How is cooking like other arts? - people have taste, which differs - people can enjoy making it - you can pay someone to do it, or get ...

three posts about how we can deal with being different levels of rational at different times, or how we can (and should!) be ok with having...

Got thinking about "fairness" today. Most of the conversation I've heard has been pointing out things that are obviously an...

I joke that I spend half my time worrying about where to live, and half my time worrying about having kids. Hah! It's really more like ...

Magic cards! (background: I loved Magic cards ( wiki ) when I was a kid. In college, I stopped because I didn't want people to think ...

Whenever I try to debate most anything, if I'm being honest, I haven't a dang clue. It requires learning details of how a law works...

Predictive drawing with neural networks This is one of these things that I saw once and can't seem to find the exact same gif. It was ...

( here's part 1 ) Hard to find guides for CA-wide races! Here's the  Chronicle . Here's  one from Planned Parenthood . Here...

Having feelings is hard. Making decisions is hard because having feelings is hard. Reasoning in ways that will be good to your future feeli...