The Snail Shell

" We've gotta keep this traffic flowing and accept a little sin " - Cake Nerd Rage: when you get mad at something that is D...

Remember Neko Atsume  (Cat Collector)? That game was great! Put out some treats, have adorable kittens come visit, maybe take pictures of...

I got a chance to join the  MIT Mystery Hunt  with a friend's team this past weekend. This is one of the biggest puzzle-hunt events, op...

Previously in the "Dan is mad at bike lane parkers" saga. I've moved on to Tactic 8: I bought some nametag stickers and wro...

I'm sure if you're on internet things, you've seen " How millennials became the burnout generation ." 1. It's w...

Movies: 1. Annihilation  - trippy sci-fi horror, moderate squeamishness, not all loose ends tied up, great soundtrack.  More on this . 2....

At one point, I could make a list of everything I owned. I could even carry it all! That was neat. However, that doesn't work too well ...

Let's say on some metric Fox is 50 points to the right of NBC. How can we tell, then, if NBC is 0 and Fox is +50 (where more positive ...

Occasionally I'll save an article and then feel like "I gotta blog about this or otherwise post it or something, otherwise it'...

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...