The Snail Shell

... is a thing I'm trying to focus on more. Some scattered thoughts about it: Someone gave me a book on alchemy, and after rolling my...

This blog is real interesting for self reflection. I recently noticed that I started a post in early March that looked like this: "I...

" Why data science is a profound threat for queer people ." Where "queer" here could also be expanded to include ...

There's this email that some rando sent to a webcomic artist that I like.  Here's the tweet . Transcription because the internet do...

Richard Garfield at one point talked about a part of Magic he loved , and that filtered into why he made Keyforge . It was this sense of be...

Things are expensive Skiing is way more expensive than it used to be. Anecdote: I recently went to Heavenly in Lake Tahoe. The rack rate...

Glassdoor ratings widely gamed ; another instance of Pearson's Law (or Drucker's or Kelvin's or whatever): "what gets meas...

Ok so years ago I first stumbled upon the Less Wrong world and I was very turned off because it all seemed like so much navel gazing. It w...

The title of this article is clickbait but it's a pretty good argument for househusbands. (note: the article talks about "hous...

" 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...