The Snail Shell

"nerd" being of course entirely unjudgmental; I like some of these nerds and dislike others seeing like a state I keep meaning to,...

how to sum up this year? as usual, I maintain that twitter is good at one thing, and that is dumb jokes, and we have had plenty of time to s...

Expertise For Sale Noe Valley still barely has a video store . Of course Netflix is basically putting them out of business. But that's a...

I should post more frequently, instead of waiting til I have 3 topics and posting 3 at once. Getting Swole I'm lifting weights again. Or...

Like probably many of you, I'm thinking about traveling for the holidays. Really, the number I'd like to know is: if I travel, what...

(roughly stolen from #6 on this list of things that would all be great )   Tati and I disagreed about whether we should get plastic or glass...

I feel kind of like I exist again. gosh was really that much mental energy taken up by the Tr*mp show? Jung I've been reading about him,...

so many feelings!   - thank god, etc. I almost cried, and maybe still will; this ate up a lot of mental/emotional space.   - this actually ...

(no wait dammit, I'm *new, more enlightened* Dan! (breathes deeply for a couple breaths - then goes back to holding breath after mind wa...

so I went to catholic high school, right. and they had a tradition of starting classes with prayers, if the teacher wanted to. and they had ...

Imagined Vastness : yes this! I love when I see this in movies/books/etc, and it's cool that the dependably-solid blogger Matt Webb has...

I want to get this out early this year so that, as soon as you get your ballot, you can fill it in and send it back or deposit it, help the ...

" Two Wolves " (summary to save you a click and because links die: "grandson, there are two wolves inside each of us, one goo...

At my job, performing in real time doesn't matter. I'm trying to build/do something, but it's slow and the product matters, not ...

David Graeber This toot by Darius Kazemi - links to this book (which I haven't read) and these essays on flying cars and bullshit job...

this was a slow thread on twitter but I think it's worth unrolling into a blog. I want the good guys win this election. (it's more c...

something about small groups been thinking about scenius . where's that happening? how can I get in? or maybe, have I already been in a ...

cosmic _____ meaning, "cosmic horror but not necessarily horror."   Adventure Time is so good. we're on season 4 and there ar...

about this time we find ourselves in my life story doesn't make a lot of sense these days, and that's hard. I thought I was really...

I've tried signing off twitter for the last 3 days and I think I might as well keep it up. - a large part of my feed is indeed righteous...