Double Reading

It seems that if we want to move to live on other planets, the surface is probably the worst place to live. On the surface you have to deal with weather, atmosphere (or lack of), possibly solar radiation, dangerous dust (which inspired me to write this), etc.
If we’re going to plan on building colonies on [...]

There is a Facebook meme going around where you are supposed to post 25 random things about you. I guess my list isn’t so random, but whatever. I figured I’d cross-posted it here.

01. i first used the internet in 3rd grade (around 1990) when i was one of the few people in my school to [...]

I stumbled across Imagekind yesterday. It sort of makes me want to order art there, but as I told my friend Shannon, I’m torn between:

feeling like i should make my own artwork
feeling like I should have some personal connection to the artwork (a la the prints she and my friend Molly made for me)
feeling like [...]

Why is it that whenever someone jokingly anticipates something horrible happening to them thus resulting in the loss of the knowledge they carry in their head they say, “In case I get hit by a bus.”
Yes, buses do hit and kill people, but I think cars do much more often. I am nearly hit by [...]

I’m giving Windows Live Writer Beta a try. Usually I write my posts using the WordPress interface, but it’s always fun to try new products. I’ve heard really good things about Writer so I figured why not?
This post is mostly a test

I’ll try to do this more often and possibly elaborate on these at another time…
Skeptical Glare — this is how a newspaper described the “hipsters” might be looking at Madonna

I’ve had it with these stupid “me too!!” comments that people are posting on the 206-415-xxxx post. I’ve noted my annoyance before, but now I’m taking action. I have disabled comments for that post. Although it’s fun to get tons of emails with people posting comments, nobody has posted a comment that is worthwhile or [...]

I hate to be all gossipy and stuff, but I cannot resist posting this note that is taped to the door on the guy who lives in the apartment next to mine.
It reads:

If I didn’t buzz you in via the front entrance you will not get in this door. I don’t care how loud or [...]

I probably shouldn’t make fun of people who post comments on my site (but as far as I’m concerned, this stupid 206-415 business is a site of it’s own now — I swear that most of the people posting comments didn’t even read my original post… they seem to not understand that the phone number [...]

Look at this awesome Nalgene bottle that my coworker got me a few weeks ago. It is a special philosophy bottle. You can get your own from Powell’s (a huge bookstore in Oregon).
The philosophers listed are: Aristotle, Plato, Augustine, Descartes, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Foucault. We joked that I should etch Zizek on the very top [...]