Month: February 2008

But this time I’m not lying or projecting into the future.  Here’s a summary of what’s happened to me thus far: Leaving in the wee hours of the morning is a bad idea when you haven’t slept all day. When you tell your mom that you don’t need anything but cereal, they buy you the…

This is taken from a 2000 paper by Jonathan Haidt, Fredrik Björklund, and Scott Murphy from the University of Virginia. I wanted to mention it here because it shows how completely out-of-whack my constant exposure to philosophy has made me. In this experiment, they taped a bunch of college students as they attempted to respond…

Hi all, this is Pixel in his youth, filling in for Pixel as he makes his way across the country. ((Shh! I want to tell you a secret, but you have to promise not to tell anyone. Promise? Okay, Pixel hasn’t been really making his way across the country this whole week. He got to…

Please see the previous two road trip posts. Some highlights of my trek across California: I escaped from L.A. in less than 24 hours.  It was easy, really. Apparently, I exaggerated when I said California had split from the U.S. It was actually a mutual divorce. However, Oregon and California are on speaking terms, so…