People brag about how much more intuitive their particular systems of measurement are. For example, Americans will brag about how Fahrenheit is more intuitive: 0-100 degrees capture most outside temperatures (the actual extreme records are -128° to 134°, but those…
A good interlocutor should have the twin virtues of: Acceptance: not challenging you in ways you don’t need or want Surprise: challenging you in ways you need or want That is: they should accept you as you are and not…
So I’m watching Jon Haidt1 and Joshua Knobe at Blogging Heads. All of a sudden I hear Haidt, who I generally agree with on everything,2 say something I’ve come to conclude is a half-thought out idea. He eventually comes around…
I talk and text with my middle school friends to this day. Some of us are going to Iceland on a group trip soon. If I’m honest, I do more texting than they do. We slowly text less and less…
I forgot my ex-fiancée’s hairstyle. I realized that while high, camping alone in Wyoming. I had to look it up, but the thought made me cry. I think about her daily, sometimes with nostalgia, sometimes with sadness or guilt, sometimes…
My uncle once said, “how many more times am I going to see you? Ten?” I’d never considered the finitude of that relationship. Within a few years, his brother, another uncle of mine, died. He was 54. I saw him…
My friend always quotes that dumb line from one of the worst James Bond films: “always have an exit strategy.”
I can barely remember not being sad. :-T
It’s hourly comic day, but it’s also any other day. It’s been 14 months since my break up and I still miss so many things.. the way I used to draw her without a nose or eyebrows. “Don’t worry your…
I didn’t drink regularly until I was 23 and I didn’t use marijuana until it became legal in Nevada, so when I say I tried LSD twice at age 35, it was a big deal for me. The motivation and…
(Continued from here) A lot has happened, both in the past year and over the past decade, but I haven’t really had the chance to process it until recently. I’ve been thinking about this idea I had a while ago…
In a language and accent I understand. Balanced between images and text Fits in the time-slot provided Technical terms (a first-year graduate student wouldn’t understand) are explained Talk has an articulated conclusion Talk has an articulated structure Text is readable…
In 2018, I discovered Libby. In 2019, I’m keeping track of all of the books I’ve ‘read.’ Parentheses denote the day I finished the book. Bold denotes the books I really recommend. After the hyphen is the weight of the…
I missed new year’s and birthday posts the past few years. They’ve been great years by any objective metric, but the subjective experience has been mostly stress and ennui. I’ve been on a bit of a tour of old friends…
We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,…
The title of this post is wrong. I once described getting older as living through parts you’d once thought were obvious, but now find thorny and difficult. This post isn’t about that. It’s about how I’m now a tenure-track assistant…
I’m 31! This is 11,111 in binary. Omg, I’m sooooooo old. When I started this blog, I was… um… like, totally, 19 years old and stuff. Wowza. How things havea changed! My first birthday on this blog was my 20th.…