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The Life of Aaron Swartz 14 Jan 2013 | 10:21 pm
If you’re not a geek you may not have heard who Aaron Swartz is, or that he recently killed himself. If you are a geek, you haven’t heard much else since it happened a few days ago. Most the blogosph...
I Choose Everything 7 Jan 2013 | 04:56 am
I’ve spent a lot of time considering not only what should go on this site, but also what I should focus on in my life. I like a lot of different things. I obviously spend a lot of time thinking about ...
The Herd and Changing the World 28 Dec 2012 | 03:17 am
I’m forced to listen to pop music almost everyday thanks to the predictable tastes of the 13 year old girl I live with. The thing about pop music is that it’s palatable in the same sense candy is pala...
Birth Defects and Superpowers 22 Dec 2012 | 11:57 pm
Nate has a secret birth defect that seriously impacts his life. He’s lived in fear of being found out since he was a preteen, and it preoccupies his mind when he’s with his girlfriend. He was with th...
When the World Ends 21 Dec 2012 | 09:24 pm
The world ending today on December 21st, 2012 reminds me of one of my favorite songs, called “H.” Western culture is steeped in Abrahamic cosmology, and one fundamental difference between the univers...
Welcoming the Rain 20 Dec 2012 | 10:06 pm
Meru is a rural region of Kenya about three and a half hours outside of Nairobi, the capitol. When my woman was growing up in Meru in the 70s, picking coffee and going to primary school, she walked p...
On Needs and Violence 19 Dec 2012 | 11:38 pm
Shut the Fuck Up The cat’s litter box is stinky, and she’s sick of it. She’d asked her boyfriend to clean the thing, but he just didn’t do it enough. Plus when he did do it, he didn’t do it with soap...
How to Get Over Grief 18 Dec 2012 | 11:46 pm
I was 21 years old when my dad killed himself. Dad had left after a big fight with my mom. I had been talking to my mom for the whole week he’d been missing, and that morning was no different. I had ...
Highlights and Humans 21 Sep 2012 | 03:30 pm
1. When you look at a sphere that’s glossy, you normally see a white point of light, called the highlight. You can measure the highlight. You can see that it’s white, not, say, purple. You can say th...
Chickens of the Southern Wild 27 Aug 2012 | 09:55 pm
My woman brought me to see Beasts of the Southern Wild yesterday, which is a really interesting and gripping movie. Very minor spoilers ahead. A guy in the movie was preparing for a hurricane. He was...
