Homage to Icarus

I’ve spent quite a bit of time pro­cras­ti­nat­ing this week­end, surf­ing the Internet when I should’ve been fin­ish­ing clean­ing my apart­ment. Of course, in addi­tion to total time sinks like Facebook games (Yahoo games for peo­ple who like assist­ing spam­mers), I’ve watched a shit­load of TED talks… So far the most inter­est­ing by far are […]

I’ve inad­ver­tently stum­bled onto the calo­rie cycling method of weight loss. Two days of rad­i­cally low calo­rie intakes (1300) fol­lowed by two days of “nor­mal” intakes for my desired loss (1850). I’ve seen vary­ing num­bers, but the rec­om­mended course is to use this method when your weight loss flat­tens out, I was using it because […]

Reading the utopi­anism of world​chang​ing​.com after watch­ing a TED talk from the founder of it, I tried cal­cu­lat­ing car­bon foot­print more accu­rately than I had pre­vi­ously. Catching up on missed blogs, I’ve got­ten myself going on dopplr a moment ago, fol­low­ing a Lessig commenter’s idea to use it to cal­cu­late car­bon for off­set dona­tions  —  which is […]

I notice I tend to start blog posts like an awk­ward attempt to jump-start a stalled con­ver­sa­tion: “So, I was look­ing at…” or “So, I was doing X…” It’s a lit­tle cow­ardly on my part, afraid to just jump into some­thing with­out some sort of warn­ing  —  in this case, the word “so”. Either that or I […]

[I’ll prob­a­bly end up deliv­er­ing this onstage either tomor­row or next week.]
It’s 9:28 PM
Commuter train of the damned
Slaving away for machines
Which do our think­ing for us
Which is what this is all about…
Evolution…
It’s 9:32 PM
Commuter train of the damned
Soon to be board­ing
A motly crew of the dam­aged
Is crowd­ing me in the wait­ing room
What if I stay perfectly […]