Sita Sings the Blues
Via Lydia Pintscher, I found Sita Sings the Blues, a delightful CC-licensed movie. It’s basically a “musical, animated personal interpretation of the Indian epic the Ramayana.” One neat thing it does...
View ArticleOn Happiness
There is an excellent TED talk about happiness and the tension between the “remembering self” and the “experiencing self.” It touches several things that I happen to have been talking about with people...
View ArticleLady Gaga Needs to Wise Up
So I get why no one told Lady Gaga before the video for “Telephone” came out, because naturally, no one wanted to prevent that work of art from seeing daylight. Now that it’s been out for a while, I...
View ArticlePlaying Well: No Stress Losing
This is part of a series on how to play games well: Stoicly and enjoyably. Not to triumph, but to have fun. How to deal with failure? Everyone loses, but not always well. One easy strategy is to...
View ArticlePlaying Well: Golden Rule
This is part of a series on how to play games well: Stoicly and enjoyably. Not to triumph, but to have fun. This one is simple. Merely putting yourself in the other players’ shoes is the key to winning...
View ArticleHowliday 2011
As is rapidly becoming a new Howliday tradition, I’m posting my Howliday entry super late. Nothing of super note, just that we decided cookies were the new tradition, based on Meg’s excellent batch....
View ArticleQuote of the Day
From The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: The pajamas were patterned with red pinstripes and tiny blue escutcheons. Sammy was wearing a pair that had red escutcheons with blue pinstripes....
View ArticleHowliday 2012
Woo! Another year, another Howliday. This year, the new tradition was eating at a diner. We’d managed to do it three years in a row, so we figured it was time to lock it in. The less you are at your...
View ArticleNew Music Sources
This past year, I’ve realized I like finding new music more than I previously realized. I figure it might be interesting to share my own sources for new music and maybe receive some good...
View ArticleHowliday 2013
Just a quick note to future me: now Howlidays are no longer celebrated on the first Tuesday after December 10th. We never did manage to get it right anyway. So the new tradition is a codification of...
View ArticleQuick Book Recommendation
I’ve been trying to read more books from my local library’s “recommended” sections, to avoid a reading rut. And one such book was Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell. It was great! It’s a...
View ArticleHowliday 2010
I’ve been meaning to post about this year’s Howliday, lest its new tradition get lost in the haze of memory. Seeing as all participants were people that happened to have beards, it was discovered that...
View ArticleFastMail is the Perfect Gmail Alternative
If, for whatever reason, you’re looking to switch from Gmail, I think you’ll love FastMail. Its workflow, interface, and features will be immediately recognizable to you: it has conversation view,...
View ArticleWhat’s Next
So. The 2016 election happened. Many of my friends and I are understandably concerned about the future. But more than anything we want concrete actions we can take to improve things (versus say,...
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