Summer Reading

current tune:
 pod   WILL's Afternoon Magazine

after arguing at length in the bram cohen thread i post earlier, it was really nice to listen to NPR and hear james kunstler having a decent undersanding of the societal forces that lead to the existance of cities. he was ...

Katrina

Celebrity culture uniformly leads to a degradation of public discussion. When someone is a standout in a particular field (e.g. bram cohen in software engineering), everything they say
, whether related to their field of expertise or not, is taken as worthwhile. meanwhile a person with a ...

Moved

in light of this "feature", i re-read the blogger TOS. i noticed, halfway down the page, that the blog*spot TOS differs substantially in terms of allowable content. so, i'm moving. i finally got wordpress to work on archgfx.net. ...

Checkmate

the man who taught me to play chess has died.also, i know every person they quote in the article. that's just weird. i'm meant to be going to the memorial tonight, but i have to clean, in preparation for my father-in-law coming over friday....

A Historical Playlist

since i've been disconnected from the internets, and life in general (via being in kentucky and working 20 hours in 2 days), here's a post about nothing at all. this is not to prove i was into emo before anyone else (i wasn't). nor is it an ...