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These have accumulated for awhile and I might've missed some as there is currently a "scratch notebook" infestation throughout...

Basically the only way I can engage with the horribleness of modernity, politics, society, economics, and human-built institutions which deg...

I jotted down many quotes in this time interval, because every. single. social. interaction. now feels deeply meaningful and like a carefull...

"Write it in your dream journal" is this season's witty riposte. Please help me disseminate it by hurling it --- with disdain,...

I have no particular, publicly-declarable goals to commemorate the incrementing of our calendar year, except that --- as always --- I want t...

... and I'm out (previously: In which I am about to cancel my Verizon home DSL and Verizon update ). The service continued to be terrib...

An update: the squeaky wheel does, indeed, get the grease. After being maximally noisy in a public forum (Twitter) and expressing, at len...

I have not had home internet service since July 18th. My provider is Verizon DSL. At this point I have called, emailed, tweeted, and interac...

Dear readers, If you can read this, then an incredibly unlikely sequence of steps has succeeded. Huzzah! There is currently some sort of...

Why, though? You know what would go great atop this starchy transport layer? Another layer of starch, with a different form factor! Th...

There is a homework due this morning. The single most popular post on the course message board occurred last night. 1:10am: "do we h...

Nothing comes out perfectly round in practice; observe, my residence in Paris will not be a number of months divisible by 12. Thus, my gym m...

Mawwiage ... is what bwings us here togefah... today. And it also permeates my social media of late, a symptom of the pleasantness of July...

If you write your date in the American order (month-day-year) then today is momentous for its sequentiality: 10-11-12 (and even more momento...

Dear Toronto, I know it's been awhile since we last spoke, and I blame myself: I've been too busy to set aside time for you. And tr...

Every muscle and soft tissue from my ribs to my knees hurts. My eyes are red and unpleasant. My right ankle feels like it's trying to ...

It is the end of the semester for undergraduates. Do you know what that means? Big project time! The engineers who share the building wit...

Every day I wake up and get [some of] the news from the radio and reading online. This makes me grumpy about the world. (See the "whi...

I have become recently frustrated at the unusability of teh internet [sic]. No, I don't want your cookies or to run Flash... and as a c...