Archive for the 'Rumination' Category

Musings on Sperm Wars

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

No, this trick won’t work…How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? A central thesis of Sperm Wars so far is that behavior which we believe to be driven by conscious decisions are actually motivated by our animal subconscious, drawing [...]

Food, Space, Time, Depth

Sunday, November 20th, 2011

Food Trust the Chinese to hit culinary home runs. I stumbled upon Xi’an Famous Foods (http://xianfoods.com/) after getting a haircut in Chinatown. The cumin lamb noodles were fantastically spicy, as the sweat beads condensing on and around my nose testified … of course, the soup was spicy too, but piping hot, which as you may [...]

Gaelyk – Throw Me a Friggin’ Bone

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Trying out Gaelyk for Google AppEngine. So far the setup experience has been … terrible. I downloaded v1.0 of the Gaelyk template. Documentation suggests that you should be able to easily import this into Eclipse; however, no .project or .classpath files are to be found. Surprise surprise! They are present in the v0.7 template zip [...]

Shorty Awards Rigged

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

I suppose it is completely unsurprising that so-called user-nominated awards such as the Shorty Awards are manipulated by the big boys.

Loose Change

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

I flicked a quarter to a guy on the street today. A memory suddenly flashed in my mind – one of those indelible instants. Walking down some street in Cuenca, I saw a beggar sitting quietly by the side of the road. I can’t recall exactly, but he had some disabling deformity. Quietly is important [...]


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