Inanities

I went to the optometrist’s offices today to try to get the lit­tle feet on my glasses replaced… they have to order new ones and charge me $15 for the trou­ble. Irritating, and pre­cisely the sort of nickel-and-diming bull­shit one should expect from a “fam­ily owned” busi­ness. On the other hand, I tried to get …

Web Applications

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 …

Insomnia

I’m cur­rently suf­fer­ing from putting my insom­nia to good use (so far I’ve installed Tracks), so I’ll take the time to post some ran­dom thoughts: I was bit­ten by April Fools twice today. The sec­ond time because I was too exhausted to remem­ber that it was April Fools. A life with­out hope is not wasted or …

Pong

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 …