Posts by sarcozona
Gods’ games
It would be a pretty good bet that the gods of a world like this probably do not play chess and indeed this is the case. In fact no gods anywhere play chess. They haven’t got the imagination. Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a […]
Flattr Update: Breaking Even and Accepting Donations
Image via CrunchBase I started using the microdonation service Flattr back in September. I like it better than advertising because it doesn’t clutter up websites with annoying ads and better than Paypal because it’s far more flexible (and principled). What do I mean by flexible? In addition to making one time microdonations through Flattr, you […]
Grad school applications: stalled
I started today motivated about working on my grad apps, got frustrated with a cranky repairman, and then scrubbed my kitchen and installed a new blog theme. (Let me know if anything is broken please!) I’ve got about two hours before a friend comes over for dinner and a movie. I could read a few […]
Follicles
Doing something about migraines
Migraines get in my way. I’ve canceled on seeing the same person three times in the last week alone. Migraines don’t happen randomly – people with migraines have triggers. Some people have lots of triggers, some people have few. Some triggers are obvious and some are really hard to figure out. One thing that makes […]
Great Hair
While I deal with frozen pipes in a house I’m looking after for a friend, why don’t you go make a snowman?
New Year’s Resolutions: Studying Russian
I love learning languages, but I’m bad about starting and not ‘finishing.’ I know you never truly ‘finish’ learning a language, but I want to get to a reasonable level of competency, instead of just learning the basic structure of the language and colors, numbers, and food. I tend to put language learning on the […]