life

294 posts

  1. 2024, Week 3
  2. 2024, Week 2
  3. 2024, Week 1
  4. Alan Watts – “Music and Life”
  5. Good Things in 2017
  6. SweetH2O 50K 2011 Race Report, or How to Run an Ultramarathon with Only Three Weeks' Training*
  7. In which I ponder former selves
  8. In which I become old and sappy
  9. Connecting some threads: a well-balanced life
  10. Notes from Los Angeles
  11. The Happiness Project (review: 3/5)
  12. View from Iglesia La Merced A scene from my recent vacation: Volcán Mombacho…
  13. New Orleans
  14. When I gave to a beggar
  15. Birmingham
  16. Charleston
  17. Marshmallows and time preference
  18. ATL → BWI I'll be spending the weekend in Baltimore
  19. Of course you can substitute for the word" travel" any number of things you…
  20. Is it truly so hard to keep sidewalks open and walkable?
  21. The present epoch will perhaps be above all the epoch of space
  22. Some plans for 2009
  23. In which a metaphor is discerned
  24. Atlanta → Winston-Salem Last weekend I enjoyed a little trip from Atlanta…
  25. I love planning and organizing things so much that sometimes I’d rather not…
  26. You didn't miss anything
  27. ATL → SFO And now for a long weekend on the other side of the States
  28. Decatur to Baton Rouge to Lafayette to Decatur
  29. Great Opportunities Don’t Fall into Your Lap
  30. My favorite part from Randy Pausch's book, The Last Lecture
  31. Patrick Stewart talks about baldness
  32. Joy of Dullness
  33. The history of the weekend and how it's changed our culture of leisure
  34. Austin's post about the new house has some of the more poignant
  35. Daniel Mendolsohn
  36. interview with Anthony Bourdain
  37. A House by the Park
  38. Vacation
  39. Noticing... curating... caring
  40. Vacation
  41. Sculptor Richard Serra gave the 2008 commencement speech at Williams College
  42. the cruel and the kind
  43. A worthy bit from The Disadvantages of an Elite Education
  44. Innocent people should never talk to the police
  45. More bad parking/driving
  46. Going shampoo-free sounds kind of cool
  47. FATS Forty 40-Mile Ultra Trail Run
  48. Selections from a few personal ads in the New York Review of Books
  49. George Carlin on living life in reverse
  50. I'm joining the group working up to 100 push-ups over the next few weeks
  51. Things I've Learned from Women Who've Dumped Me (review: 2/5)
  52. Drivers of cars with bumper stickers
  53. Dallas, TX
  54. parking meters force people off the sidewalk
  55. It Is Upsetting to Conclude That Someone Is “Simply a Bastard”
  56. The Birth Clock is a fragile glass object containing a digital clock that is
  57. Writers really do die young
  58. David Rakoff, who swore off TV in college
  59. Rob Giampietro is blogging via postcard this week
  60. PLEASE STOP MOWEING YOUR LAWN SO EARLY
  61. Scenes from the Inman Park Festival parade
  62. 10 Things I Have Learned, Milton Glaser's life lessons
  63. Eddie Murphy riffs on wanting McDonald's food when you were a kid
  64. Eyeglasses and the pushing up thereof
  65. The Thurber & White send-up on the knee phenomenon
  66. A list of people who worked while standing
  67. Shop Class as Soulcraft
  68. You Are Not Dead: A Guide to Modern Living
  69. tornado drinking game
  70. ambient Skype
  71. From an interview with Christian Landers, he of Stuff White People Like
  72. Recent photos of the Atlanta tornado
  73. A list of obsolete skills
  74. The worst parking I've ever seen
  75. Stuff White People Like ---I find this highly amusing
  76. An economic perspective on long-distance relationships
  77. Why Mars & Venus Collide (review: 3/5)
  78. Memery
  79. Ah, privilege
  80. H.G. Wells on Bicycles and Hope
  81. Cloze, reading, learning, life
  82. From the Rope Swing Manifesto
  83. I don't know how anyone can try to be universal
  84. Neil Gaiman helped one of his fans propose at a book signing
  85. Today I learned the word musterbation at LifeClever
  86. Parkinson's Law
  87. The erotic appeal of the Land's End catalog
  88. Ze Frank on feeling uninspired
  89. My awesome run the other night
  90. In children and adolescents, low self-esteem increases materialism
  91. Advice to keep in mind while ring-shopping
  92. My Walk Score Went from 3 to 77
  93. 1003
  94. "I saw the girl of my dreams on the subway tonight." A New York success story
  95. things other people accomplished when they were your age
  96. A note from Management
  97. Passive-aggressive notes
  98. The calculus of saying I love you
  99. Why It's Hard to Get Ready for Work
  100. Projects.txt
  101. Fancy Coffins to Make Yourself, a woodworking guide by Dale Power
  102. The Organization Kid
  103. NPR story on the names on paper bags
  104. He's Just Not That Into You (review: 4/5)
  105. Rands tested some pens to try to find that perfect feel
  106. track what people are saying about libraries
  107. Hipster olympics
  108. So if the worst came to pass, Atlanta could be without water 4 months from now
  109. Local Cities, Global Problems: Jane Jacobs in an Age of Global Change
  110. Seattle Freeze
  111. A timeline of things that have gone or will go extinct from 1950-2050
  112. In praise of Los Angeles
  113. Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes
  114. Summer Blonde
  115. Evolution of a Hip, Ironic Catchphrase: Don't tase me, bro!
  116. Flannery O'Connor's androgynous prayer
  117. The letters of Flannery O'Connor and Betty Hester
  118. I love me a good disco nap
  119. Bonobos are in the news again
  120. A polar bear plays with a husky
  121. Clothundrum, noun
  122. Over in Athens, Georgia you can find the Tree That Owns Itself
  123. The 4 Hour Workweek (review: 3/5)
  124. Male Unbonding
  125. Ian Belcher writes about a week at a colonic spa
  126. How to Be Creative
  127. Personal Injury Warning System
  128. The King of Kong
  129. Links aren't life
  130. A critical analysis of quirk
  131. 72 ideas to simplify your life
  132. You don't need a plan, you need skills and a problem
  133. G. K. Chesterton
  134. I love the library
  135. The Indexed analysis of gym class
  136. Georgia Guidestones
  137. graphic exploring the connected approaches of the Specialist and the Generalist
  138. Paris, je t'aime
  139. Cosmopolis (review: 1/5)
  140. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
  141. Alright, here's a rendition of my own personal info-designer chart
  142. In Believer Magazine
  143. I just started reading The 4-Hour Work Week
  144. Alex Ross noticed that everything is dead
  145. Emily Gordon responds to David Denby's essay on modern film romance
  146. If I Vanished
  147. He Filmed His Own Assassination
  148. good profile
  149. Walk Score rates where you live
  150. Sofa Free is a photo collection of sofas left up for grabs
  151. Merlin Mann talking to Google employees about Inbox Zero
  152. Items We Carry
  153. Holy smokes, I forgot my anniversary
  154. On Flickr, Milo Manara's very graphic cartoon timeline of mankind
  155. If you cut up a large diamond into little bits
  156. There's an interesting series on homosexuality in comics in one
  157. The typological array’s inherent ability to depict prevalence
  158. And I'm back
  159. And I'm gone...
  160. Francis Tapon is going to attempt to yo-yo the Continental Divide Trail
  161. New Yorker article about Parkour
  162. Time for a Vacation
  163. I think the anthology of Missed Connection Comics could be pretty cool
  164. Justin wears the camera 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
  165. Dunbar's number
  166. havent slept in 105 hrs
  167. The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything
  168. whatsinyourbag
  169. A fascinating story of pranking the 2007 Super Bowl half-time show
  170. A list of famous teetotalers
  171. Damn, Heather Armstrong is a great writer
  172. A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend (review: 4/5)
  173. Some intriguing design-writ-large ideas about cities qua applications
  174. Wikipedia chart explaining cousin relationships
  175. A person in California tried to rent out Beth Ann Bovino's New York apartment
  176. You talk about music to share it
  177. Interesting graph charting relationships
  178. The Telegraph has a couple articles on the toxic wife
  179. cover a friend's car in post-it notes
  180. interesting, melodramatic essay
  181. It was pretty idyllic all around
  182. Scholars from Reed College and Stanford reviewed over 150 praise studies
  183. sucked into a thunderstorm
  184. Ah, vindication
  185. Continental Divide Trail thru-hike
  186. Cameron Marlow's idea for city guides
  187. Bruce Schneier has written a long draft on the psychology of security
  188. Joshua Blankenship Got Engaged
  189. empathetic apes
  190. The BBC has a four-part podcast series on our increasingly noisy world
  191. Michael Pollan has an extensive article on what to eat and why
  192. mystery of consciousness
  193. interview with L. Ron Hubbard, Jr
  194. Why chicks don't dig the singularity
  195. Lisa Carver on the current batch of chick
  196. There's a Flickr group for headcrushing photos
  197. Emory University Water Tower 1933-2007
  198. Bibles with Custom Marketing Covers
  199. thief was persuaded to return the cellphone
  200. a composite code for all the factors that make up a society’s well-being
  201. The playground of the future may feature 'play workers' to help guide
  202. Area man loses weight by playing the Nintendo Wii
  203. What I Did On Martin Luther King Day
  204. The allure of the trophy wife may be fading
  205. Photos of discarded Christmas trees
  206. extensive speculation on Batman's religion
  207. Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For
  208. Leslie Harpold remembered
  209. YouTube Gives Deaf Signers an Expressive Channel
  210. They're doing this once a day--for a year
  211. a video comparing the planets, the Sun, and a number of other stars
  212. Barbara Rushkoff ponders leaving Brooklyn
  213. "God blessed me above all I could imagine." Before his death in Iraq, First Sgt
  214. Dave Conrey talks about his circle of name-sharing friends
  215. What are you optimistic about? Why?
  216. The Nonist mulls the next step in blogging and more importantly, in art
  217. New York Times on the science of free will
  218. Bubble Project
  219. massive New Year's resolution-keeping experiment
  220. talks about his first experience
  221. I'm always looking for a new perspective on GTD
  222. Mess is complete, in that it embraces all sorts of random elements
  223. In a brief Economist essay on conversation
  224. In praise of Dilbert's 9-point financial plan, which reads
  225. A list of the Top Politically Incorrect Words for 2006
  226. What's the one sentence you would tell the future?
  227. Ray Kurzweil and David Gelernter talk about machine consciousness
  228. The God Delusion
  229. You absolutely must have tissues at hand before watching this video
  230. Short Term Personal Savior
  231. The 10 most dangerous play things of all time
  232. Ah, validation
  233. Blogger Leslie Harpold has passed on
  234. WordCount: 86,800 English Words by Frequency
  235. A collection of views from other people's windows
  236. New York Times Magazine selects the 74 best ideas from 2006
  237. There's a Wikipedia article on the meaning of life
  238. Leah Peterson has a great set of interviews with bloggers
  239. OMG: chicken fried bacon
  240. In praise of chain stores
  241. Crushing Krisis
  242. Oh, I love you, Raisin Nut Bran
  243. Wikipedia has an article about the math and methods for shuffling playing cards
  244. A map of where the planet's happiest people are
  245. I'd fit in so well with the old men
  246. First metrosexual, and now there is technosexual
  247. Here's a multi-part dialogue mulling the question, Why Are Atheists So Angry?
  248. how to succeed in 2007
  249. At long last, the new computer arrived tonight
  250. No, you may not see my receipt
  251. I was at work today in the library and saw the most wonderful thing
  252. A guy who thinks a lot about traffic has come up with experiments
  253. I just got a sweet deal on an iMac 24
  254. giving sedentary gamers some exercise with its motion-control gameplay
  255. video of a baby laughing
  256. the final chapter of the Productive Talks between Merlin Mann and David Allen
  257. Weekend recap
  258. Time for a road trip!
  259. There are a several different flavors of Kettle Chips in beta right now
  260. A lucid bit from Heather Armstrong's recent trip to New York City
  261. Our Obsession with Physical Appearance May Not Be So Shallow
  262. Video of a guy who got shut down by the cops for giving away free hugs
  263. Version 1.0 of their standard service requisites
  264. getting your hair cut by a sixth grader
  265. Beyond Ballots or Bullets
  266. Bob Barker is retiring from Price is Right
  267. A future society will very likely have the technological ability
  268. Blood costs more than oil, but less than ink for your printer
  269. Today is my birthday
  270. I’m Glad to See This Message Again
  271. You probably have a certain special someone in your life that just looooooves
  272. Kottke revives and collects some previous research into one of the latest
  273. soon available in paperback
  274. An article all about matching the wine glasses with the wine inside
  275. I love these resume tips posted over at LifeClever
  276. decals for your home
  277. Thinking out loud on outside.in
  278. In the latest issue of Wired magazine, a long feature about the’New Atheism'
  279. Worldchanging: A User's Guide
  280. Ordinary People (review: 4.5/5)
  281. I can't vouch for clinical accuracy, but here is a long list of phobias
  282. Learn how to detect lies
  283. Went Hikin'
  284. Gone Hikin'
  285. What's in your bag?
  286. a year's worth of the bi-weekly Geek to Live posts
  287. A selection of personal finance how-to articles
  288. Lipton has decided to make tea bags that contain full-leaf tea
  289. rent in New York
  290. research on given names and child development
  291. A Year's Worth of Spending
  292. Advertising Has Forgotten How to Be Subtle
  293. Lately it has become the "in" font for websites
  294. Music is louder than it used to be