Reflections on the precariousness of life
Philosophical essay on life and death sparked by a family trip where a pigeon collided with the car and we had a flat tire.
Return to Norton Middle School
Short essay recounting a day I spent at Norton Middle School with Gary Sigrist.
Reviewing the Slate
Review of Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate and the common notion that we are all born without predispositions.
Ambitions and Weekends
Essay on being self-aware and realizing that the human psyche has some hardwired contradictions and paradoxes.
Voting with the ego.
Egoism may not be popular, but it's what's getting my vote.
A Trip Down Hoopty Lane
An American Hoopty adventure to fix a van that turns into a car hater's nightmare.
June 22, 2008 Newsletter
June 22, 2008 Newsletter with photos of Hayden, Harvestmen and a physics cartoon.
MySQL Sort Order with NULL
Learn how to force NULL values to the end of a sorted list
The Cringe Phenomenon
Interview with Cringe that appeared in Now It's Dark Magazine.