This article discusses Dmitri Belyaev's experiments with silver foxes and domestication (and discusses the major differences between domestication and taming.)

An example of the fact that exponential growth cannot continue forever simply because of the laws of thermodynamics.

My gut instinct is that vaping is safer than smoking cigarettes and might actually be on par with inhaling polluted air, but it also seems obvious that it might have side effects.

While there are splinter factions that sincerely advocate a return to authoritarian and feudalistic politico-economic models, most influential people in the West advocate neoliberalism, which most Westerners don't recognize as an ideology and just accept as fact.

Facebook really needs a ¯_(ツ)_/¯ reaction button.

Whenever I hear this song, I can still feel those cold autumn early mornings after pulling an all-nighter, writing an English paper or a History paper, fully saturated with caffeine (a total of 230 mg would usually tide me over), with no one but Sluggo on KROQ to keep me company.

This is from Brooklyn…

So I just got back to S.D. from Harbor City, where my uncle and my godmother live. The quickest way back would involve backtracking to the 405, and then heading south directly to the 5, or via the 73 toll road:

The Lakers fought a pitched battle against the Jazz, despite their captain and MVP being injured early in the game. Twice they closed a ≥10 pt gap, only to fall behind again due to some bad breaks and insanely lucky shots on the part of the Jazz, and the fact that Kobe's game was totally whack because of that back injury. I think it would've been less disappointing if they had gotten blown out instead. Then I would've just turned it off in the second quarter

I have come to realize that the living room of my apartment resembles a terrorist command center. I have three computers and four LCD screens, seven speakers plus a subwoofer, a TV, and a receiver as well as all the requisite cables and hubs and what not in here, because (1) I couldn’t fit it all in my room anyway and (2) the first rule of sleep hygiene is to only use the bedroom for sleeping.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem. — Tricia McMillan AKA Trillian from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Well, here I am, moderately hung-over, not only listening to an owl hooting continously, but someone also decided to blast some rock en español. At freaking 6 a.m. So now I am awake, and I can’t get back to sleep. Wonderful.

The question is: what the fuck were you expecting?

Well that was unsatisfying.

I’ve thought once or twice about how pretentious it is to quote yourself, but I like these paragraphs I wrote a few years back: