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About Me

I have three vices: long showers, Cheez-Its, and the Oakland A's.

My Interests

abandoned barns, aquariums, autumn, apple cider, bass guitar, comic strip journals, cabinets of curiosities, consilience, cosmological mysteries, dark wooden furniture, dark matter, don quixote, dnd, emergent properties, evolution, formicariums, generative systems,juggling, logic puzzles, maritime imagery, oak trees, oakland athletics, octopuses, overcast skies, photography, pumpkins, sabermetrics, shasta county history, spiders, system dynamics, toasted sourdough bread.

I'd like to meet:

People with more interesting vices.

Music:

recently:

from the past week:

Books:

currently reading:
-Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig
recent books:
-The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine
-The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
-The Golden Rule of Schmoozing: The Authentic Practice of Treating Others Well by Aye Jaye
-Falling Bodies by Andrew Mark
-The Mother Tongue: English and how it got that way by Bill Bryson
-You Gotta Have Wa by Robert Whiting
-The Most Beautiful Woman in Town by Charles Bukowski
-Getting Things Done by David Allen
-The Best American Essays 2004 ed. Louis Menand
-Rivers' Edge: The Weezer Story by John D. Luerrsen
-Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
-Structuralism and Poststructuralism for Beginners by Donald D. Palmer
-Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
-A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
-Hua-Yen Buddhism by Francis H. Cook

Heroes:

autodidacts and polymaths.

My Blog

dusk

I'm losing the mind. I'm not sure if I'm just paranoid or witnessing something real, but I feel like my brain is dying.
Posted by Steven on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:40:00 PST

It's official.

I am now an Oregon Zooguide. My talk on Naked Mole Rats was successful (described as 'perfect' by one veteran zooguide). I received my red shirt and got a place on the photo committee. Since it is alw...
Posted by Steven on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:10:00 PST

War has been declared, Drosophila melanogaster.

Otherwise known as the fruit fly. Battle plans are being drawn up. Troops assembled. Artillery readied. I gave you some slack because of your legendary contribution to the field of genetics and develo...
Posted by Steven on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 03:56:00 PST

flashback

This is a lot closer to my high school experience than I would like to admit:
Posted by Steven on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:05:00 PST

Dramatic Turnaround

Goddamn, today was a good day. It's been a long time since I've felt this good in this way. More to come...
Posted by Steven on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:50:00 PST

Wishlist

I wish my bed wasn't so low to the ground.
Posted by Steven on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:36:00 PST

mad lib

It is (insert adjective) when you plan on writing a post about hilarious flight attendants, bird shit projectiles, and 3D nature films, but then something serious happens and you don't feel like it an...
Posted by Steven on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:05:00 PST

Agony and Ecstasy

The problem with reading a book like the Blank Slate is that it is an avalanche of insights. On every other page, there is an excellently rendered argument that sufficiently defuses other people's bul...
Posted by Steven on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 02:02:00 PST

new mode of transportation

When I was driving home tonight (and I must say, LA freeways at night are very good for driving around when you are upset and have a lot of things on your mind), the person in front of me dropped thei...
Posted by Steven on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:34:00 PST

A wish to be electrocuted

I wish that I could type or write while I'm in the shower because that's when my mind is clearest.
Posted by Steven on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:31:00 PST