School’s going well. Christmas results came back this week and showed me where I’m doing well and where needs work. I decided recently to drop Physics in favor of Geography. I’m not a Science-y person, and I doubt I’ll do anything in college that’ll require a Science subject. At the moment, I’m considering English/Media/Writing courses, [...]
If you sleep on it; sit on it; type on it or use it for more than two hours a day, you should get a high-quality, comfortable one, to the best of your ability and budget. I say this with regard to quality-of-life, referring to: Beds Mobile phones Chairs Laptops Backpacks Headphones Shoes Keyboards Anything [...]
3am. I love the night. It’s peaceful. I’m the only one awake, nothing to bend to except my own will. I always think that empty houses —houses that have furniture and food and a Christmas tree; houses that are obviously lived in yet are currently almost devoid of life— belong in an episode of The [...]
(If you’re one of those readers who doesn’t like it when a blogger breaks their mould, you might not want to read this. I get sentimental.) I usually try and do one of these posts on New Year’s Day. If I’m organized, I’ll have done it the day before and I’ll have set it to [...]
Marco Arment: I’m not just about technology, just as John Gruber’s not just about Apple products and Merlin Mann isn’t just about index cards and Steve Yegge can speak briefly and Jeff Atwood enjoys Rock Band and Paul Graham is a great cook and Ted Dziuba likes stuff and pretty people take shits and maybe, [...]
I hate how there’s such a fervor online when it comes to Kindles vs. Traditional “dead tree” books. There’s an “us or them” feel to it. Each side is equally annoying in their endless attempts to get the other crowd to come round to their way of thinking. Whoever said that the two were mutually [...]
So hipster, but I love nonamerah’s A Girl You Should Date: She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. [...]
James Kendrick: What makes the iPad 2 and keyboard combo so effective for my writing is the “one app at a time” nature of the tablet. The running app takes up the entire screen, and thus my focus. There are no distractions presented while writing, just inputting words on the screen. See also: Harry McCracken’s [...]
I decided to upload a recent essay I did for Leaving Cert. English. The essay was on “A certain freedom”, and I had a lot of fun writing it. It was a very general title, as Leaving Cert. titles tend to be. The overall brief was “Write a personal essay about your understanding of freedom [...]
I’m really, really liking Path. It’s something that seamlessly combines Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare for me. Images and check-ins are integrated in the main feed, saving the need to click on links. Crashes aside, their UX is gorgeous and fluid. What I especially love is the fact that it feels like a genuine journalling app. [...]