Pros: People will respect me and think I’m a serious person. Maybe I can get a job that will allow me to save money. I like learning. Cons: By the time I finish grad school the world might already be ending, all the jobs will be gone, and I will end up having wasted several […]
Tag: global warming
Bye bye Amazon
This year I considered making a New Year’s Resolution to not shop at Amazon anymore. But that failed pretty quickly. It’s just that they have all of the obscure books and all of the obscure homeopathic remedies (yes those are basically the two categories of things that I buy on Amazon). Actually, first I considered […]
Riffs on carbon capture
On Monday (December 10th) NPR published the story: How 1 Company Pulls Carbon From The Air, Aiming To Avert A Climate Catastrophe. Verse one: Math Here’s how this carbon capture thing works–the company pulls CO2 from the air and converts it into little pellets of carbon which are then converted into liquid fuel. Like, for […]
I think that dead starfish might have to do with my hair falling out
My hair has been falling out. Sometimes I tell people this and they ask me why I think it is falling out and the answer is I don’t know. But trust me, I’ve spent time trying to figure it out. I tried brushing it. I bought organic shampoo. I bought a new pillow that’s not […]
The year of books
2017. Sorry I’m still talking about it. But what I really want to talk about in terms of 2017 is that I read a lot of books. Thirty-five, in fact, which is the most I’ve ever read in a year and I’d like to congratulate myself. Sorry if it sounds like I’m bragging but, I don’t […]
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