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December 1, 2014
The Legend of John Kilduff
I think it’s been 6 or 7 years now since I first discovered the joy and wonder that is Let’s Paint TV. At that time it was known to me by its full name, Let’s Paint, Exercise, and…, and it was an oddity of the early internet age. The half-hour show had premiered on Time […]
November 25, 2014
Chihuly Denver
On Sunday I finally managed to get to the Denver Botanic Gardens’ long-running Chihuly exhibit, a mostly outdoor collection of elaborate glass installations by the eponymous American artist. I was excited for something like this to come to Colorado, having seen the Chihuly Garden in Seattle and the enormous blue and green chandelier at London’s […]
November 19, 2014
Super ’80s
A few weeks ago I walked into a little vintage/antique shop called Fifty-Two ’80s on South Broadway and found myself immersed in hot pinks, neon greens, electric blues, plenty of glitter, and nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia. I had noticed the tiny storefront on the outer end of the antiques district several times driving past, and when […]
November 18, 2014
The Coco Palms, Kauai, HI, USA
This is a reblog of an old article that I wrote about 5 years ago after having lived on the island of Kauai for about 3 months. Enjoy! The Coco Palms, Kauai, HI, USA Everyday on the way up the hill to the house I was living in I would pass this abandoned, condemned hotel […]
November 17, 2014
The Bizarre Historical Wax Figures at the Forney Museum of Transportation
A little more than a week ago, I stopped by the Forney Transportation Museum during the Denver Arts Week Free Night at the Museums. I had never visited before, and I have to say I was impressed by the museum’s massive and unusual stock. They had hundreds of older model cars, several train cars and […]
The Insomniac Manifesto
ATTENTION WORLD! ATTENTION EARLY RISERS! ATTENTION 9-TO-5-ERS! We are the tired. We are the bleary-eyed and haggard-looking. We are the “night owls”. We work your “graveyard” shifts. We deliver your newspapers. …We are often late for our morning appointments. Other than that there isn’t a lot to distinguish us from the rest of you, really, […]
November 14, 2014
Neuroeconomics – Recommended Viewing playlist is up!
Hi everyone! Just a note to say I’ve thrown together this little YouTube playlist of talks, lectures, and other videos that are helpful for getting some perspective and background on my Neuroeconomics book. There’s great stuff in there from Robert Sapolsky, Stephen Pinker, V.S. Ramachandran, Oliver Sacks, and several others. Most of this was source […]
November 3, 2014
2014 Goodreads Choice Awards! Write-in vote for me!
Hey everybody! I know it’s a voting time of year and what not, but while you’re at it, why not vote for me and my book Neuroeconomics: an Applied Information Theory in the 2014 Goodreads Choice Awards?! I’m eligible for Best Debut Goodreads Author, and I’d love to have your support. If you’re a member […]
October 6, 2014
I’m Not Going to College
In the spring of 2010, I “dropped out” of a third-rate higher education institution in a state of absolutely irreconcilable frustration. The semantics of the phrase are problematic, because in point of fact there is no sense in which I simply fell away in some overwhelming sense of despondency and failure. For want of a […]
September 5, 2014
Men and Women are People First, and That’s What We Should Care About
About the time I hit puberty, I was dealing, among other things of course, with the facts that Gym was not my favorite subject, that I didn’t care about growing a beard, and that the last thing I wanted in the whole, wide world was to spend lots of time in a locker room full […]
