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Author Archives: Ian Stewart
Upper Monkey Mix—Best Snack Food Ever
I have discovered the best snack mix known to man. It’s cheap, it only has 3 ingredients, it tastes great, and I’m going to tell you how to make it. Ladies and gentleman somewhat hungry in the middle of the … Continue reading
The Art of Slow Reading
… a literary revolution is at hand. First we had slow food, then slow travel. Now, those campaigns are joined by a slow-reading movement – a disparate bunch of academics and intellectuals who want us to take our time while … Continue reading
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of The Bicameral Mind
I have never wanted to recommend so wholeheartedly a book that I’ve felt was so preposterous. And I mean that most un-ironically. Is there a book anywhere so deeply weird and fascinating as this one? In short, The Origin of … Continue reading
I’m growing a soul patch. Somehow this has not stopped or reverted the aging process. Ironically, it may actually be accelerating it. My initial observations suggest that this is the result of a conflict with my graying hair. More data … Continue reading
Check out Robert J. Sawyer’s Wake
Have you read Robert J. Sawyer’s Wake yet? It’s one of those set-in-the-day-after-tomorrow idea-thrillers that I’m starting to wish I’d really read more of. The kind of book where blogging, open-source competitors to Google, and the infrastructure of the web … Continue reading
One-column Madness
I went and made a one-column, no-header-image, version of Twenty Ten using the Custom CSS upgrade. Madness. I (currently—you know how these things are with your personal blog, right?) plan on actually making this look like something but in the … Continue reading
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Happy WordPress Day
Today is the the 7th anniversary of the release of WordPress and today I’d like to say how thankful I am for it’s existence. I am. WordPress is being used around the world, every day, to enrich our lives. It’s … Continue reading
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What cooking has taught me about excellence: It’s easier to be excellent—or, at least, to get on that path towards it—when you surround yourself with opportunities to fail comfortably.
