Category Archives: Journal

With my recent thread on Reddit i’ve felt an urge to return to writing my little guide on weight loss. Here’s the ending section, may it motivate you to turn some stuff around. Inspiration and character building I know most … Continue reading →

A quick post – writing during my lunch hour at work. In mid June 2011 I began a weight loss journey at around 440 lbs. I have to admit that during that time I was filled with hopelessness and expected … Continue reading →

A conversation between Thom and I on Google – thought it may be interesting to some. Previously wrote on these topics here. Chris: I’m butt hurt about Sam Harris because he tricked a huge audience into doing Buddhist meditation and … Continue reading →

Found a really potent passage while revisiting Pierre Hadot’s Philosophy as a Way of Life which more or less sums up my philosophy of life. The passage, from Philo Judaeus, a first century Jew writing in On the Special Laws, is … Continue reading →

The perception of gaming in the popular culture has seen great variance in my short lifetime. In the early 90s when I was not older than five or six I was introduced to computing by my “uncle” Steve, a close … Continue reading →

This is the preface to a work-in-progress guide I am writing on weight loss for the morbidly obese. It is entitled “my hopeless struggle” which is a play on the working title of the guide, “A Guide for The Hopeless: … Continue reading →

This post is in some regards a continuation of my prior Atheists and Religion, in which I examine the culture of contemporary, popular atheism and justify the existence of religion as a social and civilizing convention. I feel like I … Continue reading →

Jump me to the good part, where I can see veteran Archivists giving good advice! Recently I have become concerned about my economic survival. At age 24, and having finished grad school in the end of December, I took two … Continue reading →

People often ask me how I lost and continue to lose weight so effectively. I decided to compile my methods into a guide I am developing slowly but consistently – it’s also intended as a general resource for obese people … Continue reading →

Bill Maher does a bit called “Dispatches from the Bubble” in which he criticizes the republicans for fostering an insulated, delusional mental culture based around willful ignorance and groupthink. I recently went on a vacation and ran into my own … Continue reading →