Life
Buddhism, coffee, money, and life in the suburbs
376 posts, 2005–2020.
2020
2018
- Software Development Book Club
- Saving Money
- How I play the credit card game
- Lotto vs Keno vs Pick 3 vs Racetrax for winning $50,000
- Living longer, beyond the basic protocols
2017
2016
- Guam Notes
- Using FourSquare to (softly) Advocate for V*gan Restaurants
- Nonauthoritative discussion of how to do discussion with Robert’s Rules
- Effective Twitter for the Polyglot Wanna-be
- Dancing around the real advice
2015
- Get the most Amtrak freebies via Amtrak Guest Rewards (AGR)
- Breville BES920XL, Part 4.
- Second Impressions of Breville BES920XL
- First Impressions BES920XL Breville Espresso Machine
- Espresso Machine Shopping: The Decision
- Small Donor Charity Strategies
- The first rule of Math Club is you can only talk about it in symbols and notation
- Lotus Sutra Musings
- Come on, do you want to live forever?
- What issues matter, what can be done about them
- Votes get suppressed. What can you do to replace a vote?
- Commitment Devices
2014
- Advocacy Group of the Month: ACLU
- A model for readership dropoff
- Matthew Dean Martin
- What I think about Amazon Kindle 7 Day Trials
- The uncle I never met has moved on
- Enlightenment, Draft 42
- Collective Minds
- Notes on Shingon
- What is The Brahma Net Sutra Project?
- The Brahma Net Sutra Project
- Nonsense
2013
- Rules, rules, rules. Roll your own Bodhisatva Vows
- Homemade, vegan, soy yogurt
- Buddhist Criticism and Apologia
- Some controversial thoughts about the 5 Precepts
- How to go from being an animal to a Buddha?
- On the question of right livihood, Buddhism and sex workers.
- On Reinventing Buddhism and Orthodoxy
- Apologia for Buddhism
- Academic Buddhists
- Buddhist Groups Near Takoma Park
- What I Think – Buddhism Edition
- When a Buddhist wanna-be is a schizophrenic mass murderer
- Buddhism for Kids
- Food Stamp Diet- Prep week #… what five or six?
- Food Stamp Diet: Prep week
- Food Stamp Diet- Ghetto Vegan Pancakes
- Planning a food stamp diet
- Poor Vegan and Post Apocalyptic Vegan
- Tea drinking
- 1st check in!
- Why I am vegetarian
2012
- Books for Linguistics Book Club
- Reading menus
- Hiking around the torpedo factory
- So my vote was suppressed. Now things just got serious.
- Shopping at crafty bastards
- Eating pancakes
- Post hurricane munchies
- News- rejiggering my meetup groups, new book club, etc.
- Hanging out with Zombies. Eating veggie burgers
- Sliding
- My Suburban Destiny
- My Suburban Destiny
- Chez moi
- News, Assorted and Various
- My Take Away from Screen Time
- Getting ready for baby
- Book Review: Pancreatic Oath – A secret quantified self sort of book
- Escapist Sci-Fi : Generation Ships
- Measuring myself
- Benefits of Bilingualism
- I’m experimenting with a new blog editor
- Chamorro Language
- Sleep, Post 3
- Sleep- Part 2
- Sleep
- The perfect boycott
- Fell in love with a girl
- GTD: Apocalypse
- Eating disorders and vegetarianism
- The heart is hard to translate
- The Rules for Alpha Geeks
- New Years Resolutions 2012
- Zombie Herder’s Almanac
2011
- Good morning!
- Why study Icelandic?
- News
- Things I wish I’d starting doing soon in 2nd Language Learning
- Time for some real blogging
- I got my Lamy Safari pen and ecosystem notebooks
- Book Review: Hackers and Painters
- Language Goals & Progress
- Reading Toki Pona is Hard
- My toki pona to do list
- Learning Icelandic, What’s been working, what hasn’t
- How to cancel Verison DSL Service
- Project Triage
- Swearing off Stack Exchange
- New Year’s Resolutions 2011
2010
- Syncretism and Asatru Reconstruction
- Gods and Magic for skeptics
- My Universalist touring
- Icelandic in North America
- 50 Ways to Calque Your Mother Tongue
- A machine parseable context free grammar for toki pona
- Dialects of toki pona
- Why the conlang community needs a Stack Exchange Conlang Question and Answer Site
- Online event promotion
- Selling stuff online if you are a kid
- rebracketing toki pona
- Personal Languages
- Conlangs and Online Communities
- Zompist, Conlangs and potty mouthed trolls
- The null domain for rare and endangered languages
- How big a phonetic inventory?
- Learning a Second Language Passively
- Locally Dead Languages, like French, and What they’ve in common with Conlangs.
- Why I study the langauges I do.
- Fictional Murders in Iceland Now Exceed National Population
- Why we don’t give a crap about languages once English has won
- Creating Skype Chatrooms
- My conlang wish list
- Conlang: Milestones
- Toki Pona: Double subjects, verbs and objects and preps
- Toki Pona: Adventures in isolating compounding
- Contructed Language Governance Structures
- Toki Pona: More Unoffical Number Systems
- When is a constructed language dead?
- Ute-lite, an idea for a constructed language
- Toki Pona’s Morphological Derivation Process
2009
- I don’t like Libertarians
- Who the heck were the Etruscans?
- The Tokiponasphere
- How to learn a language, for example Na’vi
- Na’vi Pronunciation, the Wikipedia way
- So you have a successful constructed language?
- Na’vi word list and link to 1st book
- What can we say from a wordlist?
- Are toki ponans from Qo’noS?
- Swadesh list for Toki Pona
- Toki Pona Check List, Public Draft 1
- Toki Pona: Kiwen steady, Kiwen mi Amadeus!
- The Toki Pona Homeland
- Toki Pona Word Generation
- Is Toki Pona a PIE daughter language?
- Language Pre-contruction
- Making the move to Ebook readers
- Shopping for an espresso machine
- News, if one could call it that
- Metablogging…Sorry.
- That wii ain’t bricked, ‘es just resting
- Continuing to muse on how a programmer can help fight cancer
- News: I suppose things could be worse
- What did the we used to speak where I live now–Northern Virgina?
- How to organize a successful language study group
- Personal work projects
- Icelandic Pizza from 1st principles
- News
- Bermuda Day 6
- Bermuda Day 7
- Icelandic Pizza
- Bermuda day 5
- Bermuda, Day 2
- Bermuda Travel Update, day 1
- Book Reviews: Rollback, 13 and Rainbows End
- News: Economics, Networking, No one blogs
- Star Wars Names- Language riddles?
- Interesting websites
- Studying Mongolian
- A Science Fiction reader discovers the internet
- Review: Nintendo Wii + DS
- Getting Things Done: It would be done if I just could generate reports on my to-do lists
- Most popular posts
- Upgrading WordPress only to See A Hat (Â) all over the place.
- Constructed languages for prevention of Alzheimers and Dementia
- New Year Resolutions 2009
- How to write a constructed language
2008
- Plans for a new study group format
- News: Full Mug of Mayonaise Day, not really embraced
- I don’t know
- Toki Pona: Relative clauses
- Where did law and order and rule of law go?
- Movie Review: V for Vendetta
- Someone stole my credit card number!
- Update on Meetups
- Why did Matthew cross Wall Street?
- Icelandic transliterations for Americans
- Renting in Northern Virginia
- Live in California? Vote on Prop 2
- Smashing success at the Icelandic Meetup
- Not the best weekend
- Songs that sound better than their lyrics
- News: Busy. I’ll be back soon.
- Notable German Pop Love Songs
- Noteworthy Love Song
- Working on an ad campaign is hard work.
- Skyrocketing eletricity prices in Virginia.
- Computer woes: I don’t like webhost4life anymore
- Review of Scandinavian Social Resources in DC
- Code Monkey
- Movie Review: The Invasion
- LiveMocha Review: Icelandic
- Ceasar sez, “Seize her, she’s Ceasar’s scissors!”
- Seitan Advice
- Scandinavian Movies on Netflicks
- Lawlessness in New York City
- Movie Review: 101 Reykjavik
- Movie Review: Mr & Mrs Smith
- Iclelandic Music on Youtube
- Icelandic without an Icelandic Keyboard
- Icelandic Study Advice
- Movie Review: No Such Thing
- Why the Locavore isn’t just a neo-protectionist
- Movie Review: Beowulf
- Learn Something Everyday
- Why Study Mongolian
- Cheap Farmland Near Washington, DC
- Frankly my dear, I don’t need a house
- Memorial Day Edition
- Wine Review: Fabbioli Cellars Tre Sorelle
- News: Working, driving
- Small Houses, Small Farms
- News: Lots happening
- DC Locavore, some partial notes
- News: Spinning wheels, Short Term Goals
- Book Review: Wicked
- Randoms bits of news
- Writing the Technical Resume
- STAY AWAY: State Farm Bank
- MacBook on a Bus
- Personal Technology: Reviews
- Day 3 & 4
- Day Two in Reykjavik: Donald Duck will bankrupt me
- Day One and a Half: Airport and Flying to Iceland
- Icelandic Rock
- Wine: Australian Pinot Noir
- The Coffee Maker: A Critique
- Vegetarianism: Let’s not link it to too many irrelevant issues
- Vegetarian alternatives to Cheetos
- Match.com’s Flaws
- News: Another weekend at home
- Tips: Stop going to the post office
2007
- Vegetarianism: Animal Welfare and Happy Meat
- Toki Pona: Is it really all that simple?
- Movie Review: Transformers
- Reykjavik at the end of the world
- Swedish Language Meetup
- Website Reviews: 4 Online Dating Services
- SocialAnimalsDC.com
- Diet for a Small Mind
- Catlang: Expansion notes for Version 0.001
- Singles Events
- News: Went to Blogger’s meetup
- Icelandic: "Before You Know It" Review
- Conlang: Catlang version 0.01
- News: Dad Duty, Vegetarian Meetup
- Whee Brickskellers on Halloween
- Scandinavian Languages: Which to study?
- Vegetarianism: My advice for new vegetarians
- Talking Russian
- Dating: By the numbers again
- Dating: Speed Dating
- Rules of Bullshitting
- Jumble: Missed two events, Cut work early
- Blogging Politics: Does it work?
- Icelandic: Why learn it?
- Conlang: Conventional Wisdom Upside Down
- Politics: Prince William County Pulls Back From the Brink
- Conlang: Dnghu/Indoeuropean
- Toki Pona: Jan Mate’s Style Guide Version 1
- Travel: Why Iceland?
- Kids & Conlangs & Can Adults write Conlangs?
- Alanis Morissette: Hand in My Pocket
- Toki Pona: Talking about Grammar
- Toki Pona: Word–err–noun phrase, building technique
- Conlang: Simplicity
- Toki Pona: Paradoxes
- Constructed Language Licenses
- Toki Pona: Required Watching
- Conlang Derivatives: My humble opinions
- Toki Pona: Thesaurus
- Toki Pona: Pleasantries
- Conglang’s with purported political leanings
- Toki Pona: Verbs, "Compounds" & Adverbs
- Toki Pona: Hidden prepositions?
- Calendars and Technology
- Toki Pona: Essential phrases
- Conlangs: How people use them & does it violate copyright
- Mark Warner is up and Running!
- Toki Pona: The Particle Pi
- Conlang Licensing: What I’d do
- Toki Pona: Pronouns unleashed
- Toki Pona: Conlangs and the law
- Toki Pona: What’s a word?
- A Moment of Accountability in Virginia
- Toki Pona: Compound Words–again
- Toki Pona: Fish
- Toki Pona: Reduplication
- Traderspoint Creamery Yogurt Bottles: Removing the label
- Toki Pona: Constructed Languages, and
- Gym: Rehabbing the knee
- Toki Pona: Website building
- Toki Pona: 12 Reasons Why to Learn
- Toki Pona: Translating Malglico
- Toki Pona: Ike Mute and Math
- Toki Pona: Hyphens
- Toki Pona: Mnemonics
- Toki Pona: The Verb
- Toki Pona: Compound Words
- Toki Pona: Pronunciation Traps for English Speakers
- Exciting Day, Day #2 of Computer Camp @ Home
- News: Computer Camp @ Home
- Social Web Site Review: Facebook
- Etrade- A review
- Health– What was noticeable
- Book Reviews: Broken Angels, Woken Furies, Altered Carbon
- Even if the TSA wins the argument, they still lose
- Music
- Tragedy and Reaction
- There must be too much stuff going on
- Oppenheimer Cares about your privacy, Bank of America Doesn’t
- Hypothesis about age brackets and singles events
- Apologetics
- Website Review: GameKnot Warnings
2006
- Vegetarian Protein and Strength Training
- LARP Rules
- News: A Cold, Cooking, Movie Watching
- News: Time for something completely different
- SAD
- News
- What a busy week.
- Dating by the numbers
- Social Anxiety
- News: Went to Ren Faire
- My brain really isn’t very helpful
- Solved!
- News
- Products of my aching brain
- Shopping Online While Drunk
- So, I was skating…
- How to Prepare to go to the Gym: a List
- Matrix: Movie Review
- Notes: Retinal Detachment
- Boy am I pissed off at Cingular
- PeerTrainer.Com
- I know you are, but what am I?
- Book Club
- Conversational Patterns
- Simple
- Notes & Update
- Enquiring Minds Want to Know
- Using Stock Spam to Play the Virtual Stock Market
- Game Review: Age of Mythology
- Is it Tuesday yet?
- Aeon Flux
- Smoking…
- Childish Joke told by my son
- Letter to Congressman Jim Moran
- Weekend
- Mensa
- Genetic Algorithms
- Google Knows
- Getting Things Done
- Feeding Vegetarians, a guide for restaurants
- Dating Warnings signs (as if I knew)
- Socializing like I don’t care…
- Equanimity and striking out at dating…
- I have a goal!
- The least read post