Every once in a while, I find myself feeling nostalgic of my time in college. The feeling passes relatively quickly, because I hated college, but the feeling is still there. When I think back, I think of the promise I had, the possibilities, the potential. I don't think about how insecure I was over almost everything. How inadequate I often felt at ( Read more... )

So I've really been trying to get into reading more lately. I love reading. In fact, I make sure I read at least a few hours a day, which is easy when you have a job like mine. I read articles, blogs, my friends' journals, everything. The only wrinkle is that lately I've also been reading books.

I just finished Beyond Civilization, which is by ( Read more... )

Yes, population growth is slowing. And this might be another reason why tribalism is inevitable. Our economic system is completely based on the idea of "growth". It has been since the beginning of civilization, but this fact has become more and more profound over the past century. Now we have entire industries set up to measure quarterly growth, ( Read more... )

The least convincing aspect of Quinn's whole outlook is the apocalyptic overtone of everything he writes. He thinks that population will continue growing until we simply outgrow the planet. As long as we produce food, we'll increase our population until the earth becomes full ( Read more... )

So I've been reading a lot of Daniel Quinn lately. For those that don't know, Daniel Quinn wrote Ishmael, and a bunch of other books and is basically the father of what could be called the tribalist movement, if such a movement existed. At this point it's a mini-movement, I think, and I also think saying he's the father of it is kind of a misnomer ( Read more... )

So, after a loooong hiatus, I think I'm going to start journaling again. The reason I stopped was because Amy found it and she and I were not in a place at that point where I could have a journal that she didn't know about, and I couldn't have her reading what I was saying, either ( Read more... )

I can't even believe what is happening. I've been reading blogs all morning and it's really starting to sink in just how bad this is and how bad it will be for our entire country. New Orleans is such a huge piece of our puzzle, the Mississippi River is still a major pice of our industrial infrastructure, and there's no way to get those goods out ( Read more... )

I don't know what I'm going to do. If I have to hear my coworkers bitch about each other anymore, I think I may lose it ( Read more... )

Do we ever regularly update our journals when we're in a good mood ( Read more... )

So, I was with Amy, visiting her aunt in Salado, and her aunt had a scale in her bathroom. I haven't stepped on a scale since leaving Boston, so I figured I'd take a look to see just how bad things have gotten. Well, they've gotten pretty bad. Amy stepped on it to to validate how accurate it was, and it looks like I've gained about 10 pounds since ( Read more... )