i just want to say that my first week on the farm was really, really great. i've learned all sorts of neat things like how internal combustion engines work and how to change oil and i also got to make a small group of teenagers shovel manure for a few hours. i love greenhouses because i get to see baby plants grow up and because they are much ( Read more... )

there's really no point to this except... well, maybe i wouldn't hate it so much if everything was already organized. guess i'm paying the price for my (uncharacteristic yet endemic) sloppiness ( Read more... )

i've been nit-picking lately, forgetting that when you dig deep enough, we all want the same things. we want to have our basic needs met, we want to be able to live in relative safety, we want to have healthy communities to be part of ( Read more... )

"Phaedrus remembered a line from Thoreau: 'You never gain something but that you lose something.' And now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world in terms of dialectic truths, had lost. He had built empires of scientific capability to manipulate the phenomena ( Read more... )

new blog post! del, i also responded to your comments on a previous post. i especially want to make a point that i think you'll find the link i included to be very interesting, including the comments that others left ( Read more... )

i'm using an idea that seems to have worked well for motes in the last two years... i'm making a list of 20 things to do in the year after i turn 20. however, the list is far from complete and i'd like to take suggestions if you have any! here is what i have so far ( Read more... )

yup, i'm behind. lots o' things on my mind today too.

( 1) college shopping, because i promised. )

( To the middle-aged man with the guitar from table A4: )

new blog post! http://amasler.blogspot.com/

i'll post more later about my college shopping trip of earlier this week.

my dad sent me a wall street journal article that was basically a grumpy old man complaining about "kids these days". (i'm oversimplifying the content... it was also a book review... but this isn't the only article i've seen of that nature in the last few years.) i sent him a very thoughtful reply, but decided to make a satirical public reply over ( Read more... )