Articles
Updated: 2013/06/15
Hello there, reader! I hope you're in the mood for, um, reading because here are a bunch of articles I've written on various things!
- How to do Asynchronous Callback Functions in Python
- A quick example of how to do asynchronous callbacks with multiple parameters in Python.
- Google I'm Feeling Lucky in Chrome Omnibar with Suggestions
- A quick post about enabling I'm Feeling Lucky in Chrome with suggestions as you type.
- Gravity
- A small story.
- Actual Town Names in Massachusetts
- Seriously, what the hell?
- Random
- A page of random things my brain has barfed out.
- Boredom
- A short rant-ish article on the concept of boredom. It is true, still, that I never get bored anymore.
- Consumption, Noise, and Creativity
- An essay about media consumption as a ubiquitous and detrimental cultural artifact.
- Copyright and American Culture
- An essay I wrote for school about how important the sharing of information is in American culture. I was reading Cory Doctorow a lot when I wrote this, okay?
- CSS Reboot Redesign
- A series of articles I wrote about the brand new site design I did for glench.com in the CSS Reboot.
- Average People, Exceptional Rocking: Dan Deacon Show Review
- I review one of the few concerts I go to.
- Delusion, Structure, and Sociopaths
- An exploratory essay I did on the nature of delusion, entropy, and sociopaths.
- Experiment Time: Turning Left
- A pseudo-scientific experiment I conducted where, for a week, I only turned left.
- The First Law of Beardodynamics
- A humor piece for my campus' humor magazine. Not my best work, but I like it.
- Genesis in Rap Songs
- A list of every chapter in the book of Genesis (The Bible) with a rap song I associated it with. Quite blasphemous.
- I Don't Care if You're an Honors Student
- A rant on modern education.
- What You Can Learn from Juggling
- So bloggy that I want to throw up.
- Lesbian Thermodynamics
- A scientific theory that successfully predicts that amount of lesbians based on ambient temperature.
- Moddled Lyrics
- A bunch of songs I changed the lyrics to. A work in progress.
- Microsoft Office 2007 Beta Website Woes
- A writeup on my terrible quest to try to download Microsoft's 2007 Office Beta.
- Nintendo DS Lite Review
- A review I did of Nintendo's DS Lite when it first came out.
- Pocket Notebook Statistics
- Wherein I quantify how many ideas I have in one day.
- Old People and Technology
- An essay exploring why old people are so bad at using modern technology.
- On Greatness
- An outline of what I think it takes to be great.
- On Productivity and Angst
- A personal essay on creative impotence and the anxiety that comes with it.
- Me Gusta Bilar
- A review of Ratatat's new album, "LP4", also appearing in Northeastern's Tastemakers magazine.
- School, Stress, Statistics, and the Pomodoro Technique
- A story of how I dealt with school stress, and some statistics from that process.
- Sentence-Forming Songs
- A list of songs that make sense as sentences when combined with their band names.
- That Feeling
- A description of the restlessness that sometimes consumes us all.
- The New Frontier
- An essay comparing the development of America to the development of the internet.
- Studies in Usability
- Pictures and descriptions of usability failures I see when I'm out and about! Updated periodically.
- Vim...Sex?
- One day I noticed this ad...
- Writing Cycles and Lack of Content
- Wherein I mount my lecturn and dole out scoldings to the blogging masses, while purging my hypocritical self.
- #xkcd: A Study in IRC Channel Noise
- A somewhat scholarly article on the growth of the IRC channel #xkcd, and its corresponding reduction in signal, including attempts at increasing signal.
- Good XXX Domain Names to Own
- Some funny ideas for XXX domain names.