Sangria de Cava and Summer Plans

Sangria de Cava and Summer Plans So obviously I don’t write for this as much as I thought I would. Also, to be fair, once I really got going with this semester I didn’t even read as much as I thought I would. But I’ve got a whole two weeks of summer vacation here before […]

The Mediated Construction of Reality

This week’s post is a little bit different. As I mentioned, I’m a graduate student. For those who don’t know, that means an insane amount of reading. Between two classes I’m assigned an average of 8-10 peer reviewed journal articles per week, plus outside reading to prepare for research papers. Add to that the fact […]

Books I Read in 2017

A bit late for end of the year posts, but then again, I’m several months behind on regular posts. 2017 was a pretty good year, reading-wise. There’s a lot of material here for future posts, which I’m sorry were nowhere near as frequent as I said they’d be. Turns out that, sort of like I […]

Social Physics by Alex Pentland

I got this book for Christmas, and finished it by New Years, so it officially counts as my last book of 2017. For the last few months I had been having a hard time getting into anything, but Social Physics starts off strongly, even if it does taper off into what almost seem like advertisements […]

Kona “Longboard Island Lager”

This is a low-effort post for a low-effort beer. This thing tastes sort of like tomatoes. Like, go down a bud light and then take a big whiff of a tomato plant and that’s exactly what this beer tastes like. This is the only thing of note about Kona “Longboard Island Lager”. It is otherwise a completely […]