This morning I got the pleasant surprise of a new video in Luke Smith's Not Related podcast series—"Against Method and For 'Pseudoscience'". Once again, Luke Senpai was a year or so ahead of my investigations into various issues related to linguistics, history of science, and the like etc. It is very nice to see some ideas I just started fumbling around with presented in a such an accessible way to a wide audience.

I was thinking of publishing some more autobiographical/narrative stuff here, but had misgivings midway through writing and ended up deleting what I had written. Maybe I'll think over and write some stuff on these topics I was thinking of later.

In many ways, the Internet has gotten more convenient and nice. For instance, we have more than a dozen chat services to choose from to exchange text messages, photos, etc. With this, however, the Internet also feels much more corporate. It seems less fun, less free, and far more political.

...and so, writing this blog I wonder; what is the point of me trying to just shoot-the-shit here? It may de-favor me in search engines and stuff if I would like my work to get more popular. Furthermore, anything remotely controversial I may write could be used against me.

Here, being "a nobody" is helpful in that there is nothing dramatic happening/going on with my blog. It is just an open journal that I find useful to write in because it helps me look from a third person perspective on the stuff I think and say and see if it makes any sense (and if it is worth sharing).

As we're getting into the night, I'm too tired to do any "serious studying" or reading now... I'll probably go to sleep soon. The agenda of this journal is to think out loud, to figure out what is going on. It is Friday night in Sacramento, CA and I'm not really talking to anybody right now. There is a curfew outside, so I can't go for a literal walk outside. So, I go for a little metaphorical walk writing stuff here... turning sentence-thoughts into prose from a standing work station made of furniture and books and old computer parts.