Epistemographer

It’s been five months since I defended my dissertation and started work at George Mason; four months since I last wrote anything substantial beyond book/research proposals or short, unsigned book reviews for Publisher’s Weekly. I’ve spent that time recovering from the whole dissertation process, mulling over what went right and what I can do better [...]

Just saw (via Joi Ito) that Chris Anderson is expanding his Wired Magazine article on “The Long Tail” into a book-length project. He’s set up a Typepad blog and writes of his topic: “It’s a rich seam. This is the place where I’m going to collect everything I can about it.” Looking through his entries [...]

About a week ago, I received a copy of Jennifer Traig’s new memoir,

Devil in the Details : Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood. You can read the basics elsewhere – basically, the book’s blurb frames it as a story about a girl growing up with obsessive-compulsive disorder who latches onto the elaborate [...]

So, I’ll be getting married, most likely sometime next year. I’ll save the details for more personal spaces, but I will say this: it involved good friends, a street corner in the West Village and a cupcake from our favorite bakery in NYC:

Coming up as part of the latest Virtual Book Tour, I’ll be posting on the general subjects of obsessive-compulsive tendencies, the personal idiosyncrasies of keeping kosher, and other subjects raised by Jennifer Traig’s painfully funny new book, Devil in the Details : Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood. Stay tuned…

My favorite website discovery: Le Moleskine A Beleg. Found via BoingBoing, where Xeni explains:

On this wonderful little blog, a young man in Bordeaux, France sketches his way through life in a series of moleskine journals. He scans the results, and posts them online for all to see.

The beautiful thing about this “blog,” to me, [...]

So, as best as I understand it, Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution reads:

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers

Now, as a resident of the District of Columbia, I have no congressional representation (either in the House [...]

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had an uncomfortable relationship with sleep…to put it simply, I just don’t get tired when normal people seem to. That’s not to say that I don’t every get sleepy; I do, it’s just that it happens when the sun comes up, rather than when the sun sets. [...]