Moneydick: archive

By J.C. Calhoun?
Drinking, or the act of drinking alcoholic beverages, is a pleasurable and exciting activity, when enjoyed in a responsible, intelligent way, or in an irresponsible, stupid way. I present here a guide to drinking in our fair borough of Santa Monica, for those of you whose ages start with 1. Unless you are [...]

Next year when I’m travellin the Europe, I hope to update as often as possible with stories, funnies, and pictures of my travels. Now’s the time to donate a digital camera!
Ay Look, the “Open Source Revolution Means more Internet“.
These are freakin great. Bitter Films by Don Hertzfeldt, now in comic form.

I wrote a very broadly-defined paper for an Intro to Cognitive Science Class. It shows the chronological development of competing theories of mind and ends with a series of predictions regarding where I expect the discipline to go. Yes, it does feel weird putting this on the internet.
It’s very likely that his doesn’t interest you. [...]

Theory time
It’s common knowledge among those who study human behavior that moods and feelings can be read in body language. There are certain postures and movements that mean very specific things—almost universally across all cultures. I read Allan Pease’s book, and I’ve come up with some more interesting behavioral theories:
When people sense something they [...]

Stop doing whatever you’re doing. Check out Google Maps. Throw down your address, and then click on ‘Satellite’ in the upper right hand corner. They just added that feature. It used to be only a street map service… Google style. Play around with it a little bit. Directions, finding restaurants in the map area [...]