My Aims

I'm starting this blog, largely as an experiment, in the hopes that it could possibly turn into a more permanent fixture in my daily routine. I plan to differentiate this from my past "online journal" by focusing posts less on personal goings-ons and more on topics of personal interest.

Lately I have had an increasing number of urges to write down my various mental tangents. Until now, I couldn't think of a good format for documenting these mini-essays of sorts. My primary influence in starting this blog was Tyler Cowen, of MarginalRevolution.com (linked at the bottom of page). He is a professor of economics at George Mason University, but blogs on a wide variety of topics, including music, sociology and technology, generally with an added angle of economics. Credit is also due to my friends to the north, at Lewis and Clark, Chris Macleod and Mac Pogue (pomegranatepony.blogspot.com). I figure if those asshats can start a blog, anyone can.

Maybe it's wishful thinking but I hope some of you might subscribe to this as a feed and check in frequently. My goal is to post every time I have an urge to play Tetris, which is often, so check in daily! Comment too, let's a discussion going.