I have some advice to ask. Where I work (software industry), management habitually does year reviews late. One coworker had hers 6 months late last year. Mine is technically a week late, but it feels more like five weeks late since I started at the beginning of February last year, although my boss technically had the…

I definitely read more with mine! It's perfect for reading at the gym (I turn up the font size on the treadmill) and for reading while I eat dinner, since there's no need to hold it open with one hand.

After mulling it over for a while and going through a lot of what-if scenarios, I've decided that brain pattern continuity is important for me to keep being me. After all, if you copied your brain into a computer, you wouldn't then happily go to be euthanized. The copy might also be a person with the same memories up…

I must say that my interest in longevity technologies became much higher after deciding that agnosticism made more sense than theism.

Yeah. Lately I've been thinking: Even if God really is out there, and for whatever ineffable reason wants people to believe in him/her on somewhat patchy evidence, isn't that kind of odd? If he really wants "a relationship" with me, shouldn't he talk to me or send me messages or something? Even if all the people who…

I went from:

I've always thought of these two movies, and only these two, as being in the same genre: the "I can watch regardless of my mood" genre. If I'm feeling happy, it's fun. If I'm feeling sad, it'll cheer me up. If I'm feeling meh, it'll stoke my spirit of adventure.

If you're poorish (rich enough to have some video games but poor enough that you don't want to spend on too many other treats), you can get the same enjoyment from buying ridiculous things in video games. I enjoyed buying ridiculous mounts and pets from the auction house in WoW when I was going through a lean year.