user since

Fri Apr 11 2003 at 15:48:39 (5.6 years ago )

last seen

Tue Nov 18 2008 at 06:51:10 (22.2 hours ago )

number of write-ups

21 - View katanil's writeups (feed)

level / experience

2 (Acolyte) / 1197

mission drive within everything

Bringing mycology to the masses

specialties

awkwardness

school/company

University of Pittsburgh

motto

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it

most recent writeup

Transferring to a new university or college

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• sadomasochism
• Douglas Coupland
• Shave your head
• trendy corporate nonsense
• Lucid dream
• Michel Foucault
• psychiatry
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
• Granola
• The Society of the Spectacle
• Orange Traffic Koan
• Peter McWilliams
• Not wanting to sleep so the next day won't start
• soft boiled egg
• Kronos Quartet
• Pre/Trans fallacy
• How to get people to leave you alone (idea)
• RFC 1925
• Spam Fighting 101
• plant geek
• Good reasons to leave my computer-centred world alone
• Situationist Theses on Traffic
• militant agnostic
• geek angst
• How to give a blow job
• plant sex
• Why I wear black
• I, Claudius
• houseplants
• Minimal techno
• In Praise of Idleness
• we used to be punk
• Politically Correct Unix
• A Really Good Sandwich That ideath Could Make To Take To Work With Her (idea)
• The USA has fucked up priorities
• I never faced existential quandaries as an addict
• E-Prime
• Small-framed Guy
• Low self-esteem is actually one of the most self-centered acts; not unlike suicide
• When you're alone
• Misogynistic gay man
• A pot-grower's worst nightmare
• i had a dream about the future
• Schaefer
• I am not depressed
• Tips for overcoming procrastination
• Sensei's recipes
• Why I stopped eating plums
• Humans are pack animals
• There is no good depression. It's not sexy. It's not fun. It's not the new rock and roll.
• When I'm long dead, the bee will win (idea)
• If you didn't have free will, would you know it?
• We're all missing the point on computer security
• Things I learned in one week of college
• There is no "Judeo Christian" ethic
• DOOM as a system administration tool
• The Tao of Steve
• How do you know the fishes are enjoying themselves?
• The difference between punk and grunge
• I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
• illusionspace
• That's it. I quit team sanity.
• Having gotten myself into a position where I can have my cake and eat it too, I feel no compulsion to get up from the table
• On the topic of being alone
• meeting people out of context
• compost pile
• Why Libertarianism won't work
• The 10 bad listening habits
• Homocore
• I think people would rather be happy than virtuous
• dry ice bomb
• A message from sensei
• You can do anything you want to, as long as it's not important
• I owe my sanity to the trees
• Uberman's Sleep Schedule (thing)
• All he wants to be is a 6-pack and a hot ass
• Open letter to God
• Why beverage cans have concave bottoms
• social engineering friendships
• Being stoic, Daoist, and at one with the universe is NO FUN
• Existence of the System Administrator
• Trip Technician
• Learning a language
• Why I hate anime
• Being licked to death by kittens (idea)
• People watching (idea)
• concentration exercises
• Social Harassment in the Work Place (idea)
• Harry Anslinger
• America if I only had the money. Here are your new commercials: (idea)
• Making a flame thrower out of a Bic lighter
• When to purchase fresh vegetables
• Ping pong balls are flammable
• The German textbook that was written by Morrissey
• Advanced Unix Programming
• How to Encourage Others to Like You
• Planting wildflowers
• When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
• Forest Garden
• pyramid song (idea)
• These are the only minutes you'll ever have. Take good care of them.
• pile of kittens
• The Battle for Your Mind
• HIV-positive
• hippie (idea)
• Left is right and right is wrong
• Every city is full of secret places
• Dave Allen
• If you're not smart enough to figure this out on your own, you shouldn't be doing it
• 10 commandments for intellectual independence
• C Programming Tips and Tricks
• Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
• Three McDonald's: The Viability of a Third-Party Candidate
• The Clash of Civilizations between the West and Islam
• Don't encourage people to read
• reading and writing data structures in C
• Reverse Darwinism on the Internet
• Noding speedometer
• Thinking only makes life complicated
• Pipe tobacco
• How to make a left turn in Pittsburgh
• It's the cracked ones that let light into the world (idea)
• The Wheel of Tuition
• This faceless idiot, the long-haired, peace lovin' hippie boy
• Another pack of charming young boys
• You are not special. You will die here, too. (idea)
• Deliberately dropping pennies
• The lost art of walking
• Flossing your nasal cavity with a piece of spaghetti
• Desine fata deum flecti sperare precando
• How to cook rice (idea)
• Lies we tell teenagers
• How to be Happy, Dammit
• Having sex in Japanese
• Tips for saving time and money in the kitchen
• Searching for signs of life in the bottom of a cup of cold coffee
• The terrorists have already won "ANY BREAKFAST BAGEL SANDWICH" at McDonald's!
• A libertarian paradox
• How to talk to a quiet person (idea)
• So, you want to be a philosopher
• Give everything you can to everyone you know
• Are you depressed or just full of angst? (idea)
• Ironic hipsters (idea)
• Maths for the masses
• Lunar: Eternal Blue
• Homophobia is gay (idea)
• Living and dealing with depression
• Adven Turing
• Zen and the Art of Hacking
• ipfrom
• Every vegetable we grow is a blow against global capitalism
• The United States should go to war with Iraq
• Crisis of democracy
• Hermann Goering on unpopular wars (idea)
• A clever stress of opposites (idea)
• Support the Troops
• If George Bush played Civilization III
• Creating an audio CD from SNES game music
• Kid A (idea)
• Surviving college
• Stretching your legs to prepare them for the lotus position
• Nach's SNES ROM Tools
• Jumped by a Zen master
• Real hippies wear flannel
• Real hippies wear flannel (idea)
• Where am I going, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
• Gardening calendar
• Snorlax (essay)
• How to Disappear Completely (idea)
• TiHKAL
• Thai fried rice (thing)
• 57% of Americans think that Saddam Hussein had links to Al-Qaeda
• Ancient Rome (thing)
• All I need is food, shelter and a broadband connection (personal)
• Radeon 9800 (thing)
• How to save money and help the earth too (idea)
• Simple ways to test your soil
• Do-It-Yourself Depression Control (idea)
• May 28, 2005 (idea)
• My interview with the gay porn star (event)