Category Archives: Writing

As it turns out is quite innocuous

By Ethan | Published: March 3, 2010
What a strange title, you say! Well, this is true, but as it turns out, you are quite likely to have parsed it incorrectly (that is, unless you have just come from this post on Hacker News). In any case, there was a recent small flurry of activity regarding Paul Graham’s use of the rhetorical device [...]
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Police Pursue and Capture a Barefoot Runner

By Ethan | Published: February 13, 2010
I went running today. In and of itself, this is far from unusual, and indeed, I go running most days. Something else happened, however, a deep and dark and disturbing something. Today on my run I was detained by the police, forced to enter an officer’s vehicle, and “escorted” back to my  apartment. I was [...]
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On Initiative

By Ethan | Published: February 5, 2010
This past week, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about success. Now, perhaps this is a somewhat pedantic exercise, but it seems that if I would like to be successful (and I assure you, this is a valid premise), then I ought to better understand the term — what it means, what it implies, and [...]
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National Novel Writing Month

By Ethan | Published: December 4, 2009
In circumstances rather less than coincidental, a conspicuous absence of November posts coincided with my participation in NaNoWriMo (national novel writing month). Thus, throughout last month, I had a great — if difficult — time writing what might be described as a shallow antithesis to the next Great American Novel. Ever so sadly, fifty thousand words was not enough to contain the [...]
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