complich8’s journal

Ratio-based torrent sites are getting pretty common (I regularly use 4 of them now). So all of this is in the context of bittorrent and ratio-sites. I’m planning on this post being a general examination of the structures and mechanics involved in these sites.
The meat is this: since bittorrent is a zero-sum protocol, [...]

So, I’ve been randomly entertaining episodes of Jigoku Shoujo for a while, and just watched a couple. I’ve also been entertaining the book The Paradox of Choice for a while, and recently read another couple dozen pages.
Round about page 111, Schwartz summmarizes a bit of Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice and Loyalty, explaining that in [...]

Rather than try to shape the random things floating around in my head into coherent, readable whole-posts (and thus spending several hours I don’t really have to spare right now, thanks to wanting to sleep), I’m just going to give them to you in half-finished one-liner form:
1: When you lose weight (by burning fat, say), [...]

I was just thinking … I don’t know what to expect from my class tomorrow. It’s “environmental ethics” … which means it could either be a serious discussion about the ethical implications of environmental preservation or destruction and related topics, or it could be a semester of babble about how we must love the [...]