Here's a picture story of my day. I don't usually do this, but I'm trying out a new function of Epistolary for work.

Radio, optical, office, electric, computer, emergency, audio.

This is my in-box. It's literally three feet high.

I haven't worn these clothes since I moved in.

Books need sorting.

A reminder from Kathleen Ellis.

More laundry.

The uncluttered workspace.

The Ten Commandments were removed from Roy Moore's courthouse today. Americans United is delighted.

Well, the day is almost over so I asked Amanda Doerr to write me five interview questions to finish off my entry. Here they are:

1) Who do you believe has done the most good for humanity and why?

If I can cheat on this one and pick two, I'd say Watson and Crick. If I had to pick just one person it would probably be Gregor Mendel, one of the many intellectual giants who propelled them up to their discovery. Intellectual and moral self-understanding is easy. People have been doing it for thousands of years to some pretty predictable ends. Biological self-understanding is going to bring humanity to the next level, and they made the critical leap.

2) If you could create anything, what would it be?

A sentient consciousness. In my dreams it would be a self-contained artificial consciousness construct, but I'll probably wind up cheating in a few years and just have a kid instead. Don't tell my girlfriend, or I'll be so busy changing diapers I'll never get a chance at building that simulation.

3) What is your happiest memory?

The first night I spent alone in my first very own roommate-free apartment. I wrote one of my favorite journal entries during a flashback to that night that still gives me shivers to read.

4) If you could live anywhere, where would you live and what would you live in?

On a remote temperate shoreline in an airy four-room beach house.

5) What is the most fascinating thing in existence?

The Internet. Quite possibly the most largest, most complex, far-reaching, dynamic and misunderstood system we've ever built.

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