DEFINITIONS

Catagories

• Site Development: Anything to do with developing this site, its readership, its features or anything else I consider to be the nuts and bolts of running a blog.
• Manifesto: Free-wheeling statements of doctrine and purpose and other things I like to call “shit I just made up and wanted to write down before I forgot them”.
• Letters from the Editor: Any time I need to get all official sounding. Used to post links, announcements, and other things I find noteworthy. “In Soviet Russia, editor writes you!”
• Nostalgia: More planned and directed posts that are verging on becoming fledgling essays. Of course, considering what I consider planning and direction to be worth your results may vary. Fair warning, as the standard for factual accuracy on these is somewhat…lacking.
• Games: Any post with a little riddle or puzzle or mind game for people to enjoy.
• Dear Diary: Short, timed, free form posts that are akin to myself writing in a diary. I intend to use them to keep everyone informed about how things are going and whatever my ill-concieved plans might be. Please consider these open threads.
  
• NaNoWriMo: Of and about the National Novel Writing Month. Currently for year 2006.
  

Vocabulary

• Evolution: Small, gradual changes adding up to something larger
• Evolutionary: New model soldier.
• It-getter: With the program.
• Dinosaur: Not an it-getter.
• Dodo: A pathetic dinosaur.

Concepts

• Sunk cost: Irretrievable investments that are no longer germaine to the discussion. Ref: sunk cost fallacy.
• Running the Red Queen’s race: Running in circles. Going faster and faster, getting better and better, by heading in the same direction.
• George Costanza: Do the exact opposite of what you would normally do. Override your potentially harmful instincts.
• Brownian motion: Social interaction with other people