surplus |
I have yet to buy pots and pans for my new apartment. Really, it's just a good excuse to go out for Asian food every night. And I'd be loathe to exclude the asian sub-continent from my belly, no, my d... Posted by on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:37:00 GMT |
A conservative look at Obama |
So, I listened to the Presidents congressional address last night. They tuned in the wall-mounted flat screen at Indochine Cafe (my local Pasadena Vietnamese haunt) mid-way through a bowl of Pho, so I... Posted by on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:53:00 GMT |
viewpoint |
I think that evolution leads to the viewpoint that nobody is worthy of respect, and everybody is worthy of compassion. maybe. Posted by on Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:12:00 GMT |
swimminghole |
i'll leave the television on think of you softly when you've goneyou say you've been smothered by a hundred careless lovershope that you don't think of me that way look you down in the old swimming ho... Posted by on Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:52:00 GMT |
The Spiritual Atheist |
This is an incredibly concise and poignant expression of how a rational ethos can be applied to human spirituality. It's an excerpt from a speech given by Sam Harris at the Aspen Idea's Festival in 20... Posted by on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:34:00 GMT |
Tolstoy on free will |
I found this passage at the end of War and Peace to be particularly
insightful.Tolstoy
points out, quite rightly, that we all feel like we have free will. I
feel like I can choose to lift my hand o... Posted by on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:30:00 GMT |
The calculus of history |
"The first proceeding of the historian is taking an arbitrary series of continuous events to examine it apart from others, while in reality there is not, and cannot be, a beginning to any event, but o... Posted by on Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:44:00 GMT |
Voyager too |
I've got a new blog that I will be focusing on from here on out...Voyager tooI will still dual-post to Brother Sky, Sister Earth, but Sister Earth has been very busy with work and school, and so updat... Posted by on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:45:00 GMT |
Brother Sky, Sister Earth |
I love blogging; if blogging were logging, I would be Paul Bunyan.I started a new blog with my sister, called Brother Sky, Sister Earth. It is supposed to be focused on space and Earth science (we wan... Posted by on Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:00:00 GMT |
It’s raining. |
I was southbound on my bike when it started coming down. I flipped a quick bitch and set due north, 1.5 miles to my house. I peddled furiously, and the rain let up. I stopped for a red light, and it s... Posted by on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:23:00 GMT |