I'm such a Tase
There are any number of things wrong with law enforcement officers in America: they're too fond of trans-fat foods; they tend to believe that Jim Crow laws are still in effect, though diversity...
View ArticleCreation
When I was working for Heyday Books in Berkeley, California I read a book called The Way We Lived, arranged by Malcolm Margolin, the founder of the publishing company. it is a collection of stories and...
View ArticleNorthern Californian reverence for nature
In pursuing my seemingly unrelated interests in the land of Northern California, printing and Native stories, I've stumbled again and again on some names that have become familiar. There is a whole...
View ArticlePhotos from Gods Party
It was great. Cambridge, is home.http://www.flickr.com/photos/18526188@N00/sets/72157602301827294/
View ArticlePissed at Gifts
I want to buy soft gifts, so I googled for 'soft gifts' and the two top sponsored links were "Meaningful gifts" and "Thoughtful gifts". It's a little blow to my faith in humanity: That there exist...
View ArticleTearing it up
The University of Florida is often engaged with fascinating research, some of it appealing to residents of the "Athens of America" like Frey et al, but most of it is entirely abstruse. In many ways...
View ArticleIt's Gettin' Hot in Here (So Go Flee all ya Homes!)
San Diego, my erstwhile hometown, is again in flames. It was only a matter of time before Santa Ana winds, one of the worst droughts in recorded history, and the metastisization of suburbia (and now...
View ArticleHeil Nation von Alligatoren!
The bellicism of the University of Florida is becoming something of a slight concern for me. Orange and blue regalia are nothing new in the 352, but the ubiquity of this color, and any...
View ArticleInk Blot
Pestilence has hit the shores of our fair land galloping only slightly faster than War. He brings with him not the usual assortment of genital warts, feline leukemia, and African Trypanosomiasis, but...
View ArticleKerik subject to the Peter Principle
Regarding Giuliani's associate's trouble in the NYTimes article "A Defiant Kerik Vows to Battle U.S. Indictment", I thought of the Peter Principle:"In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his...
View ArticleIs it true
I've found that if I'm not happy, and I smile, I become happier. I feel it. If I'm grumbly and I catch myself, I will force a smile that will settle into a genuine one. Of course, experiments on...
View ArticleWhy to not do bad things
Being nontheistic and awfully relativistic used to cause me to jump through all kinds of hoops to justify moral behavior. I have only casually come across an approach that, for me, skirts these issues...
View ArticleOh, Pervy you're simply darling!
I gained something of a new insight In talking to a South Asia friend of mine recently: Musharraf isn't such a bad cookie in the grand scheme in the politics of the region.Yes, he's served as nothing...
View ArticleStalking your parents
So I was having this dream. In it, I first ran into an old friend from the highschool I went to in the South Bay of CA, and it turned out that he was living in my neighborhood in Cambridge. The way he...
View ArticleYour friends are extensions of you.
So there is simply too much wonderful stuff to do in life, and not enough me to do it. That is why I have started internalizing the accomplishments of my friends. I have found, with two cases in...
View ArticleIt's 1 2 3, what are we payin' for?
One of the most amazing aspects of the United States Department of Defense has been its ability to innovate what eventually becomes broadly accessible civilian applications. The Internet is one, thanks...
View ArticleIl Mio Manifesto (hey, at least they're better than New Year's resolutions!)
In the last few days I have had discussions with old pals from the Fourth Estate. It is doing well and the jewels and minks will only be sold to those of fine breeding, namely Roger Ailes. They have...
View ArticleA new engineering?
I just took a course exploring current work in engineering decentralized systems and found an interesting clash, mostly within myself, as to the best way to make such engineering tractable. I work for...
View ArticleI am Either Above or Below the Golden Rule
I've recently determined that I should not use the Golden Rule, 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you', in determining the appropriateness of my social interactions. The problem comes...
View ArticleCreation: Case Closed
The Earth was created here: Google Earth has a better shot of it, the exact spot is within 500 meters of these coordinates: 39°39'21.59"N 121°49'49.12"W. That is 5.5 miles south of Chico, CA, home of...
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