January 2008
35 posts
Driving out to the middle of nowhere to spend New Year’s Eve with people I haven’t seen in years. We’ll see how it goes.
December 2007
19 posts
I don’t pay very much attention to NBA referees, but the crew of David Jones, Eric Lewis and Jim Clark does not impress me.
Just realized that the first (non-article) word in the titles of both of the last two books I’ve read has been “Pursuit”.
Nuggets-Warriors is an amazingly entertaining game. Inevitably, this only makes me hate Pat Riley more.
@cederber I’ve never used Visio so I can’t tell you how they compare, but I’m a big fan of OmniGraffle.
Rod Smith’s career could be over after another hip... →
Sounds like he needs a hip replacement. A sad end to the career of one of my favorite football players.
Mankind is more than the janitor of planet Earth →
“The cult of environmentalism embraced by the Christian churches does away with morality altogether. Some sceptics claim that environmentalism is a new form of moralistic hectoring; it is better to see it as amoralistic hectoring.”
Here’s a list of the books I received as Christmas gifts this year: The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate, by Ted Chiang Operette Morali, by Giacomo Leopardi The Pursuit of Genius: Flexner, Einstein, and the Early Faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study, by Steve Batterson Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy, by Kip S. Thorne The Pursuit of the...
“Eschatology” is unquestionably one of the coolest words in existence.
It turns out that skiing when you’re out of shape is painful. Who knew?
Here’s hoping that steroids are performance-enhancing when it comes to skiing.
Haven’t experienced an actual wood fire in a surprisingly long time. Honestly, they’re sort of overrated.
So far this journey is off to an inauspicious start.
Proctoring an early-morning calculus final is no fun. At all.
My computer is finally fixed. They ended up replacing the logic board and half the case.
Okay, I’ve got the crushing migraines part down pretty good; now where’s my eccentric brilliance?
Wow. That was certainly a dramatic endgame.
Whoa. I turn on the game to see if it’s close and it turns out the Ravens are ahead. Of course, the Patriots immediately score to tie it up.
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I hate it when I get an idea but I have no clue how one would even start to determine its plausibility.