Another formal debate coming up. (2003/10/24)
Well, I’m a total sucker, so I’m arguing Problem of Evil. I’m arguing that it ends up not disproving anyone particularly interesting. My opponent is arguing that it does. Here’s the debate thread. As of this writing, no posts yet. My opponent should have something up in the next couple of days, I’d guess, and I’ll get back to him on it eventually.
[read more...]Formal debate over. (2003/10/21)
Well, my formal debate is over. It was fun. It pleases me to imagine that I did fairly well, but I can hardly be sure. Obviously, my arguments convince me.
[read more...]Weird Stuff, Vol. 2: It's not that the faucet is in the wrong place, mind you. (2003/10/21)
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Manufactured culture (2003/10/21)
What would “aloha” mean if there were no tourists in Hawaii?
[read more...]I made it! No thanks to the TSA. (2003/10/20)
TSA. Transportation Safety Administration. Imagine people who have been tasked with making everyone feel safe. They can’t do a damn thing about the real problem. This is partially because it’s already been done; everyone knows that you don’t cooperate with hijackers now. That solves it. If we’d known that, 9-11 would have been the day a few people got killed - maybe even one whole plane.
[read more...]Packed! (2003/10/19)
Packing has gotten less stressful over the years. The secret? A carefully-maintained list. If you have the list, and modify it every time you miss something, you gradually develop a very complete list. Perhaps too complete. My computer backpack is 20 pounds, not including my monster laptop. My suitcase doesn’t bear thinking about. But, of course, it is unthinkable that I should be away from home and not have audio and video cables handy in case I… Hmmm. Well, I can’t think of a use for them now, but maybe something will come to mind. I’ve stopped bringing the SCSI adapter, but I do have just about everything else. Two keyboards, trackball, movies, floppy adapter, blank CD’s, books…
[read more...]Tragically, I hate going to Hawaii (2003/10/18)
I think this will be my third trip to Hawaii. I still don’t like it. I don’t know why; I’m sure it’s a wonderful place. I think it has to do with travel time; it takes most of a day to get from here to there. This has gotten worse with the flood of totally irrelevant airline “security” measures.
[read more...]I was 0wn3d by a small child. (2003/10/14)
So, I was at Best Buy, with my friend Kevin, and I saw a GameCube running a shiny new game called “Soul Calibur 2”. So I went and poked a few buttons to see what it looked like. Beautiful.
[read more...]I forgot to mention... (2003/10/12)
I am nature’s Friend To Opportunistic Lung Bacteria. About half the time when I get a cold, I get a nasty bacterial lung crud immediately afterwards. I forgot to mention this, I guess.
[read more...]I'm back! (2003/10/06)
I’m not all the way better, but I’m better enough to start working again, and that implies that I feel up to writing.
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