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living with no past

I’ve been thinking a bit about all the accreted crap we all end up carting about as constant reminders that we did indeed have a life before this particular instant. This came up as I did a vanity search recently for my name. We all do it, to see how far we have to scroll before we go hey! that’s me!. Most people want that distance to be small, I kinda want it to be large. Back...

Jul 20th

my ever mercurial views on social networking

Ok, ok, ok. So I abandoned the FB, and then decided that it would be gauche to be completely socially isolated — on the internets at least. So then I went and plugged LinkedIn back in and re-added people (for what, the third time?). One reason why I did this was the “networking!” argument getting lobbed at me from the career councilor folks at school. Apparently its teh...

Jul 8th

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Great Lake Swimmers - River’s Edge (by Nir Ben Jacob)

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Jul 1st

why I quit facebook -- again

so the ol’ fb and I have had a rocky relationship in the past. I have gone from over-share to complete hermitude, suspended my account and re-activated it. I finally got around to deleting it after I don’t-even-know how many years. By delete of course I mean I registered it for deletion and just have to not use it for 10 more days before it is gone. So why exactly have I...

Jul 1st

Jun 29th

“In order for it to promote the values and skills Nussbaum describes, education...”

– New Statesman - Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

Jun 27th

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Something Left, Something Taken (by Tiny Inventions)

Jun 20th

Jun 17th

I really have no idea what I'm talking about.

Not long ago I ended up in a discussion on the biological origin of teh gays, in which I was expected to express a belief. Or to put it less stiffly, everyone seemed to hold a strong opinion while simultaneously knowing nearly nothing about, you know, biology. Me, I have no idea. I’ve heard a lot of arguments here and there, I hazily recall reading an issue of SEED magazine mostly on gay...

May 31st

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Alain de Botton - On Pessimism (by The School of Life)

May 18th

Why Is Coffee Addictive?

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May 9th

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May 9th

Knife-Wielding Robot Performs Stabbing Tests →

Researchers create a system to prevent robots from accidentally stabbing people. This is how it starts people. First we teach the robots how to stab…

May 8th

Apr 30th

flash, iPhones, the "bad old days" and other...

So I really don’t know anything about developing on the iPhone, or about programming in flash, but I am an opinionated nerd so: ¶ I don’t have an iPhone as I am cheap, and still on a contract (swapping phones -> cancelling contract -> $$$). What I do have is an old nokia. One of those first generation “smart phones”. There are a bunch of games and things on it...

Apr 30th

technological cynicism

Sitting back and watching the hysteria around the new iPad, I find I really don’t care that deeply. Here is a run down of my own feelings: ¶ It is a tablet, woo-hoo. This is neither new nor revolutionary in and of itself. Maybe Apple has some secret sauce that will make it unicorn jism, but I’m dubious. It is just a new shiny thing. ¶ Pinning the hopes of dead-tree media to it...

Apr 4th

So YOU WANT TO HAVE A Love Affair (Oct, 1965) →

Mar 15th

Coffee inhaler →

Mar 15th

The Mystery of Sudden Acceleration →

Mar 13th

Natural Harvest →

Mar 11th

Airplanes May Replace Cannon in Laying Telegraph... →

Mar 4th

Sex Dice →

Mar 1st

“Along these lines, “wisdom” may be defined as the ability to not be dangerous....”

– No One Knows What the F*** They’re Doing (or “The 3 Types of Knowledge”) This relates to something I learned a while a go: be skeptical of people who are absolutely certain about things. They tend to be unaware of the whole “shit they don’t know they don’t...

Feb 22nd

Man who dresses up in strange costumes to worship... →

Feb 16th

Found Functions →

Feb 4th

“What the hell is wrong with you? Are you really going to wear that? Why...”

– Why are you so terribly disappointing? This really struck a chord with me. As my mother says about my family “we’re never happy until we’re unhappy,” and that seems to be spreading like cholera.

Feb 1st

myjumpsuit.com — Casual Jumpsuits for Work and... →

Jan 29th

Jan 27th

Electric Chair Powerless to Harm Wizard (Jan,... →

Jan 26th

Cocktail blueprints for engineers →

Jan 26th

Disney-logoed DDT-impregnated wallpaper for the... →

Jan 26th

How cooking made us human →

Jan 21st

Jan 19th

“[…] public confidence in Newfoundland’s own government had been...”

– The Newfoundland lesson: during the 1930s, long before the IMF, the British Empire coped with a debt crisis in a small country. - Entrepreneur.com That’s a “Heritage Moment” I want to see.

Jan 19th