Thursday, October 11th, 2007
In January 1957, as his diary from the Sierra Maestra indicates, Guevara shot Eutimio Guerra because he suspected him of passing on information: “I ended the problem with a .32 caliber pistol, in the right side of his brain.... His belongings were now mine.”
or for the lighter side of ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
82% Geek
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
I went to a wedding in Avon Connecticut this weekend. The groom was a great guy named Robbie I have known since I was 3. I got to talk to all sorts of interesting people about topics ranging from St. John's College to entomology.
Robbie's mom is an entomologist who works ...
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
What I found was that economic inequality doesn’t frustrate Americans at all. It is, rather, the perceived lack of economic opportunity that makes us unhappy. To focus our policies on inequality, instead of opportunity, is to make a grave error—one that will worsen the very problem we seek to solve ...
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Lovingly Opposed to Sin and Evil
We may not end evil this year, but with your help we will work hard to get a government grant to study doing so. Our very ineffectiveness will be a sign of our servant-leadership that dares not limit the Other by making the attainable an ...
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
According to Science Daily, 1 unit of energy from ethanol costs 6 units to produce.
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
I've seen some Mythbusters and Dirty Jobs before, they are great shows. I just got done watching Man vs. Wild which is pretty cool also. I don't know how useful it will be, but I just might get lost in the amazon rain forest one day...
(For best results, turn off ...
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
The God Delusion is full of bluster and bombast, but it really doesn't give even the slightest reason for thinking belief in God mistaken, let alone a "delusion."
The naturalism that Dawkins embraces, furthermore, in addition to its intrinsic unloveliness and its dispiriting conclusions about human beings and their place in ...
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
We can continue the endless cycle of need and dependency, or you can create jobs, develop indigenous capacity, and build a sustainable future.
Aid not only crowds out local entrepreneurship, it makes governments lazy and deprives countries of the incentive to build effective institutions. Public revenue derived from taxes makes governments ...
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
I happen to agree that abortion is a form of murder. I think the quarrel about when life begins is disrespectful to the fetus. I know I murdered the life within me. I could have loved that life but chose not to. I did what men ...
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Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
The new iPhone commercials look really good. I'm most excited about the ability to find a place nearby with Google and dial that number. My guess is that the iPhone locates you using cell phone tower triangulation. It wouldn't really even need triangulation. As long as you had a signal ...
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Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
The ONE Campaign is an effort by Americans to rally Americans – one by one – to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. ONE is students and ministers, punk rockers and NASCAR moms, Americans of all beliefs and every walk of life, united to help make poverty ...
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Saturday, June 2nd, 2007
Lots of free higher education content is now available on iTunes. I was about to search for Greek when I noticed that Elementary Greek from Concordia is available. Cool!
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
BBC's Panorama recently did a segment on Scientology, Which you can watch here (it is in 4 parts, that is the first part).
This, combined with how crappy Mission Impossible III was, has pretty much convinced me that I'm done watching Cruise movies until he is done with Scientology.
Some other interesting ...
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Friday, April 27th, 2007
by Aristophanes
(translated by Alan H. Sommerstein)
This was a rather liberal translation. The play is pretty crappy (pun intended). It was interesting to see that the introduction referred to 4 themes: atheism, scientific inquiry and speculation, rhetoric, and the new morality. Those 4 themes seem to be what each new generation ...
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
That is so passé... I have Nintendo Biceps
Boxing and the other sports games really give you some muscle soreness the next day...
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
My friend Sir Robert got a Wii. It is pretty frickin' awesome. I have only played Wii Sports, and about 1 minute of the Zelda game.
Zelda looks alright, but is probably not the kind of game I would like. Okami (PS2) seems like a similar type of game, and ...
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
great movie...
If you liked Dustin Hoffman in I ♥ Huckabees, his character basically returns in this movie...
I love the Literature Professor who has taught a class on basically anything you can think of, and reads Sue Grafton through a plastic bag while lifguarding at the university pool.
Strangely Firefox renders the ...
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Saturday, November 11th, 2006
Consoles seem to be on a 6 year cycle. 05-06 has been the latest cycle, so we are looking at 11-12 before new consoles come out.
I actually remember when the PS2 came out... only one of my friends got one because Sony purposefully limited the supply to drive up the ...
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
I saw a bumper sticker (i.e. "take its accuracy with a grain of salt") quotation today:
Peace cannot come about by means of force, only understanding -- Albert Einstein
I would like to respond to this.
Peace cannot come about by understanding. That belief denies the intrinsic wretchedness of man which cannot be ...
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