Category: General

an engineer’s guide to cats

—- They forgot to mention the cat’s use of recreational drugs and reliance on fibrous grass.

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Doc Searls Weblog · Out but not quite about

Out but not quite about April 9, 2008 in Future [From Doc Searls Weblog · Out but not quite about] — We almost lost a great one:0 but Doc is feeling better now. Let this be a lesson to us all, sometimes small pains can be big.

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book chapter: there is a gunman on campus

—— Brent and I have “Chapter 11: The April 16 Archive: Collecting and Preserving Memories of the Virginia Tech Tragedy” in the above book.

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a nice sunny amble

Today… I went for a short walk around Chicago. Gmaps says i walked over 9 miles and burned around 1500 calories, that were somewhat displaced by my visit to Wow Bao for lunch, a java chip frap at starbucks and then i had a beer and chop salad (which i couldn’t finish) at beer bistro. […]

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The Walrus » Technology » The Big Log Off » Online Memorial

Where do computer files go when you die? [From The Walrus » Technology » The Big Log Off » Online Memorial] —- hopefully they get sent to an archive… who can look at the close to 2.5 billion words on this computer and wonder what the heck i was thinking.

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Why does it make us sad to remember what we were like as children?

Why does it make us sad to remember what we were like as children? [From In My Life] i wonder…

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Got Married

So Jeremy and I got married on Thursday. (This is the Marriage is Serious Business picture.) We tried to keep it as low-key as possible, because a) we’re not big ceremony people, and b) I’m not really in the greatest of health presently, so it was in our best interest to keep it simple. I […]

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Bryan Magee Interviews John Searle on Wittgenstein

On YouTube there is video of (a very young looking) John Searle discussing the philosophy of Wittgenstein with Bryan Magee. The discussion is approximately 45 minutes long, so it’s posted as five [From Bryan Magee Interviews John Searle on Wittgenstein] Methods of projection has a good listing of some videos of john searl talking about […]

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a tribute to gygax

Ultimate Game [From xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe]

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