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Archive for June 2005

110 Hours

In just over 110 hours, my life will feel a fuller weight of a decision I made on September 28th of 2004. In just over 110 hours, a brand new life will make her way into my and Danielle’s arms, full of promise and struggle from the outset. In just over 110 hours, [...]

A Few Words on Morons

If any of you has the great pleasure to join me in sating our desire for the opiate that are movies, on the big or little screen, please don’t attempt to restrain me should I become afflicted with what seems like a seizure or a fit of Tourette’s. Very likely, I’m distracting myself from [...]

Warning: Words Have Letters In Them

I’ve (at least intended to have) written quite a bit regarding the place of “science” and “faith” in the days and lives of “people”. Often, when donning the (stylish) hat of an empiricist, looking down upon the amalgam of human endeavor, I wonder how anyone can find any indication that we, as an organ [...]

Redeemed Somehow

Once upon a time, I picked up Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy, and was immediately a fan of science fiction. Sure, I’d already been exposed to stuff with elements of science fiction; but nothing that didn’t stray beyond the bounds of speculative science and firmly into fantasy at one point or another. Asimov’s terse [...]

Not in the Most

Which represents the greater hubris:

we have found structures in the universe whose origins we can understand only if they were created by a higher consciousness; or
given an intelligent creator, whoever that is must’ve received, like, a C at best for ENG302: Creating Things That Work Well to Populate Your New Universe?

The first point is rather [...]

Full

I have something of a cognitive processing dilemma. Occasionally, one or two things expands like a net worm to devour what meager cerebral resources I have, while simultaneously fastening themselves to the inner surface of my mind. This has two notable affects: first, other thoughts are unable to mature to a state in [...]