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Archive for December 2005

On Potentially Unscrupulous Caveats

I am by no means a designer, but I managed to knock together a logo for a friend’s organization, and received in return a $25 gift certificate for Dick’s Sporting Goods. These holidays make for relatively light work volume for me, not least due to how convenient an excuse they provide to blow off [...]

No Love Lost

This is a bittersweet time of year anyway, what with all the festive machinery grinding away, making us all happy whether or not we want to be. Still, it’s unavoidable, principally because there’s a warmth in gathering with people you care for that can’t be matched in any other way, and so we’ll bear [...]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

I am of the firm belief that the intersection of a woman, bills, and a checkbook is detrimental to the American economy: this woman will undoubtedly pay bills in a timely fashion, thereby robbing the engine of capitalism of untold penal revenue. Men should hold tight their bills and checkbooks if ever capitalism should [...]

Proxy Content

I’m attempting to post more frequently, for my own good, but using the benefit of possible discussion as a carrot. That is, I like exercising my mind and feeling all smart and whatever, but I also want to engender discussion here.
To that end, I’m going to get a little slithery and post (again) what [...]

On an Unfortunately Inaccurate Disparity

Yesterday’s post admittedly propagated a scale of disparity which doesn’t really represent the scale of difference we’d likely find between any given two people. The point still stands, but it’s more a commentary on the melee in the extremes of our society (local and national). It’s a discussion of limited application.

On That Part of Your Terra Cotta Boilerplate That Always Manages to Eat Away at Whatever You Call a Nervous Humdrummery

When a man says, ‘I have never solved a puzzle in my life,’ it is difficult to know exactly what he means, for every intelligent individual is doing it every day. The unfortunate inmates of our lunatic asylums are sent there expressly because they cannot solve puzzles—because they have lost their powers of reason. If [...]

Complexity Rules

I’ve been reading lately about computational complexity, as it seems to be bubbling to the top of the philosophical heap. I haven’t had the wherewithal to post about it, though I’ve been scribbling notes that—fortunately or not—find a vast network of connections I want to explore. That requires time and attention span. [...]

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