February 2011
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Seen on Facebook: "I watched the news last night (Stewart, Colbert)…"
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Isn't it funny how sometimes you get behind a car and you somehow know it's going to turn without signaling? And pretty soon it does.
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Sunday Night Journal — February 13, 2011 It’s probably an indication of just how deeply materialism has been adopted by educated and partly-educated people that the ideas of Ray Kurzweil are generally accepted as fundamentally plausible, even if not as close to becoming reality as Kurzweil and others insist. In a nutshell, Kurzweil believes that…
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A love story.
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It's less than a minute, but fascinating. He looks and sounds exactly as I would have imagined. Daniel has posted it at Caelum et Terra.
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Weekend Music Sad to say, I had never heard of this Gary Moore (older folks may remember a long-ago TV personality name Garry Moore) until I saw news stories a week or so ago saying that he had died. Then Anja posted this clip on Facebook and I saw that he was a really fine…
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Anyone who's been anywhere near higher ed in recent years knows that standards are declining, in general, though I think (think) that the good and conscientious students and teachers are still doing good work on each side of the relationship. Here is an interesting report confirming what is pretty apparent. The problem is complex but one…
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I've been meaning to mention this for several days: Craig Burrell has declared February to be Antarctica Month at his blog, All Manner of Thing, in part because "February is dang cold," (and he lives in Canada, so when he says it's cold he doesn't mean the temperature will dip below freezing for a day…
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After a lapse of some months, Daniel Nichols has started posting at Caelum et Terra again. The main page now has five or six new posts, and Daniel has learned how to manage the blog himself (he had been emailing posts to me) and plans to keep it active, so check it out.
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Sunday Night Journal —February 6, 2011 A Few Seconds of Panic, by Stefan Fatsis. Football season is over, so it’s a bit late for me to be mentioning this book, but maybe anyone who’s interested will be as dilatory as I am and won’t get around to reading it till late next summer. It’s one…
Light On Dark Water 