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Who shall deliver my soul from the words of men?… Harken ye loud and presumptuous ones, wind-strewn children of your own caprice: We are parched beside your well-springs, we are starved by the meat you offer us, we have grown blind by the light of your lamps. You are like a road that leads nowhither,…
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I received this unpleasant-looking object in the mail at work a few days ago. It's supposed to make me want to buy stuff from HP (Hewlett-Packard). In fact I do buy stuff from them, and have always respected their engineering, but this certainly did nothing to encourage me. It's about the size of a large…
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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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