Archive for February, 2008

What is free will?

  • February 25th, 2008
  • Posted in Stuff

I first ran into Deism in high school. I can’t seem to remember where I heard it first. I think it was in AP English, but I can’t be too certian. High school is a bit blurry for me now, everything tends to blend together from that time in my life. [ READ MORE ]

Higher level math and babies

  • February 21st, 2008
  • Posted in Stuff

So I get a call. It’s my wife. She says that there is a 60% chance it is a boy. How exactly does that work. 60%? There has to be some sort of complex higher level math involved here, because I just don’t get it. I would think it is a mutually exclusive event, like [ READ MORE ]

Internet Behavior

  • February 20th, 2008
  • Posted in Videos

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Wired: Why Things Suck is so true

  • February 15th, 2008
  • Posted in Stuff

From here: So bored consumers are just tuning out. Listenership among 18- to 24-year-olds is down 20 percent over the past decade. Stations have responded not with bold programming but by cutting costs. They’ve also expended considerable resources to squelch competition from low-powered FM stations and Internet radio. Not that it has helped — 85 percent [ READ MORE ]

Obama better win that Convention

  • February 14th, 2008
  • Posted in Stuff

From here: (God Bless Wil Wheaton) I cast my vote for Barack Obama in California’s primary this morning. Here’s a major reason why I did: “When I am this party’s nominee, my opponent will not be able to say that I voted for the war in Iraq; or that I gave George Bush the [ READ MORE ]

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

  • February 13th, 2008
  • Posted in Books

There have been few books in my adult life that completely take me by surprise. There have been far too few books that really make me think, question ideals and biases, question what it is to be human and what makes us human. The Sparrow is definitely one of those books. And I haven’t even [ READ MORE ]

It is amazing how cute my daughter is

  • February 12th, 2008
  • Posted in Stuff

Yes, every parent is biased. And yes every parent thinks they have the cutest baby. But seriously, mine is actually the cutest. No seriously. Cute factor 20 on a scale of 1 to 10. Drives me nuts, because I know someday she will be old enough to date. Well I guess I [ READ MORE ]

Middle Class Crunch? Mmmm…

  • February 6th, 2008
  • Posted in Videos

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Obama vs. Clinton Argument

  • February 5th, 2008
  • Posted in Stuff

“A request“ by Lawrence Lessig, Transcribed by SJ Klein, Madeleine Price Ball and Chris Ball. I received a strange request from someone I didn’t know in my inbox the other day — a letter asking me to make a video “enumerating why I support Barack Obama”. As Julie Cohen wrote, “Many of my smartest friends have [ READ MORE ]

Wicked 11 string bass & Super Mario!

  • February 4th, 2008
  • Posted in Videos

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