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Entries from February 2008

What is free will?

February 25th, 2008 · No Comments

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. […]

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Higher level math and babies

February 21st, 2008 · No Comments

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 […]

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Internet Behavior

February 20th, 2008 · No Comments

How To Behave On An Internet Forum

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Wired: Why Things Suck is so true

February 15th, 2008 · No Comments

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 […]

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Obama better win that Convention

February 14th, 2008 · No Comments

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 […]

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The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

February 13th, 2008 · No Comments

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 […]

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It is amazing how cute my daughter is

February 12th, 2008 · No Comments

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 […]

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Middle Class Crunch? Mmmm…

February 6th, 2008 · No Comments


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Obama vs. Clinton Argument

February 5th, 2008 · No Comments

“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 […]

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Wicked 11 string bass & Super Mario!

February 4th, 2008 · No Comments


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