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| Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | | 10:11 pm |
How does this crap get published?
From an allegedly science article in Newsweek: "From its inception, evolutionary psychology had warned that behaviors that were evolutionarily advantageous 100,000 years ago (a sweet tooth, say) might be bad for survival today (causing obesity and thence infertility), so there was no point in measuring whether that trait makes people more evolutionarily fit today. Even if it doesn't, evolutionary psychologists argue, the trait might have been adaptive long ago and therefore still be our genetic legacy. An unfortunate one, perhaps, but still our legacy. Short of a time machine, the hypothesis was impossible to disprove. Game, set and match to evo psych." I'm sorry, did you just say that coming up with a hypothesis no one could falsify made for successful science? I realize you're just setting it up to disprove it later in the article, since it is falsifiable (and falsified) but did you just say an unfalsifiable hypothesis is a good thing? | | Friday, May 8th, 2009 | | 10:41 pm |
Movies
There are about a dozen movies I would rent on iTunes if I could, but they're either only available for purchase or not available at all. I am too lazy to go register at a rental store (or, for that matter, drive to one in the first place), and too law-abiding (and also lazy) to search for pirated versions. Some of them I might buy, or at least put on my Amazon wishlist for others to buy for my birthday/Christmas, if they turned out to be any good. Instead, I'm not watching them at all. If I was marginally less law-abiding and/or lazy, I would be pirating them, and then they'd be citing that as a reason for their sales decline. Let me rephrase that: I would like to give the movie studios money, but they're not letting me. And then they complain they don't get enough of our money. | | Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 | | 9:59 pm |
I know it's too late now, but. . .
Dear assorted ancestors, great-to-the-nth aunts and uncles, cousins n times removed, and other relatives throughout the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: STOP REUSING THE SAME SIX NAMES! It makes genealogy very confusing. | | Sunday, December 21st, 2008 | | 1:19 pm |
Mr. Sweeney
For any Arlington grads who haven't heard -- Mr. Sweeney's daughter says it's "nearing the time to say good-bye." http://www.billsweeney.typepad.com/In addition to the updates, there's a message board where you can leave a note for him. | | Sunday, October 19th, 2008 | | 4:12 pm |
Update on my principal
Carly Sigelbaum, my principal's daughter, died on Friday. She was nine years old and her only child. Her husband is in good condition, and sounds like he'll be okay, but this is going to be a rough time for them, and for the school community. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. | | Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 | | 7:55 pm |
Prayer Request
My principal's husband and daughter were in a car accident on Friday, and are currently in the hospital and non-responsive. She's specifically asked for prayer, so I'm asking anyone I know to pray for them. Their names are Louie and Carly, and my principal is Carla. Thanks everyone. | | Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 | | 5:22 pm |
| | Saturday, April 26th, 2008 | | 5:51 pm |
Trip to Dara's
So I was up visiting Dara last week, and we had some exciting news. ( Long version )Short version: I asked. She said yes. | | Friday, January 4th, 2008 | | 6:17 pm |
Mooseloon, I blame you for this.
Meg: What's the word for when you project human characteristics onto animals or objects? Me: Um, the word I'm thinking of is anthropomorphize, but. . . Meg: Personify. | | Thursday, December 13th, 2007 | | 7:17 am |
| | Thursday, December 6th, 2007 | | 6:09 pm |
Actual conversation opening
On the phone with Dara: Me: Hi hun! Her: Happy anniversary! Me: Happy anniversary! [checking watch] Yep, today was the fifth, wasn't it? Her: Duh. Me: Sorry, I've been focused on day of the week and letter day at school, missed the date. Fortunately, perceptiveness isn't the major reason she loves me. Oh, and for anyone wondering, it was our fifth. | | Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 | | 6:42 am |
Avast!
Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day! | | Friday, September 14th, 2007 | | 9:26 am |
| | Sunday, September 9th, 2007 | | 8:02 pm |
Cooking lessons
My parents are off on a three-week camping trip, leaving me the house to myself. I am, therefore, teaching myself to cook. Today's lesson: make sure everything fits in the pan before you start. Especially if you're going to bring it to a boil. The final product (chili, if you care) was still okay, but the process was made somewhat more lengthy and unpleasant. Also: I am gaining new understanding of the Biblical observation that it is not good for a man to be alone. First, there's loneliness. Second, he has to cook and do dishes. | | Friday, September 7th, 2007 | | 7:43 pm |
| | Thursday, August 30th, 2007 | | 7:25 pm |
Great music
Great music (and lyrics) takes an overused, trite subject like lost love and makes it unbelievably profound. Great music makes you miss obvious moves in FreeCell because you're not paying attention. Great music makes you sit here thinking of explanations for how awesome it is. Great music makes you post in your live journal for the first time in months. Dave Carter writes some really great music. Edit: Great music makes you sing along with words you don't agree with. He's that good. | | Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 | | 9:11 pm |
| | Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 | | 3:59 pm |
Christian politicians (because I've been watching too much Bill Maher)
It has occurred to me, watching and reading comments from both sides of the political spectrum, that it is a fair question to ask whether a politician who bills himself as Christian is showing it in his actions. But I don't think it's fair to ask whether his policies are carrying out Christ's commands. To the extent to which a politician agrees with libertarianism (read: for Conservatives on economic issues and Liberals on social ones), they are likely to think that the best that can reasonably be hoped for is to keep the Government from doing anything actively bad. They will therefore try to restrain the Government rather than direct it. So what we ought to ask, if we are concerned about their sincerity, is whether they as individuals live Christ-like lives. A Republican who donates large amounts of his own money to charity and a Democrat who lives Christ's teaching are much more impressive (and, not coincidentally, much rarer) than a Democrat who directs other people's tax money to charity and a Republican who legislates his interpretation of Christ's teaching on everyone else. I can respect, though I disagree with, those who would use the government as an instrument of Christ's (or God's, if they are parts of other religions) will; but if they are doing so instead of using their own lives and resources as such instruments, there is a word for them: hypocrites. And it is the word which Jesus most commonly and most strongly used to criticize the leaders of his day. This message brought to you by commentators who don't understand how a Christian can oppose the welfare state and/or the Defense of Marriage amendment. | | Saturday, January 13th, 2007 | | 11:08 am |
Two things that disturb me
1. The current surge in troop levels brings us back to where we were two years ago. No more. 2. No one mentioned this on the day of the speech; I heard about it from the Daily Show. | | Monday, October 9th, 2006 | | 3:10 pm |
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