Max CPU Priority: Window
How efficient would a computer be that ran non-stop for decades, with no cleanup of any sort? With almost every program it had ever started lingering in memory way longer than it was needed, and many...
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Me All Over
You know you're part of a subculture when you sometimes check the popular RSS feeds and want to run for your tinfoil hat:
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Feynman and the eighth-of-an-inch black hole
In my stumblings today, I wound up watching this Nova episode on Richard Feynman: Now, this is partly notable because I'd been pretty sure there wasn't much on Feynman that I hadn't seen or read...
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May I have an order of logic to go, please?
Step one: Do people have food, shelter, and access to health care and education? If yes, THEN spend fifty billion of their dollars unencrypting their emails. Yes? I mean, I do sorta have a degree in...
View ArticleBlanket Distrust
(no no, not distrust of blankets. we like blankets. they’re like towels, but they mean business. the fully-automatic not-effing-around of douglasadamsian towels.) (but I digress, before I’ve begun....
View ArticleIdeas: not letting the Devil know
I love the few great ideas I've heard expressed equally well in a Western and an Eastern context; it gives me hope that any method of understanding has the potential to reveal truth, if applied...
View ArticleAnother category of logical fallacies
OK, look. I love logic. I basically got a degree in it, and I was raised in a pro-intellectual household by a man whose bread and butter (and therefore mine) came from his skill at arguing — and I'm...
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Use Details to Battle The Devil
LIES AND MORE LIES The Devil is the Father of Lies, as we know. And that terrible capital-D voice in your head when you're depressed, most of us also know, wants to make everything look hopeless....
View Article1. go out 2. go in 3. prophet
The first struggle of all lives is to go out. Out there, we piece together the Questions. Questions are tricky: intellectually demanding and complex. It is not enough to ask a simple question most...
View ArticleA lot of words about no words: Yang Silence
Wittgenstein's awesome quote, "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent" is a really great example of the kind of tortured verbing that makes formal philosophy so damn hard to read for...
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