I was listening to Science Friday last week on NPR and Michael Frank predicted that in 10 years we would be able to produce a complete computer model of the human brain. Now I take that with a grain of salt, of course (although only a grain or two, since they have successfully modeled a [...]
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Ethics in modeling the human brain
Posted in Uncategorized on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gotta lurve Fox News…
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Really, they don’t even try. Most important story in the very recent past, in terms of U.S. news: The announcement of a nominee for U.S. Supreme Court Justice. What does Fox consider important?
Guys, do you really even try to pass yourselves off as news anymore? I swear, the “news” organization parody in Babylon 5 all [...]
Just a quote
Posted in Uncategorized on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its [...]
Comedy and Decorum
Posted in relationships, tagged communication, family, friendship, miscommunication, relationships on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Note to readers with sensitive eyes: I realize the comma has made perhaps too prominent an appearance in this particular post. Considering the nature of it, though, I don’t have the energy to edit just now. Please ignore the extra scaffolding. My intentions were good.
Oof. Just wrote a hard letter to my parents. Hard because [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have gradually gotten to the point where the new year actually means something to me. As I was growing up, we didn’t really do anything special for New Years, and resolutions were things left to me to either make or not make. There was no ritual and nothing sacred about the calendar year changing.
This [...]
Homecoming
Posted in Uncategorized on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New laptop in hand as of about 3pm today. We’re back from Chicago and hopefully things will be calm for awhile. Two weeks of vacation spent like Americans spend their vacations — traveling, seeing family, seeing friends, and taking no time off whatseover. We need a vacation from our vacation, in other words. I’d write [...]
Laptop
Posted in Uncategorized on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t really know what to say about it yet, because it hasn’t really sunk in. It’s gone. Stolen, 99% likely from the airport in Charlotte. I didn’t have anything on there I can’t replace except for the last month’s work on my PhD, which I hadn’t backed up because of the [...]
Civil Unions
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged civil rights, civil unions, domestic partners, end marriage, gay marriage, marriage, no marriage, prop 8, rights, same-sex partners on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
People protested Proposition 8 around the nation on Saturday. It was wonderful, and I’m sorry I missed out myself. I hadn’t expected to, miss it, actually, but things conspired against me.
There’s an idea out there, though, that I think should be the eventual goal. More people are thinking this every day. End the state-sanctioning of [...]
Why does responsible hedonism involve so much masochism?
Posted in Uncategorized on November 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Responsible hedonism, you say? What kind of masochim, you say. Not the fun kind. And although I strive to live life to the fullest, I also strive to live it to the healthiest and longest with minimal impact on the environment within tolerances. I don’t want to end up dead in a ditch at 40. [...]
Creeping back into the blogosphere
Posted in Uncategorized on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yeah, you’ve heard that before, but the election is over. I was finding it impossible to get material that hadn’t already been hashed over a million times. I was finding it more impossible to find material that wasn’t about how much McCain and Palin sucked. Yeah, they sucked, but there’s only so many ways to [...]
