Archive for the 'Idle Musings' Category

the sphere and the schedule

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

so, I’m drawing near one of those big life-changing forks in the road. Last one I hit was probably the first one I hit: the end of high school, going to college, picking a major. It’s depressing to think that I’m in a mindset not particularly dissimilar to the one I was in eight years [...]

colds suck, and 9 other unfinished thoughts:

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Rather than try to shape the random things floating around in my head into coherent, readable whole-posts (and thus spending several hours I don’t really have to spare right now, thanks to wanting to sleep), I’m just going to give them to you in half-finished one-liner form: 1: When you lose weight (by burning fat, [...]

Thought of the minute: I never realized how much antipathy I have for Plato.

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

I was just thinking … I don’t know what to expect from my class tomorrow. It’s “environmental ethics” … which means it could either be a serious discussion about the ethical implications of environmental preservation or destruction and related topics, or it could be a semester of babble about how we must love the treeees, [...]

formalism in software freedom

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

A little after the end of the semester, I was thinking to myself “I need something to fill my time”. So, among other things, I started downloading and watching/listening to Stallman presentations from the FSF website (under the premise “if you have to drink something, it may as well be Kool-Aid”). So I watched like [...]

firefox, ie, truths, jackasses, pumpkins, blood, claws, frustrations, exams, and being a jerk

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Ugh. Craziness. Where to begin. Guess I’ll just go in topic-order. One big nasty blob of random goo to puke out all over the place. Guess I’ll keep the front page clean by hiding it all behind a “more” link though .