So, I’ve been randomly entertaining episodes of Jigoku Shoujo for a while, and just watched a couple. I’ve also been entertaining the book The Paradox of Choice for a while, and recently read another couple dozen pages.
Round about page 111, Schwartz summmarizes a bit of Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice and Loyalty, explaining that in [...]
(quote from a slashdot post, and part of my response)
If you can’t tell if you’re free or not, are you really free?
Yes, you can be! I would argue that you can’t perceive your own freedom until you have something to compare it with or something that changes it. Consider the degree to which [...]
I swear …
Some things are timed mind-bogglingly badly…
Like … my router/fileserver’s os drive completely dying. In catastrophic and horrible ways.
Yeah … it’s not pretty. Not pretty at all. Basically it just completely nuked itself.
I didn’t lose anything particularly important, but rebuilding the configs is incredibly irritating, and there’s some minor importance stuff [...]
Just because the world sucked in 2005, doesn’t mean I had a bad time.
I’m fairly happy with the outcome. Sure, I’ve got money problems, but who doesn’t? Sure, I’ve got health problems, but who doesn’t? And hell, I passed compilers! It’s done!
Happy 2006.
I’m cleaning out my folder thingy, and found a couple topics I wrote down at random.
I don’t feel like elaborating on them right now… maybe later, probably not.
Foucault’s philosophy (moving subject positions, trying to assert selfhood) and its relation to “complacence is the enemy”.
“Philosophy of the knife” (from Dune) versus modern living, particularly the education [...]
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