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my cynicism

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

I’ll break out one more from the archives… this one dates back to probably early-mid July, during Pol 130, while Phil 303 was fresh in my mind. I had a bit too many spare cycles, not enough games to play or anime to watch, and I wasn’t particularly careful about differentiating cynicism and pessimism. [...]

Detriments of sci-fi…

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

This is another of those “in the unposted archives” entries that I half-wrote, and forgot about. It dates back to the early summer, not sure precisely when, but probably sometime after late may, since I talk about need for cognition — an idea I blatantly ripped off from social psych. I probably should [...]

random irc conversation

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

This was entertaining, so I decided I’d format it up and post it. Unfortunately, then I went to sleep, and forgot about it for 4 or 5 months, maybe more.
Some context: I was living in linux at home, after getting pissed off at powerdvd and vlc being uniformly unable to handle playing a [...]