SOAK 2012: Time Travel Field Trip
A proposed art theme for SOAK 2012, the Portland/Oregon summer regional Burning Man event:Time Travel Field TripOur scientists have reported the discovery of several chronocosmic time waves of...
View ArticleI'm a Zombie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombieA p-zombie is a person who is traditionally defined as being indistinguishable from a human being in physiology and behavior (including the claim of...
View ArticleWe'll Make Great Pets
Factory farming is horrifyingly cruel. It's suffering for the animals to live that way, never mind how they are slaughtered. It's even suffering for us to //watch//. Traditional organic farming (or, as...
View ArticleKnow What I Mean
The universe is not meaningless. It appears lifeless, but that overlooks the fact that we are life, and we are in it. We constantly concern ourselves, in English, with finding meaning. But what we have...
View ArticleOnward
In the interest of living closer to my dear Jams, I have decided that I'm going to move to Bellingham, WA, at the end of June.
View ArticleDirections
What I want to learn more of is python. What I need to learn more of is javascript. What I've been learning more of is CSS.It's kind of frustrating. Meanwhile, the next version of HTDB, my web...
View ArticleNorthward
I have put down a deposit on a place I like in Bellingham for September. It's small, cheap, and yet has a bathtub, a balcony, and an excellent location within walking distance of downtown, the freeway,...
View ArticleHomed
I have been approved for my new place in Bellingham, starting after Burning Man. Woot.
View ArticleOverlords
We are most certainly alone in the universe.Because if I were an alien civilization bent on conquering the Earth, I wouldn't bring a fleet of interstellar warships. Have you seen the price of gas...
View ArticleLet's Face It
I think it's time I gave the old blog a new look. Special thanks to Anne Franklin, for the banner photos. They rotate - if you refresh the page, you'll get a brand new thing of beauty!
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Shade Structure Test
Saturday, my compatriots in Ninjarts (the camp of Portlanders I Burn with) fiddled and assembled the shade structure I designed. It works! Super Earache can hold up an entire shade structure with just...
View ArticleMozilla Seems to be Losing its Grip on User Freedom
I've been studying Mozilla's Open Web Apps tech on MDN. For many years, everybody has been excited about the potential for the World Wide Web to replace the desktop model of software. With the...
View ArticleIn Fact, Choice isn't a Substitute for Freedom at All
Labyrinths offer choices. And yet, they are still better known as prisons.
View ArticleFreed Will
Free will is not a property or quality. Free will is not some philosophical binary emebedded in the species genome, all or none, zero or one.Free will is a skill. A thing you earn, and you learn to do...
View ArticleA Dynamic
Some say "change is the only constant." Except that change is not a constant at all; it's a variable.
View ArticleWedding Bells
Jams and I will getting married here in Bellingham on Saturday, June 1st! Save the Date. We'll be sending out invitations in the next few weeks, by email, and, for those for whom we have addresses,...
View ArticleCompleted
I got the right wife. I got the right country. I only really had one thing left to get. Starting in January, all my freelance contracts dried up. Feast or famine, that stuff happens. I'd been keeping...
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