In case you haven't been paying attention to the news this weekend, Democratic Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and a bunch of spectators were shot at a street corner political gathering in Tucson. The police arrested suspect Jared Lee Loughner, who left behind a bunch of semi-coherent YouTube videos. Thanks to Boing Boing for posting ( Read more... )

I did a very insignificant amount today to help the election of the most impressive political figure of my generation. It seems that almost everyone in Lakewood voted early this year, but the Obama campaign-through an incredible volunteer organization-left nothing to chance and pushed to the end. President-elect Obama is able to inspire a wide ( Read more... )

It may be that I resonate better with ancient Chinese philosophy more than ancient Indian philosophy because the key untranslated concepts in the former are mostly mono- or bi-syllabic while in the latter the syllables flow freely and every god has several names. I'm able to build a better associative hashing function for Chinese concepts.

I have too many volumes that are overdue. I need to go to the Library and ask a Librarian to check my balance.

If you write digits and symbols in acetone on your finger nails you're using reverse polish notation.

For the lispers in the crowd: Oops, upside the car!

I want to start a rock band called Sisyphus and the Rock.
Are you ready to rock ( Read more... )

From an off-topic email on the Dragonfest discussion group ( Read more... )