A new EP every month until Clementines. http://bishopallen.com/ . Buy things from them and make them rich.

When is a thing not itself? Is my deck still mine if it is replaced one board at once; is my body mine if the cells change guard ( Read more... )

This is a dvorak keyboard. It may look the same to you, but I can't type past twenty-some words-per-minute. A good thing to learn: just above braille and just below Latin and Lisp.

(Kjg; g; a h.soav vdtnsaohe Gk mat pssv kjd ;amd ks tsfeee)

1) You live one life and, in sum, experience one thing. Choose it well.

2) In iniquity truth cannot defend itself and the upright are cast down. Only iniquity is worth fighting by force of arms.

3) Searle's argument supposes that brain causes mind and, by contradiction, proves that it doesn't.

The Chinese Room (wikipedia) is, I think, my least favorite argument in the world. Which isn't fair, on my part. I can't be sure that Mr. Searle really conflates the several meanings of consciousness the way that ph|1050ph32z who reuse his argument do ( Read more... )

Economic theory is right. It's built on the basis of game theory. It's right. But economists are wrong ( Read more... )

I protest every linguistic movement I know from the Victorians on. Caroll had them all too neatly nailed with his Humpty Dumpty: "'When I use a word ... it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less ( Read more... )

Structure reuse, not code reuse, is key.

Edsger Dijkstra wrote in How do we tell truths that might hurt?: "In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included ( Read more... )

http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/HCR029.html gives the full text of the Idaho House Concurrent Resolution 29.

WHEREAS, any members of the House of Representatives or the Senate of the Legislature of the State of Idaho who choose to vote "Nay" on this concurrent resolution are ( Read more... )

My hastily and badly written entry on "Post Tag Systems and OOP" has proved immensely useful in my analysis of computer systems ( Read more... )