I realize I have not yet posted about the big election a couple of weeks ago. I was relieved and pleased at the presidential results. I'm glad the people of the USA decided to elect a smart man this time. A giant leap for Geek-Americans? We can but hope so! I can stop feeling embarrassed to be an American ( Read more... )

The Golden Compass

A Reader's Perspective

Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is a rich and wonderful series of books. It has great stories, enchanting characters, and quite a bit of interesting philosophy. One of its major themes is that organized religion is bad for the soul.

The Golden Compass is the movie adaptation of the first ( Read more... )

OK, I mentioned Ubuntu before in my blog, but I didn't explain what Ubuntu is. Now it was not my intention to be cryptic, it was just because I was posting a quick update.

The Ubuntu philosophy
Before Ubuntu was the name of anything to do with computers it was already something probably more important, a philosophy of humanity ( Read more... )

Quick and simple post, with a link to a slightly longer article...

OK, you should all know by now that Sam's Club, spawn of WalMart is bad, but here's why Costco is good!

(Thanks to dragonscholar for pointing this one out)

"The fact that the terrorists are manifestly evil does not make whatever counter-actions we take automatically good." -- George Soros
http://georgesoros.com/index.cfm?Fuseaction=SpeechHTML

Well, Cece (ladykinrowan) and I got married on Saturday the 4th of October, 2003 just outside of Evergreen. I thought the ceremony went pretty well (and so others have said). We went for a little vacation / mini-honeymoon (the big honeymoon will be next year, in Ireland) in Southwestern Colorado: stayed in two different yurts, saw the Four-Corners, Mesa Verde ( Read more... )

I wish for peace