It's been a pretty eventful holiday season. I wrecked my Maxima on Dad's birthday (the 23rd), in particular. I didn't want to mention something until I had a concrete opinion to express and now I do. It was for the best. Seriously. I had spent considerable amounts of money trying to keep the car in good repair this year, it wasn't paid off yet and ( Read more... )

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So, I’ve been meaning to post about the things I taught myself in Montana and my course of study and a course schedule through May/syllabus but I had to recover some partitions on my desktop. My laptop also was caught between Ubuntu Hardy Alpha 2 ( Read more... )

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“A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt. The “taken for granted” ( Read more... )

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Okay, so I had this realization at about 7am this morning and I don’t have much more to add to it. It was pretty obvious once I realized it but I think I’ll state it here for the hell of it.

I wrote some time back about Lessig and how the net has ( Read more... )