So I am debating taking up this addiction again. I'd be starting a week from Monday, and likely playing on Lightninghoof, starting a new character. I've already got one person (hi Eleanor!) who'll likely start with me, and I'd love to have others. :) Come play! One and all ( Read more... )

Taking a note from Feynman, I want to use less jargon. I understand that it is useful, and that there are a lot of interesting distinctions that it can draw, and that it can dramatically improve communication between two people who speak it. But I think it also removes the knowledge, even in our own heads, from reality... simple things becomes ( Read more... )

Alright, to do this I have to explain my research a little ( Read more... )

I WILL BE NEAR YOU!

If you happen to live in Chicago or Champaign. I will be in Chicago from tomorrow (today?) until the next Saturday. I will be in Champaign from then until WW. Then I will be at WW. Then I will be home.

Make your reservations now!

Hey, how neat is that ( Read more... )

I have a real post in the making, going to finish it tonight (really! was gonna do it yesterday, but I failed.) So instead, I leave you this random quote I saved from Martin Luther King Jr. Particularly as the guy at the party on Saturday wanted to nuke everything from Iraq to Pakistan. Yeah. Thankfully he was the only one ( Read more... )

So there are going to be at least two parts of this post. They should be pretty different. This is because they started as two different posts, and I thought it would be amusing to merge them.

( Radical )

Watch the video if you can (link in the upper right of the text column)

http://www.nwcn.com/topstories/stories/NW_011607ORNstorm_portlandLJ.46895f63.html

I Have a Dream (with transcriptIt is joyous to me to see religion as a force for good. And I want to say something cliched, like 'how far we have come, and how far we have yet to go.' So, I suppose, I just did. But, really, I just want to quote this section ( Read more... )

I’ve been playing with free-writing. The last time I made a livejournal post based on some free-writing, it was a bit tangential to the topic of the writing. This is because what I mostly wrote about was school, and I was not in a place to talk about that. So I will do so now ( Read more... )