December 2005
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To Change A Man’s Views
To change a man’s views is to change his character — and he defends his character as he defends his life.
Another Siaynoq Song Posted
After playing a bit with the Audio Player plugin I discovered the other day, I’ve posted another Siaynoq song for those interested. (It’s substantially better than the first one, though listening to it now with the distance of more than a year I’m struck by the fact that it is structurally the same song almost [...]
Vocabulary One Needs While In Madrid
As promised to Rachel a while ago, here is brief list of Spanish words you should know if you want to visit Madrid. Most of the words are slang you’d never learn in a classroom in the US (for good reason at times). Cagarse: (Verb) 1. To shit, to shit oneself. Dar una hostia: (Idiom) [...]
The Egghead To The Chicken
Might we yet have to concede that liberation and alienation are inseparable?
Playing With Themes
I’m currently in the process of playing with the theme engine in WordPress, so the appearance of this site may fluctuate a great deal in the next few days. Currently, I’ve changed the site over to the Wuhan theme and modified the theme a bit to give the site a more distinctive look and a [...]
The Art Of Living
I find it remarkable that so much scorn is shown to those with dreams of becoming rock stars simply because they so often fail in their dreams — and that this is scorn is shown to them by average people, who, just like those with dreams of fame, fail to attain their stated dream of [...]
Quote Of The Day
(In reference to braving today’s transit strike in New York City.) John Myles White: How was it? Suzanne Michelle Ennis: ahhhh Suzanne Michelle Ennis: i hate humanity1 Suzanne Michelle Ennis : December 20th, 2005↩
Poorly Written Prose
I have eaten many eggs; I have eggs for breakfast every day. Also, I grow my own.1 I think it would be hard to misuse the word “grow” more severely than it’s misued right there without the use being utter nonsense. Bricology : www.bricology.com/expound/?p=4↩
Making Independent Analog-To-Digital Conversion Illegal
The outlook is bleak and this debate worries me to no end. While it is, in the context of things, not such a radical breakdown in freedom as some make it out to be, this proposal to effectively illegalize independent analog-to-digital conversion is such an enormous encroachment into our daily lives that it seems almost [...]
Vegetarianism
I’m amazed at the arguments over vegetarianism. I feel that they are profoundly misguided. Vegetarianism seems the simplest thing in the world to me (though I am well aware that this simplicity contains many, many assumed evaluations of things). To me it amounts simply to the argument, “you do not have to kill animals to [...]