Proposals
Redeeming Democracy: The Dehumanization Approach
This week, I finally read Bryan Caplan’s “The Myth of the Rational Voter,” which I had been looking forward to reading for some time now. I loved the book, as could probably have been expected by most informed readers given my own discontent with democracy as an institution and Caplan’s, as well as my recent [...]
A Simple Suggestion For Apostrophe Use
The plural of standard -s plural words never has an s sound added to indicate possession, so simply write an apostrophe at the end to show possession. “The boys’ bikes all broke that day.” The possessive of singular nouns ending in an s sound in contrast does add another s sound, so add an apostrophe [...]
Translations
[Before I begin I feel like I should note that I've been both too busy and too sick the past few days to write on this site, but I do have notes and nearly complete entries from the recently past days that I will edit soon and place online in the chronology. The following, being [...]
The Reading List: A Proposal
For a long time now, there’s been a list of books I’ve kept in my head and occasionally on paper: a list consisting of those books that truly are classics in their fields, those books that take away the purpose for other books to even exist, books that so perfectly instruct and systematize a field [...]
Bands And Myspace
Like everyone else on Myspace, I constantly get friend requests from bands and musicians I don’t know and who would never become actual friends with me. My first reaction to this annoyance was to add the following words to my profile: Note that I do not add bands I haven’t met. This did not work, [...]
Let’s Collect Accents
While looking for an example of the Cajun Bayou accent, I came upon the following pages examples of English accents. It’s a lot of fun. Most of the examples seem to me to have been chosen to be as intelligible as possibly, though I would prefer to hear the accents at their strongest and least [...]
Volunteering To Be The Piñata
We all know sometimes I speak too quickly. We sure do all know that. So I’m volunteering to let everyone come up with the best examples of me speaking too quickly and making an ass of myself. What can I say? I’m in a haircoat kind of mood and think there’s probably some fun to [...]
The Aphrodite Project
Lately, I’ve been debating undertaking the creation of an experiment in psychology full of open-source hacking fun. The project’s basic idea is this: apply evolutionary programming concepts and ideas from neural net design to a personals matching site. In short, making a match.com that’s intellectually exciting and potentially much more successful. Above all else, do [...]