Personal Archive
Dietary research: Good calories, bad calories
My friend Thomas Ryan Stone has posted an interesting article on his site about the dietary research he and his wife conducted this past year, the low-carb lifestyle they adopted as a result, and the ...
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The Invitation
December 26, 2009 · Category: Individualism, Intellectual, Mindfulness, Personal, Witness Consciousness
by Oriah
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how ...
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Moving to Belgrade
November 12, 2009 · Category: Personal
This Saturday I am relocating to Belgrade, Serbia.
I'll be checking just two items when I board the plane: (1) my guitar and (2) a suitcase with my belongings. Today I put my remaining possessions in ...
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Reason TV interviews Atlasphere founder Joshua Zader
November 9, 2009 · Category: Atlasphere, Buddhism, Individualism, Intellectual, Objectivism, Personal
The interview, titled "Dating in the Atlasphere," was actually conducted in August 2008, but they've waited a while to publish it as part of a long series of interviews about Ayn Rand's legacy.
From Reason TV's ...
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You are not your emotions, except when “you” disappears
A friend published a friends-only LiveJournal post titled "What makes you... you?" in which she says "I know (or think I know) intellectually that the feelings I have do not make me the person I ...
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The new Amazon Kindle. Hmm….
The new Amazon Kindle actually looks pretty fantastic. It appears to solve several of the problems I have experienced, over the years, with reading on my Treo and my iPhone:
The Kindle is more like ...
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The Valhalla weight rack
My friend Kirez made a video to demonstrate the use of a new product he's designed, the Valhalla weight rack.
I was impressed not only with what he made -- a weight rack that's ...
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Our street makes the national news
December 26, 2008 · Category: Current Events, Personal
Today's AP story "Storm blankets West with snow, ice glazes Midwest" includes a photo showing 17-year old Brandon Baxter plowing Thompson Street, in front of our house. The AP reporter who took this photo ...
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Happy Holidays: The Song
Happy holidays, everyone.
The holidays can be an awkward time, sometimes, figuring out what to do for whom. But once in a while you see someone hit the ball so far out of ...
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New MacBook Pro on its way
October 14, 2008 · Category: Personal
This morning I ordered one of these, within minutes of its release.
Single-slab aluminum construction, LED backlighting, solid-state drive.
Should arrive next week.
My first Mac.
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