Personal Archive
Partisanship vs. Personal Integrity
I wrote the following in response to comments from Ajasen and Austen on my post about the insanity of Bush hatred. The subject is interesting enough to me, however, that I'm promoting it to ...
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How Useful Is the “Atheist” Label?
October 19, 2007 · Category: Intellectual, Personal
Atlasphere columnist Allison Taylor, who lately has become one of my favorite bloggers, has a new thought-provoking post up.
She begins:
Sam Harris recently gave a lecture at an “atheist” conference where he shocked his ...
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Love Taunts My Metaphysical Conservatism
October 6, 2007 · Category: Intellectual, Personal
Faustin wrote this in the comments to a friends-only post, but it's just too good not to haul up into the sunlight:
But the feeling of being in love includes the feeling of inescapable compulsion, that ...
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Samsung HL-T6176S 61″ UltraSlim 1080p DLP HDTV
Over the past few years, I've increasingly found that watching an ordinary CRT television gives me a painful amount of eye strain.
Since Kathy and I love watching movies together in the evening, we decided it's ...
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I Want to Design Cars
July 15, 2007 · Category: Personal
I've long wished I could live multiple lives. One to be a musician. One to be an architect. One to be a psychologist. One to be a web desiger.
And ...
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Crossposting to LiveJournal ... Check!
June 29, 2007 · Category: Personal, Web Development
I've become increasingly interested in the "friends" feature at LiveJournal, through which I keep track of the postings by various friends within the LJ community.
To facilitate a little more integration between my own blog and ...
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Friendship Set on Fire
Today we published Peter Saint-Andre's excellent essay "The Art of Friendship" at the Atlasphere.
I am particularly fond of this essay.
Kathy e-mailed it to me in July 1999, shortly after we had ...
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Will Our Love Last?
I just posted this over at Desiree's place, in response to her request for feedback on the book Will Our Love Last? by Sam R. Hamburg.
I've not read Will Our Love Last? but the general ...
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The Chapel Hill Mafia Returns from Peru
Joe Duarte is back from his two-week trip to Peru, and has posted some great notes from his trip. He begins:
I've been back for a couple of days, and only now am I starting ...
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My Personal Respect for Bruce Willis
May 1, 2007 · Category: Current Events, Personal
...Just keeps growing.
In general, I admire couples who can still see one another's goodness, and treat one another with real respect, even after a divorce.
I interpret it as an all-too-rare indication of maturity and self-responsibility ...
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