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Insomnia (or Sleep-Drunk Blogging)

WTF! I can’t drag myself to sleep… No matter how much 2am craptastic TV I watch. Hell, even this paper on Bayesian networks isn’t dull enough - can “Star Trek and Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant” be far behind?

( Yeah, this probably should have been a tweet, but I wanted to try out the wordpress iPhone app )


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What An Awful Way To Go

http://www.inquisitr.com/12967/man-drowns-in-lake-of-poo/

Bluffton - Authorities say a Bluffton man apparently drowned when a skid loader he was operating fell into a manure lagoon in Wells County.

I think my first question is: why the fuck does anyone keep a “manure lagoon?” What century is this? But of course, its big business

I’ll never sleep as soundly again…

Posted in The WTF Department.

Way To Go Myers…

I totally agree as well … WTF is wrong with people?

What on the 6000-Year-Old Earth Were They Thinking?: ”

In case you hadn’t heard, thanks to protesting e-mails and phone calls from the sane, the Cincinnati Zoo ended a cross-promotional deal with the Creation Museum of Petersburg, Ky. P.Z. Myers is getting a great deal of the credit/blame for encouraging his readers to make a stink. Well done, say I.

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“Official” Internet Censorship Coming Soon?

While enjoying some dalliances with Rational Objectivism in my “youth,” I haven’t found myself particularly drawn to it of late. However, I am a proponent of basic civil libertarianism: the idea that individual rights should be, where possible, placed over the interests of government.
As a result, I found this article to be spot on. Specifically:

“Since no ISP can compete with free, omnipresent Internet access, this plan means that virtually all online users will be herded into the government-controlled Internet. And as the history of radio and television has shown, once the government guarantees ‘free’ access to a communications medium, it will inevitably exercise control over its content–i.e., censorship.

“In fact, this plan already comes with censorship strings attached; the FCC has declared that this ‘free’ Internet must filter out pornography and other material deemed unsuitable for children. Not only will this prevent vast numbers of Americans from accessing content the government regards as inappropriate, but it will unavoidably lead to massive self-censorship by websites struggling to avoid government sanitization.

I have no illusions of privacy in today’s society as a simple google search on me will probably confirm; however, this development makes me wonder…

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… can thought crimes be far behind?

Posted in Political Philosophy.

Movin’ On Up (revisited)

Obviously, its been quite a while since I wrote anything here …

Part of this is the difficulty of moving across the country to work at a more demanding company in a new subfield. But the main part is that most of what would be added here is instead posted one sentence at a time to various other sites… this kind of sucks.

Why shouldn’t I control my own content directly rather than letting another company own it? Add to that the fact that said company is turning evil while allying itself with a company I think epitomizes evil in the tech. industry, and I think I’ll start posting more here.

That essentially renders Facebook a Mob Wars delivery system…

I’ll part with: OBAMA ‘08! I still can’t believe he won!

Posted in Minutiae, life.

Boondocks Bluetooth

.. and no, I don’t have one of these ridiculous things. But I do find it ridiculous to see grown men walking around with beeping blue lights on their ears.

… and why do the manufacturers make them blink? Surely the wearer can’t see that’s it blinking… perhaps its a DORK-BEACON!!

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We’re A Movin’ On Up!

The last two and a half months have been ridiculously busy… finished school and have been playing oodles of Rock Band. The biggest thing is that we’re moving to Seattle! Rochester has been fun for the last decade (omfg, has it really been that long?) but its time to move on to a bigger city with more industry and a state with lower taxes.

Plus, I’ll get to chillax with my bro over at sacrilicio.us. I can’t begin to tell you how many “bromance” jokes and the like I’ve had to endure since giving my notice at Xerox … but its been pretty bad. Where am I going? Let’s just say I ask everyone reading this blog to do all of their shopping for books and electronics at the online site of a certain Seattle company… ;-)

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