My father always said it took two sides to have a fight. I'm not entirely sure I agree with that. However, it unquestionably takes two sides to have a non-violent revolution. This (anonymously sourced) story makes civil war sound entirely possible.
I hope we never have to choose between freedom and peace. I don't think it's a simple question.
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01:03:26 PM,
Tuesday 23 June 2009
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A good article on the Supreme Leader of Iran.
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12:53:53 PM,
Tuesday 23 June 2009
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If humans only had 4 fingers, how would piano music be different?
This seems like a good example of a certain sort of completely useless question.
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04:48:44 PM,
Monday 22 June 2009
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Long term project: a window sundial.
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03:37:50 PM,
Monday 22 June 2009
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I've been rather enjoying the extended spring. Hottest day of the year so far: April 27th.
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12:59:05 PM,
Monday 22 June 2009
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I only just realized that commoners were people who made their living on a common.
I'm sort of fascinated that people are struggling to maintain the traditional heath on the remaining commons, now that there are no longer people living in the accompanying traditional rural poverty, keeping the trees down. Also by the terms turbury, pannage, and estovers, the rights to collect peat, graze pigs, and collect wood. My father wanted to take some granite rocks from the park down the street when we were rebuilding our wall, I wonder if there's a word for that right: probably not: you wouldn't want people mining the commons.
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11:44:09 AM,
Monday 22 June 2009
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Cindy Sheehan is coming to town. Despite a sort of morbid curiousity, I'm afraid I won't be able to attend.
In other news, the cat managed to hobble himself with the drawstring for some blinds: got them wrapped around his hind legs, and then must have jumped onto a chair: by the time I got there he was half-suspended, with the cord across the chair, writhing and hissing. I ended up cutting the string, there was no way to get close enough to untangle him. He seems to be uninjured, and also unabashed. I've tried to explain to him that cats are supposed to be graceful, but he is having none of it.
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11:11:17 AM,
Monday 22 June 2009
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Yesterday on the bikepath, a young gentlemen addressed me in this way: "Dude, that bike is ill, but you're gay." This completely made my day. One of the things about riding a recumbent is that you are something of a public spectacle. Parents explain you to their children. (Many parents are strangely incapable of saying I don't know, and just flat make things up) Up to a certain age, perhaps 8, children are almost uniformly pro-recumbent. after that, it becomes more mixed, as they become wise enough to understand that being different is bad. so when a 12 year old yells, "Hey, cool bike." I don't know how to take it. Are they being sarcastic? I'm not sure if they know themselves. But this fellow, one of the high school stoners who promenade along that stretch, made the central paradox clear. Recumbents are indeed ill, but no one with a proper sense of self respect would ride one. It's like wearing crocs. The fashionably shod don't actually like uncomfortable shoes, and so while they secretly covet more humane footwear, they are filled with contempt for those weak enough to indulge.
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12:40:37 PM,
Thursday 18 June 2009
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I will count credit card reform as a success when BoA can no longer afford to pay me 1% back on purchases.
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07:31:49 PM,
Wednesday 17 June 2009
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An excellent summary of why I plan to be disappointed by health care reform.
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07:30:39 PM,
Wednesday 17 June 2009
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The social security administration not only has codes to handle benefits for up to 5 widows (or widowers), it even has a code for 2nd alleged mother, presumably for when Coraline retires. And then there's the increasingly rare Prouty Wife, which sounds more interesting than it is. Though it's worth remembering the Prouty Wives when people try to tell you social security is a government administered savings plan, and not a old-age pension funded by a ponzi scheme.
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05:16:17 PM,
Wednesday 17 June 2009
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It is important to remember that, whatever else we may do, humanity sometimes builds goat towers.
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12:17:17 PM,
Wednesday 17 June 2009
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