It takes two people to have a completely pointless conversation.
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10:40:21 AM,
Thursday 1 October 2009
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Does anyone else find Lee Denim Day a particularly crass bit of marketing?
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03:39:57 PM,
Wednesday 30 September 2009
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This worries me. I'm really not sure I believe the federal government is capable of passing anything. Sabotage is too easy.
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03:29:53 PM,
Wednesday 30 September 2009
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Plasma rockets!
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01:50:11 PM,
Wednesday 30 September 2009
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On my way to work, I saw a squirrel patting down a bit of dirt, which is both adorable, manual manipulation is always cute, and deeply ominous. The squirrel knows what we're in for.
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09:59:13 AM,
Wednesday 30 September 2009
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NPR just talked about my job. Though I had no idea that CMS had robots. Maybe that's why we can't ever get data from them on time.
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06:45:09 PM,
Tuesday 29 September 2009
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Yay Switzerland!
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10:45:47 PM,
Monday 28 September 2009
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"In the primitive church, the influence of truth was very powerfully strengthened by an opinion, which, however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, has not been found agreeable to experience. It was universally believed, that the end of the world, and the kingdom of Heaven, were at hand."
Also, earlier he makes an interesting point: that the early Christians didn't just not believe in polytheism, they thought polytheism was deamon worship. They didn't think the roman gods were harmless superstition, they thought they were evil forces. He ends up strongly suggesting that the attribute that made christianity so successful was this inherent intolerance.
The whole chapter is just a absolute joy, subversive in a way that isn't possible in our age of casual heresy.
Update: oh, right. Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume I, Chapter XV.
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10:25:58 PM,
Monday 28 September 2009
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03:53:24 PM, Sunday 27 September 2009
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03:46:54 PM, Sunday 27 September 2009
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03:33:33 PM, Sunday 27 September 2009
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I do not have a strong opinion one way or another, but raw milk websites seriously set off my cult sensors. A lot of their arguments are bizarrely creationist. Mother Nature did not actually intend for us to suckle on cows, let alone milk them, and then drag the milk around for a while. I want to make some raw milk cheeses, but I'd feel a lot more comfortable buying the milk if I didn't feel like I was falling in with wide-eyed, conspiracy minded historical revisionists. I think there should be ways to make safe milk better, but running letters from Organic Pastures without mentioning the the e coli outbreak doesn't do a lot for your integrity.
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02:25:31 PM,
Sunday 27 September 2009
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