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The 21st Century Apolitical Blues 2008-02-07 18:53:41 I don’t watch the news. I don’t read the papers. I try my best not to pay attention to politics, and only keep abreast of current events when something massive is happening, or something local, that might affect me directly. You could say that I maintain a deliberate ignorance of the realities of the world [...] Read more:Century
, Blues
Language Snobbery: Creativity vs. Ignorance 2008-01-15 04:39:46 I’ve spoken before about how much I love the written language. How I enjoy playing with words as if they were building blocks, crafting lofty structures in idiosyncratic shapes to convey a concept or action as precisely and uniquely as possible. In this sense, if no other, I consider myself a writer - [...] Read more:Creativity
10 Ways To Have A Happy Childhood (At Any Age) 2008-01-11 00:11:42 One of my friends has been known to comment that despite the fact that I’ve gained maturity and wisdom in the years she’s known me, I’ve still managed to never quite grow up. She’s right; and in thinking it through, I’ve come up with a list of things that have helped me remain young [...] Read more:Happy
, Childhood
The Tyranny of Things 2008-01-10 18:27:34 I am in the process of packing my possessions in preparation for a change of residence; and let me just say, as a preface to this post, that there is nothing I hate more than moving. whimsical feline organisms cavort frenetically with bottlecaps
Being in a new place isn’t so bad. In fact, it can [...] Read more:Tyranny
A brief note regarding RSS feeds 2008-01-02 19:33:22 If anyone has happened to subscribe to this blog via the RSS feed I previously had posted… I’ve switched over to using Feedburner, and I highly recommend you re-point yourself to that feed instead. whimsical feline organisms cavort frenetically with bottlecaps
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The outrage of the 40-hour work week 2008-01-02 18:22:00 I know that until relatively recently in human history, people tended to work 12-hour days at a minimum, six or seven days a week; and that in some occupations, like farming, that kind of schedule is still virtually required. And yet… every so often, I ponder the 40-hour work week that is standard for [...]
The fallacy of intellectual property 2007-12-30 10:48:09 From the earliest days of human consciousness, people have been creating “intellectual property
” - telling stories and singing songs, and sharing them over the group campfire with the rest of the tribe. In this manner, we have passed along history, the foundations of culture, from generation to generation for more centuries than can be [...]
The business of blogging 2007-12-23 14:21:00 Realistically, I don’t expect to attract more than a small readership to this blog, and those probably via RSS feed. And ad-blocking software is so ubiquitous nowadays - I myself use Firefox with built-in ad-blocking, and never give a second thought to the ads I’m not seeing, nor particularly care if my choice to [...]
Joseph Arthur 2007-12-21 20:42:00 Flashback: 1999 or so, in the middle of the dot-com era, when every billboard along the highway contained an ad for some website or start-up. I was working my first-ever IT job: floor lead in the tech support department of a web-hosting company, wandering up and down the aisles of support techs and answering [...] Read more:Joseph
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With a twist of phrase 2007-12-19 22:24:05 I don’t imagine that I’m some kind of genius prodigy, but I believe I have some small facility with the English language: I can string words together in patterns that are not merely coherent but also expressive, convey thoughts and feelings with some degree of eloquence, and make use of my relatively rich vocabulary while [...] Read more:twist
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