The knowledge reads as such: in the case of paired features, one side is almost always larger or stronger than the other. For instance, in speaking of hands, one hand is dominant and generally larger by at least one ring size than the other. Feet are the same way. One [...]
A few years ago, on a Holiday trip to Wisconsin, the family went up to the land formation formerly known as Rib Mountain and got our Ski on. Well, at some point it was suggested that we try snowboarding. For those of you who cherish your asses as much as I do[#] this is a [...]
Today I braved the sticker-shock of a “last minute” flight reservation. Ouch. Not much I could do about that though — the University was tight-fisted with the financial aid refund check and wouldn’t let me pick it up requiring, instead, that it be mailed to west bumblefuck[#] before I got a hold of it. No [...]
Sometimes I wish I could sound as pretentious and arrogant as Dave Winer: I may understand why people seem to write me out of the stories of mine they rewrite. Mitch Kapor says we’re all spending our careers implementing Dave Winer’s ideas. That’s nice but I always implement my ideas first, and sometimes it takes an [...]
The Washington Times is reporting that some UN socialist is condemning the US’s 15 million dollar donation to the earthquake relief effort as “stingy.” U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland suggested that the United States and other Western nations were being “stingy” with relief funds, saying there would be more available if taxes were raised. [...]
For some reason unknown to me, Georgetown sent my decision to LAST YEAR’S permanent address… which required it to be forwarded to the correct place… which is why it took forever. It arrived at my (Illinois) home a bit before Christmas and was, as I had mentioned before, a rejection. My Indiana application, however, is in [...]
A new study of studies put out by Scientific American suggests that there’s really no reason to believe things we’ve been taught for years about self-esteem. It’s a fairly long, but interesting, read. Exploding the Self-Esteem Myth spent two years pouring over studies and finding that high self-esteem doesn’t seem to correllate with success (academic [...]
A blog entry written by Microsoft Employee Peter Torr about Firefox Security has been making the rounds lately. Simply entitled “How can I trust Firefox?“, it’s been linked by lots and lots of people (Slashdot got a hold of it for one) and I’ve been participating in the discussion over at Wizbang. (Torr has an [...]
The United States Postal Service is just toying with me now. They’re treasing me. They’re being unmitigated assholes. As you might guess, this is the latest update to the Law School story. Last year when Georgetown decided, it only took their decision a weekend to reach me. Sent on Friday, received on Monday. This year, it’ll [...]
It was suggested that, on account of the lack of quality in the fourth quarter of 2004, that I run a “wildcard” competition between the runners up of the other three polls. I thought this was a good idea. I also added the Intelligent Design post, as it seems to be the only Q4 post [...]
