How I Deal With Phone Spam

How I deal with Phone Spam. Give the phone to one of my kids and let them have an interesting conversation. I used to also answer polls by giving ridiculous answers as a kind of civil disobedience. I kind of think polls are pretty damaging to society since they lead to superficial views of problems [...]

Annoyances

OK, something not tied to technical philosophy. This is my grumpy old man rant. (Even though I’m far from an old man yet, despite a few grey hairs are starting to make their appearance near my ears) 1. Blogger Comments: The software, not the hobby. Google’s blogger won’t allow blockquote tags so you can’t indent [...]

The Island

I haven’t had time to post much the last week. But I came upon a quote here I really wanted to pass along. “The larger the island of knowledge, the longer of the shoreline of the wonder.” -Ralph W. Sockman.”

Win a Box of Amano Chocolate

I figured since this is my blog I can be a little self-serving here. As many know one of my businesses is making gourmet chocolate. (My other is programming) Indeed that’s partially why I’ve not had time to do a lot of heavy philosophy posts this last year or so. Running two businesses is busy. [...]

The Only Books Worth Buying are Ones You’ve Already Read

Maverick Philosopher has up an intriguing and short post. He asserts you should never buy a book you haven’t read. That is only have in your library books you’ll read again.

Recurring Nightmare

OK this xkcd comic struck too close to home. I’ve been out of school for years and I still have this nightmare…

Education in Utah and America

The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education has a new “report card” on education. Not enough Americans are going to college. Even in Utah, where you’d expect very high rates, the rates for whites is only 45% and the rate for Hispanics is an abysmal 16%.

Misc

Well the plan was to spend my evenings in San Francisco doing a little writing so I’d get ahead on posts. Then when I’m busy I could just pull out and revise slightly an already written post. Unfortunately I was run ragged in San Francisco and didn’t have even a moment of rest let alone [...]

Cult Book Meme

Yes an other meme since the last one I contributed to didn’t go anywhere. This one is from Adventures in Ethics and Science although she didn’t originate it. Basically you have a list of famous books – many of which no one finishes. You bold the books you’ve finished. You italicize the ones you started [...]

Fun with Genealogy: Billy the Kid and the Mormons

(Decided to delete this. I did a bunch of historic checking and in my hit of the records the dates don’t add up. So I think my cousin’s story doesn’t quite work.)

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