…was that it lowered my voice so much that I could sing right along with Johnny Cash songs. But now my voice is starting to return to its normal range, and I’m losing the lowest notes.
Otherwise, this has been one of the nastiest colds ever. At first, we thought it was the swine [...]
There has been so much spiritual warfare stuff going on here this fall, impeding the completion of my book, and other projects that we are trying to get going. One thing after another; interruptions, illnesses, and we just now found out that some witless minion smashed out a window of our car TO STEAL [...]
…skimming through the HARRY_READ_ME.txt; highly entertaining reading. It’s not a regular here’s-what-you-need-to-know-before-you-use-this-program kind of readme, it is more like one guy’s research notes covering a period of months. Really, it is a long saga of a guy trying to make something besides “garbage out” come out of “garbage in”.
To me, it [...]
From Vox Day:
What I don’t understand is why the medical authorities seem so determined to see an epidemic of one sort or another take place.
Well, if I put my tin-foil hat on….
1. This administration is determined to not let a good crisis go to waste.
2. Having a flu crisis is [...]
Believing something is true because scientists say it’s true is one thing; actually understanding the science yourself is another. I’ve been seeing a disturbing pattern lately, where belief in science is being encouraged at the expense of actual scientific literacy. In this pattern, blind faith in Theory X is good. Outright superstitious [...]
I figured out how to bend my glasses back right, and all of a sudden I’m really seeing in stereo again! Last fall OLC got hold of my glasses while I was napping and bent them all up; after TLG was born MFH accidentally knelt on them. Plus I think my habit of [...]
Recently I had to create a password for a new online account. One of the password creation rules was:
No two consecutive characters may be identical.
I suppose there’s some value in making sure your users don’t create passwords like “AAAAAA”, but come on, no consecutive repeated characters at all?! That does nothing to make [...]
1. That breastfeeding success rates for hospital births would significantly improve if they simply fed the mothers better. Not being allowed to eat or drink in labor, then having a good chance of not being fed a real meal until hours and hours after, probably does not help the milk to come in. [...]
Dr. Sanity has a good post on postmodernism, science, and politics. I’m just picking a couple bits about intelligent design out of context here:
One thing you can say about the religious right is that their desire to teach “intelligent design” (a theory I do not think has sufficient evidence to be included in children’s [...]
The New York Times has an interesting article about physicists in the financial world (”quants”):
By their activities, quants admit that despite their misgivings they have at least given cover to some of the wilder schemes of their bosses, allowing traders to conduct business in a quasi-scientific language and take risks they did not understand.