I read BoingBoing.net occasionally, ignoring the posts that are offensive to me as a Christian. But Richard Dawkins on the warpath against Christians is a bit much, especially when he is essentially arguing that Christian belief makes one mentally unfit for any professional career, even when superlatively qualified.
Science is impotent to prove [...]
It seems like we’re back in the pattern of picking up a new bug every weekend while we’re out and about. If I could, I’d be staying in bed all day today. I haven’t been really sick yet, but I haven’t been really well, either.
I did open some windows and give the apartment [...]
…How Things Don’t Work, by Victor Papanek and James Hennessey. (This is not a new book; it is from the Seventies, by the same authors as Nomadic Furniture.)
I expected to find a book with insightful design criticism of many of the objects ubiquitous in modern life, and I wasn’t disappointed. The authors start [...]
Just read an article about newborn screening in an old issue of a parenting magazine from last spring. There’s a little steam coming out of my ears now, because the article lays out all the benefits of the newborn screen, but none of the risks, and paints parents who opt out as reckless and [...]
Middle of the first week. I figured I had about as much chance of getting on a jury as James Lileks. He neglected to mention in his account that the assembly room shakes considerably every time a bus or truck drives overhead. The room now has wifi.
I was going to make up [...]
I haven’t picked on feminists on my blog lately, it got to be too easy, and therefore boring. But I still pick up the Minnesota Women’s Press (now printed monthly) most of the time. The most recent issue was about What Women Want. The really interesting thing about this issue is the [...]
Prediction Five: The use of silly numbers to make our lives miserable will only increase.
We already have credit scores and BMIs. Many people check their credit scores constantly, and try to improve them. With health care coming under increased government control, more harassment of those with high BMI is inevitable. Both [...]
…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 [...]