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On the 11/25 Sunday Night Eagles-Patriots Game, and Why I’m Not Praising Andy Reid

1. I want to thank John Madden for actually doing a great job of announcing and explaining key things happening during the game. He picked up on Patriots taking away the sideline throws and playing a soft zone inside; thus, the Eagles receivers making catches (like the Detroit game in one way) wasn’t too surprising

Freeman Dyson on Global Warming

Required reading for the day, kids One thing about Freeman Dyson is that he is genuinely philosophic. He’ll say things that are certifiably nuts – his old solution to the problem of nuclear war was to have governments agree to use up all the nukes to propel a spacecraft deep into space. And he has

Taking a few blogging days off…

…I have tons to write about. Just not right now.Should be back Friday or Saturday. Powered by ScribeFire.

Fun With Blog Services That Have My Posts Not Being Online

I have to make backup copies of all my posts here: I haven’t done that yet, and stand to lose a lot.I have to make backup copies, of course, because of my experience with WritingUp, where a number of posts I really liked have not been available for a week.I’m actually debating whether or not

Blog Help Needed

Please feel free to drop comments about how ugly this blog is, how useless the sidebar is, etc. I’m trying to fix the place up to be more user-friendly. I can barely find my own posts on here, I know full well the site is a mess. So any help or suggestions you can give

For My Readers: Is This Dangerous?

I can’t make up my mind whether this is dangerous or not. I came across it while searching philosophy blogs and was really stunned by how enticing the soft-sell is.Your thoughts are welcome. Is it particularly effective, you think?Technorati Tags: scientology Powered by ScribeFire.

Things I Don’t Understand

hockey (the only strategy as far as I can see is to get in front of the goalie and “deke” while your team beats the living hell out of the other team) women (I probably understand them far too well to be involved with them, but until I lose about 100 IQ points, they come

Notes, 5/9/07

For those of you worried about the situation I was yelling about last night, all is well. Harvey Mansfield delivered the 2007 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, and I might write on that soon. The last entry on Keats didn’t quite address the theme of loneliness, and whether the life of the mind is necessarily

Dissertation Blues

The only thing worse than having too much to read and write about is looking up one’s topic and seeing virtually no secondary literature.*sigh* Powered by ScribeFire.

Comprehensive Exams Complete, Now I Have to Really Work

The oral exam went well, I felt. But now it is dissertation time and I need another topic.I really don’t want to write anything today. Thank you all for your prayers, wishes and support. Powered by ScribeFire.