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Yay, it's working again! Check it out!

See here. I actually said something intelligible! Whose morals are we talking about?... Catholics cannot have separate moral and ethical stances.
In response to James Welle's article, which states, My point is that morals cannot and should not ever be used to justify ethics... All I ask is that when you formulate you [sic] arguments, whatever side ( Read more... )

Stephen Hawking says global warming is probably going to kill us all:

http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=7538 (found through Google News and AP)

Wow. Absolutely amazing.

I was playing a game against Thinking Machine 4 and obtained the following position:

8 r _ q _ k b n _
7 p p p _ p _ p _
6 _ _ _ _ P p _ _
5 _ _ _ p _ _ N _
4 P _ _ _ _ _ _ _
3 _ _ N _ _ _ _ _
2 _ P n _ _ _ P p
1 R _ B _ _ Q _ K
. a b c d e f g hBesides being down four pawns, white is about to lose a rook/R or his e6- ( Read more... )

Mass attendance was not the only thing that suffered in the upheavals that followed Vatican II. Today 53 percent of American Catholics believe that one can have an abortion and still be a good Catholic. And 70 percent of American Catholics in the 18-44 age group say they do not believe that the Eucharist is truly the Body and Blood of Christ, that ( Read more... )

Yay... only working 10 hrs/week this semester, and I already got the Wed. 6PM - 12AM shift in the Linux cluster that I wanted! :-)

Here's hoping that I can get morning shift(s) at the library! :)

How to wish a Comp. Sci. grad student a happy birthday:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
printf("Happy birthday Dave!\n");
return 0;
}

Yes, so it took me about 2 minutes to type it up (creativity ain't my forte =p) but I did get a very nice compliment on it! :-)

Here's an interesting game that will make even the best chess players' heads spin...

Tal, Mikhail - Smyslov, Vassily, Bled 1959, 1-0