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On contemplating harder drugs
Every time I contemplate trying something stronger than alcohol, I remember this quote: Remember, the college students who are using LSD and Marijuana today do not comprise a criminal class. They are not drug addicts seeking to escape. They're your best educated, your most creative, and your most courageous young people, and like it or not, they're ( Read more... ) -
How we talk when we talk about programming languages
Last year, I worked my way through Lisp In Small Pieces, implementing several variants of the Lisp engine Queinnec described, most of them in Coffeescript. I’ve decided this year that I’m going to continue building out my language experience and write a scripting language. I’m still working out the details, but I’m working my way now through Scott’ ( Read more... ) -
Flights & Rights vs. Country Music Offensensitivities
Last night, Omaha and I attended the ACLU Flights & Rights fundraiser, where for a fee you get a flight of four small beers from a local brewer and get to listen to the local ACLU lawyer talk about the work she does. It was actually a lot of fun, great people, good speech, hopeful messages, all that ( Read more... ) -
The Jam Session Model of Sex only works for a minority
The Jam Session Model of Sex, brilliantly described by Karen B. K. Chan, tries to model a sexual encounter between two (or more) people as a musical jam session. In a musical jam session, people of differing musical abilities, talents, and skills get together and play together. Jazz is the pre-eminent genre of the jam session, in which experience ( Read more... ) -
I wish Christians wouldn't affirm atheists' worst fears
When I was heavily active on the atheist boards, one of the most common "challenges" we got from Christians was "Why do you even bother to be good ( Read more... ) -
The EMTALA, The ACA, the GOP, and The Liberal Ninjas
I hate tweetstorms. I'm too wordy for it. So let me expand on this:
That's funny... you just did. How did you ever manage without the liberal viking ninja samurai finding you? https://t.co/7nQQRDiiaU
- Eλf Sternberg (@elfsternberg) March 12, 2017
Rothman's contention is that, somehow, the Democrats have managed to coerce the GOP into a ( Read more... ) -
White, lonely guys.
Last night I attended a pro-am dance exhibition, part of a fundraiser for a homeless shelter in our state capitol, and as I watched the young men on stage, many of whom hoped someday to dance for a living, I saw a phenomenon that I don't think I'd ever actually seen in the wild before. The further one of the men was from white or male, the more he ( Read more... ) -
Ah, Pagan America
@elfsternberg Yes, He gave it away, personally. He didn't put a sword to a doctor's throat and command "heal him!"
- Calvin Dodge (@caldodge) March 4, 2017
Jesus would disagree with Calvin ( Read more... ) -
Why don't bros solve this problem?
Yesterday, I commented on how I'd tried the latest round of HMDs and discovered that none of them were quite to my liking. A friend of mine today mentioned that while she was on the metro the woman next to her was openly writing what could only be considered trade secrets or intellectual property. "Exactly my point," I said. "Why haven't the ( Read more... ) -
Head Mounted Displays for the Writer
Yesterday I had a chance to try out two of the "better" head-mounted displays, the Avegant Glypth, and the Moverio BT-300, and I'm disappointed to say that neither is quite ready to be a desktop replacement.
I write smut. As you can see from my office, I often write in public, and as public transportation has gotten much more reliable, it has ( Read more... )