So, uh.

( The past few days )

I really need to put up a couple of literary reviews, because I'm, like, a quarter of the way through the Wheel of Time and the most I've said on it is a little bit of Twitter snarking.

Around 2007, ladyarkham loaned me a copy of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, with instructions to read it so it could be passed along for the next person to enjoy ( Read more... )

While I'm being controversial!

( Why is this an issue? )

So, let's talk ( diversity )

Been meaning to write this for a while - especially reflecting on the end of this semester, which may be the last time I get to teach at State.

It's not a secret that there's a lot wrong with modern education. engelhardtlm1 took an excellent look at some of the broader problems here, and I'm not going to try to duplicate his effort. Instead, I want to focus on ( Read more... )

Cracked keeps promoting Four Things Both Atheists and Believers Need to Stop Saying at the bottom of my browsing pages, and I finally broke down and read it through.

( Thoughts )

Two days ago, I celebrated Christmas morning with my fiancee; yesterday, our wedding was only five months away; tomorrow, we'll mark the 150-day countdown and the end of our fourth year together.

Today, my little sister had a son.

Life is good.

A couple of events lately have had me thinking about the Myers-Briggs personality thing again, and specifically about some of the quirks of my own INTP type.

( Like what? )

I finally managed, on this last drive back from Virginia, to finish my first listen-through of an audiobook of 1984. I had some idea what I was getting into, but apparently not as much as I'd thought - I expected Winston to spend most of the book in the Ministry of Truth. The actual book spent a lot less time there, and was a lot more depressing ( Read more... )

Okay, seriously, enough politics ( Read more... )