One of my supervisors advised I create the journal in javascript, but I figured out how to get the controller to pass it a more useful dictionary allowing me to do everything in the kid template with condition codes. My other supervisor complemented me for removing all of the "moving parts" from what, essentially, is just a static page ( Read more... )

What is a fuck-ton?
The answer:
For example:
pile < shit-load < fuck-load < fuck-ton.
The minimum number of units necessary
before a collection falls under the category of 'fuck-ton'
is not known
(see: sorites paradox).
In a sentence:
"That's a fuck-ton
of bullshit".

A distressing thought: is reason a valid tool with which to evaluate beliefs? I doubt that any argument could be made to the effect that reason is such a tool, without begging the question.

I have to write a paper about an essay that talks about sentences such as "Vulcan does not exist," Vulcan being the name of the planet that some people used to think was between Mercury and the Sun. But if 'Vulcan' does not refer to anything, then how can we predicate anything on it (such as nonexistence ( Read more... )

"It's only illegal if you get caught."

If that were true, then what reason would police officers have for trying to catch people?

As of the completion of the writing of this sentence I have 15 minutes left until I will no longer be a teenager. I have decided to write an account of my philosophical opinions. I expect that when my age has doubled I will enjoy looking back on this entry. So the primary purpose of this entry is a sort of time capsule message to a future Avi, ( Read more... )

Computer Sciences 354: Machine Organization and Programming
History of Science 201: Origin of Scientific Thought
Nutritional Science 132: Nutrition Today
Philosophy 516: Language and Meaning
and one more class which I haven't picked yet. Maybe Crusades, but it is full so I would have to talk to the professor to try to get in.

I hold the number one high score for Maximum Force at the Memorial Union (UW student center).

Once upon a time Avi was silly enough not to log out of his livejournal account after he was done using it. Then his beautiful girlfriend went on the computer.

I had this idea for a video game. The premise is that an action is considered to be a moral action if the majority of human beings in the world believe that the given action is moral ( Read more... )