I haven't been managing to write a lot lately, either poetry or prose, but I did recently write this, and while I don't think it's my best work, I figured I'd post it anyway. Feel free to complement, criticize, ignore, or otherwise treat as you will ( Read more... )

I've somehow finished my third year of college. It seems that each successive year has gone by faster. No doubt senior year will fly by before I've noticed it has begun, but I will try to make the most of it. The passing of time isn't bad per se; part of me wants to move on to higher things (i.e. grad school and eventually my own career), but I ( Read more... )

It's been almost a year since last I posted on this thing. I guess since I never got into the habit of using it to communicate with friends at college, it has become less a part of my life than it was in high school. Still, it's still here, and I think one or two people will still read it if I post, and anyway it can be nice to write things down ( Read more... )

For my science fiction and philosophy class I was writing an essay in which I argue that living in the Matrix or a similar simulation would be worse than living in reality, even though one would think one is living in reality. In writing this I came up with the following argument, which I rather like but also have some reservations about ( Read more... )

Well, in my habit of updating only once in a great while, I find now that a great while has passed and it is time to update ( Read more... )

Today I saw a slashdot article on google news. I hadn't realized it was a site they used, and I must say that considering that slashdot is itself a news aggregation site, not a producer of original stories, it's a bit scary to see it being used in turn on yet another such site ( Read more... )

The artist and philosopher will teach ( Read more... )

Well, as of yesterday, I'm home from college. I think it's been a pretty good year, and it seems kind of amazing that it's over already. I've learned a lot in classes and met many new people. Living away from home has been an interesting and useful experience. I think exams went fairly well, and now it's nice to have some time to relax. I'm not ( Read more... )

This has been getting a sad dearth of media coverage, it seems, since it came out in the New York Times a few days ago, but any American who cares about having an honest government, should definitely read it, even if it is long. In short, the administration has been meeting with and giving talking points to "military analysts" who then pose as ( Read more... )

I suppose given the date (April 4, no it probably won't mean anything to most of you), I should be writing some sort of emotional poetry, but nature is far more interesting and comprehensible than emotions. Anyway, this is a poem I wrote inspired by my trip to Gaspe, Quebec over spring break. It's blank verse and also rather heavy on the ( Read more... )