Humans have babies that are proportionally larger than other primates. It turns out that this has been a trend in the development of human ancestors for a great length of time.

What's interesting to me is... oh, wait, I should disclaim.

**WARNING: Unqualified speculation without scientific rigor.***

( In other words, the usual thing you find here )

I finally heard something very simple this morning that made the debt crisis make more sense to me. It allows me to make analogies to personal finance, and then see why those analogies fall apart. So I thought I'd spell all that out, but first the easy explanation ( Read more... )

If only I was independently wealthy, I'd turn some of my ideas into great money-making opportunities. But of course without that safety net the risk is just too great. Especially as some of my ideas are pretty much crap, but I don't know that until I reflect on them years later ( Read more... )

I keep writing long responses to walrusjester. As if I'm not wordy enough without prodding, though I guess recently I haven't been ( Read more... )

Judicial retention elections. Wha?

Yes, this is comment-bait for goobermunch. I'm not ashamed of that. But others should please include their responses to my statement: judicial retention elections are dumb.

( A short justification )

( A couple of kinds of games )

There's some smart Linux folks on here who can satisfy my curiosity. I have two SSH sessions open to the same server (CentOS FWIW), as the same user. But "ps" only shows me processes for that session--the processes started by the same user in a different session are hidden by default ( Read more... )

Did you know I wrote my master's thesis on RPGs?

Now you do.

Frankly, I think back on some of my logic back... oh dear god... 10 years ago and I think I was a bit naive in some areas. However, I came to a different conclusion than walrusjester did. He says that RPGs are best suited as simulations, but I argue that RPGs are particularly well-suited to ( Read more... )

Dylan was put to sleep at 4pm today due to imminent kidney failure.


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General Patraeus, the President, and Interpol have all got it wrong. Or, rather, they've got it right, but the problem is that they are focusing on tactical problems when the reality is that the public burning of the Koran is a stragetic problem for the U.S. which makes the tactical issues pale in comparison.

( A Conflict of Narratives that Is Taking Lives )