Two things, one company ( Read more... )

life has been good lately. we are currently updating the top floor of the house---we have now replaced the outlets and light switches and will begin painting tomorrow. we=my dad and some electrician and my checkbook. it will be beautiful. i am also refinishing the floors in one of the bedrooms in anticipation of moving up there. word. i also ( Read more... )

revolutions are great when they work (USA, France, Chile) and scary when they fail (Germany 1930s, Russia 1917, etc.). democracy on the other hand, is great when it works, and only crappy (as opposed to terrible/scary) when it fails ( Read more... )

+cleaned up the yard today. still have to set up the fence ( Read more... )

I had a good talk with DanDan (not Dan K) about ways of knowing. Basically, math is the best, but it is of course very limited. Then there is logic. Then science, then social science. Each way of knowing has broader application but less reliability. The last two are more interesting. Hope is a way of knowing that is grounded very little in reality ( Read more... )

oh yeah. long time no talk. murph is rollin shit up, just like he rolled me in tennis, that son of a bitch. good to have him in town, and always good to eat at the comet cafe. the big luck burger is hands down the best burger, meat or none, that i have ever had. order it with pepper jack and then go f*** yourself ( Read more... )

The other thing is that 9/11 conspiracy theories are so fascinating, some pretty ridiculous and all a waste of time because the likelihood of ever finding out the truth is about 1/100th the odds we find out about JFK ( Read more... )

Jeez, I'm watching United 93 and all I can think of is how awful I feel about what happened on 9/11. Totally gut wrenching just how awful so many people felt, all the people who died, holy fuck ( Read more... )

This guy is so brilliat its creepy. No pizzazz, no loud mouthed rhetoric, no forceful vociferous damnation, a very resolute and well-studied man who sees through lots of the bullshit ( Read more... )

the wedding was perfect. i made my best man cry. the ceremony was beautiful. served. it was good to see so many people. amazing. i rocked on stage and that is my last memory of the wedding night ( Read more... )