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Doggie Doggie Doggie!!!!
So it looks like Peter is going to get a doggie. I mean it will sort of be Sharon's dog too but it's mostly my dog so I'm less lonely while my wife is out working to support the dog and I (or at least working to get a job that will support us). I'm going to get the dog from some kind of shelter so I don't know exactly what it's going to be yet ( Read more... ) -
Adventures In The Land Of Computer Incompetance
So the most recent hurdle on the way to Audrey's wedding was the checkout lady at the airport bookstore who hit a wrong key before I came and couldn't figure out what to do. To get my magazines I had to direct her through dismissing the popup before she hit no sale ( Read more... ) -
Troubled By Lack Of Meth Use
I'm deeply troubled by the lack of methamphetamine use in Freddy Krueger movies. Invariably a bunch of teens face truly horrifying painful deaths if they fall asleep which they inevitably do in a moment of weakness ( Read more... ) -
Where People Go Wrong With Climate (and other) Sciences
(crossposted from infiniteinjury.org Comments there)
Ok, this is probably not too relevant to most people I know on LJ but I posted it here too out of habit.
So over at ars they had an article clearing the scientists at the CRU (the guys with the leaked emails) saying that while other statistical methods and approaches would have been superior ( Read more... ) -
Reading Originals
In my view one of the most glaring indictments of the way philosophy and other humanities are taught and practiced is the senseless insistence on reading original works by the great masters. This is most apparent in the continued consumption of Plato, Hobbes, Aristotle and the like in philosophy but can be equally well be seen in the reverance for ( Read more... ) -
Hospital Fun
Just cut myself badly trying to slice cheese (I know it sounds like some awful fart joke but it's not) and ended up going to hospital and getting 5 stitches. Since I'm now typing one handed (god how many disclaimers can two sentences need) I will leave the update at this. -
Really Not Cool
You know suggesting that my wife is being unfaithful whenever she doesn't see Sharon online for more than 6 hours is a really bad habit for your mother in law to have. True, she doesn't literally suggest that Sharon is unfaithful. She just asks, "Could Sharon have gone to New York," as if running off to stay with her ex-hoyfriend in NY without ( Read more... ) -
I Found A Wife!
Good to know that Sharon will be able to figure out how to meet me in Amsterdam. Would have been more exciting if it had been a new wife though ( Read more... ) -
Lost My Wife In Europe
So I appear to have lost my wife somewhere in England. We both left for our respective conferences (me for the randomness conference at CIRM in Marseilles France, her for philosophy summer school at St. Andrews in England) and we are supposed to meet up in a couple days in Amsterdam (we thought about visiting Paris first but flights/trains from ( Read more... ) -
Damn Movers
Tried to hire people to move my stuff to the new apartment but they never showed up. Sharon and I ended up spending all of saturday moving really heavy crap...except Sharon won't lift heavy crap because she is super paranoid about her back so I ended up effectively lifting it myself ( Read more... )