Early to bed (10:30PM); I've got a limo coming for me tomorrow morning at 3:25AM. First Boston, then on Thursday I fly to Bangalore. # Waiting in the LH lounge to board my BOS-FRA flight. I'll have a couple of hours in FRA, then on to BLR, arriving in the middle of the night #…
Read More The week's twitterings – 2011-01-30Setting up S11 zone on new server to host my friends+family domains. Yesterday DNS+certs. Today Apache. Tomorrow email. Test. Then migrate. # Brooks on consciousness: http://bit.ly/ej9dWv – but the key point is that there is no place for the supernatural in this. We are material. # Vatican edict in 1997 rejected calls to report priests…
Read More The week's twitterings – 2011-01-23A code to yesterday’s piece: Some of the Christian bloggers asserted that “What is needed in the face of all this is a more assertive proclamation of the value of our faith than many Episcopalians, especially clergy are comfortable giving.” To this, I would point to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and in particular: It…
Read More What makes you feel good is not necessarily effectiveAfter reading a few Christian blog and Facebook pieces today, I just had to vent. Please excuse. Please forgive this atheist if he finds it hard to take US Christians seriously when they talk about experiencing “hostility” and worry about possible irrelevance. Christianity remains the dominant culture of the USA, even if its adherents are…
Read More The fear of irrelevancyThe new British Library iPad app is just gorgeous. Magnificent. Exquisite. Check out the illuminated manuscripts… # “@amandapalmer: I just wrote the stupidest. Song. Ever.” < Whoa! Stiff competition in that category! # “@AMaskedAvenger: Something wonderful will happen today!”< Something wonderful happens EVERY day. Also something crappy. #itsabigworld # Really puzzled about all the recent…
Read More The week's twitterings – 2011-01-16Just watched Chelsea v Aston Villa. As the commentator said, this is the kind of game that captures just why we watch the Premier League… # Brilliant piece in the Atlantic by Garrett Epps on the constitutional aspects of Health Care Reform suits http://t.co/Fx0GqnY via @AddThis # OK, I'm no longer a CA earthquake virgin.…
Read More The week's twitterings – 2011-01-09I’m starting to pull together plans for a business trip. The idea is that I’ll go to the Boston area for a meeting, fly on a couple of days later to Bangalore, then back home to San Francisco. A typical multi-city trip, reminiscent of my days at Sun. Naturally, I begin by visiting the travel…
Read More Slicing off probocis to spite visage (AA style)Over at CommonSenseAtheism, Luke just posted the following question: Imagine you have a blue pill and a red pill, and you must swallow one of them right now and not the other. If you take the red pill, you will die immediately. If there is an afterlife, all your sins will be pardoned and you…
Read More Acting on one's beliefsGood grief! England bowls out Aussies for 98, finishes day 1 of the Melbourne test on 157-0! #australiancollapse #ashes looking safe # Pedophile priests, emergency hospital care: will the Catholic Church ever accept that it is subject to the law? http://nyti.ms/e35P2C # Went to see "The KIng's Speech" this afternoon. Wonderful movie! Off to Carmel/Monterey…
Read More The week's twitterings – 2011-01-02For me, driving is a question of balance. Over the last 30 years, I’ve owned many cars (that’s the subject of another post), and I’ve tried to balance the practical and the playful, the economic and the expressive. At one point I tried to cover the bases by having two cars: a sensible one (for…
Read More New year, new car