Archive for the ‘achievement’ Category
Thursday, October 28th, 2004
Last week I attended a meeting of CU-Boulder Objectivists, where Jeff, who had attended many Campus Libertarians events (the glory days are gone...) that I'd organized, recommended to me the "TIA Daily," the daily e-mail from the The Intellectual Activist. We had been talking about meeting topics, and I ...
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004
I was just walking around my neighborhood figuring out how to solve a problem in my research. Resolved to write out my conclusions, I crossed 35th Street, arms folded, maybe one arm gesturing to myself, and was approaching the corner. I hear a car coming from behind in ...
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Sunday, February 1st, 2004
On Tuesday I heard a doctor speak about his new book, Surviving the Extremes. Incredible. The author, Kenneth Kamler relates true stories, some he is involved in, of people surviving extreme cold, heat, being lost at see, outer space, etc. One theme is that people sometimes ...
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2003
Published this month, and posted on-line today. Woohoo!
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Monday, July 21st, 2003
Last night I watched The Secret Life of the Brain: Episode 5 The Aging Brain. It was quite inspirational. Until recently many scientists believed that once part of the brain was damaged, e.g., neurons being killed though a stroke, the functions those nuerons had could not be taken ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2003
I cannot recall a week where so many people are mismatching days of the week with the day of the month, for example, scheduling meetings, people say Thursday, April 5, or Wed., April 3. Now the latter makes some sense, as it would be good if April 1 were ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2003
This evening I can be drawn in by: BBC's coverage of the Iraq War, finding a philosophical explanation of when it's OK to execute a preemptive strike against a potential threat, or the snowplow-equipped pick-up truck outside plowing the parking lot. The winner, of course, is the Mr. ...
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Monday, September 23rd, 2002
This is really embarassing. I can't remember the last time I did this: I struck out looking, in softball. Just watched two pitches go by. First one, inside and short, nicks the "fang" of the matt. Second one, inside and long, but catches the edge. There was that split second ...
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Wednesday, August 21st, 2002
A reader of my blog from Palo Alto, CA...who am I kidding, the reader from Palo Alto informed me that the correct spelling is "whoopie", and the history of the Whoopie Cusion is at the web site for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Apparenly this orchestra used one in their ...
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Friday, July 26th, 2002
To a friend of mine I wrote that I'm passionate and active about political issues because "I don't want to live in (more) tyranny, and as I said, I think this [or that] is one step closer."
She asks me:
What tyranny do you live in? What have you wanted to do ...
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