Your argument is very convincing… if only it were not a tangled web of lies.
by Pete on October 30, 2004
I’ve been reading a fair amount about the missing explosives in Iraq over the past few days, and it put me in mind of an ongoing argument I have with myself. What, I think, if the conservatives/Republicans reallly are right? (…)
The music is back online
by Pete on October 22, 2004
I have to say—Linux is treating me much better this time around. I found software (Netjuke) that, thanks to PHP, Apache, MySQL, and people who are even nerdier than I am, allows me share out the mp3′s like I used (…)
What is wrong with our culture, summed up in a single amusing anecdote
by Pete on October 21, 2004
Several days ago, I was standing in the kitchen at work, absent-mindedly waiting for my chili to heat up in the microwave, when a co-worker walking by says to me, “So… you’re not voting for Bush, are you?” My political (…)
SCIENCE!
by Pete on October 21, 2004
So this is pretty damn cool. According to this article in the journal Nature, an experiment that has been going on for eleven years has yielded fairly convincing evidence that the Earth’s spinning mass deforms the space around it.
Odds and Ends
by Pete on October 20, 2004
After several rather slow days at work, I was rather busy today—several server crises, a meeting that went longer than I was expecting, and culminating in an uncomfortable “stand around and congratulate the boss” party. Those are the worst. I (…)
Making a bad situation worse
by Pete on October 19, 2004
The biggest threat we face now as a nation is the possibility of terrorists ending up in the middle of one of our cities with deadlier weapons than have ever before been used against us – biological agents or a (…)
Derrida, Part II
by Pete on October 19, 2004
I promised in a previous post that I would have more to say about Jacques Derrida. With the amount of stuff going on in the political realm lately, this topic had slipped my mind, but I thought I’d finally return (…)
From the “It Couldn’t Happen To a Better Bunch of People” Dept.:
by Pete on October 18, 2004
I was just re-reading the Atlantic Monthly article on Karl Rove that I referenced in a previous post, and one paragraph that stood out was the following: A former Rove staffer explained to me that the term “activist judges” motivates (…)
The Faith-Based Presidency
by Pete on October 18, 2004
I was going to post something about this article by Ron Suskind from the NYT Sunday magazine last night, but frankly, I got so wrapped up in the idiotic fun of The Day After Tomorrow that I never got around (…)
I am rather disgusted at the moment
by Pete on October 17, 2004
I rented Super-Size Me, and am currently watching it. Wow. If you’re not familiar with the movie, it’s a documentary in which the film maker undertakes to eat nothing but McDonald’s for 30 days. I don’t mean to be self-righteous—I (…)