Archive for April, 2008

Chicago Navy Pier 2003

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Our last summer in Chicago.

Chicago Latin Music Festival Grant Park 2003

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

David Hume was a happy man

Friday, April 11th, 2008

David Hume advises us not to take shit so seriously:

The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another. Where am I?, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger must I dread? What beings surround me? and on whom have I any influence, or who have any influence on me? I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness, and utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty.

 

Most fortunately it happens, that since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, Nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when, after three or four hours’ amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any further.

StuffIt Slowly

Friday, April 11th, 2008

The point of a blog

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Quote of the day.

The problem is, without witty and cutting criticisms, what is the point of a blog?

This quote springs like a blossom from the turd that is the post that surrounds it. Honestly, I can’t make heads nor tails of the whole thing. I think this may have been better executed if everyone who cared had been cc’ed in an email. What’s it doing in my RSS feed? There must be some mistake.

Action Mount

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Funny name but what I’m describing is the camera mount for my Flip. It has velcro straps that allow you to attach it to just about anything. The only thing I can think of is a bike, however. And that’s what I bought it for. YouTube Preview ImageQT version

Only Yoo

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Secret Bush Administration Torture Memo Released Today In Response To ACLU Lawsuit

John Yoo: A Touch of Evil

The Yoo Memo

The John Yoo Situation

The Yoo Coverup

TPM Muckraker: The Yoo Torture Memo

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