An Instrument of God
2013-12-31 – My friend Bob likes to say we are instruments of god. This is a hard one for me because I don’t believe in a god that is an […]
Tag Archives: Life
The Sound of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
2013-12-29 – I can hear the second law of thermodynamics. You didn’t think it made a sound, did you? You thought that entropy is silent, didn’t you? Well it’s not. […]
Chinese Christmas
2013-12-24 – Merry Christmas! My parents had a tough time saying this. To be honest, I did too, once. In some ways, it was a mirror image of the […]
Space In Front of Your Car
2013-12-05 – Who owns that space in front of your car? No one when the car is stopped. In fact, the space often goes away. But turn on the car […]
Atheist Thanksgiving
2013-11-26 – I’ve never really understood this business of thanking God for anything. It’s like thanking my hat for keeping my head warm or my boots for keeping my feet […]
Red Friday
2013-11-24 – I always thought I had a pretty good sense of color. I score pretty high on a variety of color blindness tests. High, meaning that I can discriminate […]
Slalom for Dogs
2013-11-17 – The north and south boundaries of the east half of our neighborhood park are marked by a line of posts, separated six feet on center. The posts are […]
Twain Technology
2013-11-12 – The release last month of the Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition (Mark Twain Papers), put me in mind of Kit’s an my […]
Neither Shall They Learn War
2013-11-07 – Okay. I was bad in my last post on behavioral learning. In my defense, I was on a train when I wrote it. I don’t know what that […]
Global Questions
2013-10-29 – You listen to people of faith. You listen to people of science. And you hear the same stuff. Talk about beginning. Talk about ends. Talk about how we […]
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