June 28, 2008
I got home last night after the two-and-a-half-hour drive I make every weekend. The trip was rather uneventful -- unless you count my forgetting to pump my gas at the Shell on Illinois Rd. It was kind...
June 27, 2008
A question regarding imagination more than anything else: Should I think of clouds as gigantic, magnanimous objects or as little more than opaque space?The clouds rolling through the Midwest this time...
June 27, 2008
Random UNIX zealotry: I love the 'diff' command. It makes life so much easier when you get emailed a filed that's been "updated" and then have to figure out what got changed.SigmaX...
June 27, 2008
I just pressed a button, at which point my computer automatically retreived a copy of ~64,000,000 bits of information from somewhere in the hive mind that is the InterWeb which it used to upgrade itse...
June 25, 2008
[The following was scratched out in my notebook at a Chineserestaurant downtown this evening. As is generally the case with myfiction, it could really use editing to make the words more clearlycommuni...
June 25, 2008
So, I was sitting on a couch in the Allen County Public Library thisevening, minding my own business and basking in hi-speed wifi, when agentlemen sauntered past. He stopped for a moment and glanced i...
June 23, 2008
Independence strikes. Today, 23 June, 2008, 38 days before mytwentieth birthday, I, Eric Scott, bought my first pair of self-ownedeating utensils (I needed *something* with which to eat my leftoverChi...
June 21, 2008
[This was originally a forum post on ThoughtCommunity.com, replying to a post in which the Ontological, Cosmological, and Teleological arguments for God's existence were brought up as conversation sta...
June 20, 2008
From my journal yesterday:My generation is the one primed and ready for a globalist culture: Sharing stories via telephone with a friend in Nigeria Telling mom about my day while she shops in North Ca...
June 20, 2008
From my journal this evening:"Never abandon your dreams" cooed the sexy voice of the jazz singeron the radio this evening. Such an elementary advice, which many of ushad embedded into us as a clichÃÂ...
June 17, 2008
I just thought I'd throw out into the cloud the observation that the download links to the latest release of Remote System Explorer (RSE) for Eclipse seem to be dead, but I found a working mirror here...
June 14, 2008
After two years online, I finally wrote up a description of myself for my website:Born and raised into a wonderful family in southern Illinois, where my dad practiced as a primary care physician, I'm ...
June 13, 2008
Following up on yesterday's post, I read the following this evening (Since I like to read old books aloud while pacing the house on the weekend), and found it relevant:"[Some people may] feel at first...
June 13, 2008
As a born-and-raised Seventh-Day Adventist turned secular humanist and now attending a Unitarian Universalist congregation, I had to chuckle this evening when I read this comment by Clifford Goldstein...