http://logicaldisconnect.org Mostly Misanthropic Memoirs Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:45:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Allison sums up this beautiful day. http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2010/03/06/bicycles-are-fun/ Quite a robust urinal apparatus. Seen at Stockton College at the Gaelic Storm concert. http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2010/03/06/strap-in/ Listening to Leonard Peikoff's podcast #83 I really enjoyed the closing of his answer to someone who wrote to him, essentially, I agree with many of the principles of Objectivism but disagree with Ayn Rand on two ideas (I think it was architecture as art and something to do ... http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2009/10/14/whats-true/ Catching up on some of my reading I came across an analysis of a Steve Jobs interview in Forbes. I agree with the analysis especially on Diana's last point. To succeed you hire the best, the most resourceful people you can find and give them goals to accomplish. ... http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2009/10/06/goals-not-rules/ I've been using MobileMe to keep some things, including calendar, in sync between my work's iMac, my macbook and my iPhone for over a year. Generally I've been pleased, but after upgrading my phone to 3.1 and my iMac to Snow Leopard I've encountered a very irritating problem where ... http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2009/09/29/mobilemes-apprentice/ I recently had a shock when my children's pediatrician announced she was closing her office. We love this doctor, she helped us through scary times and was always there with answers when we had medical questions or even seeking general advice about our children. She is closing her practice for ... http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2009/09/18/quitting-doctors/ I like to think about things. I can spend hours trying to find the right way to solve any problem from serious to silly. This is one of the reasons I'll let myself get caught up in an email black hole. As I was this morning. ... http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2009/09/17/strict-filtering/ I'm in four fantasy football leagues this year. One is the real deal, the league I've been in with my wife for what seems like 3 or so years every year, but undoubtedly it's been at least 7 years, the TMCFL run by my brother, on a site that is getting ... http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2009/09/14/fantasizing/ http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2009/09/12/hanging-with-the-phanatic/ If somehow you missed it, a few weeks ago the Whitehouse thought it would be a good idea to encourage citizens to report on other citizens that were spreading "fishy" information about healthcare. I promptly reported myself and asked to be added to the list of political enemies because ... http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2009/08/18/flagging-acknowledged-as-harmful/ If you know me you know of my damnable addiction to demonstrable fact as opposed to consensus opinion, mystical revelation, emotion, or necessarily oversimplified computer model. So you'll not be surprised that I find the shrill cries of doom from the environmentalist movement distasteful at best and life-threatening at ... http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2009/08/14/environmental-vulnerability/ I have just made an important discovery about my mental limitations and my response to them. I've confirmed something I had already known, that my mental stack for sub-tasks is finite. For a while I've been troubled occasionally by a nearly overwhelming emotional need to do anything else ... http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2009/06/10/overload-and-a-coke/ Apparently keeping your old software up to date is important, if you still use it and it is publicly accessible. I noticed my brother's away site had a huge spam problem, which I thought odd, since I had installed a spam filter a long time ago. I logged in and noticed the ... http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2009/06/02/upgrading-software/ Becoming depressed by the increased destruction of individual rights by the government is quite easy these days. The fact that the current administration is violating contract rights, firing the CEO of a corporation, and forcing banks to take bailout money among many other examples of statism are all very ... http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2009/05/22/finding-inspiration/ I've realized another perfectionist tendency that I've been letting defeat me. The result has been that the big hard (and interesting) tasks are starving for attention because the little tasks are being given center stage of the always elusive and much coveted big block of time. I've learned through my ... http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2009/04/30/productivity-snacks/ It's a shame that the great business producers continue to sanction completely irresponsible government. Read this in Warren Buffet's annual report for Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. "Whatever the downsides may be, strong and immediate action by government was essential last year if the financial system was to avoid a total breakdown." Since ... http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2009/03/02/sanction-of-the-victim/ I read a post at NoodleFood this morning, 1 in 7 Americans functionally illiterate. And it reminded me of how grades are treated versus knowledge. The primary reason you go to school is to gain knowledge. Grades are simply a tool used by the educators to assess ... http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2009/02/13/knowledge-or-grades/ Ari Armstrong is planning a demonstration that it is possible to eat a healthy diet on a food stamp budget. Low-Carb Diet, Food Stamp Budget. He is doing this not only to show that increases in the food stamp program are unnecessary, but in full protest of the ... http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2009/02/04/putting-a-small-amount-of-money-where-your-mouth-is/ Apparently my feed has been broken since Sometime in November. At that time I upgraded wordpress, and possibly related was the merging of FeedBurner and Google. Anyway It should be working now. So for the 3 or 4 people who follow the feed, you will be delighted ... http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2009/02/03/feed-formerly-broken/ I've received word of a promising new blog focused on economics from an Objectivist point of view called Simply Capitalism. It could prove a nice counterpoint of reason to the cacophony of shrill demands for increasing governmental control in our economic lives. Subscribe to their RSS feed and ... http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2009/02/02/economics/