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Dream logs are fundamentally uninteresting to anybody but the dreamer.

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2011 03 03 Sam Comments (0)

Ask Boxer

Eric Scheie asks Boxer the horse, “What’s the glue that holds society together?“: Is work personal and individualistic, or is it social and based on what’s good for the community as a whole? And most important, what is work? [...] After all, we don’t want to end up being like Boxer the horse. Say what you [...]

2010 10 06 Sam Comments (0)

The Real World

Peter Boothe asks twitter– Why do we hold Internet security systems to a high standard that no offline system has ever met? But it’s not so much that the standard is higher as that it’s different.  Counterfeiting and theft are risks for physical currency that don’t even make sense for some forms of electronic payments. [...]

2010 10 01 Sam Comments (1)

Lexical Analysis, Minimal Pairs, Headspace and the Justification for Liberal Education

Musing about lexical analysis, language, and liberal education. Becoming big-headed: it’s good for you!

2010 09 24 Sam Comments (0)

And Now, We Can Skip the Carnegie Course

Today, in the car, while driving to swimming lessons, K said: “Daddy, people like to be right.” I agreed. “And they don’t like to be wrong.” Yes. “And they especially don’t like it when you tell them that they’re wrong.” Oh yes.

2010 09 21 Sam Comments (0)

If it weren’t for the Soviet invasion, you wouldn’t be

Wouldn’t be American; and wouldn’t be, at all. K has a love of history that we’ve been able to indulge by getting the Story Of the World audiobooks from the library.  She’s listened to all four volumes, from prehistory through about 1995.  (I was a bit reluctant to let her have modern history, 1860-1995, what [...]

2010 09 20 Sam Comments (0)

How To Chip Teeth So Kids Will Go To Bed

As we were leaving Calgary, C asked if we could watch Mulan when we got home.  I said, “sure” and everyone promptly forgot about it.   After we got home, we had dinner and did the usual evening things and then I sent the kids to bed. At around 9:30 PM C came downstairs and [...]

2010 09 17 Sam Comments (0)

Brilliant Flash of the Obvious

I don’t know when I first heard the phrase “Brilliant Flash of the Obvious”. I know I was using it already in the 1990s, in California and I’m sure I didn’t invent it. It has some currency today — David Allen uses it in one of his talks — but only two google hits before [...]

2010 09 16 Sam Comments (0)

Morning Routine

Woke up to the sound of howling kid. Finn was having some sort of morning nightmare around 7:15. I lay down with him and cuddled him back to sleep, then got up, made coffee and had breakfast and wrote out today’s agenda. (I resist calling it a to-do list because I don’t feel committed to [...]

2010 09 15 Sam Comments (0)

The Server Crashing

Turning and turning on its aging platter, The disk cannot answer the controller; Things fall apart; the server cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the blog… Sambal.org used to be served out of my house; that server suffered a disk crash about a month ago, on its root disk, which was not RAIDed (not [...]

2010 09 14 Sam Comments (0)