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  • Past, Present, Future – Round Thirty-one

    Don’t ask me what inspired this one. It’s not like I’m going on a prolonged road trip or anything. I am, however, bringing you the PPF while camping… thanks to the power of post-dated entries!

    PAST: What sort of car did you want when you were a kid?

    PRESENT: What gets you from Point A to Point B nowadays?

    FUTURE: Back in the ’50s everyone talked about how, by the ’90s, everyone would be wearing jetpacks to commute, or driving flying cars, that sort of thing. What futuristic commuting technology advance do you most desire?

    You know the drill… comment so we know where to find your answers, and link back using the handy-dandy permalink http://greyduck.net/ppf so your visitors always get the most-recent rendition. Thanks for playing!

  • I’m all philosophical and, like, stuff.

    Thanks to Korashime for pointing me to this slice of quiz-like goodness. And my results?

    1. 	John Stuart Mill   (100%)
    
2. 	Spinoza   (98%)
    
3. 	Kant   (96%)
    
4. 	Stoics   (90%)
    
5. 	Epicureans   (88%)
    
6. 	Aristotle   (87%)
    
7. 	David Hume   (84%)
    
8. 	Aquinas   (81%)
    
9. 	Jeremy Bentham   (76%)
    
10. 	Jean-Paul Sartre   (75%)
    
11. 	Nel Noddings   (72%)
    
12. 	Nietzsche   (70%)
    
13. 	St. Augustine   (64%)
    
14. 	Cynics   (62%)
    
15. 	Ayn Rand   (60%)
    
16. 	Thomas Hobbes   (54%)
    
17. 	Prescriptivism   (42%)
    
18. 	Plato   (34%)
    
19. 	Ockham   (24%)

    According to Mr. Mill, apparently, “The Utilitarian principle is correct when the quality of pleasures is accounted for,” and, “Liberty is the most important pleasure.”

    Uh huh. Liberty equals Pleasure. This guy clearly needed to get out more. Maybe I really do need to investigate these so-called Great Thinkers.

    Or maybe I need to back away slowly and avoid the temptation to contemplate my navel. What do you think?

  • Core Incompetency

    In lieu of actual content, I give you a link to Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics’ review of The Core.

    Why? Because it’s fun reading, dammit! And because I have absolutely nothing original to contribute right now. (Must… finish… watching… Rah… Xephon…)

  • Breakfast, Breakfast and Breakfast

    Let me describe a nearly perfect dining day to you.

    Morning: Bowl of chocolatey cold cereal, such as Cocoa Puffs. (This is the “nearly” perfect part. Ordinarily I’d prefer a hot cereal, like cream o’ wheat, with milk and brown sugar. Yum!)

    Lunchtime: Three-egg bacon and cheese omelette, with hash browns on the side and a couple slices of toast with jam. (Sometimes I’ll have ham instead of bacon. Cheese, however, is non-optional!)

    Dinner: French toast with butter, peanut butter and maple syrup. (Bacon and/or sausage links on the side make it that much more perfecter!)

    I’ll grant you that a dietician would heartily (pun intended) disagree with this sort of menu. What can I say? I’m all about the comfort foods and there’s nothing more comforting than a nice breakfast.

    Thanks to Lyse for treating me to a nifty lunch, and thanks to Wendi for having the bright idea of dining on french toast this evening. Mmmmm.

  • Almost done with AS/400 stuff.

    After putting in 57 hours of work last week, today I only added eight more. Everything went smoothly and faster than expected.

    No, really, that’s all I have to say. That, and I’m ever so glad I go on vacation Thursday…

  • Rude Food, Dude

    Via… a series of links I can’t even recall now, I bring you naughty food.

    While you’re there, check out some of the other amusing portions of the site, especially the pranks…

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