Month: May 2014

It’s my golden birthday right now. Hard to be more meaningful than that. I was born 29 years ago right now on May 29, 1985. Snapshot of my life: I am moving out of my lovely house to move in with my girlfriend over the summer. Then, in August, I’m moving to Halifax, NS to…

You might not remember this list, but it’s been central to my mind for months. Not hang myself with a belt Success. I now hang myself with pride. Be happy with where I live and who I live with Success. Although this is ending fairly soon. I suspect I’ll briefly move in with my girlfriend…

  Probably very few people outside of academia will use this, but I think it’s worth having if anybody ever needs it. 🙂 Related posts: The Magic Ratio There is a direct and inverse squared ratio between the amount of awesome stuff one does and how many posts they put on their blog. Figure that…

Neil deGrasse Tyson recently made a stir in the philosophy community by disparaging the entire field as asking pseudoquestions. Essentially, he says philosophers waste their time, think they are doing important things, and he doesn’t have time for them. Admittedly, he has done great work promoting inquiry and reason.   … I could defend philosophy,…