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Comment on The Chinese Phoenix by alaa

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:48:08 +0000

Where can i get more information on the tower of the Pheonix? i am very interested in the topic, please let me now. thanks!

Comment on Why calculus books are bad by Dan

Fri, 08 May 2009 20:28:21 +0000

Please elaborate.

(Hi Gilbert!)

Comment on Why calculus books are bad by Gilbert

Thu, 07 May 2009 04:20:51 +0000

My only problem with Halmos: He’s a product of his time, the modern era, and is excessively a-historical.

Comment on Meow by Dom

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 09:29:39 +0000

[…]
I might have been vaguely inclined to dismiss the stone angel as meaningless, and to go from there to the meaninglessness of all. But after I saw what Krebbs had done, in particular what he had done to my sweet cat, nihilism was not for me.

Somebody or something did not wish me to be a nihilist. It was Krebbs’s mission, whether he knew it or not, to disenchant me with that philosophy. Well done, Mr. Krebbs, well done.

Comment on Logical purity by dave

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:32:21 +0000

Welcome back to the internets

Comment on strftime() by Dan

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:00:30 +0000

I don’t get it… type safety?

Comment on Falling leaves by mike

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:54:52 +0000

what a great book!!!

Comment on Smoke by Dan

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 06:38:05 +0000

Good find. Biologically bizarre that we would develop a psychological drive to die… perhaps useful in cases where one’s own death would help kin with similar genes succeed. Or maybe the brain just had a field day before the genes realized it.

Comment on Gamble of nature by Dan

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 06:29:56 +0000

Is flowery language inappropriate for old ideas?

Rand and Nietzsche aren’t on my list right now, but Glass Bead Game is steadily approaching.

Steppenwolf was about _having_ a sense of humor.

Comment on Gamble of nature by Will

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:52:11 +0000

And earnest. No sense of humor at all in any of those three. Which is a shame, because Siddhartha sort of had one, and I’ve heard Steppenwolf and Glass Bead Game do too.