Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Month: January 2013

  • TED Talk: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives

    I am surprised I cannot find anything by Haidt on this blog. Back when I first heard this I looked further and found his web site yourmorals.org. I took some of the tests. I scored high on the two left moral foundations, high one right, and low on the two other right. Care to guess…

  • The Hacker Manifesto

    UPDATE: I hung this on a pinboard in my work cube on May 4, 2007. I am surprised no one has asked me to pull it. by +++The Mentor+++ Written January 8, 1986 Another one got caught today, it’s all over the papers. “Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal”, “Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering”… Damn kids.…

  • dSLR Resolution Week One

    Decided that I should post a dSLR photo a week this year. So this is entry one. Yesterday, Iook a walk on the trail at Ben Burton park. This fern and moss caught my eye. Between the tree and cloud cover, there was not a great amount of light. So I oped up the ISO…

  • Goodreads Reading Challenge

    The reading challenge renewed my interest in Goodreads. Before they started them a couple years ago, I had already started tracking them here on this blog. I just was not very consistent about it. Goodreads became a good place to make links to direct people looking for more information about the book. But it meant…

  • Resolutions 2013

    Quantifiable: Read 52 books. In 2012, I read 55. In 2011, I read 56. Both were over 21,000 pages. (Reference) Unlike prior years, I do not think I am going to state specific kinds of books to read or come up with a list beforehand. Though, I have started a list for 2013. Post 180 blog…