http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/ A strange loop. Copyright 2008 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:15:37 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss should show up on new server only... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2008/01/test.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2008/01/test.html Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:15:37 -0500 What? You think that the company that admitted to reporting Saddam Hussein's propaganda as news for a decade would be above rigging a debate for their chosen candidate? Oh, and a happy Thanksgiving to all.... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/11/lolelecshun_yur.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/11/lolelecshun_yur.html Laugh, Damn You! Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:18:44 -0500 Inspired by lolcats, and armed with Gordon McNaughton's LolCat Builder, I decided to take on the 2008 campaigns. Herewith, the first installment: i can has president?... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/11/i_can_has_presi.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/11/i_can_has_presi.html Laugh, Damn You! Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:25:52 -0500 John Lennon was right: life doesn't wait for us, but moves of its own accord. Here's what's going on with us right now. I've been working on math with Connor (more on Steph's blog, where I have lessons as they come up), but am probably not going to be able to do that this week due to Lego League. Speaking of which, the qualifying tournament for us is next Saturday. We have to finish the robot and programming this week, complete with finding out that our entire strategy is bunk: we can only use one robot, not one robot at... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/11/life_is_what_ha.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/11/life_is_what_ha.html Family Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:32:34 -0500 I have a post at Eternity Road on Apple's ringtone debacle.... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/09/lie_down_with_d_1.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/09/lie_down_with_d_1.html Entertainment Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:59:17 -0500 I have a small discourse on the need for governance, and the possible claims of a government to legitimacy, over at Eternity Road.... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/07/the_republic_ar.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/07/the_republic_ar.html Politics and Political Philosophy Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:15:42 -0500 Our older cat, Merlin, has gone missing. He went outside Saturday afternoon, and hasn't come home. Going outside is very normal for him; not coming home is, needless to say, not. My hope is that someone took him inside during the rain, not realizing that he actually has a home (he won't wear a collar, so he has no identification on him). But if that were the case, I would have thought he'd be home by now, assuming they let him out. We've checked the pound, and asked some neighbors to help, and posted on a couple of missing pets... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/06/missing_cat.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/06/missing_cat.html Family Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:03:13 -0500 Glenn Reynolds points to this delightful rant about the administrators of Tennessee State University, who (in their boundless enthusiasm to prevent another Virginia Tech-style rampage) have banned squirt guns! You heard me: they banned squirt guns. Well, that would have stopped the various sociopaths who have shot up schools in the past! All right. That's it. It's not legal to shoot idiots in the street. It's arguably not even moral. So since these idiots insist on beclowning themselves in public, I propose that we follow suit. Here's the deal: if enough people (say, ten) are seriously interested in, and will... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/05/rage_against_st.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/05/rage_against_st.html Laugh, Damn You! Wed, 09 May 2007 22:20:27 -0500 Michael Moore is profiteering off Ground Zero workers. I'm disgusted, but not surprised.... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/04/sicko_indeed.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/04/sicko_indeed.html Unamerican Activities Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:43:40 -0500 One of my pet peeves is enterprise software projects that fail. In my opinion, the only possible reason for an IT project to fail is incompetence, either on the technical staff or (far more likely) the project or above management. The most common management incompetence is the inability to say "no". (And as I am fond of pointing out in other contexts, if you have a manager who can't say "no", it's a management problem one level higher.) All of this is just a roundabout way to introduce Karl Gallagher's insightful essay on how excess requirements and misclassification of requirements... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/04/topic_notes_pro.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/04/topic_notes_pro.html IT and Technology Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:38:47 -0500 Glenn Reynolds calls attention to this comment by Bruce Kesler: Wonder why so many of the news articles you read, or steam over, are lacking essential information or perspective? Wonder no longer. Knowledge and experience of the subject is only a “plus.” Would the AP advertise for a sports reporter for whom knowledge and experience with baseball, basketball, football, soccer, hockey, tennis, and so forth is only a “plus,” rather than essential and primary? So, why should the AP believe that knowledge and experience of intelligence, or medicine, or any other important and technical subject only requires a “plus”? Maybe... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/04/makes_sense_to.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/04/makes_sense_to.html Education and Schooling Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:38:58 -0500 Inspired by the always-insane Wondermark, here are some song lyrics, which have been run through Babelfish from English to Japanese and back. Your task: guess the songs. No fair looking below the "More..." link until you've made a guess. That heart because of rent however is not, the haughty way he does not have to be put in place. The quiet defense which that spare and many day comes being, from thing rides. It is what which is said river society concerning thing and that company which are said? The fog do to catch, capture ones of myth the mystery... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/04/life_is_deep_pe.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/04/life_is_deep_pe.html Laugh, Damn You! Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:02:14 -0500 Fran Porretto is contemplating civic religion and the possibility of civil war. It's a topic, or really a set of topics, that has been on my mind for some time, and there are about half a dozen takes I need to get all of the various parts out. For now, I'd just like to respond to Fran's thoughts, and in particular to discuss whether the breakdown of the American polis portends worse. I read a book some years ago, by an Australian author whose name I have sadly forgotten (along with the title), about why wars start. In order to... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/04/of_course_you_k_1.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/04/of_course_you_k_1.html US Politics Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:15:47 -0500 I haven't done a "why we homeschool" post in a while; not for lack of material, so much as that I have been orienting my free time away from blogging. But every now and then, I weep.... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/03/rethinking_scho.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/03/rethinking_scho.html Education and Schooling Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:21:15 -0500 The Jawa Report has a video of a talk by Evan Sayet (nope, I have no clue who he is, either) on the unifying theme of "modern liberal"/progressive policy planks. I'm not sure he is correct, yet, but I am sure that he has given me a lot to think about.... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/03/food_for_though_1.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/03/food_for_though_1.html Politics and Political Philosophy Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:29:11 -0500