Paralipsis

Well, I wonder if being able to blog from a mobile device is a good thing or not…

“Evil is always the assertion of some self-interest without regard to
the whole, whether the whole be conceived as the immediate community or the total community of humanity.” — Reinhold Niebuhr.

Carnies
People who throw gum on the ground
Tow truck drivers

You have to love this sort of thing. http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1562

Over in the valley there’s a 24-hour pawn shop that makes me a bit nervous. On the one hand I like the notion that if you really, really, really need money you can get it any time at a little bullet-proof window near katella, however on the other hand I can’t imagine a lot [...]

I recently had the opportunity to experience the ultimate in vendor stupidity. I placed an order for a new phone and then called to cancel the order 5 hours later. The cancellation call was around 11am the same day I placed the order with the vendor. Instead of simply canceling my order, [...]

The Great Southern California ShakeOut
November 12–16, 2008
The Great Southern California ShakeOut is a week of special events featuring the largest earthquake drill in U.S. history, organized to inspire Southern Californians to get ready for big earthquakes, and to prevent disasters from becoming catastrophes.

As someone who must saddle his students with pricey textbooks, I try as much as possible to avoid requiring anything but the barest essentials. However, sometimes there are materials the student needs to have in order to be successful in a class. Frankly making the tradeoff between recommended (i.e. never-bought and never-read) and [...]

I shouldn’t be, but I’m amazed that there are still gullible crackpots who are earnestly working every day toward achieving free energy. Not in a tongue-in-cheek, or steampunk-cybergoth manner, but in an actual effort to achieve the impossible of free, perpetual energy. A world filled with alleged friend-of-a-friend witnessing of a running perpetual [...]

This just in, eating food makes you fat, exercise makes you hungry.
The one thing that might be said about exercise with certainty is that it tends to makes us hungry. Maybe not immediately, but eventually. Burn more calories and the odds are very good that we’ll consume more as well. And this simple [...]