…But also without the basic critical reasoning and subject matter foundations to arrive at that recommendation rationally in the first place… q:-( Many of you have heard my repeated calls, if not to dissuade the irrational insistence to apply "Keep it Simple," to a world that arguably has not been simple for quite [...]
Most of you know my decades-long love affair with CBC (not with being a CBC–that's a wholly-different thing q:-D); but a story just now on the National, arguably a thinly-veiled expression of Envy, would have been a lot less Entitlement-of-the-West sounding in the context of Matthew 20's Landowner and Vineyard-workers parable… That without pointing out [...]
thursday, april 07, 2005 How the Handicapper became a Jockey I published this article some years ago (it is not 7 April, 2012), but should;ww The other night, I had a rather intense dream. Intense emotions. Intense realism. Intense fiction. When one of my roommates first moved in to my current house [...]
Although I'd just finished my MBA@Mac in 2002, I've been busy learning "more and more about less and less," since beginning my PhD in Finance in 2009; though I intended just to peek and see what this was all about, I soon realised, "Not three hours ago, I suggested that we set a strong counter-example [...]
"I don't need to live by the ocean for my house to burn down, anymore." It would be the pinnacle of selfishness, in fact, if I stayed. For as it is, there aren't enough house-lighthouses to burn down for everyone, some of whom–like me, I am ashamed to admit–need to burn down a few of [...]
Remember waaay back (ok, not that many a's eh) when I last mentioned that the media in its simplistic reporting of, explanation of certain issues, such as the bullying of homosexuals or other individuals perceived to be "different" may validly be attributed to the superficial attributes–but that people NEED to understand at least some modicum [...]
Ambrosian Hymn Jam lucis orto sidere, Deum precemur supplices, Ut in diurnis actibus Nos servet a nocentibus. Linguam refraenans temperet Ne litis horror insonet: Visum fovendo contegat, Ne vanitates hauriat. Sint pura cordis intima, Absistat et vecordia; Carnis terat superbiam Potus cibique parcitas. Ut come dies abscesserit, Noctemque sors reduxerit, Mundi per abstinentiam Ipsi [...]
I brought over my lil Smurfles (requiescat in pace, arus amiculus meus) in his lil beige jar to wave back And the significance is that I want to thank you for inspiring me to move him closer to where I spend more of my time and he can see the TV–until now, he was still [...]
The problem with simple, secular morality, is that when all seems lost–when it seems the whole world is against us–our reason to uphold any moral framework disappears.
I wanted to share something I'd just shared with Michelle Estes-Tittle: something that pained me and I continually pray we can all overcome that your friend and my brother in this life, frater meus in Christo, Mason, made me think more and more about (and thus I see his reactions that will forever be available [...]
"Just as every crisis is an opportunity, so too is the flipside of every curse a blessing." Today's epiphany–thanks mom (Kathy Cheng for inspiring me to think it!). Now, this is another truism, but we take it so for granted that it didn't hit me until tonight! — with Kathy Cheng at ipv6.RobinCheung.ca.
My current quarter's SBSF-7100 (Research Forum) Required Week 9 Discussion question: Javier Fadul 24 Nov 11 10:45 AM MST Influential book What scholarly book or (substantial) journal article has been especially useful to you in your Walden studies? Please provide full citation and indicate briefly the way(s) in which you have used this [...]
Oh noes; I realize now I chose entirely the wrong Saint, back in 2000. And I even know why. Had I done as I should, I would have chosen St. Augustine, Ndati Agapitus, not shared your brother's. For in ways as superficial as sharing conversion and sinful youth to coming to realize several things in parallel [...]
Having recently found out how close St.Lawrence Martyr was to my home, I couldn't not begin attending there–I knew I'd find a use for the 5 Latin courses I took back in Ottawa a lifetime ago! However, because I have been spending Sundays in Niagara region to take my daughter to her local Church, [...]
There are a couple things that people are either still not clear about regarding the chages to the New Roman Missal that were brought into effect for English-speaking Catholics this past Advent-itious 27 November, 2011: here, I describe how my experience with the Latin Mass (Extraordinary Form, Low Masses daily primarily, since I'm never in [...]
I would that everyone everywhere who wishes to, and is permitted to (a notable segment of our own communities that generally recommends/urges not/forbids celebrating the 31 December/1 January NYE celebrations are our Muslim brothers and sisters–I wasn't simply being gratuitous or an*l..) have an inspiring new year that brings renewed passion, experiences, and reveals yet [...]
I didn't see the whole thing, but whoa man it's really about cross-generations how they're not passing down traditions no more, and ALSO how, and Dr. Tom JUST said this less than 2 minutes ago, "We all of us tend to see the world through the prism of our own eyes….." [...]
Another email that made its way to my blog, that more than two might benefit from critically reading and considering what I note to be quite common… Because your (I call them, unaffectionately, "Ya buts," referring to those little rationalisations we tell ourselves and others that don't stand up to critical evaluation of any kind, [...]
The Word Festival Webcast–as seen from your browser (tix are available for tonight, when they reach the Gospel According to Matthew http://youngcentre.ca/webcast/ live from the Young Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto's Distillery Distrct! As featured on Metro Morning on CBC Radio this morning, with Matt Galloway, Gordon Pinsent began the marathon [...]
Everyone: You might not be as accustomed to slogging through this kinda leisurely mind-exercising material as some others, so don't feel obligated to read this all at once (or ever, really). But do recognize that I thought since I had put some time into writing it down (again) that I'd share it with you–you can [...]
The following is in response to http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/18/4chan_bashes_facebook_google_identity/ wherein Chris Poole advocates incrased anonymity: People should have the right to anonymize themselves online because data doesn’t die and people need to experiment online, he explained. Teenagers haven’t even sorted out who they are in real life yet, he said, and we shouldn’t expect them to do everything online [...]
The Internet doesn't need a licence to use it; back in the late 1980s when I first started my BBS and offered online services (as a Fidonet BBS, I–like Farcebook–required real names and was run completely above-board–something different when offered by a 12-year-old ) But now, we depend on the Internet for [...]
I first wrote this as an email I sent to friends who have helped me in various ways this past summar, but I realized that actually, the nvidia-Linux issue is one that plagues many people because of the widespread use of nvidia GPU-based cards in laptops and desktops. I believe that Linux needs more support [...]
My public key, for people to use to authenticate any of my GPG-signed messages, or to encrypt to me, without needing too check the keyserver (but I prefer you use a keyserver, because then not only I can know that nobody has changed what I wrote and invalidated the signature–and YOU can hold *me* [...]
—–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA1 me IN CASE ypou haven't figured out specifically one exemple of what i meant about reductionist problems with Turnitin: think about this–empirically-based research MUST cite a large amount ofmaterial before it can synthesize from it, and the valiidity restricts the amount of synthesis you can do with that [...]