Okay–anyone who’s bothered to read through the all the entries here at Farlops Industries has probably noticed several nagging doubts that have been gnawing at me for the last few years. Greymatter’s progress has fallen far behind most of the major blog scripts out there. My code has forked very far from the latest incarnation [...]
I think it takes a certain level of sophistication and maturity to be an atheist, a willingness to accept that meaning and purpose are entirely artificial, to take responsibility for the consquences of inventing meaning and purpose, a braveness to confront all ideas skeptically. Some of my fellow atheists keep wanting to spread the enlightment. [...]
You know the hardware is old and broken when you can’t even get it install Linux. Yes, I have kernal boot floppies around but these old laptops either don’t have a floppy, the BIOS won’t support boot from CD or their floppy is broken. All I could do was swap the drives to my working [...]
I saw Episode III of Star Wars last Thursday. It was so-so, or at least the best of a bad lot but, here is the interesting thing that occurred to me: there was no way to have “prominent product placement” in the film. It takes place long ago in a galaxy far away. It’s therefore [...]
Living things are complex machines. The mind is a process that occurs with the machine of the brain. There is no magical life susbstance or mind substance. There is no division between life and death, mind and mindlessness. It’s all a continuum and many things lie in the gray area. Life and mind can be [...]
Now I’m truly old. I’ve lived to see punk and thrash return to the station formerly known as KCMU. I guess the kids think it’s hip to be angry again. I’m glad! I was getting completely, aardvarkly sick of the whiney, neo-paisley, post-cobain stuff that passes for college radio these days. It stopped being fun [...]