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Category Archives: thought
Grace as a Motivator
10-Aug-04Titus 2:11-12: “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age” A counterintuitive concept, especially regarding the way modern culture paints “righteousness”. It is grace that allows us to live sensibly, deny worldly […]
Ming the Mechanic has an interesting post on social status, and how our perception of it affects the way we relate to other people. Imagine that two strangers are approaching each other along an empty street. It’s straight, hundreds of yards long and with wide pavements. Both strangers are walking at an even pace, and […]
Brian Eno
13-Jul-04Just skimmed a wonderful (albet long) interview of Brian Eno. His music isn’t bad, but I had no idea the man was this deep of a thinker: His thoughts on “image”: For example, let’s take this pair of designer sunglasses that happen to be on the table in front of me. They’re very styled. They […]
Expatriate Blogs
06-Jul-04Have been following a few expatriate blogs for a while, mostly in meta-reminiscence of my time spent back living in Taiwan. While China differs substantially from Taiwan, I from time to time come across snippets of everyday life that are sort of timeless (or, more accurately, “placeless”, if such a word existed with the same […]
stuff i want to learn
29-Jun-04vi procmail mutt cron wget arabic hindi german lisp or scheme the use of subliminal psychology in day-to-day interpersonal interactions how to use cards as deadly throwing weapons
Ok, dig this: words, synchopated to jazz in an amazingly both-rough-and-smooth and thought provoking fashion. This is what the web shoulda done to nouveaux-art a long long time ago… “My Secret Trip to Pyongyang: Forbidden Love on the Haeoondae” seriously, you gotta check this out…
A little like Asimov’s Psychohistory…
27-Oct-03A couple of news articles showing just how predictable human behavior is. Free will or no, individual choices get subsumed by the mass of humanity interacting together–so a cohesive pattern can emerge from a bunch of people acting individually. In the stock market [Nature Publishing Group] In salary distributions [The New Yorker] In general human […]