Apr 302013
 

Slashed through the heart, and Haidt’s to blame.

Here I am, lying in bed, reading a book on moral psychology on a tablet like a modern man. And then this!

I find it ironic that liberals generally embrace Darwin and reject “intelligent design” as the explanation for design and adaptation in the natural world, but they don’t embrace Adam Smith as the explanation for design and adaptation in the economic world.  (Kindle Locations 5371-5375)

WAS THIS BOOK EVEN IN MANUSCRIPT FORM WHEN I WROTE THIS:

If I can appreciate the economics notion that order can emerge spontaneously “as the product human action but not of human design,” surely I can appreciate evolution’s notion that nature’s complexities can emerge without a designer (and vice versa). Yet many, even vaunted members of the scientific academy, accept one and not the other.

How righteous was Mr. Haidt’s mind after he read my blog and decided to rip me off without giving me credit! Clearly his ‘rider’ is justifying his ‘elephant’ trampling propriety into dust!

Don’t understand that last sentence?

Well you have to read the book to understand it!

And you should.

BECAUSE IT’S REALLY GOOD!!!

GAH

 

Apr 142013
 
Shadow Baby and the Constraints to Power in <i>Game of Thrones</i>

Update: S3E3 “Walk of Punishment” contains a scene between Melisandre and Stannis that elucidates a key physical constraint to shadow baby, which I had mentioned in #2 below. Before the current season of Game of Thrones began, David Chen and Joanna Robinson of the A Cast of Kings podcast took a look back at season [...]

A Year in Cities, 2012

 Posted by on January 5, 2013  signaling, travel  No Responses »
Jan 052013
 
A Year in Cities, 2012

The new year has come, and Thelma reminds me I haven’t yet kept my annual city-logue. Smaller places are excluded save for those in which I spent a longer amount of time. Asterisks indicate a city of residency, while bold type indicates a new-to-me place. My work with Full Lock Media burnished my credentials as [...]

Dec 082012
 
Frank the Christmas Flea

I was going through my papers today (as men of distinction are wont to do) and discovered a holiday tale I wrote for an assignment in high school. A lot of my writing of yore makes me cringe, but this one makes me laugh and I think it holds up pretty well (my fondness for [...]

Oct 032012
 

8:57: Anticipation mounts as over ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND viewers join me on the livestream. 8:59: Which no longer works. 9:00: Am now watching on my digital antenna-powered TV, which seems low-tech by comparison. 9:01: It’s working again! 9:03: Specifics, says Jim Lehrer, which my autocorrect wants to change to Fuehrer. 9:05: Obama wishes his wife [...]

Sep 112012
 

At the end of June I began a several-month stint with Full Lock Media, which specializes in shooting promotional footage for hotels and resorts.  We started by shooting a string of Occidental all-inclusives in the Riviera Maya, followed by two posh St. Regis properties in Mexico City and Punta Mita. We then island-hopped to more Occidentals [...]