Yet again, I had planned to write about healthy mourning, and yet again, what's on my mind being hijacked by what's rattling around in my heart.
There is this innocent, necessary, and healthy stage of mourning that is also so terribly cruel: the …
Category: Life Tagged: Content Warning Life Loss Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy Prose WritingMonth
Read MoreI remember once watching a video of presenter at a Linux conference boldly proclaim, "UNIX is dead."
As someone who worked on UNIX systems for over a decade, and who's played with UNIX variants off and on for three decades, that is a pretty incendiary statement.
With apologies to Sophocles …
Category: Tech Tagged: BSD Computing Ethics FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Linux Non-religious post Philosophy UNIX WritingMonth
Read MoreSo, last night I stayed up late carefully putting up my cat's effects: food bowl, water bowl, litter tray. I washed his carrier (because he peed in it when he was sick) in the washing machine. I was scheduled …
Category: Prose Tagged: Life Loss Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy Prose Content Warning
Read MoreI was thinking about the difference between a kingdom and an empire, and the difference between a king and an emperor.
Let's start with some basic definitions...
Category: Ethics Tagged: Bible Christianity Ethics Language Philosophy Non-technical post
Read MoreSix years ago, I found myself sitting in a classroom in one of the most beautiful, über-modern buildings on campus. I was in a graduate course surrounded with incredibly intelligent and kind classmates (a rarity in grad school in my experience, sadly), and two very experienced, passionate, and sophisticated professors …
Category: Philosophy Tagged: Beauty Philosophy Non-technical post
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