lordkalkin

The Korean War Veterans Memorial bears the inscription "Freedom is Not Free." I've been rereading Schroedinger's Cat, and my gut reaction to seeing that phrase in a movie was "Well, that's just wrong." We're born free in virture of our being autonomous creatures. We are taught that we have been given rights by a government, and we to pay for those rights in some...
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Since my last update, I had what I suppose constitutes a major hardware failure. My motherboard seems FUBAR. None of my peripherals work, no input, no output. It starts up, but the monitor stays blank, and keyboard and mouse lose power (optical mice are nice for this because there's an obvious sign), and nothing happens. Consequently, I'm using Tara's computer for now. My hope is...
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Thanks for the birthday wishes, everyone. You're all great people.

Tonight, Tara and I are going to order in Indian and watch Doctor Who. tomorrow, or the next day, we're going to eat at a Thai place in gastown. I really want yellow curry, but I also don't want to miss Dr. Who (I'm such a geek).

On my thesis, the professor I was...
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Happy 4/20 Everyone!

In other news, my term (semester) finished up last Friday. There are still technically exams and whatnot, but, I've handed in all of my work. I still need to work on my thesis proposal; it needs to be handed in by the end of April, so I need to get a draft out sometime tomorrow or early Friday to show to my...
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Let me foreground this by stating that I know the new episodes have been on BiTorrent for a few weeks now, and they have already premiered in Britain. I know it is not the case that I will be one of the first to see the new series, but I am attaching something special to witnessing an official premiere of it that I don't have...
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Today I start what we at UBC call "Easter Long Weekend." The long and short of it is that we get Friday and Monday off, but since I don't have classes on either Thursday or Tuesday, and my afternoon seminar was canceled due to the APA (which I had to skip out on for monetary reasons), I don't have to return for class until next...
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I had a long za-zen session yesterday morning. I don't know quite how long, but it was at least 30 minutes, maybe as long as 45 or 50. I hit several layers of pain, limbs falling asleep, pins and needles stuff. I just kept going through it. When you've meditated a bit, you start to learn to be aware of your own will. It comes...
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I spent the bulk of this weekend marking papers for my TA class. I need to do some reading, but I've been pretty burned out. I just want to get this term over with so that I can focus on writing my term papers and not worry about going to class. I work better on my own time.

I also can't paint any miniatures until...
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Whenever we're short of stuff, I always remember how handy it is to go dumpster diving. Our building manager put out a perfectly good 17 in monitor today. Ed grabbed it, made sure it worked and gave it to me in return for buying the next couple of rounds of weed. We also got a set of shelves for Tara's studio that way, and there's...
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Ok, i know I haven't updated in ages. This term, I'm taking a seminar on the metaphysics of causation. Yes, it is just as technical as it sounds. I was just on the phone talking to someone else in the class trying to puzzle out the calculus in an article we're supposed to present after reading week is over.
I hope to get started on...
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