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{ Monthly Archives } March 2007

Happy Friday

I started the day by bouncing down the front steps — due to a little black ice I didn’t notice. Sprained one ankle mildly and my back hurts as usual. Grumble.

2007 03 30 Charlie In Passing Comments (0)

If we have free will, does Mr Data?

I want to ask the question “what is the difference between being ‘merely’ unpredictable, and ‘free will’?”

2007 03 24 Charlie Philosophy Comments (2)

In Transit

Very odd day today. Cathy Seipp died, after a long struggle with an aggressive lung carcinoma.  (She told us the actual histology in her blog, but I’ve forgotten now; it was one of the weird bad ones that just apparently comes from nowhere.  She was not a smoker, as every obit seems required to note.) [...]

2007 03 21 Charlie In Passing
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Let a thousand flowers bloom

(Heavy geekery warning, by the way.)

2007 03 20 Charlie In Passing
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“Stone Soup”

Those of us of a certain age remember the Captain Kangaroo show. One of the features of the show was a woman with a pleasant voice reading children’s books, while they showed the illustrations on the TV and moved them around, producing a sort of illusion of animation; one that I remember in particular was [...]

2007 03 19 Charlie Business and organization Comments (0)