http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog A weblog for people who otherwise wouldn't. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:05:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I remember this sort of thing from symbolic logic in college. [Wikipedia] http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2010/02/19/principle-of-explosion/ I like games with weird and extreme rules. So I'm very interested in this: Central Falls to fire every High School teacher Under threat of losing their jobs if they didn’t go along with extra work for not a lot of extra pay, the Central Falls Teachers’ Union refused ... http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2010/02/16/playing-by-the-rules/ http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2010/02/09/more-like-this-please/ I'm conservative leaning on some things and liberal leaning on other things. But I'm rapidly coming to a point where I'll vote for anyone who plans to eliminate the budget deficit. 1 I don't want tax cuts. I don't want more military spending. I don't want ... http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2010/02/09/a-realization/ I know I'm late to this whole Rands in Repose thing but I have to quote this gem from Rands' post on story culture: Imagine if Twitter forced you to follow certain people. What if Facebook randomly added folks to your friends list? You know what you’d have? The evening news. ... http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2010/02/09/why-the-block-button-was-invented/ Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution looks at why we can't buy whatever drugs we want, for whatever reason we want, and comes up with a number of good reasons. This one is huge: 4. Parents cannot be trusted with their children. I would add 5. Drug interactions! Tyler ... http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2010/01/27/why-cant-we-buy-chemicals-and-stuff-them-in-our-bodie/ I'm designing a little voltage controlled synthesizer board, but unfortunately there's something wrong with my circuit and it literally hurts to listen to. I mean, it sounds pleasant enough, but the harmonics on the edge of the range of hearing are super, super loud. These nearly inaudible harmonics ... http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2010/01/25/working-on-some-new-circuit-designs/ Last Monday I went to the Julia Nunes concert in Minneapolis. It was awesome! I threw up a bunch of photos on 8 eyes. I have a bunch more video that I have to sort through; unfortunately I didn't get the best two songs on video. ... http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2010/01/24/julia-nunes-concert/ Been thinking about a quote I heard recently. Don't remember the exact quote or who it was by, but the gist was "everyone wants to imagine how much fun they would have living in the middle ages, but no one imagines that they would be a serf" or something ... http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2010/01/20/i-would-not-make-a-good-serf/ I mentioned this on Facebook but not here -- I finished writing my book! It is about how to make your own macro lenses (for cameras with removable lenses). You probably already know I was working on this book if you've been reading this weblog for the past ... http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2009/12/21/my-book-is-done/