Category: Thoughts
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Finding Wilderness Within Civilization
Read more…: Finding Wilderness Within CivilizationI read this article from The Guardian about an ophthalmologist who is spending his retirement living out of a backpack and hiking all around the US. Most of it is only mildly interesting, but I loved this part: The next night, we slept in a copse of gnarled oaks beside a graveyard, a shady grove…
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I was having trouble connecting to my Karma Go device on my iPad. Wasn’t auto connecting to the website to authenticate. So I tried the old http://192.168.1.1 trick (happened to be the device’s IP) and it worked!
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Why I Canceled My Medium Membership
Read more…: Why I Canceled My Medium MembershipI jumped on-board the Medium Membership train back in March, as soon as I could. I was excited about it. I couldn’t wait to see the great content behind the paywall and to see what new features they were going to roll out just for members. Well, three months later I’m cancelling my membership. Here’s…
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Giving to beggars: My policy, reasons, and recent outcomes
Read more…: Giving to beggars: My policy, reasons, and recent outcomesI have a policy when it comes to giving to people who come up to me in the street and ask for money to buy food or some basic necessity: I tell them that I do not carry cash (this is the truth, I do not carry cash), then offer to purchase for them what…
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Answer to Logic Quiz
Read more…: Answer to Logic QuizHere is the answer to the logic quiz I posted a week and one day ago. The original statement took the form “If p, then q” where p: “the red car is broken” and q: “John drives the blue car.” The only statement in a)-g) which is equivalent to that is statement c, which is…
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Logic Quiz
Read more…: Logic QuizHere is a little logic quiz for you: Given this statement, which of the following is correct? List your answer in the comments. (The answer can be any combination of the statements.) Statement: If the red car is broken, then John drives the blue car. a) John drives the blue car only if the red…
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Palindrome Dates
Read more…: Palindrome DatesI didn’t have time to post about it yesterday, but yesterday’s date was a palindrome! (For those of you who don’t know, a palindrome is something that reads the same backward as it does forward- Yesterday’s date was 01022010.) It was only the second palindrome date of the 21st century. The first was 10022001 (October…
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Day 363 – New Year’s Resolutions
Read more…: Day 363 – New Year’s ResolutionsI did a little thinking on New Year’s resolutions today, and they do not make much sense to me. Why resolve to do something that you think will better your life in some way starting at a future date? Whether what you are doing is trying to break a bad habit (smoking, drinking, overeating, procrastinating,…
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Day 355 – Calendar Question
Read more…: Day 355 – Calendar QuestionI visited my friend David Wagner today, and we drove all around the Huron/Sandusky/Port Clinton area this afternoon. David just got home for Christmas from his teaching position on Bordeaux, France. I haven’t seen him since the beginning of September, so it was wonderful to spend all afternoon and evening with him. If everything goes…
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Day 339 – Logic Puzzle Answer
Read more…: Day 339 – Logic Puzzle AnswerHere is the answer to the Blue Eyes Logic Puzzle I posted. This answer comes from mathematician Terence Tao, and has to do with common knowledge. — 100 days after the Guru’s comment, all the blue eyed people will leave. This is proven as a special case of Proposition. Suppose that the tribe had n…
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Day 334 – “Blue Eyes” Logic Puzzle
Read more…: Day 334 – “Blue Eyes” Logic PuzzleAs you probably know, I love logic puzzles. I came across a particularly difficult one today, so I thought I would share it with you. I first came across it on mathematician Terence Tao’s blog, but I saw another formulation by xkcd creator Randall Munroe, and I like his formulation better. It is his formulation…
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Day 332 – Ship of Theseus
Read more…: Day 332 – Ship of TheseusThe ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place, insomuch that this ship became a standing example among…
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Day 250 – Expectations
Read more…: Day 250 – ExpectationsAn aspect of human behavior has been puzzling me lately…Expectations. When we are asked a question, why do we expect there to be an answer? Since this is probably not terribly clear, consider this: A friend walked up to me in my dorm one day and asked me if I noticed anything different about his…
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Day 176 – Aesop’s Fables
Read more…: Day 176 – Aesop’s FablesI came across a PDF version of Aesop’s Fables today, and I spent a while reading them. While reading them, I was struck by the economic principles his fables contained! Though the principles were not named until long after his time, some of his fables definitely contained some ideas that modern economics uses. I suspect…
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Day 156 – Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Read more…: Day 156 – Ch-Ch-Ch-ChangesI thought a little bit this evening about how much Hillsdale has challenged and changed my ideas, just over the last year. What started this tonight was that I read a note from my friend Matt Stone, who is interning in DC this summer. He went to a lecture hosted by the Leadership Institute, and…
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Good Reads
Read more…: Good ReadsI decided to link to a few articles that I think are worth reading. If you have some time, look through them. The Dream That Was America by Robert Hawes Can You Say Marginal Rate of Substitution? by Gary Galles The Enemy Is Always the State by Lew Rockwell Everything You Love, You Owe…