Author: theazureshadow

I'm a occasional Facebooker. I accept many friend requests, but I can't remember when I last made one myself. Some of my closest friends also have this strategy. So, today, I added Cami and Becky and Aaron, along with a few others. I thought it was a shame that I have a bunch of Facebook…

I feel like an addicted man who has been denied his pleasure for a month, finally getting back on it. I'm back in Spokane with my computer.

Chinese facing shortage of wives China will have 30 million more men than women by 2020 making it hard for them to find wives, a report says. Mexico leader in tortilla pledge Mexico's President Calderon vows to tackle the soaring price of tortillas, the flat corn bread which is a diet staple. Also, Making Light…

So, you may remember Aaron Brown's post about torsion of the testis. I assumed that it was a morbid way to kill someone, but I was wrong. Most people have some structure that keeps their testicles from moving around too much. Overexcited genitals can get themselves into trouble without such structures. Apparently I'm some mutant…

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at…

I like the feeling when I begin to read a book, and by the time I'm 20 pages into it I realize that I am in fact rereading it rather than delving into a work entirely new to me. I am currently in the middle of Douglas Adams' The Salmon of Doubt which I first…

Spent another day primarily reading: spin-the-head mixture of Philip K. Dick sandwiched with Kerouac directly after Tortilla Flats with some light Zelazny alongside. Dick's uncertain realities mixed with Kerouac's stream-of-consciousness narrative—period-bare prose—after Steinbeck (who is an undeniable stylist, though more conventional than Dick or Kerouac) was a confusing mixture. Kerouac's Subterraneans and Dick's VALIS were…

Yes, I'm crassly materialistic. So what? Books The Butter Battle Book, Dr. Seuss Notes from a Small Island, Billy Bryson The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien (Alan Lee illustrated edition) Neon Vernacular, Yusef Komunyakaa Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot Selected Poems, Czeslaw Milosz Music Piano Man, Billy Joel The White Album, The Beatles DVDs Firefly…

Mike Libby likes bugs. He grew up dismantling appliances, and now he disassembles old watches and circuit boards only to assemble insects. They\’re very pretty. [ see my favorites ] [ explore the \”insect lab\” ]

I just finished my final essay for Philosophy of Technology and e-mailed it to my professors along with the digital sources. It\’s a bit idealistic, but I think it\’s an interesting argument. I uploaded it in nice html form here: Open Source as Human Endeavor. You can also download the Word document. It\’s not a…