Right now, as you are reading this, your assessment of the external world is being processed and filtered by your brain. While the brain has often been compared to a computer, it really does not have software. Most of what you retain, manipulate and categorize from the outside world is t...
In the first half of the book, there are the expected short stories, and they’re just as good as you think they are. If you haven’t read the first two anthologies, Nocturnes and Night Music, you should. And when you do, you’ll run into the Caxton Private Lending Library & Book...
and ultimately I ended up spending closer to 70 hours developing the game (the entirety of which were spent after my wife and kids went to sleep at night, which is my excuse if you encounter a bug). Effort estimates are one of the most difficult parts of software engineering...
As mentioned above, the show is excellent at portraying hubris. Joan’s biggest flaw is a mixture of her insecurity and her arrogance, which is a lethal combination. It causes her to act out and lose her temper many times, often resulting in self-sabotage. She destroys several opportunities...
This was discussed 5 years ago, but it seems appropriate to ask again as the cast and crew here at Fluther has changed so much in the interveening years, and the question details here are substantially different as well. Theist often assert that “we know” all things require a cause, ...
as a post-colonial reading ofMerleau-Pontyquickly points out the imagined black Other supersedes that of any disconfirming information. So we are always ignorant until proven smart. Always race baiting haters until we allow racism to run rampant on our sites or bow down to the know it all whi...
Here are a few examples of those subject lines: Poem: the toe has no nose but it knows; my eyes have no clothes but they're closed Poem: I'm so glad I married this trail Poem: HIKING PRAYER: I am here I am here Poem: the wind leaves leaves. The leaves win. ...
For the first time in years I actually didn’t go to YALC (the author lineup just didn’t really interest me much this time, which was a shame as I would have liked to go to the 10th anniversary event but there was no point going when I didn’t really know many of the authors)...
the points most relevant today are “Do not obey in advance” as this gives the regime power without even being challenged, “Make eye contact and small talk” because this builds community across political divides and humanizes the other, and “Be calm when the unthinkable happens” in order...
s why so many people around the planet are still in a bit of shock grieving his loss these few days later. I don’t think that’s going to subside anytime soon. I keep thinking of the old jazz standard There Will Never Be Another Youwhen it comes to this man. That tune has ...