I write a lot of overblown junk, but it's a reaction to the various stuff that gets thrown at me. I'm willing to approach This Thing of Ours from all kinds of different angles, and I have. My ideas evolve when they hit something that unlocks them, etc etc...
All rights claimed, I am human, like everyone else. (don't go there.)
Also, yeah I know about the corruption of language and nothing really is what it says it is, and all that. But I'm not going to bother with e-prime or anything like it, most of the time, because I am going to assume that you also know that everything is a hologrammic metaphor for everything else.
Maybe this assumption will shine through without having to keep restating it and being all awkward and all.
ALSO: most of my entries are friends only, for various reasons. The stuff you see here is only the most dolphin safe.
- disclaimer:
daoistraver- May 23rd, 2012
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- daoistraver
- August 29th, 2007
- Funny Quote
- daoistraver
- August 22nd, 2007
"For all the superficial parallels that can be drawn between Mssrs. Putin and Bush, they made an oddly matched pair during their February 24 meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia. After all, it could be said, one of them heads an increasingly authoritarian and lawless government that is pursuing a radical vision of global revolution rooted in the teachings of the Soviet Union’s founders. The other is merely the president of the Russian Federation."
- William Norman Grigg
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- daoistraver
- August 7th, 2007
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- daoistraver
- August 6th, 2007
Stock Market Meltdown
Already the big investment banks are taking on water. Merrill Lynch has fallen 22% since the start of the year. Citigroup is down 16% and Lehman Bros Holdings has dropped 22%. According to Bloomberg News: “The highest level of defaults in 10 years on subprime mortgages and a $33 billion pileup of unsold bonds and loans for funding acquisitions are driving investors away from debt of the New York-based securities firms. Concerns about credit quality may get worse because banks promised to provide $300 billion in debt for leveraged buyouts announced this year……Bear Stearns Cos., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., are as good as junk.”
- here it comes...
- daoistraver
- August 6th, 2007
this is great.
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- daoistraver
- July 15th, 2007
now I'm certainly no constitutionalist, but this is a nice aristotelian/lockean smack down here.
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- daoistraver
- July 11th, 2007
if any of you use SQL Server, I wrote a handy little script that will optimize your DB
just run it from osql with the -d option
here's the file
if you'd prefer to copy and paste the sql yourself here's it is below the cut:
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- daoistraver
- June 24th, 2007
What Really Matters
- John Taylor Gatto
"In 1776 a full 90 percent of Americans not in slavery shaped their own work, they had independent livelihoods, and in 1840, despite the rise of industrialization the figure was still 80 percent. It was hard then for any man to get rich on the labors of others because there wasn't much free-floating labor to be had; people worked for themselves. That – liberty and independence, not wealth or comfort – was the American miracle."
and people don't know that because it's not taught as our history. We're taught that what made America great was our vast wealth, but that's not true.
Before 1900 the thing that foreigners always marvelled about us was the fact that the average citizen here was living like a lord would anywhere else. Well informed, opinionated, creating their own wealth...
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- daoistraver
- June 6th, 2007
The Real Story of Money
This guy says it so directly and simply. Really great.
On a related note:
Asshole (the Drinking Game)
