Hey, I don't know how you got here, but for fresher news you might want to go here instead. It's my Wordpress blog on singularityblues.com and one heck of a lot easier to maintain than this thing was.
"Get with the times, old man", as they say. I'm not starting a facebook page or a twitter feed. You don't need to know that much about me...
Then you might want to go here .
When you go to that last link, you'll recognize the start page for this "book". You'll notice that all the text on the right hand side now have accompanying links (thank you, Wikipedia!).
While I have read most of them, there are a few (Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Mao Tse Dong) I have not. Neither have I read all of "The Republic". Consider the philosophers and economists "extra credit".
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Whilst checking my Google Analytics I've noticed a rather sharp drop-off in my daily readership. I have no idea if this is because my output is worse than usual, or because I've been more "in your face" lately in my sidebar comic.
What I'm getting in your face with is the fact that I'm an athiest.
But even there, what I'm doing is less "in your face" than "daring to make a suggestion". After all, If my Shield of Creation story really bothers you, pass it off as science fiction. I will not be the first to mix religion and science fiction, and I know I will not be the best to do so.
My concern, however, is not "is He or isn't He?" (and only his hairdresser knows for sure, folks). It's "how then shall we live"? Given an entire Universe without God (or even Gods, or gods), how in the hell are we supposed to act toward each other.
I beleive that Dennet and Dawkins (two of the (in)famous "Four Horsemen") have the beginnings of an answer to this-- "niceness is a survival instinct, forged by watching countless generations of heartless sons-of-bitches die a lonely and horrible death".
Hey, I can get behind that.
The horrible truth is that my artistic ability is, at very best, mediocre.
This won't keep me from trying, however. This is just an admision to myself that there is no space in the Louvre waiting for me.
Yes, Middle Age is full of stunning realizations like that. A pity I'm not rich enough to afford an expensive sports car, a liposuction, and an 28 year old girlfriend (let's face it: of the three, the 28 year old would be the most expensive).
Nor do I have the disposition to do any of that anyway. What would I do with a 28 year old? Let's get real here.
I'm mostly depressed because I feel like the quality of my drawing has taken a nosedive recently. I'm not satisfied with it. And I know what that means
Putting more time and effort into it. As if I had more time. sigh
Ouch. Didn't know I was throwing a pity party. Next time I'll have cake and funny hats, I swear!
Every once in a while, when I really want to torment myself, I go visit the Dominic Deegan forums on Live Journal.
It's there that I discover why I must never, ever get any kind of power over another human being, or any position of responsibility, ever. Not even Dog Catcher.
Otherwise I would be tempted to implement my own version of The Final Solution, Singularity Blues style. You'll be finding out about what this might be before the end of the current arc.
It seems like Mr. Terricianno can't catch a break. Here he is, he has a gazillion hits a month, and all his so-called "fans" can do is monday-morning quarterback from the safety of their underwear behind a computer screen.
I'd have more respect for these people if they tried to do something creative themselves. It seems that the cerebellum is only good for generating complaints instead of solutions in modern humans.
sigh
If only Singularty Blues were as certain as either Death or Taxes. Ah, well. You can find the usual suspects here and here
I'm going to be in Sunny Florida this weekend, so no update.
The comics for last week have been expanded. Follow these For Mor! Happy March!
Nothing to say, really. I continue to tinker with my "new acquisition", and today seems like a good day to try to get World of Warcraft working on it. Or not.
Yeah. I've been a slug lately. Lots of "lots of" going on here on the Home Front. Some bad. Some good. Mostly good, actually, but things have been busy.
The usual suspects are in the usual places.
I'm busy putting together my "new" pc, courtesy of COMPUSA and Acer. Not that I would recommend either, but it was a deal I couldn't refuse :D
Is good news. Just follow the links on the home page. I'm plenty pissed off at the moment, so the less said the better.
My Muse is On Hold. There is an update for the main sequence, but that's it. Sorry, gang.
There's a bit going on in my life at the moment. Not a whole lot I can do about it, but "stuff" is happening, and it crowds out "less important" things. Like this story. *sigh*