If you ride a man
If you ride a horse sit close and tight, If you ride a man, sit easy and light.
Incorrigible Observer
Cheney U - "I felt better after I did it"
Write things worth reading
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
Migration of this website from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9
I use this website as an archive of my scientific publications and as a place to post occasional observations on life, the world, and whatever comes my way. It's all very indulgent at this point.
Drupal 7 to Drupal 9
I've just completed migrating the site from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9, which was more work than certainly I'd have liked. But Drupal 7 is way out of date now, and they say future upgrades will be pretty painless. We'll see about that.
Commentary
Rand on Faith
Faith is the worst curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought. To rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies - that one has no rational arguments to offer.
When I was 14
cvining
Sun, 03/13/2022 - 17:16
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
No right to secede
If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede
Not planning to attack other countries
“We are not planning to attack other countries,” he told a Turkish reporter. “We didn’t attack Ukraine, either.”
Face of a Botticelli
Did anyone ever tell you you have the face of a Botticelli and the body of a Degas
One Redwood
I think, too, that we’ve got to recognize that where the preservation of a natural resource like the redwoods is concerned, that there is a common sense limit. I mean, if you’ve looked at a hundred thousand acres or so of trees — you know, a tree is a tree, how many more do you need to look at?
Speaking of Redwoods
I saw them; there is nothing beautiful about them, just that they are a little higher than the others.