'Nuff Said on Public Education

Shangri-la

My rapidly becoming favorite bloggerette in the universe over at Headrush has posted an entry on the so-called "Shangri-La" diet, which I've been investigating for some time. It seems the anecdotal evidence is starting to pile up in favor of it, so I'm going to go ahead and give it the plunge. Yet another triumph for Dennett and the school of "mind is what brains do"?

Mimsi lives

After a brief hiatus to decide if it's really worth it or not, the Mimsi project is back on. There are so many fun projects to code, like Jonathon's political analyzer, etc, that I just had to stop & ponder if maybe it was worth it to settle for Ruby after all (I code Java at work and won't do it at home -- it isn't fun enough). Well, Ruby is beautiful and elegant, but as an "I like seatbelts" static-typing all the way-type coder who doesn't want to have to test invariants he could just tell the compiler about, it doesn't work for me. Plus, Ruby doesn't give you free multi-tasking. So if I "owe" you a computer program or three, don't worry, I haven't forgotten; it'll just be written in a language no-one's every heard of. :0)

'Nuff Said on Mathematics

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(a love note to my wife)

Simone DeBovoire Eat Your Heart Out

In yet another stunning upset to the postmodernist theory that gender roles are "mere artifacts of an unbalanced society" and in affirmation of Simone de Bovoire's lament that "biology is destiny", it turns out that gender-related toy-choices are biologically determined, as shown in this study on monkeys.