The Empty Safe

by doug  —  March 24, 2008

As an amateur prestidigitator, I have always had the utmost respect for well-performed stage magic. In the Art of Magic, effect is of course everything. Sleight-of-hand is a practiced and elite skill, but I am equally impressed by the genius that has devised methods of producing illusions that are staggering in effect but simple [...]

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Ach - My Wasted LifeHalf-BakedAt Break-EvenThought ProvokingWell Done, Afterall (4 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)
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Expulsion

by doug  —  February 25, 2008

I didn’t recognise her voice, nor did I recognise the number on my caller ID, but she said my name with such enthusiastic familiarity that I felt compelled to match her tone. Some of my friends have proven easily insulted by my occasional failures of immediate voice recognition, and who but a friend would [...]

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Ach - My Wasted LifeHalf-BakedAt Break-EvenThought ProvokingWell Done, Afterall (10 votes, average: 4.7 out of 5)
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Of Souls and State Machines

by Loki der Quaeler  —  January 30, 2008

William is packing for, and in transit to, Italy this week where he’ll be doing a couple months of work on The American Memory Project with Justin Bennett. So, you’ll have just Doug and myself this cycle.
Many known belief systems in the world feature the idea of a ’soul’ — a sentient component of [...]

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Ach - My Wasted LifeHalf-BakedAt Break-EvenThought ProvokingWell Done, Afterall (4 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)
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4 Reasons that the Afterlife is for Chumps

by Loki der Quaeler  —  January 22, 2008

This discusses only some of the more common concepts of an afterlife; if you do not have a personal belief in the afterlife, or you do but it doesn’t feature your eternal continuation in a different realm, hanging out with friends and relatives, then you can safely read this article with your value system unassailed.

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Ach - My Wasted LifeHalf-BakedAt Break-EvenThought ProvokingWell Done, Afterall (5 votes, average: 4.2 out of 5)
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What’s Wrong with Stereotypes?

by Loki der Quaeler  —  January 14, 2008

During the few years in which i was at Sun, i worked with several talented people. One of which, Ρ, was a very Silicon-Valley-normal, very intelligent, software developer with a great work ethic; after a while, he had taken a job across the street at Apple and as he was preparing to leave, [...]

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Ach - My Wasted LifeHalf-BakedAt Break-EvenThought ProvokingWell Done, Afterall (3 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5)
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Belief and Common Reality

by Loki der Quaeler  —  January 7, 2008

I was sitting with a close friend, F, and his wife, W, in a Tucson breakfast joint the other month; the discussion was hovering around figures of the Deepak Chopra flavour: how those types continue to profess insight on the workings of the universe by stringing together sexy physics words like a guru-Mad-Lib but who [...]

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Ach - My Wasted LifeHalf-BakedAt Break-EvenThought ProvokingWell Done, Afterall (3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)
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