Monthly Archives: January 2006

a note on age

Posted on January 6, 2006 by acb

Is it just me, or are the children of decrepit parents growing younger? Continue reading →

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To bed with Margaret Atwood

Posted on January 5, 2006 by acb

and yet another cold. Bodily Harm, an early novel of hers, is larger and more sprawling than the dystopian stories I have been reading recently ( Oryx and Crake, The Handmaid’s Tale ). But it’s well worth the effort — … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Sayers finally enters the ring

Posted on January 5, 2006 by acb

There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man; and by behaving in conformity with which, man enjoys his true freedom. This is what the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Yet more on truth and reality

Posted on January 4, 2006 by acb

My friend Jeremy, a biologist and proteome man, writes off list wrt Schönborn Reality and truth. One of the things that struck me when I was taking a course at EDS is how core values and the words we use … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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PZ vs Dorothy Sayers, round 2

Posted on January 4, 2006 by acb

PZ asks in comments whether "a disciplined adherence to a set of arbitrary rules" can be considered rational. But the whole point about Sayers’ argument, which I have never elsewhere seen so clearly put, is that she does not see … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Apropos nothing

Posted on January 4, 2006 by acb

I am delighted to find that there are clever people who waste their time even more spectacularly than I can. Language log is one of the blogs which does the work that some mailing lists used to do ten years … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Dorothy L. Sayers vs P.Z. Myers

Posted on January 2, 2006 by acb

Though she is remembered for her detective stories. Dorothy L. Sayers was also a theologian, and some years ago, "a book of hers":http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0826476783/andrewbrownssite on the Trinity was reissued. I got a free copy, so I suppose this must have been … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Anti-Semitism and Shakespeare

Posted on January 2, 2006 by acb

The FWB has been studying Merchant of Venice and so we all ended up rereading it and watching a couple of films – an excellent National Theatre production, set in the Thirties, broadcast by the BBC; and the Al Pacino … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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A wasted day

Posted on January 2, 2006 by acb

Yea, even as it is written: “Nerds working with Nerds that which is unseemly, and receiving within themselves the messages of their error which was meet.” I have spent all bloody afternoon trying to reproduce what felt like a perfectly … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Software discoveries of the year

Posted on January 1, 2006 by acb

Let’s see: I find every year fresh means of procrastination toys productivity tools: what have this year’s been? Directory Opus. I’ve been looking for years for something that would give me simple two-pane file management in Windows to replace explorere. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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