And I am off….

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Three months in the planning, a thousand dollars worth of extra gear, and the moment of truth has finally arrived…
Tomorrow, Sept 1, I leave my idyllic home in Berkeley and head East…across California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Kansas and Missouri to the sleepy little college town of Columbia.  [...]

Philosophy as a Way of Life

I just finished reading Pierre Hadot’s “Philosophy as a Way of Life.”
This is the best book that I have read in at least 10 years.  Focused mostly on the Hellenistic era but also going as far back as Socrates and as far forward as Nietzsche and Foucault.
The book seeks to elucidate philo-sophy (love of wisdom) [...]

Earthier Than the Average Hippy

Having just re-reread my previous post on religion, I didn’t like the way that it appeared that I came down on Gramma, so I thought I would write this post for balance.
More than anyone I’ve ever met, Gramma was “in tune” with her environment.
She knew every bird and its song as well as its migration [...]

Thinking About God…

At the local Barnes and Noble book store, they have a new section on Atheism.  They’ve hacked together the space by shrinking the philosophy section.  Two full aisles, front and back for religion, a small section for philosophy a few feet across.  Then they go and shrink the section further.  What can really be said [...]

The Smokester

The Smokester, originally uploaded by foggytown1.

Less than two weeks and Smokey and I set off on a 350 mile canoe trip.

Windows 7 RTM

Over the weekend I upgraded the RC versions of Windows 7 on my laptop and desktop to the final version of Windows 7.  I did a clean install on my desktop and an unsupported upgrade on my laptop.  Both installs were flawless.
Months after Vista RTM, just 12 days before general availability, I posted here my [...]

Refresh of The Agora

I’ve just recently given my ancient philosophy site, The Agora, a visual and content refresh.
It has been a while and the cream yellow color was on the stale side.  Also I had made use of tables which did not scale well for mobile devices, and that needed fixed too.  And the code…originally built in Kompozer [...]