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Thursday, June 6, 2019
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Books I Have Read
Ken Wilber
Fredrick Copleston
A History of Philosophy 4 volumes
Friedrich Nietzsche
Noam Chomsky
Acts of Agression
What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Manufacturing Consent
Mark Zepezaur
Take the Rich Off Welfare
The CIAs greatest hits
Howard Zinn
A People's History of the United States
Stephen Pinker
The Language Instinct
Better Angels of Our Nature
The Secret Life of Pronouns
Dr Paul Ekman
Henry Hitchings
The Language Wars
Dr John McWhorter
The Talent Code
Charles Duhgig
The Power of Habit
Alan Alter
Drunk Tank Pink
Willpower
The Straight A Conspiracy
Lynn Truss Eat Shoots and Leaves, Talk to the Hand
Hesiod
Words and Days/ Theogony
Hayler and Sunstein
Nudge
Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman
Sway
Wray Herbert
On Second Thought
Dan Arielly
The Upside of Irrationality
Predictably Irrational
Michael Shermer,
Why People Believe Weird Things
Tom Robbins
Still Life With Woodpecker
Another Roadside Attraction
Skinny Legs and All
Jitterbug Perfume
Kurt Vonnegut
Cats Crade
God Bless You Mr Rosewater
Welcome to the Monkey House
Bluebeard
Breakfast of Champions
Slaughterhouse Five
Wompeters Foma and Granfalloons
Piers Anthony
Xanth series
Incarnations of Immortality Series
Dragonlance
Chronicles
Legends
Drizzt:
Icewind Dale Trilogy
Homeland Trilogy
Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
Mansfield Park
Saul Bellow
Henderson the Rain King
JD Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters
Nine Stories
Franny and Zooey
The Catcher in the Rye
JK Rowling
The first four
James Morrow
Only Begotten Daughter
I know why the something whale sings
NONFICTION
Everything is Obvious by Duncan J Watts
Innumerancy
The Peter Principle
Acid Dreams
Moonwalking With Einstein by Jonathan
Tricks of the Mind by Derren Brown
Irrationality by Dan Arielly
Influence by Robert Cialdini
Paul Ekman on lies and basic facial expressions
The Worldly Philosophers b Robert Heilbroner
Milton Freidman Free to Choose
Ayn Rands boy toy named Nathanial Brandan The Virtue of Selfishness
Godel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
MICHAEL LEWIS
Liars Poker
Flash Boys
NASIM TALIB
Black Swan
CARLSON AND GRAHAM HANCOCK
Magicians of the Gods
R BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Guinea Pig B
Robert Anton Wilson
ALL OF IT.
YES.
YOU HEARD ME
ALL OF IT.
NLP
Richard Bandler
Robert Diltz
Milton Erickson
More I'm sure....
POETRY
RUMI
BUKOWSKI
HAFIZ
CUMMINS
SUNDIATA
WHITMAN
FROST
ROBERT BLY
AR AMMONS
DR SEUSS
MAYA ANGELOU
PABLO NERUDA
YEATS
WALLACE STEVENS
LORCA
FERLINGHETTI
CORSO
SAUL WILLIAMS
PUSHKIN
WISLAWA O, the polish lady whose name I can't remember.
Be Angry at the Sun
BASHO
ISSA
KABIR
SILVERSTEIN
EMILY DICKENSON
TS ELIOT
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS "This is just to say......"
Sex Without Love
Please Don't Steal My Air Jordans
RIMBAUD
BAUDELAIRE
BYRON
COLERIDGE
Innumeracy
Everything is Obvious
Fredrick Copleston History of Philosophy volumes 4 6 and one i dont remember
Cliff Notes
Oh shit this will be a long list.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE STUFF
AJ Jacobs
The Year of Living Biblically
Drop Dead Healthy
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Tim Ferris
4 HOUR BODY
4 HOUR CHEF
AUDIOBOOKS AND LECTURE SERIES
Daniel Robinson
Great Ideas In Philosophy
Great Ideas in Psychology
Brooks Landon
Sentences, making them awesome.
Heidegger professor
Lots of lecture audio from 2 courses. I'm not sure I ever figured it out.
Alan Dershowitz
Controversial cases that always seem to be on the side of the rich guy
Seth Lehrer
The History of the English Language
J Rufus Fears
Life Lessons from Great Books
Bart Ehrman
The Historical Jesus
Dan Carlin
Genghis Khan and the mongols
The Eastern Front in WWII
Persia, Darius and the Greeks
Early Roman politics
John McWhorter
The Narcissist Next DOor
John Allen Paulos
Innumeracy:Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
Deborah Meier et al
Many Children Left Behind
Mel Levine
A Mind Left Behind
Charles Panati
Extraordinary Origins of Profound Things
Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things
Fredrick Copleston
A History of Philosophy 4 volumes
Friedrich Nietzsche
Noam Chomsky
Acts of Agression
What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Manufacturing Consent
Mark Zepezaur
Take the Rich Off Welfare
The CIAs greatest hits
Howard Zinn
A People's History of the United States
Stephen Pinker
The Language Instinct
Better Angels of Our Nature
The Secret Life of Pronouns
Dr Paul Ekman
Henry Hitchings
The Language Wars
Dr John McWhorter
The Talent Code
Charles Duhgig
The Power of Habit
Alan Alter
Drunk Tank Pink
Willpower
The Straight A Conspiracy
Lynn Truss Eat Shoots and Leaves, Talk to the Hand
Hesiod
Words and Days/ Theogony
Hayler and Sunstein
Nudge
Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman
Sway
Wray Herbert
On Second Thought
Dan Arielly
The Upside of Irrationality
Predictably Irrational
Michael Shermer,
Why People Believe Weird Things
Tom Robbins
Still Life With Woodpecker
Another Roadside Attraction
Skinny Legs and All
Jitterbug Perfume
Kurt Vonnegut
Cats Crade
God Bless You Mr Rosewater
Welcome to the Monkey House
Bluebeard
Breakfast of Champions
Slaughterhouse Five
Wompeters Foma and Granfalloons
Piers Anthony
Xanth series
Incarnations of Immortality Series
Dragonlance
Chronicles
Legends
Drizzt:
Icewind Dale Trilogy
Homeland Trilogy
Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
Mansfield Park
Saul Bellow
Henderson the Rain King
JD Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters
Nine Stories
Franny and Zooey
The Catcher in the Rye
JK Rowling
The first four
James Morrow
Only Begotten Daughter
I know why the something whale sings
NONFICTION
Everything is Obvious by Duncan J Watts
Innumerancy
The Peter Principle
Acid Dreams
Moonwalking With Einstein by Jonathan
Tricks of the Mind by Derren Brown
Irrationality by Dan Arielly
Influence by Robert Cialdini
Paul Ekman on lies and basic facial expressions
The Worldly Philosophers b Robert Heilbroner
Milton Freidman Free to Choose
Ayn Rands boy toy named Nathanial Brandan The Virtue of Selfishness
Godel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
MICHAEL LEWIS
Liars Poker
Flash Boys
NASIM TALIB
Black Swan
CARLSON AND GRAHAM HANCOCK
Magicians of the Gods
R BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Guinea Pig B
Robert Anton Wilson
ALL OF IT.
YES.
YOU HEARD ME
ALL OF IT.
NLP
Richard Bandler
Robert Diltz
Milton Erickson
More I'm sure....
POETRY
RUMI
BUKOWSKI
HAFIZ
CUMMINS
SUNDIATA
WHITMAN
FROST
ROBERT BLY
AR AMMONS
DR SEUSS
MAYA ANGELOU
PABLO NERUDA
YEATS
WALLACE STEVENS
LORCA
FERLINGHETTI
CORSO
SAUL WILLIAMS
PUSHKIN
WISLAWA O, the polish lady whose name I can't remember.
Be Angry at the Sun
BASHO
ISSA
KABIR
SILVERSTEIN
EMILY DICKENSON
TS ELIOT
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS "This is just to say......"
Sex Without Love
Please Don't Steal My Air Jordans
RIMBAUD
BAUDELAIRE
BYRON
COLERIDGE
Innumeracy
Everything is Obvious
Fredrick Copleston History of Philosophy volumes 4 6 and one i dont remember
Cliff Notes
Oh shit this will be a long list.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE STUFF
AJ Jacobs
The Year of Living Biblically
Drop Dead Healthy
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Tim Ferris
4 HOUR BODY
4 HOUR CHEF
AUDIOBOOKS AND LECTURE SERIES
Daniel Robinson
Great Ideas In Philosophy
Great Ideas in Psychology
Brooks Landon
Sentences, making them awesome.
Heidegger professor
Lots of lecture audio from 2 courses. I'm not sure I ever figured it out.
Alan Dershowitz
Controversial cases that always seem to be on the side of the rich guy
Seth Lehrer
The History of the English Language
J Rufus Fears
Life Lessons from Great Books
Bart Ehrman
The Historical Jesus
Dan Carlin
Genghis Khan and the mongols
The Eastern Front in WWII
Persia, Darius and the Greeks
Early Roman politics
John McWhorter
The Narcissist Next DOor
John Allen Paulos
Innumeracy:Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
Deborah Meier et al
Many Children Left Behind
Mel Levine
A Mind Left Behind
Charles Panati
Extraordinary Origins of Profound Things
Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Recent cleverness
I bet the phrase "he who smelt it dealt it" is pretty common in a steel works.
I'm going to call you Tom, cause you're Petty.
That is Nick... because it's Canon.
I'm going to call you Jeff, cause you need sessions.
I'm going to call you Tom, cause you're Petty.
That is Nick... because it's Canon.
I'm going to call you Jeff, cause you need sessions.
Halloween week is the only time it is appropriate to compliment someone on an eyepatch.
Voting Rights
The history of America can be told in a million ways
but
If you wanted to focus on voting rights
it could be a short story.
The people in charge were scared about what would happen
if non landowners could vote
if african americans could vote
if women could vote.
(and now, people with a conviction...)
Each time, they raised a fuss and they worried.
Each time the party in power predicted terrible things.
When those American citizens got their rights,
nothing all that terrible happened.
If you are concerned about felony voters, you might have a point. Maybe violent criminals of a certain type should lose the right to vote. You probably would agree with Florida, which voted some but not all felons retain their right to vote.
What counts as a felony might surprise you. Murder and mail fraud are both felonies. Doing errands for a bad man puts you in RICO trouble no matter what you specifically did. Drug offenses don't follow logical sentencing guidelines.
If you are ok with all felonies being a disqualification, then explain why no national law has ever been proposed. Certain conservative states do it. Why? I can't say. If it's the right thing to do it's telling a national law has not been tried.
If you are ok with disenfranchisement, consider Washington DC. The Constitution gives legislative control over the district to Congress, but consider this fact. The people of our nations capital can vote for president, but they do not have the right to be represented by a voting member of Congress, the exact body that exerts control over them.
Is living in DC the same as a felony? Since residents can vote for president is it a half felony?
Are we still debating the taxation without representation thing?
I must have missed that.
If you have never suggested a national bill to take away felons right to vote, and if you have never been troubled by DC voters not having a voice in Congress, you don't have the ability to argue that voting rights is a moral issue.
It's a fear issue.
What if the wrong people show up to vote? What would they vote for?
I trust our populace. I register people to vote every election and never ask their party. There is some research and evidence backing the wisdom of the crowd, but mostly I trust us to course correct when the crowd makes a mistake.
After all, we aren't Germany.
but
If you wanted to focus on voting rights
it could be a short story.
The people in charge were scared about what would happen
if non landowners could vote
if african americans could vote
if women could vote.
(and now, people with a conviction...)
Each time, they raised a fuss and they worried.
Each time the party in power predicted terrible things.
When those American citizens got their rights,
nothing all that terrible happened.
If you are concerned about felony voters, you might have a point. Maybe violent criminals of a certain type should lose the right to vote. You probably would agree with Florida, which voted some but not all felons retain their right to vote.
What counts as a felony might surprise you. Murder and mail fraud are both felonies. Doing errands for a bad man puts you in RICO trouble no matter what you specifically did. Drug offenses don't follow logical sentencing guidelines.
If you are ok with all felonies being a disqualification, then explain why no national law has ever been proposed. Certain conservative states do it. Why? I can't say. If it's the right thing to do it's telling a national law has not been tried.
If you are ok with disenfranchisement, consider Washington DC. The Constitution gives legislative control over the district to Congress, but consider this fact. The people of our nations capital can vote for president, but they do not have the right to be represented by a voting member of Congress, the exact body that exerts control over them.
Is living in DC the same as a felony? Since residents can vote for president is it a half felony?
Are we still debating the taxation without representation thing?
I must have missed that.
If you have never suggested a national bill to take away felons right to vote, and if you have never been troubled by DC voters not having a voice in Congress, you don't have the ability to argue that voting rights is a moral issue.
It's a fear issue.
What if the wrong people show up to vote? What would they vote for?
I trust our populace. I register people to vote every election and never ask their party. There is some research and evidence backing the wisdom of the crowd, but mostly I trust us to course correct when the crowd makes a mistake.
After all, we aren't Germany.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Tax learning. Tax thoughts. Tax stories.
Tax Thoughts
Would you like to hear a moderately amusing story about taxes?
Ok. Well this year is the last year that there is a penalty for people who do not have health insurance for every month of the year. That change got passed. They were unable to get rid of some of the other parts of obamacare like getting rid of preexisting conditions.
So here I am, having a conversation with this guy, mostly focused on the documents in front of him. I
Would you like to hear a moderately amusing story about taxes?
Ok. Well this year is the last year that there is a penalty for people who do not have health insurance for every month of the year. That change got passed. They were unable to get rid of some of the other parts of obamacare like getting rid of preexisting conditions.
So here I am, having a conversation with this guy, mostly focused on the documents in front of him. I
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Dnd Related Ideas- Faust
Sayings of Faust
A campaign arc should be the development of a unique spell that allows a human to become an elf. An evil human wizard doesn't want to become a lich and finds a way.
The only difference between sinning and winning is one letter.
If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. If you want to make Asmodeus laugh, make God cry.
Friends of the Devil- His Business Plan
God has servants, but the Devil has friends.
If you are probably going to Hell, why not go VIP?
A campaign arc should be the development of a unique spell that allows a human to become an elf. An evil human wizard doesn't want to become a lich and finds a way.
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