Electric Josh

Tuesday, June 11, 2002

Whoa, this Ed guy makes a good read. Anybody know who this is? I liked the first thing I saw (about haiku); interesting voice, if nothing else. Like reading E. B. White's Letter From the East (relevant NYT Book Review article here), which isn't necessarily all that compelling a read except for the fact that it's so smoothly readable. Now why, again, am I completely incapable of producing this sort of thing...? #

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I've decided that one should make a habit of reading things he disagrees with. In that spirit I point out this fun little Eric Raymond blurb, which has something for everyone to disagree with. Not necessarily something pithy or clever to disagree with, but you get the idea; nevertheless, note that it takes some non-zero amount of energy to respond using reason rather than asserting that Raymond is an idiot. #

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Adam points us to pictures of his trip to east Asia, tho Tripod has some kind of crazy bandwidth limit that prevents the page from loading more than a few times (total) every two hours. #

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Lee points us to the Onion, which reports that science is hard:

"While it is true that I have become an acclaimed physicist and reaped great rewards from my career, one must not lose sight of the fact that these blessings came only after studying all of this completely impossible, egghead stuff for years."