Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

By the third week, it's a tradition

Someone is trying to fax something to my phone. Dolt that I am, I keep answering...maybe this time it's a person who wants to talk to me instead on an ear-splitting fax tone! I need conditioning lesson from my rats.

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Cool sites of the week: the most common fallacies (from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy) and the Critical Thinking Consortium.
I'll be honest: a lot of my thinking is not critical, and I fall into some of those fallacies way too easily.

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Man survives six nails driven into head. Something disturbs me about this. Not the guy surviving, of course...that is great as well as amazing...but the fact that the incident occurred at all. Seems to me there should have been some fall arrest protection or something, and I have heard that a safety feature on the nail gun may have been disabled.
There is no such thing as a freak accident, just broken links in causal chains.

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Good pictures from last week's Kinetic Sculpture Race.

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Around the time that today's high school seniors were in diapers I was swatting cicadas and choosing a major. Now, despite my sticker shock over current tuition, I'm contemplating a new degree and a career change. I wonder if there is any such thing as the 17-year itch.

Thus endeth Friday's random collection of mini posts.

Posted by Nic at May 7, 2004 12:16 PM