Category: General

I have heard this before, but I’m glad someone took the time to write an article about it: Earth Worshippers Cause Death in Space: Environmental Dogma Has Led to the Sacrifice of Fourteen Astronauts on the Space Shuttle

I’m back from vacation and eager to get my blog on once more. Preview OCON photos here, and some family photos here. More to come soon!

After three straight days of coding, I’m nearing complection on my VB.Net/Access online store. A few months from now I’ll look back on my skills and laugh, but right now I am a .Net God.

In other news, I’ve set up a few new Collectrix customers, including Mike and Steve, who will hopefully join the growing number of prominent Objectivist bloggers. I have also updated my art gallery and moved it to a faster server and continued developing my home-grown CMS for Capitalism Worldwide. For my next project, I’d like to design an original Win32/.Net application, perhaps utilizing XML and/or databases. I still haven’t decided just what I want to create, so if you have any suggestions, send me a note.

Also: I always enjoy reading about new applications of Objectivism to fields you might think are totally unrelated to philosophy. Well, think again: world class champions in bodybuilding and bridge once again prove that an outlook based on realism and rationality will help you succed in any field.

I have qualms with her views on immigration, but Michelle Malkin has written a great piece on the madness of the SCOTUS affirmative action ruling.

Also: more craziness in NYC: Yoga for dogs.

Please excuse the recent lack of posts and slow loading times — my DNS server is being extremely flaky. In any case, I’m brushing up on my coding skills, and hope to have something to show for it soon. If you’re interested in geeky stuff like that, check out my other blog from time to time. Meanwhile, if you’re up for a little debate and discussion, take a look at my forum.

Thanks to Mr. Anonymous for this this comment:

Someone googled "Jews evil greedy" and stumbled upon your site. You may be Jewish, and you may be greedy, but are you really evil?

I am indeed Jewish by birth and greedy by choice, but am I really evil? Well, since everyone knows that public opinion determines right and wrong, I think this is a perfect opportunity to test my blog’s new polling abilities:

How evil am I?

Axis-of-evil evil RIAA/SCO Evil Mega-evil Mostly-evil Semi-evil Quasi-evil Pseudo-evil Nano-evil Tiny weeny bit of evil Results

Finally! The same people that brough you the inflatable church, portable concrete bunker, and private island, now present your very own weatherwane Boeing 727 Airplane Home.

Mike has the written the first of many great editorials as a new opinion writer for the Battalion. The best parts of his second editorial (on FCC and antitust) were censored by his editor, so he let me to post it here for your enjoyment.

I enjoyed reading Laurel’s take on Iraq and agree with most of it, although I am getting sick of reading non-stop pro-war Iraqi-vision blogs. I appreciate your dedication, but have you noticed that there are witchhunts, scams, boogie-men, liars, thieving plagues, and moochers to worry about much closer to home? Good news too: some of America’s finest are leaving their ungrateful hosts to fend for themselves, while spacemen are learning to explore the skies. And with that, yet another Cox and Forkum on the Middle East:

From Cox and Forkum. Also see this.

(From Day by Day)