Monthly Archives: June 2008

Yet another wannabe game designer

By probabilityZero | June 17, 2008

I’ve started a new section of this site, called Talking in Circles Games. I’ve already released one game (interactive fiction), and I plan to release more in the future.
Honestly, I’m surprised it took me so long to do this. I’ve been making games on-and-off for a long time now. In elementary school I messed around [...]

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Quotes from Bertrand Russell

By probabilityZero | June 17, 2008

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: “The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that’s fair.” In [...]

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Evolution is both fact and theory

By probabilityZero | June 16, 2008

No, that isn’t a contradiction. Evolution is both fact and theory.
Stephen Jay Gould wrote a paper called “Evolution as Fact and Theory,” and it sums up the issue quite nicely:
In the American vernacular, “theory” often means “imperfect fact”–part of a hierarchy of confidence running downhill from fact to theory to hypothesis to guess. Thus the [...]

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I got a USB Tablet

By probabilityZero | June 14, 2008

Yup, a Genius “MousePen 8×6.” I played with it for an hour or so in Photoshop. My first thought was that I wasted my money — the pen and tablet didn’t change the fact that I’m a crappy artist — but after I got the hang of it I began to like it. Sure, I [...]

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Dennis Kucinich introduces 35 articles of impeachment against Bush

By probabilityZero | June 10, 2008

I caught a bit of this live on C-Span yesterday, and I think it’s about damn time. Of course this isn’t going anywhere, but it’s nice to see my favorite congressmen up there saying what myself and millions of other people think.
As readers of this blog may remember, I supported Kucinich in the Democratic primary [...]

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Thoughts on TinyXP

By probabilityZero | June 9, 2008

I just installed TinyXP on a system I’m building for a friend, and I was amazed. I chose the “BARE” install without IE/OE/WMP, and it worked like a charm. It booted very quickly, and the ram usage was just above 70mb total!
The idea behind TinyXP is that most of the useless junk that comes with [...]

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Moments in History

By probabilityZero | June 7, 2008

For a while, everyone was asking each other “where were you when you heard about 9/11″ “or what were you doing,” etc. While I was alive (11 at the time), I was too young to really appreciate what had happened, so the memory never really stuck with me. From what those older than me have [...]

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Clinton is out, Obama is the candidate

By probabilityZero | June 7, 2008

Finally. Now we can all focus on winning the actual election.
And I think we will. Despite the prolonged primary race, the Democratic party is staying strong. Obama offers something new, whereas McCain has practically turned into Bush. I think a bit of optimism is called for.

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Witty quotes and insults from Winston Churchill

By probabilityZero | June 2, 2008

Not only was Churchill one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, he was one hell of a witty guy. These are a few of my favorite quotes and anecdotes attributed to him:

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
In war it does not matter who is right, but who [...]

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