Monthly Archives: July 2008

Political interpretations of Dark Knight

By probabilityZero | July 28, 2008

First of all, Dark Knight is an amazing movie. Heath Ledger gave an great performance, and the storytelling was very well done. I also think that, while the movie can easily be seen to have political implications, they were not intentional, or at least not meant to be viewed as such. That said, the movie [...]

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New, original theme

By probabilityZero | July 23, 2008

I have created a Wordpress theme, which is live right now on this site. Previously I’ve always used pre-existing themes and modified them to my liking, but I finally decided to make my own from scratch.

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McCain, MLK, and civil rights

By probabilityZero | July 21, 2008

As most readers already know, John McCain opposed establishing a federal holiday for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr in 1983. Most Republicans (including Cheney and Gingrich) supported it at the time, but Arizona seemed dead-set against it. The holiday became official in 1986, but only 27 states and D.C. recognized it initially. The governor of [...]

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Douglas Adams on religion and puddles

By probabilityZero | July 19, 2008

. . . imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an interesting world I find myself in’an interesting hole I find myself in’fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!’ This is such a powerful idea that [...]

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Wisdom teeth come out

By probabilityZero | July 14, 2008

I got my wisdom teeth removed today. Not fun.

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Flying

By probabilityZero | July 13, 2008

I recently got back from Las Vegas (went to go see Penn & Teller and Spamalot), and had the pleasure of flying on an airplane there and back. I wasn’t searched or hassled or anything like that — being in the majority pays off, I suppose — but what bothered me more was the general [...]

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Taking a break

By probabilityZero | July 2, 2008

I’m working on other stuff. BBL.

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