http://www.cogitolingua.net/blog Sounding out the Noosphere. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:55:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ordinarily I wouldn't post up a bunch of stuff that I encountered on YouTube, but this collection of one persons account of his deconversion from Christianity to Atheism is so thoughtfully considered and carefully presented that I was absolutely captivated, and would like to share it. The concept of God is, ... http://www.cogitolingua.net/blog/2010/02/09/deconversion/ I usually don't post too much personal stuff on my blog, but I thought this was important enough that I should make an exception. It has been one month now since I came out to my family. So I thought it would be a good idea to write up my ... http://www.cogitolingua.net/blog/2010/01/15/my-coming-out/ Remember that desktop machine that I assembled way back when? My paranoia led me to arrange the disk layout as follows: 2 drives in a mirror that will hold the primary system, and 4 drives in a RAID 5 for storage. The mirror was arranged by partitioning each of the ... http://www.cogitolingua.net/blog/2010/01/05/love-the-raid/ So the quarter finally ended, and I can get back to having a social life over the holidays! The compiler that I wrote was, in my personal opinion, a pathetic failure. Though we were able to generate some x86_64 code that actually ran (given a bootstrapping program), it would crash on ... http://www.cogitolingua.net/blog/2009/12/12/quarter-update/ It's become somewhat a habit of mine to purchase for myself some sorta technology each Xmas. I'm usually the one to make the purchase myself, because I'm pretty much the only one that knows what I want and need. One of the curses of being so introverted, is that nobody ... http://www.cogitolingua.net/blog/2009/11/22/xmas-for-myself/ The last post about Ray being bananas was far too light on the details. So, I thought I'd say a bit more about the ordeal today, while I have some time. Ray operates a ministry in Huntington beach, and can usually be found on a soapbox bantering with beachgoers on Saturdays. ... http://www.cogitolingua.net/blog/2009/11/22/ray-comfort-is-bananas-part-2/ For a couple of months now I've know that Ray Comfort plans on distributing a republication of Darwin's Origin of Species on many North American campuses. I took quite some time out to write a rebuttal to all of the fallacious arguments that he makes in his Introduction so that ... http://www.cogitolingua.net/blog/2009/11/17/ray-comfort-is-bananas/ This post is primarily a status update of some stuff that's been going on in my life. It's main purpose is to alleviate the personal guilt that I feel for neglecting my post frequency. Over the summer, I had the free time to make a few additions to my social life. ... http://www.cogitolingua.net/blog/2009/10/14/a-new-quarter/ Last night I went up to the Inland Empire Atheists MeetUp, to see Darrel Ray talk about his book "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture." It was actually part of a normal meeting, (held in a nice and cozy Unitarian Universalist church) so it started off ... http://www.cogitolingua.net/blog/2009/09/18/god-is-an-infectious-disease/ The Libertarian think tank CATO recently published a small, trite piece that attempts to establish The Case against Literary (and Software) Patents. Being a Libertarian, I actually agree with the position; I just don't think that this article fully explored the issue. Here, I seek to provide some links to ... http://www.cogitolingua.net/blog/2009/09/04/intellectual-land-grab/