My new handle
Evidently, my new Hebrew name of Ananya (it means “cloud of God”) isn’t a good enough hacker handle, according to this place: I wonder if the rabbis at my Beth Din will accept “Backdoor Oddity X”? :python:
Month: January 2005
Learning how to think
Right now, I am horribly out of fashion in my having voted for Dubya, and my support of the war in Iraq. It would appear that, in spite of the great idealism of my youth, I am currently displaying some ever-so-slightly conservative tendencies. This would have made me terribly in-step with the popular adult multitudes … Continue reading Learning how to think
Flag "torture": the many meanings of a single word
From an article describing the alleged “torture” of prisoners at Guantanamo…. A Hand Full of Stars Religious humiliation was also routine, with one agent reporting a case in which a prisoner was wrapped in an Israeli flag. Such whining is beneath contempt. The flag of the only democracy in the middle east is torture? I … Continue reading Flag "torture": the many meanings of a single word
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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right? — Charles Schulz
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