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This is an entirely separate argument. My problem with Russell is that he reads the gospels and concludes that Jesus was a great moral teacher which is not one of the conclusions you can draw, no matter what you think of the reliability of the text or the events it describes.

> why I do not think that Christ was the best and wisest of men, although I grant Him a very high degree of moral goodness.

No Bertie. He did not leave that option open to us and never meant to. To call him a great moral teacher is to entirely miss the point. He was either insane or lying or telling the truth.

I remember reading this post around the same time as I came across the concept of psychogeography, an interesting way of looking at how the exploration of our environments and how they're made up affects our attitude and emotions. Die Hard is a great example of this, so is The Shining. The deliberate disorientation and spatial impossibility of The Overlook conveys deep unease just by being what it is.

>only beautiful country where old women still gather acorns by hand, and 80 year-old men who are free to hone their lifelong craft of making tofu.

This is absolutely the atmosphere of My Neighbor Totoro.

I feel personally attacked :) Lots of symptoms of ADHD in here too as well as bipolar (I have both and enjoy Lisp too).

Saffer here who was privileged to see him live in Johannesburg. RIP man.

An almost complete set of helicopter flight controls for XPlane out of wood, aluminum, potentiometers and USB controllers. Works exceptionally well for a virtual Huey.

Plan to throw one away. You will anyway. - Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month.

HP12C and HP15C. I also have a 15C emulator on my desktop.

Methane explosion. If it was LPG gas there would have been a flame. Plus there are no gas lines in that particular block.

Hah - I remember this prod. Super Grover ftw! I had done some svgalib work so I had no problem running it as root. In those days I had a Cirrus Logic or a Matrox dual head.

That's sad. If only he had known 7 layer Flemish technique. On the other hand, then we wouldn't have his unique style.

I will, thanks!

I went to the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam because I was there and it was on the bucket list. Pictures in a book or on web pages do not do justice to how vibrant the pictures are in real life. Plus, in the days before additional security was required, you could go right up to them (within reason) and check them out up close. They look like they were painted yesterday. Not everyone likes his work but I'm a fan.