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Closing My Posterous-Blog 24 Feb 2013 | 10:57 pm
As you may have heard posterous is shutting down on April 30, 2013. (See the offical posterous-statement ) That means that with May 1, 2013, all blogs on posterous will be unaccessible. There will be...
Dying 16 Feb 2013 | 04:57 am
She was born in the penultimate year of World War I in a tranquil town in the south-west of Germany. She endured Inflation, Depression, the Third Reich, and World War II. After the war and in the earl...
Dying 13 Feb 2013 | 11:43 pm
She had been born in the penultimate year of World War I in a tranquil town in south-west Germany. She had endured Inflation, Depression, the Third Reich, World War II. She and her children had lived ...
Being a Bugger 28 Jan 2013 | 06:59 am
To become humane means to become guilty; or, in modern secular parlance : to become a bugger. The question (or rather : problem) then is : What next? Redemption is the way Scripture lays out as path a...
Villains And Victims – Part 3 3 Oct 2012 | 04:24 am
Every once in a while one stumbles upon an explanation so thrilling that it changes the way one looks at a problem. This happened to me in 2010 when I read Tom Junod's The Sore Winners: Will America's...
How Many Stars There Are 2 Oct 2012 | 01:38 am
To Clara, Louise, and Ida Many years ago, in a rough and dirty place, there once lived a peevish dragon. He was an ugly pal, stinky, and fond of burning stuff. One day, after his work of messing up t...
Something only Humans Can Do 15 Aug 2012 | 01:27 am
Humans are necessary to this world. They are probably the only sentient beings that can actually say “Thank you.” Not that this belittles the gratitude animals can show to each other and to human bein...
After Wikipedia 1 Aug 2012 | 06:37 am
In 20 years Wikipedia will be forgotten. It will then be remembered only by some specialist in the Department of Information Archaeology. This latest re-staging of the dream of a Universal Encyclopaed...
The Mind-Body Problem of Digital Information 11 Apr 2012 | 09:17 am
With the human being, the mind-body problem has a specific twist: In a person, we cannot explain how mind and body (can) come together to form this specific unity. There simply is no way to understan...
Dust Bunnies 17 Feb 2012 | 04:50 pm
At times even the grumpiest old bachelor will recognize his flat to be populated with dust bunnies. Made of dust, lint, hair, skin, and a good portion of this.and.that, those little flocks sit under b...
