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Entries from June 22nd, 2009

Learning from the boys…

June 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off on Learning from the boys… · Older Essays

The neat thing about being a parent is the experience of raising children. It is a role that teaches you responsibility. What’s the example you choose to set, and how do you help them to deal with the rolls and bumbles that come along? What do you make sure to keep them insulated from, and […]

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Origami intentions

June 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off on Origami intentions · Older Essays

“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.”  Sigmund Freud We can only go so far and so long not noticing before the […]

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Head Mistress

June 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Head Mistress · Older Essays

I prefer the company of men at work. It is with regret and pragmatism I make the observation that the company of women in the workforce can in many cases be reduced to archetypal Grimm characters who have lost their edge but crack the whip. Many, not all. There is something among women that cannot […]

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Applied knowledge

June 12th, 2009 · Comments Off on Applied knowledge · Older Essays

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.   Vannevar Bush Texas Hold’em is a game about which I would […]

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