Posted by: meaplet on: September 21, 2009
In the alternate universe where I have a dorky logic blog (which is, I must confess, a very close universe to this one), this post lives on it. The “pornography causes homosexuality” news story that has been making the rounds today is the most delightful example of a classical logical fallacy that I’ve seen in […]
Posted by: meaplet on: May 26, 2008
I learned a few lessons about password security over the last week, and thought I’d share them. I’m well acquainted with the standard techniques of password security, and I always use medium to long passwords with a combination of upper and lower-case letters, and numbers. I’m not quite comfortable yet with using special characters in […]
Posted by: meaplet on: May 15, 2008
Quick update to be thrilled as can be about the end to the ban on gay marriage in California. Supreme Court, I give you the thumbs up. Now, to find a nice girl to marry… — On a linguistic note, I’ve been mildly irked all day by the one-man-one-woman quotation that everybody in the universe […]
Posted by: meaplet on: May 7, 2008
A conversation I had yesterday set me thinking about the sorts of “grammar rules” one learns in high school. Unlike most of my peers, I did not read Strunk and White until some point in college, when my little sister gave me a copy as a gift. Instead, my primary guide was Lucile Vaughn Payne’s […]
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