Steve likes "slothful induction" (cf. the giant list of fallacies) because of the image it conjures: huge furry three-toed animals debating propositions of logic. I still haven't perused the list. Every time I look at …
BreakupGirl.com. LaughPage.com. Important, popular, useful sites that I visited perhaps a hundred times. Gone, gone.
I finished The One Best Way yesterday evening. I enjoyed it, although Kanigel rather maddeningly draws no concrete conclusions about the benefits and disadvantages of Taylorism today. At least he presents much evidence and argument …
Wow, the Amtrak.com website has improved its usability greatly since I last had to interface with it. I can now recommend it! My classmate Jeff Good, graduate student in linguistics: "there are limits to my …
Allow me to retract my earlier comment. The weather has had no effect whatsoever on the logic of my blues. If today had been as sunny as delight, I would have thought, "what an opposite-of-inspiring …
After I queried Leonard on his favorite logical fallacy (send me yours!), he sent me a link to a giant list of fallacies. Oi, how depressing. I probably commit six of these before breakfast.
I didn't make Daily Cal columnist. Shoot. That plus the boring gray foggy rainy weather gets me down. Maybe I really wouldn't want to live in Seattle or on the East Coast, if the weather …
Hey, neat. I just ran into Jade, who tells me that she is also taking Intro to Logic next semester. It's been too long since I had a study buddy. We can sharpen each other's …
My friend Shweta Narayan drew an insightful comic that references an out-of-context remark by George Lakoff you might have heard about. What's Going On? She'll tell you! I always forget the difference between metonymy and …
Some fella from an antivirus/computer security company, referring to Goner, sounded really exasperated in his comment to an NPR reporter. "You would think that, when a file is this patently a virus, people wouldn't click …
