Archive for August, 2007

Theotropism

Mark Lilla, writing the cover story for this week’s New York Times Magazine, uses the word theotropism. While a Google search reveals that this is not a neologism, I am delighted to run across such a succint term that captures the all-too-common drive to construe the world in divine, supernatural ways. My own speculation is [...]


Death and taxes

While walking around Wallingford yesterday, we came across The Budget Graph.


Fedora Core 7 Upgrade

My experience with the FC6 -> FC7 upgrade


Gullibility in the first degree

The supernatural explanation must be the right one.