Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Here comes the bride…

    I’m solo for a few days while Chris and Daphne are over visiting Chris’ sister and her new baby, so I was finishing up the movie 27 Dresses today while I ate lunch (I fell asleep when Chris and I were watching–no, it’s a cute movie, I was just tired). Anyway, at the end there…

  • Linux vs. Windows

    There are many things that I have yet to run into in the Linux world since I mostly a Windows guy. But since I make web sites, I end up having to deal with servers that run Linux. Anyway, today I ran into something that just had me boggled until I figured it out. I…

  • Traveling Woes

    Chris and I went to New York last week. We had a great time putting around doing the tourist thing with Chris’ family friend George. He was great. Took us to all sorts of neat places and out on a boat on a tour of things that most people will never see. But our trip…

  • Creative Genius

    They say that all creation involves some destruction. If that destruction comes at the beginning of the creation (or before it to pave the way), my daughter is going to be a creative genius. She’s a little over one year old and her favorite past time is taking things apart or finding areas that have…

  • Beginning Failures

    My wife is currently in the progress to building a little outside house for her two bunnies. She’s new to the whole architecture thing and so is having a lot of trouble (not that I am much better), so I went out to see if I could help at all. She was very frustrated and…

  • Global Warming is Bunk

    I never thought much of all of the “global warming” hype. But it’s almost April and it’s snowing on the valley floor in Oregon. Come on. Rain-yes. Snow-Not my cup of tea in this quantity (a lot is fun to play in–just a bit is just cold). Any diehard global warming supporters should just come…

  • Eating Whatever

    I had Ulcerative Colitis for about a decade. In that time I tried endless things to handle it, including various diets. None of these worked for me, but I did learn over the years which foods I had to avoid because they inevitably caused problems: broccoli, seeds, certain tomato products when I wasn’t feeling perfectly,…

  • Additional Reason OHSU is Great

    A couple weeks ago, I went to OHSU for a kidney stone (a drawback from long term prednisone use to try to control my colitis) and while I was there, the nurse gave my daughter a Beanie Baby to play with. We were very impressed and my wife wasn’t totally sure that she got to…

  • No TV, No Problem

    The other day my wife and I were discussing a situation where we could save money each month by switching cell phone providers. And one thing that came up was that we might be able to cancel our internet and just use our phones (turns out this won’t work–oh well). And she brought up canceling…

  • Shower Dog

    I have a funny dog, and I really like him. He’s a pug. We rescued (got him from a rescue organization) him a couple of years ago and he’s come a long way from being in total terror to being quite a dufus. He gets overly excited when people come to the house or we…

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