A life in words

  • Open Up!

    I think I need to be a more open person. I’ve always tended toward keeping my thoughts and problems and worries to myself. I mean, sure, I have a blog, but when do I ever write about my innermost fears and feelings? All of this is very ironic since I’m a strong advocate of openness…

  • Pandemonium

    You know, it’s kind of easy to get freaked out about a possibly approaching tidal wave of global fatalities when every day brings so much news about the “swine flu pandemic”. While that does seem to be frighteningly real possibility, I liked this: While the infected need access to medical care and anti-viral drugs, the…

  • Powers of Two

    Okay, I know I just had a post called “Two Ideas”. I guess I’m feeling binary lately. Here goes…. The two books I bought today Algorithms—this is for Computer Science 312. I think it will go a long way towards being able to understand what the people in the NLP lab are always talking about.…

The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves… to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection [and] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption….George Washington, Farewell Address