Jake Allen’s Ockhamist.com

I bought a new desktop computer last week. It’s great, a Moroccan brand, except that it speaks French and I don’t. When I um, buy a legal copy of Windows, I can get that changed. Until then, I just have . . .
Folie!!!!

I have more pictures to share from my trip to the mountains and the Sahara desert this week. Click the “Morocco_pics8″ and the 9, 10, and 11 for the different folders. Over 400 photos taken on my Treo 650.
Madness!!

I’ve got a new gallery of pictures. They are not well-organized by theme, but I’m using a new flash gallery program, so the load time on dial-up may be a little longer. Let me know if it works for you or not.
The photos do include the Roman arch that Patton stood in front of […]

2nd District Court rules that “Good Samaritan Law” doesn’t apply to pulling victum from dangerous wrecked car.
Madness!

Because there is just so much love over at Daily Kos, I try to link to them whenever possible. (Madness.) So when they deliver (via Reddit) some FOX on FOX satire (Madness), I just have to give them a shout out! Hilarious if you love and/or hate The Simpsons and/or love and/or hate FOX […]

Do Koreans do better in their public schools because the dumb ones don’t get into the statistics? This guy explains “Simpson’s Paradox“.
Madness?

This woman says some of the things that a man just can’t say, like how men have been deprived of their reproductive rights, and how two parents really are better than just a mother. [WARNING: profanity] I laughed out loud. I’ve been accused of misogyny before on this site, and this link won’t […]

Top eleven philosophy quotes from Neatorama.
William of Ockham is number two, with: “Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.” Where it should be.
Augustine of Hippo should be number four, because he said “cogito, ergo sum” first.
Worth a look.
Madness!!!

I have a new gallery of pictures, with snow in Meknes (my city; second snow in 7 years; it’s COLD), me in Rabat ice skating and bowling, a small march by children for rain, and some more pictures from my trip to the mountains, including some of the best ones. The rain march by […]

I went to Rabat today, the capital city. We mostly spent time in the “MegaMall”. It was nice, but expensive. I went ice-skating, bowling, but most importantly, ate 2 triple cheeseburgers at a Quik and took home a large hamburger pizza from Pizza Hut. Almost took home two, but Pizza Hut has […]

New pictures of my trip to the mountains.

Madness!

This guy from Slate explains why learning Arabic is so hard. A must read.
But the ferociously unfamiliar grammar sets us all adrift. Arabic is a VSO language, which means the verb usually comes before the subject and object. It has a dual number, so nouns and verbs must be learned in singular, dual, and […]