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Utah Phillips is by far my favorite folk singer. I was obsessed with trains as a child. And perhaps as a result, I find the hobo/traveling life which Utah often portrays in his music to be rather familiar.
2/4/10
New Blog
So I decided to move my blogs off of myspace and on to a separate website. All of the previous entries are past posts, just liked them enough to re-post them. All entries after this one will be new, so check back every once in a while if you're interested in what I post from time to time.
2/3/10
A Universe from Nothing
"So forget Jesus, the stars died so you could be here today."
This is one of the best lectures I've seen in a while.
Basically a physics lecture, so maybe that's why I liked it so much.
The Evolution of Confusion
Another awesome lecture by Dan Dennett
Very interesting, too. The bits about seminary are insightful.
Very interesting, too. The bits about seminary are insightful.
Darwin and the Evolution of "Why?"
I thought this was a great lecture.
Darwin and the Evolution of "Why?"
by Daniel Dennett
Abstract:
We human beings are the only living things that
can represent, transmit and criticize reasons for doing things and
making things. This creates a perspective for us that we can then use
to interpret all the rest of the life on the planet, cautiously. Mother
Nature's reasons are not just like our reasons. It is our evolved
capacity to ask, and answer, Why-questions that gives us, in the end,
the kinds of free will worth wanting, the kinds that no other animal
has.
Unfortunately the video version of this lecture has been removed.. but I have provided a video with the audio instead... There are six parts.
Darwin and the Evolution of "Why?"
by Daniel Dennett
Abstract:
We human beings are the only living things that
can represent, transmit and criticize reasons for doing things and
making things. This creates a perspective for us that we can then use
to interpret all the rest of the life on the planet, cautiously. Mother
Nature's reasons are not just like our reasons. It is our evolved
capacity to ask, and answer, Why-questions that gives us, in the end,
the kinds of free will worth wanting, the kinds that no other animal
has.
Unfortunately the video version of this lecture has been removed.. but I have provided a video with the audio instead... There are six parts.
Food For Thought
Was reading and came across this quote... Liked it, so thought I'd share.
"If I were to suggest that between Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time."
~ Bertrand Russell
que ganga
"If I were to suggest that between Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time."
~ Bertrand Russell
que ganga
Yucca Flats...
A spectacular film production. A must see. Included is every spoken word throughout the entire movie. Enjoy.
"Randy! Art!"
"Art? Randy!"
Always on the prowl, looking for someone or something to kill. Quench the killer's thirst.
Shoot first, ask questions later.
The pilot dropped his man. Joe Dobson moves north. Hank will be caught in the middle. An innocent vistim caught in the wheels of justice.
A man runs, somebody shoots at him.
Jim Archer. Ex-paratrooper trained to hunt down his man and destroy him.
The hunter and the hunted. With only a few hundred yards between him and the enemy, Jim closes in for the kill.
"Hank, where are the boys? Why are you running?"
"No time to explain Louis. Stay here, the boys may come back, gotta get help."
Joe Dobson headed north to meet Jim. Twenty hours without rest, and still no enemy. In the blistering desert heat, Jim and Joe plan another attack.
Find the beast and kill him. Kill or be killed: Man's inhumanity to man.
"Randy, you think were lost?"
"Maybe, I dunno Art, maybe. Let's go."
"Randy, is the water down there?"
"I sure hope so."
"My throat's dry."
"Mine too."
"Randy?"
"What?"
"Where are we?"
"In a cave, I guess."
"Come on Art, be careful."
"Think that old man can get us up here?"
"Don't talk about it, come on."
The beast, finding the victim gone, unleashes his fury.
"Art, come on!"
"Get back!"
With Hank and some help from neighbors, the search narrows.
"Jim, you all right?"
"Yea... yea. I'm all right."
"Come on, let's go."
Joseph Javorski, noted scientist.
"Mom? Mom, Mom!"
End
The reading of these lines does not by any means equate to viewing the movie itself in its daring entirety. Visit this link and see for yourself.
The Beast of Yucca Flats
Presented by Anthony Cardoza
Written and Directed by Francis Coleman
Presented by Anthony Cardoza
Written and Directed by Francis Coleman
Joseph Javorski, noted scientist. Recently escaped from behind the iron curtain. Wife and children killed in Hungary.
His aid carries a briefcase.
Secret data. Pictures of the Russian moonshot.
Joseph Javorski's destination: Yucca Flats, and a meeting with top brass at the A-bomb testing ground.
These men are also from behind the iron curtain. Two of the Kremlin's most ruthless agents. Their orders: get the briefcase, kill Javorski.
"Mr. Javorski, get in the car."
Flag on the moon. How did it get there.
Secret data. Pictures of the moon. Secret data. Never before outside of the iron curtain.
Man's first rocket to the moon.
Yucca Flats, the A-bomb.
Vacation time. Man and wife, unaware of scientific progress.
Joseph Javorski, noted scientist. Dedicated his life to the betterment of mankind.
Young Joe Dobson, desert patrolman.
"Officer."
"Yea?"
"There's a man dead, back down the road."
"Dead? How far down?"
"Couple a' miles, maybe more, laying behind his car. Looks like he's been choked."
Joe Dobson, caught in the wheels of progress.
Man choked to death, a woman's purse, and footprints on the wasteland.
Touch a button, things happen: A scientist becomes a beast.
"Jim!"
"Be down in a minute Joe. Yea."
"Better come with me. Trouble up the road, murder."
"Be right down."
"See ya later, honey."
Jim Archer, Joe's partner. Another man caught in the frantic race for the betterment of mankind: Progress.
Jim Archer, wounded parachuting on Korea.
Jim and Joe try to keep the desert road safe for travelers seven days a week.
Shockwaves of an A-bomb. A once powerful, humble man reduced to... nothing.
Joseph Javorski, respected scientist now a fiend, prowling the wastelands. A prehistoric beast in the nuclear age. Kill... Kill, just to be killing.
The mouth of the cave, a thousand feet up over the jagged cliffs.
A man murdered, a woman's purse.
Jim and Joe picked their way up to the mouth of the cave. One slip and a thousand feet to nowhere.
"Ah, well there's the owner of the purse."
"Yea, let's take her down, may still be alive."
"Yea, she's still breathing. Careful with her arm Joe."
"Hey Joe, here, feel her pulse."
"Welp, doctors can't help her now. Maybe angels, but not doctors."
"Paper mister? Get your morning paper!"
Vacation time. People travel east, west, north, or south. The Radcliffes travel east with two small boys... adventurous boys.
Nothing bothers some people, not even flying saucers.
"Come on Art. Let's get some soda pop."
"Hey mister, do you mind if we bother you a minute?"
Boys from the city, not yet caught in the whirlwind of progress, feed soda pop to the thirsty pigs.
Coyotes once a menace to.. travelers. Missile bases run them off their hunting grounds.
"How much do I owe you?"
"Three dollars."
"Boys! We're leaving!"
"Mom, we saw some real pigs."
"Yea, and a coyote."
"Coyote?"
"Yea!"
"Don't you go playin' with coyotes. Come on, we're leaving, come on!"
"Aww, we never get to have any fun."
Hundred and ten in the shade, and no shade.
Jim and Joe try to make their way up to the plateau. To reach the top, a man needs an airplane; a jump from a plane could land you on top.
But the killer's not on the plateau.
Hours in teh broiling hot desert sun with no trace of the killer. To put Jim Archer's good paratroop training to good use is the only answer. A trip up into the skies and jump... and if the killer is on the plateau, kill him.
"Hank, I don't see the boys."
"I'll take a look."
"Jim. Shoot first, ask questions later."
"Hank, I can't find them. What do you think we should do?"
"I dunno Louis. Stay here. I'll go out farther, we'll find them."His aid carries a briefcase.
Secret data. Pictures of the Russian moonshot.
Joseph Javorski's destination: Yucca Flats, and a meeting with top brass at the A-bomb testing ground.
These men are also from behind the iron curtain. Two of the Kremlin's most ruthless agents. Their orders: get the briefcase, kill Javorski.
"Mr. Javorski, get in the car."
Flag on the moon. How did it get there.
Secret data. Pictures of the moon. Secret data. Never before outside of the iron curtain.
Man's first rocket to the moon.
Yucca Flats, the A-bomb.
Vacation time. Man and wife, unaware of scientific progress.
Joseph Javorski, noted scientist. Dedicated his life to the betterment of mankind.
Young Joe Dobson, desert patrolman.
"Officer."
"Yea?"
"There's a man dead, back down the road."
"Dead? How far down?"
"Couple a' miles, maybe more, laying behind his car. Looks like he's been choked."
Joe Dobson, caught in the wheels of progress.
Man choked to death, a woman's purse, and footprints on the wasteland.
Touch a button, things happen: A scientist becomes a beast.
"Jim!"
"Be down in a minute Joe. Yea."
"Better come with me. Trouble up the road, murder."
"Be right down."
"See ya later, honey."
Jim Archer, Joe's partner. Another man caught in the frantic race for the betterment of mankind: Progress.
Jim Archer, wounded parachuting on Korea.
Jim and Joe try to keep the desert road safe for travelers seven days a week.
Shockwaves of an A-bomb. A once powerful, humble man reduced to... nothing.
Joseph Javorski, respected scientist now a fiend, prowling the wastelands. A prehistoric beast in the nuclear age. Kill... Kill, just to be killing.
The mouth of the cave, a thousand feet up over the jagged cliffs.
A man murdered, a woman's purse.
Jim and Joe picked their way up to the mouth of the cave. One slip and a thousand feet to nowhere.
"Ah, well there's the owner of the purse."
"Yea, let's take her down, may still be alive."
"Yea, she's still breathing. Careful with her arm Joe."
"Hey Joe, here, feel her pulse."
"Welp, doctors can't help her now. Maybe angels, but not doctors."
"Paper mister? Get your morning paper!"
Vacation time. People travel east, west, north, or south. The Radcliffes travel east with two small boys... adventurous boys.
Nothing bothers some people, not even flying saucers.
"Come on Art. Let's get some soda pop."
"Hey mister, do you mind if we bother you a minute?"
Boys from the city, not yet caught in the whirlwind of progress, feed soda pop to the thirsty pigs.
Coyotes once a menace to.. travelers. Missile bases run them off their hunting grounds.
"How much do I owe you?"
"Three dollars."
"Boys! We're leaving!"
"Mom, we saw some real pigs."
"Yea, and a coyote."
"Coyote?"
"Yea!"
"Don't you go playin' with coyotes. Come on, we're leaving, come on!"
"Aww, we never get to have any fun."
Hundred and ten in the shade, and no shade.
Jim and Joe try to make their way up to the plateau. To reach the top, a man needs an airplane; a jump from a plane could land you on top.
But the killer's not on the plateau.
Hours in teh broiling hot desert sun with no trace of the killer. To put Jim Archer's good paratroop training to good use is the only answer. A trip up into the skies and jump... and if the killer is on the plateau, kill him.
"Hank, I don't see the boys."
"I'll take a look."
"Jim. Shoot first, ask questions later."
"Hank, I can't find them. What do you think we should do?"
"Randy! Art!"
"Art? Randy!"
Always on the prowl, looking for someone or something to kill. Quench the killer's thirst.
Shoot first, ask questions later.
The pilot dropped his man. Joe Dobson moves north. Hank will be caught in the middle. An innocent vistim caught in the wheels of justice.
A man runs, somebody shoots at him.
Jim Archer. Ex-paratrooper trained to hunt down his man and destroy him.
The hunter and the hunted. With only a few hundred yards between him and the enemy, Jim closes in for the kill.
"Hank, where are the boys? Why are you running?"
"No time to explain Louis. Stay here, the boys may come back, gotta get help."
Joe Dobson headed north to meet Jim. Twenty hours without rest, and still no enemy. In the blistering desert heat, Jim and Joe plan another attack.
Find the beast and kill him. Kill or be killed: Man's inhumanity to man.
"Randy, you think were lost?"
"Maybe, I dunno Art, maybe. Let's go."
"Randy, is the water down there?"
"I sure hope so."
"My throat's dry."
"Mine too."
"Randy?"
"What?"
"Where are we?"
"In a cave, I guess."
"Come on Art, be careful."
"Think that old man can get us up here?"
"Don't talk about it, come on."
The beast, finding the victim gone, unleashes his fury.
"Art, come on!"
"Get back!"
With Hank and some help from neighbors, the search narrows.
"Jim, you all right?"
"Yea... yea. I'm all right."
"Come on, let's go."
Joseph Javorski, noted scientist.
"Mom? Mom, Mom!"
End
The reading of these lines does not by any means equate to viewing the movie itself in its daring entirety. Visit this link and see for yourself.
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