Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Susan B. Anthony
Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
Hippocrates
The world is meaningless, there is no God or gods, there are no morals, the universe is not moving inexorably towards any higher purpose. All meaning is man-made, so make your own, and make it well. Do not treat life as a way to pass the time until you die.
Do not try to “find yourself”, you must make yourself. Choose what you want to find meaningful and live, create, love, hate, cry, destroy, fight and die for it. Do not let your life and your values and you actions slip easily into any mold, other that that which you create for yourself, and say with conviction, “This is who I make myself”.
Do not give in to hope. Remember that nothing you do has any significance beyond that with which imbue it. Whatever you do, do it for its own sake. When the universe looks on with indifference, laugh, and shout back, “Fuck You!”. Rembember that to fight meaninglessness is futile, but fight anyway, in spite of and because of its futility.
The world may be empty of meaning, but it is a blank canvas on which to paint meanings of your own. Live deliberately. You are free.
Existentialist
Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
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08.14.11 
chief
This Guy Again
Update (7/30/12): Apparently Gary Suson registered one of his websites, septembereleven.net, on September 12, 2001.
Loyal readers of this highly-esteemed website might remember a post I wrote a while back detailing the harsh emails I received from one Gary Marlon Suson. Said readers might also be interested to hear about a particular email that showed up in my inbox this morning:
So happy to find your entry about Gary Suson’s jaw-dropping e-mails! We have had exactly the same experience with Gary Suson. My mum gave feedback after being invited to do so, giving similar criticism to you, and received a diatribe in response including him accusing her of ‘whining’ and ‘complaining’ and then invited us to go ‘through a time machine and stick you in ground zero and LET you filter thru body parts and bag them’. He called us ‘critical little snobs’ ‘clueless idiots’, told us ‘you have not done SHIT’, ‘keep your fat mouth shut and go to the beach while we do real work over here in new york city’.
This person was also kind enough to share some relevant articles found while digging on the web. Something tells me that there might be a pattern to the way this guy handles criticism…
08.14.11 chief
New Photo Gallery
I recently decided to switch my photo gallery from Gallery3 to NextGEN Gallery. I’m quite impressed with NextGEN. I’d say it has a slightly higher learning curve than Gallery3, but it’s quite easy to use once you get the hang of it. Plus, it integrates wonderfully with WordPress, so no more navigating out to a separate application in order to view Gallery3 content. NextGEN Gallery also has a demo site available if you want to see what it’s capable of.
08.13.11 chief
Zoe Keating
While listening through my massive backlog of Radiolab podcasts, I came across one story where they interviewed this awesome cellist named Zoe Keating. Basically, she uses her cello and a laptop to compose looping, intricate pieces of music. Be sure to check out Sun Will Set.
08.12.11 chief
Apple TV 2 Jailbreaking
I recently decided to swap out my trusty modded first-generation Xbox for a second-generation AppleTV. I was, however, more than a little reluctant to give up using Xbox Media Center. Fortunately, I happened across a dead-simple jailbreaking tutorial over at OS X Daily. Once your ATV2 is jailbroken, you can SSH right into it. With shell access and this equally-dead-simple tutorial, you can get Xbox Media Center up and running on your ATV2 in a matter of minutes. Enjoy!
08.10.11 chief
The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
Economically, a startup is best seen not as a way to get rich, but as a way to work faster. You have to make a living, and a startup is a way to get that done quickly, instead of letting it drag on through your whole life.
What a shock, it’s another great essay by Paul Graham:
08.7.11 chief
What You’ll Wish You’d Known
Great questions don’t appear suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is not to search for them– not to wander about thinking, what great discovery shall I make? You can’t answer that; if you could, you’d have made it.
That’s a favorite quote of mine from another great essay by Paul Graham:
