Faith and atheism

Well, we had a lot of thoughtful comments, email, pingbacks et al. on the topic of faith and atheism. Thanks to all for their input… we will definitely be pursuing this, an essay is in the works. This will just take some time to research,  think through and organize…

Another take on MRI…

Turns out writer Bruce Sterling had an MRI, thirteen years ago, and wrote about same in a piece entitled Magnetic Vision. Writes Mr. Sterling:
“These are magnetic windows into the lightless realm inside my skull. The meat, bone, and various gristles within my head glow gently in crisp black-and-white detail. There’s little of […]

90 minutes in a big magnet

Personal victory: I spent 90 minutes in a closed GE Signa 1.5 Tesla MRI machine tonight. 90 days ago I couldn’t do a MRI in an open machine, so claustrophobic am I. 6 weeks with cognitive therapist Diane Strachowski, and a little Ativan, and here I am doing a 90-minute study in a closed MRI […]

Fry’s, finally, goes online

While reading a SJ Merc story about Adobe’s founders John Warnock and Chuck Geschke, I saw an ad for Fry’s.com - it would seem that at long last the world’s most eclectic geek store has a real web site. I’m browsing motherboards and vacuum cleaners…

The new atheism, the new faith

Wired has an interesting article this month about the ‘new’ atheists, who hold that religion is not just wrong, it’s evil. Wired’s cover tag line reads ‘No Heaven, No Hell, Just Science.’ The article is based on interviews with scientists Richard Dawkins and Sam Haris, and philosopher Daniel Dennett.
Right after 9/11, at least one secular […]

Light and shadow on Big Dish

Pretty trees on the Alpine Road side of ‘Big Dish’ aka the Stanford Academic Preserve, throw long shadows in the morning light, though we rose much later than usual this Saturday morning. Life is such that I’m spending time, when I can, enjoying things like the morning light, as you can see chronicled here. Heh, […]

Moon and mist greet the dawn

Lagunita, the oft-dry pond at Stanford, is sometimes graced, on cool mornings, by a low mist, 3 feet or so deep, that snuggles in the basin. That was the case this AM, as Linda, Cassie and I made our way, close to sunrise. A tiny crescent moon added to the charm, hovering over the eastern […]

Why rising at 6:00 a.m. is a good thing

Dawn this morning was rather pretty in a subtle way. A clear sky greeted us as we stumbled out into the darkness, returning to our rise-before-dawn schedule, complete with a sliver of a crescent moon (just visible in the upper right of this snap). Some clouds on the horizon caught the sun’s first rays as […]

A fall morning’s sky

Sky was pretty as we set out on a walk yesterday morning, a bit later than our usual crack-of-sunrise time. I’m at least temporarily on medicine that makes me wobbly, so we’re walking our AM circuit, much to the delight of Cassie the dog. Cassie’s pushing 13, and the jogs are getting a bit much […]

A traveller’s guide to Mars

We’ve had a very full full day, so tonight I’ve decided it’s OK to fully veg. So I’m reading A Traveler’s Guide to Mars by William Hartmann. It’s written like a real tourist’s guide…

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