A neat TV series on PBS, called Evolution, is now getting to be on YouTube (I guess it originally aired in 2002). Start here (Evolution Ep1: Darwin’s Dangerous Idea):
I know the first show/episode (Darwin’s Dangerous Idea) is on YouTube, broken up into 11 videos; I’m not sure about the rest of the episodes. If [...]
Barack Obama made a stop at Santa Barbara City College on 9/8/2007. I went with several others. I post about it because there’s some nice media available on it that I can post here.
Here’s a news story about it:
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2007/sep/09/obama-stumps-at-city-college-in-santa-barbara/
Fellow philosophy grad student, Dan Dolson, is even quoted in it (that reporter from the [...]
I have recently been noticing some vicious critiques of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. A recent New Yorker article (“Know it All: Can Wikipedia Conquer Expertise?“), for example, discusses the pros and cons of Wikipedia. The article highlights some praise (even from a famous philosopher, Hilary Putnam), but also [...]
I have had this blog space for a long time, but never really used it. I have been using Myspace for a blog spot. However, I am going to try and start blogging over here instead. So I’m migrating my posts from Myspace to here. I know I will enjoy not [...]
So we moved to Santa Barbara (Goleta actually). The high was 77 today. The highs have been in the mid-70s all week. I think this is where God lives. I may give up grad school and begin my search for Jesus in SB. Could be difficult though. A lot [...]
Today is the anniversary of the death of Chris Cravens, the drummer for Avington (the band I was in). I only knew him for a year or so, but we had some good times. He was a great guy. I just wanted to post something in his memory.
Just droppin’ in to congratulate myself on graduating college! I now have a B.A. in Philosophy. I’m just so happy that almost half of it is over… 6 more years. Good lord, that’s a lot of school. But I’ll savor the joy of being done with Sac State.
Last semester I applied to numerous Ph.D. programs in philosophy at various schools across the country. I got in to UC Santa Barbara… AND they offered to financially support me!
I don’t know exactly why I’m posting a blog about this… I’ve pretty much told everyone.
