Monthly Archives: March 2012

The Negative Impacts Of Positive Laws

When I took my con­cealed carry license course here in Dal­las, my class was made up of 30–40 mostly well inten­tioned, atten­tive folks. Demo­graph­i­cally, it ran the gamut from young adult males to elderly women, white, black, his­panic, you name it. Most of the class was inter­ested in what the instruc­tor had to say and …

March 21, 2012 – 8:42 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in National Issues, Second Amendment | Comments (0)

Meditations On Meaning

“I denied myself noth­ing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no plea­sure. My heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor. Yet when I sur­veyed all that my hands had done, and what I had toiled to achieve, every­thing was mean­ing­less, a chas­ing after the wind; …

March 14, 2012 – 4:22 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Book Review | Comments (0)

Fast Paleo Goulash

I came across this great look­ing recipe for Hun­gar­ian goulash last week. I’m going to try it soon but since I only had 45 min­utes today for lunch, I made a fast ver­sion with ham­burger that turned out pretty good. It can’t com­pete with any­thing cooked in a slow cooker for hours but it makes …

March 10, 2012 – 6:44 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Food | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Thinking About What We Think About When We Think About Food

At the risk of slid­ing down an excep­tion­ally slip­pery meta-cognition slope, I’ve been think­ing about food and think­ing about think­ing about food a lot lately. This is par­tially due to what many observers from the West­ern world would see as a rather restric­tive diet I’m cur­rently on (where diet does not mean “A fad to …

March 9, 2012 – 9:33 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Food | Comments (1)

In Defense of Innocence

“Sed nec de sus­pi­cionibus debere aliquem damnari diuus Tra­ianus Adsidio Seuero rescrip­sit: satius enim esse impuni­tum relin­qui fac­i­nus nocen­tis quam inno­cen­tem damnari.” — a per­son ought not to be con­demned on sus­pi­cion; for it was prefer­able that the crime of a guilty man should go unpun­ished than an inno­cent man be con­demned. Tra­jan writ­ing to …

March 8, 2012 – 9:20 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Legal Affairs | Comments (0)

Just Because You Can Kill Someone With It Does Not Make It Insecure

This week­end, Github had what an impar­tial, under­stated observer might call a small dustup related to how the Rails web frame­work func­tions “out of the box”. For those amongst my non-technical audi­ence (well, your eyes have prob­a­bly glazed over at this point any­way), Github is a com­pany that pro­vides host­ing of source code using a …

March 5, 2012 – 9:28 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Technology | Comments (1)

Lent 2012 Day 10

We’re ten days into the Lenten Exper­i­ment and over­all, I have to say it hasn’t been as hard as I would have expected. First some stats. In the first 10 days, I’ve got­ten up by 5 AM seven times, by 5:30 2 times and by 6:30 once. That last time was the sec­ond day when …

March 2, 2012 – 7:50 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Epiphany | Comments (2)