Category Archives: Philosophy

Please Don’t Learn To Speak French

This essay is a par­ody of this essay. You should read it as such. It will be of lit­tle inter­est to the great major­ity of my read­ers but there was no point in putting it on my rapidly dying tech­nol­ogy blog. Today (regard­less on which day you are read­ing this) on Twit­ter, a hun­dred or so …

May 15, 2012 – 9:52 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Philosophy, Technology | Comments (4)

Why I’m Not A Football Christian

Does God know par­tic­u­lars? Before you answer that, take a moment to con­sider the ram­i­fi­ca­tions of the answer, both pro and con. Like answer­ing the ques­tion “Did you ever get caught mas­tur­bat­ing in the closet?”, any answer you come up with is a net loss if you’re a Believer (or a closet mas­tur­ba­tor). If you …

January 11, 2012 – 5:50 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Philosophy, Sports | Comments (5)

Physicality

Busque­mos la gran ale­gría del haber hecho (Let us seek the great hap­pi­ness of hav­ing done) — from Juan Ramon Jimenez’s Max­imus Recently, I read an excel­lent essay in Gar­den & Gun mag­a­zine on the cel­e­bra­tion of John Graves’ birth­day. In it, the author talks about Graves’ stoneworks at his ranch and his need to …

April 18, 2011 – 8:20 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Gardening, Philosophy | Comments (5)

Holes In The Embedded System

Steve Yegge has writ­ten a fas­ci­nat­ing, thought-provoking arti­cle on embed­ded sys­tems. In it, he dis­cusses embed­ded sys­tems ala games ala Mario Kart and muses on the invis­i­ble bound­ary around all embed­ded sys­tems, how infor­ma­tion gets into and out of embed­ded sys­tem and the pos­si­ble ram­i­fi­ca­tions when we think about all things as embed­ded sys­tems. A …

January 12, 2009 – 4:20 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Philosophy, Programming | Tagged , | Comments (1)

The Key to Greatness

Yeah, I don’t really have a quick answer for that but it seems to revolve around con­cen­tra­tion. This includes mak­ing 2750 free throws in a row. Con­cen­tra­tion is some­thing I find I lack. Part of this comes from my addic­tion to tech­nol­ogy. But part of it is deeper and relates to the neg­a­tive affect the …

March 8, 2007 – 9:33 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Philosophy | Comments (2)

Meaning

I’ve always found the fig­ure of Sisy­phus fas­ci­nat­ing and appar­ently so did Camus.  If life is truly absurd, as Camus believed, how do we find meaning?  Sisy­phus gives us a clue, lend­ing evi­dence to the idea that the jour­ney, not the desin­ta­tion, is what truly gives mean­ing to some­thing. In today’s world of instant grat­i­fi­ca­tion …

February 7, 2007 – 11:10 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Philosophy | Comments (0)

Absurdity as Truth

I don”t believe I have an absurd claim that I believe. I think this is prob­a­bly a sign that I don”t believe in enough things to have any of them be absurd. What absurd claim do you believe in?

March 21, 2006 – 9:36 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Philosophy | Comments (2)