new paper in verbal
April 16, 2002 by Eric Richardson
I just put a new paper in the papers section of verbal intercourse. This one is titled "Moral Obligation to Help," and examines whether we have a moral obligation to help others. I say that we do not, because the instances where help would be obligated are impossible to enumerate.
c project
April 15, 2002 by Eric Richardson
So I've decided what the project I'm finally going to use to learn C will be. For a little over a month now, I've been logging song names in my whatsplaying database. This includes track information for a lot of SHN files that don't have any track information embedded in them. My project is to write a plugin for xmms that looks the song info up in whatsplaying and puts it in the xmms status bar.
this weekend
April 15, 2002 by Eric Richardson
So this weekend I went up to a waterski tournament a little south of Bakersfield. It was an interesting weekend, to say the least. I sucked up the slalom, literally throwing myself at the first buoy after realizing I bombed my approach angle. I did better on trick, however, managing to stick both 180s and a couple of slides before I wiped out. I'm now burned, and a little sore.
dogs
April 15, 2002 by Eric Richardson
Last night I heard dogs barking really late at night. Now, that may not seem unusual to you, but I live in south central LA at the moment, and there are no dogs around here. Dogs in the ghetto puzzle me.
more in verbal
April 11, 2002 by Eric Richardson
Today I posted my newest paper in verbal intercourse. I've called it Scientology and Free Speech. Basically it's about Scientology's attempts to use copyright law to censor critics. It focuses on the Netcom case from 1995 - 1996, and the Google situation last month.
Tonight I get to write another paper, this one on moral oligation and whether we're obligated to help others. The articles I'm reading for research are pretty interesting, and I think the paper will come out well if I can get a handle on what I want to say.