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Egoism Individualism Sovereignty Splendor (These ideas are explicated in this sloppy manifesto) SplendorQuotes: Splendor is the interior experience of being so enthralled by the act of creating the values that contribute to and ultimately comprise your idealized perfect self that, while you are experiencing it, you are your idealized perfect self. Living is what you're doing when you're too enthralled to notice. Dying is what you're doing when all you can do is notice. Man is the only animal capable of comprehending what his life requires, and he is the only animal capable of failing to do what his life requires. Self-love is the joy and reverence you earn and deserve by the relentless pursuit of your deepest desire. Self-esteem is the high regard in which you presume to hold yourself in appreciation for the accomplishment of absolutely nothing. Greg Swann's writings Wild Cochise Gang: Our family pages and Christmas cards Read my free e-book about love, splendor and philosophy, The Unfallen My Myers-Briggs type is ESTJ: Administrator--Much in touch with the external environment. Very responsible. Pillar of strength. 8.7% of population. Take a free Myers-Briggs personality test. War with Iraq: The Cain Doctrine The 'wrest' of the story Taking a better grip Why the Bush Doctrine will prevail--and fail A Just and Libertarian war... Persephone's second coming... presence of the recent past Nick and Norm drive the point home A Costco family Christmas Hang tough The season's greetings Curing the incuriosity of the East A canticle for Kathleen Sullivan Colloquy with a goat Back-handing the sinister American left To Condi, with sweetness Reds Sacrificing Diana Defusing the Unabomber Let 'em eat steak Shyly's delight Anastasia in the light and shadow Archives Join the email update list 
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Friday, October 07, 2005
A fool for poker... Like I don't promote these folks enough already:  I have registered to play in the This event is powered by PokerStars. Registration code: 1543041 Monday, October 03, 2005
My wired life...  The computer in the middle of the photo is a brand new Apple Macintosh iMac G5. On the left is a fairly robust HP laptop, which I am obliged to own because the Phoenix MLS system won't run in Macintosh web browsers. The computer on the right is my now-very-elderly G3 Macintosh, which was a powerhouse when I bought it in 1998. The G5 is there because the G3 just can't keep up with the demands we're putting on it. It's still a great machine for writing and for email, but the graphics required for our business are simply too rich for its by-now poor resources. I've lived by preference in the Macintosh world since the 1980s. I can hold my own with Windows machines, but I hate them, hate every cheesy little thing about them, hate the thoughtless design decisions (yes, that's a contradiction) that infest both the hardware and the software. There is no one who has worked any time at all with Mac hardware and software who would ever voluntarily go back to the Windows gulag. But: I am a long way out of this stuff. My G3 is running OS 8.6, up from 8.1 when I bought it. The new G5 runs OS X 10.4 Tiger, a wildly different underlying system with a mildly different look and feel on top. Underneath is BSD Unix, so the Mac ships with its own Apache web server on board: I can test new PHP code on my desktop, without uploading to a server. There's a lot more to the Unixness of this pretty box, but there's a lot more of everything to it. Obviously, all the professional publishing tools I've used for years are here, in newer and cooler but still very stable versions. Tonight I've been downloading Apple's incredibly rich Software Development Kits. I may port some of my legacy software, but I have new problems to solve, and the Mac is a truly wonderful software development environment. The fact is, the micro-computing world made a horrible mistake when the original IBM-PC started shipping. Apple has made mistakes of its own, but for quality, reliability, and especially for intelligence of design of both hardware and software--for a depth of thoughtfulness unprecedented in any sort of consumer product--the Macintosh is desktop computing, and Windows is a hopeless, hapless, horrifying fraud. Think different for half a workday. At first you'll kick yourself for wasting half of your working life. But soon enough you'll forget all that as you revel in a technology that actually works... |
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Work
I am a a Realtor working in sunny Phoenix, Arizona, and the Designated Broker for Bloodhound Reatly. I am an Accredited Buyer's Representative, a Certified Buyer's Representative, a Certified Residential Specialist, an E-Pro Internet Certified Realtor and a Graduate of the Realtor Institute. I speak frequently on real estate issues and write a weekly column for West Valley sections of the Arizona Republic. If you need--or you know someone who needs--to buy or sell a home in the Metropolitan Phoenix area, I would be grateful for the opportunity to compete for the business. I think I represent the best of all worlds: Objectivist intelligence, Libertarian integrity and Catholic conscientiousness. For a liberty-loving take on real estate news, visit the Bloodhound Home Marketing Group weblog. And if what I'm doing suits the readership of your web site or weblog, please do link to it. Or go me one better by putting the customizable button above on your web page. Either way, for every person you refer who buys or sells a home with us, we will donate 10% of our net commission to the charity or advocacy group of your choice (within limits; we won't give money to people who kill people). Find out more from our referral page.
Play
If you don't know how to play poker, but want to learn, a place to begin is my Amazon list of poker books for beginners. Just remember: If you don't have a Positive Expected Value--you're gambling... | ||
