Philosophical Musings
Taxes Taxes and more Taxes
Friday, August 3rd, 2007Everybody pays taxes. You can’t help it, no matter how hard you try. What you can help, however, is at what rate your income is taxed and the amount of taxes you do pay, in the end. The current system we have actually enables the richest portion of US citizens the ability to pay a [...]
The Mystery of the Bees
Sunday, May 13th, 2007Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Small, buzzing bees. They bothered you at your picnics when you were a kid. You never really took much notice of them, until one day, they started to disappear. Sounds like science fiction, right? Well believe it or not, bees all over the country have been disappearing at an alarming rate over the past 6 [...]
Virtual Worlds, Part the Second
Saturday, April 28th, 2007So you’ve tried Second Life. You know about Sony’s upcoming Playstation Home. You think the idea of hanging out with your friends online in a virtual environment that you may or may not be able to create sounds like fun. Well, what’s the other side of the coin? What’s the business and monetary part of [...]
Some Tidbits To Ponder
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007Here are two quick things for you to think about until I get my next big post up. The first is a news release by JPL. The release explains
Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have observed that planetary systems – dusty disks of asteroids, comets and possibly planets – are at least as abundant [...]
A Retort
Monday, April 2nd, 2007Well, looks like I riled up someone out there… this is a retort to this post by Sophistpundit (aka Adam) on my post The Wool Over Our Eyes.
First off, before I begin this retort, I’d like to point out that there is a comment system setup for people to actually comment on my posts [...]
The wool over our eyes
Monday, March 26th, 2007I was pondering last night (as I do most nights) and had some thoughts on the current state of our society, so get ready! There were maybe 7-8 people over at my place, and the conversations started to shift from the usual “How was your day yesterday” to items such as celebrities (Paris Hilton - [...]
Virtual Worlds, Part 1
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007Everybody in our society loves to get away. Whether through a vacation, movie, Internet chat, book, or even drugs and alcohol, just about everyone has a favorite way they unwind, relax, and put the stresses of our everyday lives to the back of their minds. Perhaps one day soon we will never have to leave [...]
Prologue to a Phenomenology of Individual Investor Consciousness: Part, the First
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007Heidegger identified time as the horizon from which Being is to be understood. I am not one to reinvent the wheel; and, I am in the mode of standing on the shoulders of my preceding giants, therefore, let us introduce this introduction by way of the temporality of economics, viz. the phenomenon of market timing. [...]
Prelude to the Prologue to a Phenomenology of Individual Investor Consciousness
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007I–by these words–am committing myself to write a series, wherein I will examine the nature of the Consciousness (large “C,” denoting the intended hypostatization of that which is inherently non-substantial and generally, if not wholly, misunderstood) that undergirds the actions of the individual investor, to which class of persons I belong. I do not propose that what [...]