ExistentialBlues

All schools should teach about Paulo Freire

Nathan Wray — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:04:25 -0500

I find it to be a deep shame that I have only just now come upon the work of Paulo Freire.

Why I'm not going to buy a Kindle

Nathan Wray — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:43:32 -0500

I'm very interested in electronic book readers, but there have been a couple of reasons why I haven't looked seriously into picking one up. Generally my objection has been that they aren't ready due to connectivity, battery life, readability, cost and access to media. Today Amazon gave us another reason not to - your books may get deleted.

On writing and why it can be so hard

Nathan Wray — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:05:06 -0500

I've been working on writing a philosophy paper for the better part of forever. Contemplating the deep meaning of my writers block has not yet led me to a completed paper, but it has led me to something of a revelation on exactly why I happen to get writers block.

Notes 8.5 on Ubuntu Linux first thoughts

Nathan Wray — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:37:24 -0500

In between other, more important activities, I've gotten an Ubuntu system up and running so I could kick the tires of Notes 8.5 for Linux.

Blogsphere 3.02 doesn't play too nicely with Notes/Domino 8.5

Nathan Wray — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:31:53 -0500

Tried updating the ol' blog here again to try out the Blogsphere 3.02 template, but couldn't get it to work.

Great moments in television history

Nathan Wray — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:22:27 -0500

Watching Heroes last week, I got to witness what I believe to be television history - the first on-screen appearance of a peanut-butter and rice cake sandwich.

I graduated the Expectant Parenting class and all I got was this lousy t-shirt - oh, and an inflatable baby

Nathan Wray — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 22:30:27 -0500

Upcoming parenthood has held many a surprise, one of them being an inflatable baby that is very much *not* to be used in training you to beat your child. No, this is a lifesaving, if entirely crepy, device.

I need to spend more time surfing YouTube

Nathan Wray — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:49:27 -0500

I can't believe I'd never stumbled across this before...Most marvelous Mike Myers movie.

MacMini gets a powerup

Nathan Wray — Thu, 6 Nov 2008 23:26:48 -0500

The Mac mine is a very cool piece of computer hardware, the only problem I had with mine was the measly 512 MB of Ram. But when buying Apple hardware new, they really soak you on the memory upgrades AND require you to order on-line rather than pick up from their store, so I heartily recommend getting the base model from them and upgrading the Ram yourself. With most Apple systems this is super easy, like with our aluminum iMac, it took about 5 minutes. The Mini takes this normally straightforward computer task

Summing up the Presidential campaign results

Nathan Wray — Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:50:45 -0500

Cartoon by award winning illustrator Tony Auth