Curt Doolittle

Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

  • Great day. Two profound insights. I am so happy that I understand it all that I

    Great day. Two profound insights. I am so happy that I understand it all that I almost don’t care if anyone else does. 🙂 But that would be too selfish. Immoral even.

    What is left really? I’m going through it. The list. Metaphysics, Truth, Epistemology, Ethics, Economics, Politics, Aesthetics? Is there anything left that I don’t understand yet? I suppose there is always room for improvement. I suppose I can always expand application. So i suppose there really is no end to it. But I at least THINK i’ve completed my attempt to understand how we westerners were vulnerable to pseudoscientific mysticism, why our civilization collapses, how to articulate our history, and how to defend against future assaults on it by empty verbalism masquerading as truth.

    I guess there are a few economic problems that I don’t understand. I am not confident yet that the inflation question is controllable, and insurance maintainable under the various MMT schemes. I am not even sure I can solve that myself. Maybe I don’t need to. Maybe just stating it at this point is the best we can do.

    I guess, I don’t see anything necessarily wrong with german philosophy other than it’s all a desperate attempt to restore the authority of the church. But while it’s untrue, that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily bad in its application. I suppose I should clarify my position on Germany (Sparta) a bit if I’m going to pose this argument as a tale of three cultures.

    When I first came to this resort I was pretty frustrated that I couldn’t put these last few bits together, but I managed anyway – even though I felt off kilter most of the time we have been here.

    So maybe I need to just ruminate a bit, go through the TOC and see what I still am not comfortable with.

    Then I’m sure I”ll find some hole or other. I always seem to. Although I’m a little lost right now as to where to start looking…..

    Humans are really fascinating.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-21 03:36:00 UTC

  • I love running into Italians everywhere in the world. Some people simply are bey

    I love running into Italians everywhere in the world. Some people simply are beyond governance to the point of self harm. But dammit I love living in a world with Italian men. lol A bit loud. But it’s a happy kind of loud.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-21 02:45:00 UTC

  • Another July Conqueror

    Another July Conqueror

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 07:42:00 UTC

  • OUT UNTIL DAWN Dang. Sunlight. That’s dawn. ;). Huh. Everyone is still dancing.

    OUT UNTIL DAWN

    Dang. Sunlight. That’s dawn. ;).

    Huh. Everyone is still dancing. If dawn isn’t a reason to stop then might as well keep going….Apparently we are going to the beach now…. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 22:03:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3qkf3bajd4

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 19:30:00 UTC

  • UKRAINE HELP: GOING EAST AND BACK I might need to get a friend into Lugansk in t

    UKRAINE HELP: GOING EAST AND BACK

    I might need to get a friend into Lugansk in the next couple of days, to help a relative, and out a week later. It looks like as long as you’re in a car and without much cargo that it’s not a serious problem. I’m pretty sure I have friends that can make this happen. But if anyone has suggestions I’d like to hear them.

    Thanks

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 15:08:00 UTC

  • (man humor) Two twenty five year old women in my hotel room, deciding what they

    (man humor)

    Two twenty five year old women in my hotel room, deciding what they will wear to the disco, as if, as an attractive twenty-five-year old female, it matters – and bordering on tears at the smallest hint of imperfection. Me here, my clothes for the night are laying out on the bed, watch, belt and all – and I’m typing up bug reports, laughing at the absurdity of it. It’s all about their status relative to other women, and improving their confidence. And it has nothing to do with men whatsoever. Because honestly,it’s not like any man in the world would say no to ether of them, or kick them out of bed for that matter. 🙂

    Women are fascinating. Humans are fascinating. Endlessly.

    Revel in it. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 14:55:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 06:20:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 04:20:00 UTC

  • IT’S 3:00AM AND WE ARE WORKING. So, I can’t tolerate the heat, so I can’t sleep,

    IT’S 3:00AM AND WE ARE WORKING.

    So, I can’t tolerate the heat, so I can’t sleep, and I’m wrestling with a couple of interesting ideas, and I see a comment on one of my posts from the guys in Cyprus. So I ask them what they’re doing at 3:00AM.

    They’re drinking beer and writing web socket code… Web sockets are very lightweight background connections that let your web page update to reflect changes in the data. So in Oversing if say you’re working on something and someone posts a comment like they do in FB, it will appear on your page.

    So, last time they stayed up drinking beer and programming, they increased performance by about 10,000% (Oversing is now effectively instantaneous – above the threshold of user expectations.)

    So now I have a new business rule. “Give Them Beer”.

    They just sent me a low- light photo of themselves, shirtless, with beer, and laptops laughing like hell.

    lol.

    I know. You wish you had a job like this. Everyone does. 🙂 It’s like being part of a hunting party. Like being stone age mastodon hunters except we have flush toilets.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-17 20:25:00 UTC