Curt Doolittle

Form: Diary

  • (damn. tired. heat. ack. )

    (damn. tired. heat. ack. )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-06 14:25:00 UTC

  • I miss my crew. Kirill Latysh Vitalii Maslianok Alexey Riabokon Александр Марцен

    I miss my crew.

    Kirill Latysh Vitalii Maslianok Alexey Riabokon Александр Марценюк Victoria Maslianok Мариям Вокалисткa, Yanna Latish.

    Hope you are having a good vacation. 🙂 -hugs.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-01 12:15:00 UTC

  • Dear brain. I do not want to work on indeterminism vs determinism (free will) to

    Dear brain. I do not want to work on indeterminism vs determinism (free will) today. As much as you want me to write about it, the argument is quite simple: when we hypothesize, or intuit a response, the information is incomplete and as evidence shows, highly susceptible to error. So you can say that we exist in the universe, and that there are limits to our constructible concepts. But I would argue that those limits are produced by the limits of our ability to act, and as such any expansion of those limits is not meaningful for us. So the universe may be roughly deterministic at a macro level, and there may be a limited domain of cognition and action for man within that universe, but inside of those limits we have the free will necessary to act at the scale we are capable of acting within. And no other limit would be logical for an organism to evolve.

    But no matter how much you nag me, I am not in the mood to write about that subject. (yes, I know, you are stuck on it and want to get it out.) But I am much more interested in limits to perception and calculation. And even if you make me forget what I was going to write, I will remember it later, and write about it then. 🙂 So today, I am going to wrestle with explaining that to people. (If you will please just let me remember the example I was going to use… dammit…).

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-01 00:30:00 UTC

  • Seattle in the 1990s had to have been one of the best places and times to live o

    Seattle in the 1990s had to have been one of the best places and times to live on earth. I can’t believe I was that lucky. I had no idea what I was getting into. And it turned out to be the best choice in my life. Maybe London in 1890’s is a good parallel. But it was magic. Absolutely magic.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-28 05:24:00 UTC

  • (There are two, drunk, hot, half-naked young women in my bed. And, for what it’s

    (There are two, drunk, hot, half-naked young women in my bed. And, for what it’s worth, I had no impure thoughts. I have done nothing unbecoming a gentleman. I haven’t even taken photos. And when they invited me to sleep in the middle I chose the couch. I am either a saint or an idiot. Or maybe both. lol But at this stage of my life I prefer to avoid ‘complexities’. 🙂 )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-22 02:43:00 UTC

  • Todd Colby used to find amusement in jerking my autistic chain. He called it “pu

    Todd Colby used to find amusement in jerking my autistic chain. He called it “putting a quarter in”. After a bit he would start laughing. I am so Damned gullible that I fall for it every time.

    Got hooked hard by Michael Philip today. Damn. Got hooked a while back by the incremental suppression thing.

    Knowing you are an aspie is really quite liberating. It sucked as a kid not to get it.

    I still don’t get a lot of humor other than irony even though I work at it. But I have learned to enjoy a lot of it.

    Humans are awesome. 🙂

    Aspieness is awesome really once you learn to laugh at yourself. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-18 10:31:00 UTC

  • NO COURT FOR DOOLITTLE My divorce lawyer would not allow me on the stand, becaus

    NO COURT FOR DOOLITTLE

    My divorce lawyer would not allow me on the stand, because he assumed (rightfully) that I would make a travesty of the courtroom, (I have before) and end up in jail for it. (He was right.)

    The court operates on the pretense that it provides justice, when the fact is that the state is just as complicit a co-conspirator as any other predator.

    I always go to court if I can. It increases the costs to everyone for failing to come to resolution outside of court. And it provides a wonderful stage to mock the state. So unlike my peers I tend to favor aggressive litigation – for the sole purpose that it creates a reputation that going to court is expensive, time-consuming, unpredictable, and embarrassing. I hate settlement.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-17 00:25:00 UTC

  • FRIENDS. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING ME I’m under the weather today, and it’s days

    FRIENDS. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING ME

    I’m under the weather today, and it’s days like this when I really appreciate all the people who follow me and give me encouragement. Especially those of you who give me those wonderful PM’s at just the right time. It matters. It matters to me a lot. So thank you. For likes, comments, arguments, criticisms, support and encouragement.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-14 12:40:00 UTC

  • (Sick today. Sleeping all night and almost all day. Kinda nice in a way. An excu

    (Sick today. Sleeping all night and almost all day. Kinda nice in a way. An excuse for an intellectual vacation day. although, it’s freaking hot here in Kiev. )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-14 12:18:00 UTC

  • Explaining why I love Ukraine to a local entrepreneur: “Because in Seattle I’m j

    Explaining why I love Ukraine to a local entrepreneur:

    “Because in Seattle I’m just another rich asshole. Nothing I do makes a difference. I’m just another rat in a rat race accumulating more toys. But here in Ukraine I make a difference. And that is the very top of the Maslowian pyramid of needs. And even better, I make a difference to people to are kind to me, and a government that wants me, in stead of a government that preys upon me, and a culture that demonizes me.”

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-01 03:10:00 UTC