‘Nerdity’ Archives
The Wrath of Kahn – Robot Chicken Style
Kahn! Kahn! KAAAHHHN!
Where Did iBreviary Go?
If you use the Apple iPhone/iPod/iTouch app iBreviary, you've likely encountered the following message: L'applicazione è in fase di aggiornamento e non sarà utilizzabile per circa una settimana. Ci scusiamo per il disagio ma stiamo lavorando per una nuovissima versione, contenente grandi novità! E' in arrivo... iBreviaryPRO! In the likely [...]
Three Reasons You Should Be Reading John C. Wright
A friend tipped me to John C. Wright's blog, found here. Three reasons to add him to the blogroll and the bookshelf: He writes pretty darned good Sci-Fi/Fantasy. I'd read The Golden Age books before I knew anything of his innate awesomeness. He once declared, "If Vulcans had a church, they'd be Catholics." Having spent the summer around [...]
By the Way… You Tweet?
If so, feel free to follow me. I despise Twitter a little less than I once did. Ironically, Joshua Claybourn's continuing campaign against all-things-Twitt forced me to fire up the account I'd created late last year. I was on a quest to figure out one thing: why do people use it at all? I'm yet to find a satisfactory answer, and largely [...]
In Defense of Univocity
Duns Scotus' doctrine of univocity has been providing us with a lot of lunch table debate these days. Check out a defense of the doctrine (PDF), which may or may not serve as a good introduction to the problem. As for me, I remain noncommital. I still need to read through Scotus (and his interlocutors) in the original. Still, this is [...]
More Cool Stuff to Better Express Ideas: Symbolic Logic
In light of the recent post on Dominican disputation, I thought I'd also recommend this "crash course" in symbolic logic. I keep coming back to symbolic logic in my private study for the same reason I've recently been learning calculus (again? for the first time?): it hurts. Definitely good to stretch our limits. Speaking of math, my ability [...]
