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I’m still working through the NegroPlease.com archives, and en passant, I took a philosophy quiz. While many of these names are recognizable to me, I don’t really know their philosophies at all… I think I may have found a new obsession interest… 1. Sartre (100%)2. Hume (91%)3. Nietzsche (88%)4. Aristotle (71%)5. Hobbes (68%)6. Aquinas (62%)7. Plato (60%)8. Mill (57%)9. Rand (57%)10. Spinoza (57%)11. Kant (55%)12. Stoics (54%)13. Cynics (43%)14. Epicureans (43%)15. Bentham (43%)16. Prescriptivism (40%)17. Augustine (37%)18. Ockham (36%)19. Noddings (29%) The results page has a link to a page with descriptions of all the possible philosphers, with descriptions, book links to Amazon.com, and recommended websites for each philosopher. Interesting…

I’ve been reading Negro Please for about the last month or so, and finally decided to work my way through the archives. Where to start? The beginning, of course. His second post, about being black rather than Black. It’s been a whole week since I’ve genuinely laughed this hard (hey, if people can’t tell my fake laugh from my real laugh, what does it matter…). It feels good. The first, the third (which is as far as I have read so far) are good as well; I can personally identify with much Jason says. And who doesn’t need a good laugh, right? By the way, Sean Paul’s “Get Busy” is…

Friday night, I went out and bought two books, C# for Experienced Programmers and C++ Programmer’s Notebook. The latter is to increase my understanding of more advanced topics in C++, such as pointers, linked lists, templates, etc. The former is simply to learn C#, particularly in connection with ASP.NET, but also as a standalone language. I did cringe, however, at paying $54.00 (US) for a book, even if it is is Deitel and Deitel book. But as I eagerly opened my C# book this morning, I came to an interesting realization. I have never really learned a language from a book. Turbo Pascal, Visual Basic, and C++ I have learned…

Very few, except when it’s true, of course. MSN has a name numerology (a link I found from Prime Time) page. You put in your first and last name, and it spits out a report like this: 7 Your Heart Number is 7 Makes you a bit of a loner. You probably require a lot of time by yourself just to clear your head and recharge your batteries. You may be somewhat more concerned with the deeper issues of life. 7 Your Personality Number is 7 Can make you seem somewhat reserved or aloof at times, and you might not really have all that great a need for others. You’re…

Wow. I needed (and still need) to release a little tension and frustration at my own inadequacies (most notably in math, physics, and communication skills), so I did a little research and am posting this. I completed my first 8+ years of schooling in Texas, a state that tests its students more than most others. Every year, every semester there was another test to take. There were the TAAS tests (Texas Assessment of Academic Skills Test), some test with the name of an animal or plant, like the Okra test, or the Llama test in elementary school, I don’t remember exactly. But everytime we learned a letter of the alphabet…