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An Appeal to Authority
Donan
My father grew up in the jungle of the Congo. The ever present danger in the jungle is the stuff of which legends are made...and quite a few were part of his childhood. In my... More »
The critically thinking mind
Donan
I don't have any stake in being right...my quest is to learn what I can. Being married to some concept I think is true in the face of some evidence to the contrary gets in... More »
Requiat in pacem, modem mortua est
Donan
Last Wednesday I talked with a few co-workers of the tradeoff between renting a modem from my service provider and of owning it outright. I surmised that it came out about the same…needless to say,... More »
Perfect logic is meaningless without perfect perspective.
Donan
I use this maxim almost every time I approach a problem. I wrote it roughly 12 years ago to explain why good minds arrive at wrong or different answers to seemingly the same question. The... More »
poetry
August 2008 