MiscLinks

Marek has a lovely Dostoyevskian prose poem today about, well, his soul. Jeneane reflects on it.

Dahrl Stultz writes:

I laughed at the trumpet man coroner pic. Out of curiousity, I went to Goggle and quickly found he’s New Orlean’s ME. This article about him being accused of selling body parts caused me to shake my head and mutter, “typical Louisiana politician.”

I bought my first computer in 1983, a KayPro II. While checking the date, I came across a site that gives a history of the KayPro.

There you’ll find not only a scan of the original brochure, touting the “9-inch monster screen” (green character-based) but also a KayPro simulator written in Java as a class project. Ah, the familiar DOS prompt at last! And MBasic! (Actually, S-BASIC was bundled with the original KayPro, a structured form of Basic with subroutines and functions.) Do a DIR and you’ll see that they’ve included a few of the original KayPro games, including a character-based version of Space Invaders. What a flashback! (There are also links to CP/M information.)

Norman Jensen thinks that in light of my postings about the universality of truth we might be interested in an article that pits Nietzsche against Steven Covey (“7 Habits of Highly Annoying People”). The article’s author, Christopher Jenson, provides a useful explanation of Nietzsche’s aphoristic expressions. This is Nietzsche at his best, “arguing” by painting a new picture. In this case, his beef is with Kant and Plato (and Covey … putting him in rather exalted company) and others who postulate a real world that is both only indirectly knowable at best and supposedly the locus of all real value.

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