Several changes abound and many of them will make loads of sense in the near future. The blog is not dead at all – in fact I suspect it’s about to become hyperactive.
I would normally change themes and have them entirely altered, but I’m opting for a ‘live’ upgrade instead; mainly because I suspect the ‘time’ to complete a finished project is just going to be spread too thin.
I’m dropping the blog title ‘Grey Matters’ for a more plain and simple name – mine (jtmitchum.com). Part of this is just being fashionable, but it’s also just a matter of practicality. What sense does it make to have a blog name different than the web address if you’ve paid for the web address? After acquiring jtmitchum.com, I figured I’d use it. (For those of you that got here through the older http://family.ncambium.com/jt/ link, this blog is now at www.jtmitchum.com/blog/) Grey Matters will remain as a category for posts that I believe are relatively philosophical or minimally deep in thinking (I like to call this the “Beermagination” section… other suitables are wine wisdom or absinthe minded)
I also upgraded to WordPress 2.0 (a fine upgrade indeed) and I’ll be making more sensical additions to this site than I ever had with my old layout. So… patience please (if it even makes a difference in your world) because I’ll be back with a thunderstorm of posts in the very near future.
Until then…
Thursday, December 15, 2005
I could title this, 1 sure way to know you’re winning a debate, but that may not necessarily be true.
Eventually, if you argue a hot enough topic long enough and well enough, your opposer will eventually have had… enough!
There are so many logical fallacies people use in debates without knowing it, but the really bad ones seem to present themsevles in the death throws of an argument.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2005
I’ve been privy to several good topical debates lately (without provocation I might add) and most of them really pointed out how people ‘hear’ a debate.
Have you ever started arguing with someone only to find 10 minutes later that you were arguing points on two different topics all together? Someone has to give the ‘Oh, I thought you were talking about (personal topic in mind here), not (other person’s personal topic)’.
So, much to the chagrin of two avid debaters, there has, in fact, been no debate at all. I think this happens even when two or more persons do agree they are arguing on the same topic.
Arguing on the same topic is counter-productive to arguing on the same point.
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I went out with some friends this weekend for the usual round of drinks and talk and pool games. One of them is from South Dakota and she told us this story about her dad going to this building demolition in ‘downtown’ Sioux Falls.
I laughed at the notion of a city that small having a downtown, but she said they had 2 or 3 buildings with more than 3 stories. Sure enough, I’m perusing digg.com and come across this video of the building demolition.
How crappy with the concept of explosion do you have to be to fudge this one up?
Rating: 4/5 stars – the plot line leads to an excellent sense of laughter, but I would have been happier with total destruction including large Hollywood fireballs.
Enjoy!
Monday, November 21, 2005
So, you’re on the Web!
Don’t hide it, how else would you have gotten here?
Now, think quick and go google the word ‘failure’ and see what comes up.
I guess… I’m left with no choice but admit that Al Gore and some democrats did, indeed, invent or at least took silent partnership in the Internet. That or… could google be a socialist regime?
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Light.
It’s the most observed radiation by humans and probably one of the more interesting energy forms. Nothing travels faster than light that we know of and few energies reach as far through the universe as light can. As matter approaches the speed of light, it approaches it’s transformation into energy.
Einstein’s observations of light gave birth to modern Quantum mechanics; that field of science that took Einstein’s predictable Universe and made it a matter of best guesses. Einstein spent the rest of his life trying to debunk what is now known as the Heisenburg uncertainty principle.
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*Disclaimer: I’m neither an IT professional, nor do I proclaim any 1337 abilities (that’s leet or elite for you noobs) with any programming or computer know how. I’ve neither extensively studied the progressive field of information technology, nor do I research its trends on any regular basis. At best, I’m an enthusiest of technology and computers whom often experiments with new software and ideas with a fine beer or mixed drink in hand.
That being said, I’ve had some thoughts about the world of news, information and data lately. I separate data out from information because, in my mind, it’s more about the actual bits and numbers while information is what you can churn out from data. News is a presentation of information that’s either been churned up from data, or is plainly obvious without the need to churn from data or information.
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