Yostivanich

The com­pe­te­nance of a programmer.

“The game gen­er­ally started with a ques­tion, cycled through my beliefs, and ended with “because.…” Soon it was end­ing in just “.…” I took a class called “The Prob­lem of Reli­gious Diver­sity” that quickly had me believ­ing that just about any belief sys­tem could be true and that no one could prove any­thing. It never occurred to me until then that peo­ple who believed some­thing other than Chris­tian­ity had the same rea­son for believ­ing their faith as I did for believ­ing mine.” Nice essay about one person’s search for answers of faith.

“But Synergy’s viva­cious hub­bub reminds me that LSD is not nec­es­sary to put aside our nor­ma­tive val­ues to feel the glow­ing pulse of the world. And though I never indulged in sub­stances dur­ing my stay, I under­stand now that no amount of peace­ful delib­er­a­tion or delu­sional ideation will ever mit­i­gate the revolt­ing bril­liance of the human experience.”

“Back in Feb­ru­ary, Sen. Kay Bai­ley Hutchi­son (R-TX) voted against the Amer­i­can Recov­ery and Rein­vest­ment Act in part because she said the bill “doesn’t actu­ally stim­u­late.” Today, how­ever, in an early move in the 2010 Repub­li­can pri­mary for Texas gov­er­nor, Hutchi­son attacked incum­bent Gov. Rick Perry for turn­ing down the very stim­u­lus money she believed would do noth­ing for the economy.”

“So this was my busi­ness plan: We’d start out as a plain-vanilla Web con­sult­ing busi­ness. We’d look for sit­u­a­tions in which we had sev­eral clients ask­ing for the same basic thing. Then, using con­sul­tants who weren’t cur­rently work­ing on gigs, we’d build an appli­ca­tion to suit the group’s needs. Over time, this prod­uct could be licensed far and wide. Even­tu­ally, the soft­ware side of the busi­ness would eclipse the con­sult­ing side of the busi­ness. That was the the­ory. Sounds good, right?” Fun story of Fog Creek.

“Car­los Diaz de Leon, one of the five men and a leader in the protest, claims that about 12:30 a.m. June 29 he and four oth­ers were at Chico’s when two of his friends kissed, prompt­ing a pri­vate secu­rity guard to use an anti-gay slur in Span­ish and to call police, who cited a statute on homo­sex­ual con­duct declared uncon­sti­tu­tional six years ago.” Unbelievable.