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Oct. 23rd, 2006 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aprilstarchildFilled out the application at Powell's today. My supervisor pissed me off today, which was inspiring. And then I, uh, bought more books. A Moleskine planner for next year, another Richard Dawkins' book (Unweaving the Rainbow) and a memoir by a doctor who did her residency at a huge urban hospital.
Note to self: Stop buying books. I need to finish The God Delusion, I have a paperback of Neil Gaiman's Coraline, and an issue of National Geographic, that I haven't started on; and then I want to read Sam Harris' The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation, before I can get started on the ones I bought today. *whew*
The God Delusion can be tough going at times, partially because I tend to read it at times when my adderall is wearing off and my concentration is shot, and partially because the concepts can be tricky.
For instance, the anthropic principle, which basically is a nice way of saying, no matter how improbable life on earth could be (taking into account the various things that had to happen--the physical properties of water, our distance from the sun, the shape and size of the earth and moon, etc.), the fact still remains that all those improbable things happened, because duh, we're sitting here talking about it. *lol*
Random side note: Dawkins came up with meme theory. And I already knew this from reading sociology stuff, but it's only barely tangentially related to goofy quizzes on LJ.
Jarrod shaved his face. He had quite the huge beard going. It almost feels like kissing someone else entirely. It makes his face look so much younger, too...I feel slightly like a dirty old lady. ;^)
Note to self: Stop buying books. I need to finish The God Delusion, I have a paperback of Neil Gaiman's Coraline, and an issue of National Geographic, that I haven't started on; and then I want to read Sam Harris' The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation, before I can get started on the ones I bought today. *whew*
The God Delusion can be tough going at times, partially because I tend to read it at times when my adderall is wearing off and my concentration is shot, and partially because the concepts can be tricky.
For instance, the anthropic principle, which basically is a nice way of saying, no matter how improbable life on earth could be (taking into account the various things that had to happen--the physical properties of water, our distance from the sun, the shape and size of the earth and moon, etc.), the fact still remains that all those improbable things happened, because duh, we're sitting here talking about it. *lol*
Random side note: Dawkins came up with meme theory. And I already knew this from reading sociology stuff, but it's only barely tangentially related to goofy quizzes on LJ.
Jarrod shaved his face. He had quite the huge beard going. It almost feels like kissing someone else entirely. It makes his face look so much younger, too...I feel slightly like a dirty old lady. ;^)
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Date: 2006-10-24 05:25 am (UTC)That was my first thought when I first saw the LJ usage of the word.
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Date: 2006-10-24 11:59 pm (UTC)It took a while to get used to how the word is used on LJ.