Author Archives: matt

A dear friend of mine writes a blog. That blog has recently been attacked by some random pseudonymous blogger. Let’s call that otherwise unnamed blogger U. One of U’s many (baseless, mostly incoherent) points of contention is that my friend’s … Continue reading →

I’ve been considering moving lately; I’ve had enough problems with the water in my current apt. that a change of venue seems like a good idea, and I’d really like to make walking to campus in under an hour a … Continue reading →

So people talk about Massachusetts liberals as though they’re the very worst kind, and by extension that there’s no place more liberal than Massachusetts. As a Canadian, I find this funny. Particularly when the (Republican) governor is now talking about … Continue reading →

Logging on to my pseudo-bank’s website, and I accidentally hit the caps-lock key when tabbing from “Account number” to “PIN”. I was vaguely aware of doing this — I do it fairly frequently, after all — but I wouldn’t have … Continue reading →

Clevermonkey has briefly left semi-retirement from blogging in order to bring us his thoughts on music sharing. The inspiration for his post was a CBC News package from a few weeks ago: The segment had a lot of sound-bites from … Continue reading →

As I remarked a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been thinking about the two-dimensional policy space model that certain libertarians have come to favour. Specifically, I was wondering whether there’s an easy two-dimensional analogue of Black’s Theorem, which guarantees a … Continue reading →

The Urban Commuter Campus where I earn my livelihood, as seems to be the standard these days in the States, has a main academic year consisting of two fifteen-week semesters. In the summer, they then offer courses on either a … Continue reading →

This weekend I’ve had my first opportunity to use iMovie. I jumped at the chance, to tell the truth; video-editting is a hobby that I cultivated for a couple of years when I was Down South and that I haven’t … Continue reading →

I’m reading Umberto Eco’s Baudolino. I find Eco’s fiction a little bit hit-and-miss; I’m very much a fan of Foucault’s Pendulum, but couldn’t finish The Island of the Day Before and didn’t feel I had the knowledge of the medieval … Continue reading →

So there’s been a push in the last few years — principally by libertarians — to try and break away from the traditional single-dimensional political model. (That’s left vs. right.) Their proposal involves a two-dimensional space, separating economic and social … Continue reading →