nothoo.com » Misc http://blog.nothoo.com meritorious marginalia Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:28:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Days with My Father http://blog.nothoo.com/2008/07/24/days-with-my-father/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2008/07/24/days-with-my-father/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:32:25 +0000 jeff http://nothoo.com/?p=431 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> This affecting photo essay is being linked all over the place today, but just in case you have not seen it, please do check it out. Phillip Toledano – Days with My Father.

In an interesting bit of synchronicity today also happens to be my Dad’s 60th birthday. Happy birthday Dad!

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2008/07/24/days-with-my-father/feed/ 0 Innocence or … http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/06/28/innocence-or/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/06/28/innocence-or/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:07:03 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2007/06/28/innocence-or/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> My 3 year old son is playing with his cars while I lay in bed nursing an aching back. Here is the conversation we just had:

Me: Niels, what do you think about things.. about the world?

Niels: Nothing. I am just thinking about the cars.

If only it were always so simple.

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/06/28/innocence-or/feed/ 0 Hotel Rooms http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/05/22/hotel-rooms/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/05/22/hotel-rooms/#comments Wed, 23 May 2007 00:27:13 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2007/05/22/hotel-rooms/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I am at a conference in Philadelphia this week. I am staying at a rather expensive hotel, the Hilton on City Ave. The room is OK, but they nickel and dime you for everything. $25 for three days of internet access! As one of my fellow conference attendees said: “If the room is under $100 then you get free internet, over $100 and you pay for internet.” Anyhow this is not what compelled me to write. Instead it is this:

My hotel room appears to have been the site of some sort of bodily trauma accident or assault. There are some large dark red stains by one of the night stands that I saw last night. Some mysterious stains even on the nightstand. And as I sat here working at my computer I turned the desk lamp on and saw that the cover of the “Service Guide” also has red stains. Maybe the victim was trying to figure out how to use the phone? I shudder to think what I might find if I look harder… at least I did not find any bed bugs behind the bed.

Must think happy thoughts… all work and no play makes Jeff a dull boy… ;-)

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/05/22/hotel-rooms/feed/ 0 Self = You? http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/01/19/self-you/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/01/19/self-you/#comments Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:09:19 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2007/01/19/self-you/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Imagine that you are, in an instant, decomposed atom by atom to your core set of information. Then this information is sent to another location (nearby or faraway it does not matter) and reconstituted. Your original body was destroyed during the reading process and then a new body was created during the writing process.

1) Is the new body merely a replica of the real “you”? Was some essential element of “you” lost in this process?
or
2) Is the new body one and the same as the real “you”?

If you answered yes to #1 above then do you also believe that there is some life after death? Is this logically consistent? If you really believe that the real you was lost in the process outlined above then how can you also believe that after your physical body expires “you” can still exist? On the other hand if you answered yes to #2 then you can logically believe that there is life after bodily death.

The original thought experiment of teleporting the body is from philosopher Derek Parfit. The extremely interesting analysis of the inversion of conventional thinking* is from an article (requires a subscription to read the entire thing) in New Scientist by Paul Broks.

* By conventional thinking it is meant: Typically those who believe in some essence, soul, also believe that there is some life after death. On the other hand those who believe that there is no mystical essence also believe that there is no life after death.

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/01/19/self-you/feed/ 0 More Random Videos http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/11/10/more-random-videos/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/11/10/more-random-videos/#comments Sat, 11 Nov 2006 03:34:48 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2006/11/10/more-random-videos/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I have become a sucker for posting videos…

First up are the “fainting” goats. God this is funny

[Update removed the embedded link as it slowed down my page load too much.]

Now for some fun enforcing speed limits in Denmark. Probably NSFW but if you find your self offended you probably ought to go ahead and kill your self now:

[UPDATE: YouTube yanked the original link I had up here. Here is a new one.

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/11/10/more-random-videos/feed/ 2 Thailand Infrastructure http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/11/06/thailand-infrastructure/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/11/06/thailand-infrastructure/#comments Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:56:16 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2006/11/06/thailand-infrastrucutre/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Thailand has some interesting overhead wire infrastructure…

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/11/06/thailand-infrastructure/feed/ 0 Super Sized Commode http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/10/20/super-sized-commode/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/10/20/super-sized-commode/#comments Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:05:11 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2006/10/20/super-sized-commode/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Man this thing is huge. My only real question is what exactly is that on the floor to the right of the toilet? Maybe it was not quite big enough eh?


Big ole pooper

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/10/20/super-sized-commode/feed/ 1 Neat Pictures of Chernobyl http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/09/13/neat-pictures-of-chernobyl/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/09/13/neat-pictures-of-chernobyl/#comments Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:02:50 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2006/09/13/neat-pictures-of-chernobyl/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> These are some really neat pictures of Chernobyl, Ukraine, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident.

They actually remind me a bit of these pictures of the abandoned Russian embassy in Bangkok Thailand that I blogged about a while back.

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/09/13/neat-pictures-of-chernobyl/feed/ 2 Recent Movies http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/08/11/recent-movies/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/08/11/recent-movies/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:29:45 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/?p=233 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I finally signed up over at NetFlix and as a result have been watching more movies. Here are some recent flicks that I have seen and recommend:

Donnie Darko
Corndog Man
The Office (TV series)
Touching the Void

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/08/11/recent-movies/feed/ 0 Songs Stuck in my Head http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/07/05/songs-stuck-in-my-head/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/07/05/songs-stuck-in-my-head/#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:53:34 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2005/07/05/songs-stuck-in-my-head/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Most mornings I wake up with the strangest songs in my head. Typically they are songs that I have not heard in a long time and I can not figure out why in the world I wake up singing them. This morning it was the “Chop Chop Master Onion’s Rap” from Parappa the Rapper, a video game for the original Playstation. Then that left me and I have instead been carrying around a song from one of Niels’ (my son) Baby Einstein videos. At least I know where this came from!

  Hey there little turtle
  Swimming in the deep blue sea
  It must be nice to never leave your home
  ...

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