Category: Random

  • Google Reader

    I have been using Google Reader for the past couple of weeks and I started using the sharing feature. If anybody wants to keep up with what all I am reading and all the cool stuff that I find out on interwebs, subscribe to my shared items feed – available here. http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06836422528150126485 Obviously you don’t […]

  • The Overachievers

    The Overachievers is a wonderful book that I have finally read after seeing the author of the book on an episode of The Colbert Report (unknown which episode though it was a while back, sometime in the summer of 06 if I recall correctly). The main theme of the book is overachievers in America specifically […]

  • Responsibility Within Relationship

    Tonight I attended a lecture by Stephen Darwall, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He gave a lecture this evening covering responsibility within relationships, specifically as to how we interact and respond to each other and what our moral basis for our actions toward the other person are inside of this relationship. […]

  • A Journalist By Another Name

    A question that has been running around both the blogosphere and around the mainstream media, is trying to decide if bloggers are “journalists”. Not just in the sense of can their news and information be trusted but also whether or not they should be given the same rights as a regular journalist. I do not […]

  • When I Write, Does That Tell You What Sex I Am?

    Tonight I want to discuss something that I noticed that I did today without even realizing it. I was reading an article today and I assumed that the author of this article was female, without even looking at the author’s name or anything. Once I realized I did this, the first thought was why it […]