anybody want to hire me?

I work hard and don't eat much. Relocation: possible.

so far today:

50-some probability problems done. only 80 more left in the chapter, and probably 30 of then are lame enough to skip. and then i'll be done with chapter three.

unless i get started on nethack today.

UPDATE: apparently i was on problem like 74 when i left off, which left fewer to do. and lots were lame or stupidly hard, so they were skipped for later decades. and i cut out early. good thing, too, 'cause now that i'm here there's like a thunderstorm. rockin'.

public service announcement

The 173 stops running mid-June.

re: idiots, augustine, and sex.

It's one thing when secular folks try to pin stuff or whatever about Catholic sexuality on the good St. Augustine, their ignorance is readily excused. It's another when some silly Orthodox would try to draw a distinction between Catholic and Orthodox sexuality [that I may be fine with], pins the difference on Augustine [again, plausible], and the difference is that somehow the Catholic view is more restrictive or more ascetic or whatever [this is where the abject nonsense comes in]. I can't pretend to begin to discuss what an Orthodox sexuality might be or how it might differ from a Catholic sexuality, but I would suppose that the trends of Eastern theology which inform Orthodox thought on the matter were the same sorts which informed Gregory of Nyssa and, through other channels, Ambrose and Jerome. A cursory familiarity with their thoughts on, say, chastity and the married life combined with a cursory familiarity with Augustine's thoughts on the issue would put an end to any discussion on the matter.

If I weren't so lazy and had the primary texts on hand, I'd demonstrate in detail!

The question: why does everybody hate on St. Augustine? Is it 'cause he's beautiful?

i do have something to say

i should probably retract that silly ecusa post.

it's time i wrote something

But i've got nothing. Except that my shift key is only sporadically working because the action on this new keyboard is just completely off. i guess I did read le petit Prince the other day and I could discuss that, but I really don't have anything to say. "I like books." "It's a well-known fact: foxes are cool but businessmen are lame." oh, and, of course, "I think the sheep did not eat the flower."