Archive for March, 2009

This is difficult to understand

I’m an athe­ist, and com­fort­able with it in the same way that I’m com­fort­able about being a left-​​​​handed, bisex­ual male. But one of the hur­dles I had to jump dur­ing my slow sur­ren­der of reli­gios­ity was the con­cept of after­life. It’s hard some­times to tol­er­ate the real­ity that this life is all there is. There are plenty of […]

Dampening Kindle

Kindle and Kindle 2 are on the fore­front of many dis­cus­sions now. Rather than talk about the pros and cons of the device in depth, I thought it might be good to repost some­thing I wrote on June 4, 2001 about another eBook reader. The short ver­sion of my argu­ment against Kindle is twofold. 1. There’s no guarantee […]