Rondam Ramblings

We just closed out the second day of AT&T technicians trying to figure out why our uVerse internet isn't working.  We had three tec...

Just when I thought things couldn't possibly get any more frustrating, an AT&T supervisor essentially accused me of being a racist. ...

Today a technician from AT&T showed up to try to restore our uVerse internet service that was  cut off a week and a half ago for no appa...

It's unfortunate that nowadays the only way to motivate big companies to provide even a minimally acceptable level of customer service i...

Just stumbled across this absolutely gorgeous explanation of why  quantum mechanics is the only possible theory of nature  that both allows ...

If Rudy Giuliani wants to call out American citizens for not loving their country he really should start with Michael Hill, who runs an org...

Ontology is the study of existence, or, to put it in philosophy-speak, it is "the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming...

I never imagined that my post about reframing theodicy would strike such a nerve.  I really intended it to be a throwaway argument, a littl...

The comment thread in  the original reframing theodicy post  was getting lively again since wrf3 joined the fray.  As an anti-spam measure, ...

[With apologies to Eugene Wigner .] I was noodling around with some graphics code the other day to try to produce some schematic represent...

TJ Radcliffe pops open the hood on the scientific process and lets you peer inside  to see the inner workings in unusual detail.  He also ha...

Yes, I get it.   Uber is evil .  But Lyft is worse. Today I got a text message spam from Lyft.  I don't like getting text message spam...

PETA, that is, the organization that calls itself People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, kidnapped and  killed a pet chihuahua . I ...

BioLogos has an  an interview with Bill Nye  on the occasion of the publication of his new book.  It is nearly as painful to read as his inf...

If you call the number in the headline (650-780-9288) you will find that it has been disconnected.  The reason it is disconnected is because...

Two days ago Pope Francis issued a  clarification  (which I would characterize more as a wishy-washy retraction) of his implicit endorsement...

Whew, I have just spent an inordinate amount of time responding to various dangling comment threads.  Despite my best efforts, I fear I may ...

Pope Francis showed his true colors  the other day: “If my good friend Dr Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a pu...

I wasn't aware of this until today, but my parents apparently neglected me when I was a child.  Every week day from the age of six unti...

Sometimes things don't go as planned.  My  Parable of the Free Beer  seems to have landed with a resounding thud, so perhaps a word of e...

There is a classic logic problem that goes like this: you are on an island where some of the natives always lie and others always tell the t...

The latest round of my recent interaction with Publius  made me realize that there might be a new move in the theological chess game known a...

Despite the fact that I haven't been writing much lately, I'm still getting a few hundred pageviews a day according to Google, and I...