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Things are going.
To start, I’d like to thank Meredi for introducing me to EditPad. It is like Notepad for Windows, only infinitely cooler (well, infinitely might be a slight
exaggeration, but it’s still really cool).
My parents are really ‘encouraging’ (read: hassling) me to get a job. On an impulse, I (partially) created Chaos Theory Design, my […]

caffeine-induced schizophrenic unconsciousness
It has come to a period of the day in which the hours are succinctly described as “wee”. I just drank several cups of coffee with friends at Denny’s, so my brain is in a state of caffeine-induced schizophrenic unconsciousness. Actually, I made that phrase up because I think it sounds […]

Identification
I just got back from an hour-long chat with my English teacher, Ms. Lord. We’re reading Ellison’s Invisible Man in class, which I’ve mentioned (and quoted) before, but we just started talking about it today. The reason I came in to talk with her was because I was having a big problem with […]

Welcome back Aaron
Wow. I haven’t writing in over a week. I have to get back in the habit. Actually, to say I haven’t written is a gross understatement. I have been writing; 4000 words to be precise. That’s the word count of my International Baccalaureate Extended Essay on Allied Codebreaking […]

Table of Contents
Abstract
Introduction
The Pacific Theatre
The European Theatre
Further Analysis and Conclusion
Illustrations
Works Cited
Abstract
What role did Allied codebreakers have in the outcome of World War II? Though cryptography did not decide the outcome of World War II, it was very successful in shortening the war. In the Pacific theatre, the Americans broke several codes, including the PURPLE and […]

The Allegory of the Cave
Many of you are probably familiar with Plato�0�9s famous allegory of the cave. But I�0�9ve always had a problem with it: how does one know if he has not simply gone out of one cave into another?
It is not rare for someone to say (or imply) that they are �0�8enlightened�0�9. […]

The Meaning of Life, Part II
Maybe I have a one-track mind, but whenever I try to think of the true purpose of life, I think of sex.
Perhaps sex is not the best word. It often has negative connotations.
Reproduction.
Let’s imagine the universe existing before life, before any coacervates or viruses or any other sub-life forms […]

Shoot coward, you’re only going to kill a man.
I haven’t written in a while because I broke my computer. The reason it broke was because of Linux. I had my computer running both Windows 98 and Linux, but I never used Linux and decided to remove it - that’s what caused the problem. […]

Correlation does equal causation
I was about to upload the new site, but as I was checking for any broken links in dreamweaver, I accidentally deleted the entire “about me” directory. But now I’m whipping it up from memory as best I can.
Last summer, our church adopted a Russian refugee family, and recently at the […]

I’m full of crap.
I have a beta of the next version of ktheory.com on my hard disk, and I showed it to my Dad.
He said I was so full of crap.
“Thanks Dad. Why don’t you tell me what you really think?”
“I mean, this what you’ve been doing the past four hours?”
He was just kidding though. […]

More mathmatical geekiness
Yesterday, you might be interested to know, was the first time in over a millennium that all the digits of the date were even. 02/02/2000 was the date, of course, and the last time the digits of the date were all even was August 28, 888. Conceptually, you can think of […]

No more afternoon classes!
Today was my first day of having no afternoon classes. My friends and I went out to lunch at Buffy’s (and I had my favorite Slayer Burrito w/ green Tabasco sauce, yum).
About the BBS program I want to set up for this page:
I’ve found an excellent program that I want to […]