Corporate Clarity #005-06-03-001

• June 3, 2005
• James Skemp

Dear Team, What would you think about us slowing down the search display so that we can have a small, non-obtrusive, flash animation of a running man, or rambling mouse? This way, our users would be completely entertained while waiting for their search results. Thanks for your consideration of this important idea, Your Web Development Team Notes Created: June 3rd 2005 Modified: June 20th 2005 Notes: Thanks for the ear Zoltan.

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Arthur Schopenhauer's Principle of Sufficient Reason

• June 1, 2005
• James Skemp

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The Man Born on the Day of God's Rest - Marciello Punto, Domingo

• May 19, 2005
• James Skemp

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Is Volunteering Equal to Donating, and Vice Versa?

• May 6, 2005
• James Skemp

While reading a past news item regarding the Young Lawyers Division of the State Bar of Wisconsin, I asked myself if donating was equal to volunteering. The Young Lawyers Division (YLD) collects business clothing from lawyers to give to lawyers who cannot afford business clothing. If lawyer X donates clothing to the YLD, is lawyer X volunteering? To get to the answer to this question, I have to proof that volunteering implies, or suggests, donating, and that donating implies volunteering. If either is not the case, or if both are not the case, then volunteering is not the same as donating.

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First WordPress post

• April 30, 2005
• James Skemp

First WordPress posting. Not quite sure what I'm doing to do with this yet … :)

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Can we blame hosts for their poor HTML editors?

• April 30, 2005
• James Skemp

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Nasty, Murderous, Clowns -or- Why children should never cross the street alone, and/or without looking both ways twice

• April 28, 2005
• James Skemp

On a cold sunny day in March, little Billy Ann and little Bobby Jo happened upon a street. Billy Ann and Bobby Jo had happened upon this street before, but never on a Sunday, and never when alone. Of course, they had each other, and that is truly what usually matters. Yet our story does not end like this, for Billy Ann and Bobby Jo were about to cross the line and be the little naughty children that every child dreads that they will one day become.

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On the Saying 'Is it better to live a lie, or know the truth and cry?'

• April 27, 2005
• James Skemp

Back on the second of February 2002, I first, as far as I can recall or prove, wrote down the question “Is it better to live a lie, or know the truth and cry?” The item that this was written in was an item called Guide to One Philosophy of Life: Revision 1, and consisted of twelve pages of material from January 30, 2002 to September 29, 2002. While I kept saying that I was going to get back to it and revise it, I never did.

A recent item on a LiveJournal journal, along with something I had read earlier in the day on the same area, reminded me of this quote that I had written so long ago. After some searching, I found it in the item mentioned above.

My task here is to discuss this question that I have raised. Of course, it being April 27 2005, I should point out that I do not have an answer to this question as of yet. Perhaps that suggests that I am doing more of the former than the latter, or perhaps it is because the latter has gotten me no closer to the answer of this question.

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Raymond Smullyan's Knight and Knave Word Problem

• April 24, 2005
• James Skemp

According to David Gries (via his site), logician Raymond Smullyan stated the following word problem in one of his many books, which regards lying knaves and truthful knights.

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Oh the people that you meet

• April 14, 2005
• James Skemp

Oh the people that you meet, when you're walking down the street, can never make you cry, if only you remember why. 

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