A very nice webcam situated in Yosemite Valley. This is turning out to be a great resource to determine what the conditions are in the park before going up.

http://www.yosemite.org/vryos/ahwahnee.jpg

My presentation give at Stanford on January 21st, 2008.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)

Ah, a nice description of some of the people who live in Berkeley.

A very nice article by Tom Stienstra of the San Fracisco Chronicle on the best of California. A text file with the list is attached in case the link to the article eventually dies.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/08/SPG8VOH5ST1.DTL&type=travelbayarea

bestofcalifornia.txt

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

An atom walks into a police station and says “One of my electrons has been stolen!”
The police say “Are you sure?”
And the atom replies…

“Yes! I’m positive!”

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And thus is winged Cupid painted blind.
- William Shakespeare

If you know what it is that you are looking for, then indeed there no need to undertake a search, and if you don’t know what it is that you are looking for then really there’s no basis upon which to conduct a search. Hence the search for truth becomes an idle activity.

-Mino in regards to Socrates’ search for truth. Of course Sacrate’s puts the smack down on Mino’s argument.

We are like puppets, and the Gods can move us any which way they will by pulling on these strings, but we have one string that we can pull back on, and that string is the golden string of reason.

-Plato