The Useless Tree

Fun

  • Rappin’ the Classics

    This is fun, even if a bit strained (thanks to commenter dma)… but, what the heck, it's Bloomsday: time to be irreverent:   Continue reading

  • The Tao of Zombies

    A survey of professional philosophers (hat tip Sullivan) raised many interesting questions, but none more significant than this (scroll down to last question on the page): Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? Accept or lean toward:… Continue reading

  • Beach Way

         The beach environment is starkly different from the mountain surroundings I am used to.  No hills on the horizon.  The ocean runs open and flat and expansive.  Way is vast:               Click on… Continue reading

  • Something funny

        Imagethief really made me laugh with this one: If there is anything more sinister than a grubby urban pigeon, it must be a grubby urban pigeon under remote control! That’s right, first the testing of an anti-satellite weapon,… Continue reading

  • The Five Things Meme

        Lao Lu, over at The Crazy Insect, tagged me with the "five things you don’t know about me" meme.  It is the first time I’ve been memed!  So, here we go:      1.  On Halloween, 1974, I… Continue reading