- 12:32:08: Fort Hood hero @hope2forget30 (Kim Munley): "I go to sleep peacefully @ night knowing that I may have made a difference in someone's life."
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- 22:03:27: Tried signing up for TweetLaw & got their version of the fail whale: "the site is under maintenance or an error has occurred." Harvesters?
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- 00:23:39: Boo! Not a trick, but definitely not a treat: as the stroke of midnight approached, I was just finishing some discovery demands to be faxed!
- 00:34:34: RT @Twitter_Tips Danger of lists http://j.mp/2veTI4 If you show up on someone's public list of "crooks" or similar insult, is it actionable?
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I'm not doing NaNoWriMo this year. Instead I'm doing something really different: WORK!
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That's an "end of an era" kind of thing .... yes, an era of bad HTML, auto-playing MIDI files and twinkly graphics, and I've been guilty of all of the above (see XKCD's totally-right-on parody of Geocities today), but a lot of fannish connections were formed through sites there. Good night and thank you, Geocities!
- 19:59:51: Happily posting this from a netbook running Ubuntu Netbook Remix. While the hubby is downloading & installing Win7 I get to play!
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- 10:59:43: Thinking about someone I never met, and about old friends, and about apologies that I have owed to some people for many years #fb
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I got up early in the hope that I would be able to bring McKenzie (the kitten) to a specialty vet for a second opinion this morning, but the other vet's office had no openings this morning. So I'm sitting here sipping my coffee, thinking about someone I never met, and about cat food, and about Calvinism - strange combination!
I'm thinking about my own bad choices in the past. For example, every time I see a roadside sign advertising the candidacy of Brian Stewart for state Supreme Court, I remember that I have owed his sister and his brother-in-law an apology for over twenty-five years and have never had the courage to do it. I could look them up right now and send some kind of apology, if they are both still around after all this time, and I might try to do that today, but that wouldn't change the fact that I didn't do it for more than twenty-five years.
I finally have a hard copy of the entire book The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect and Accountability by Stephen Darwall (I had previously read significant portions of it online), and I'm in the process of thinking through my own beliefs on free will and accountability. Does this relate to the Calvinism stuff? Yes, it does.
Here's the basic question I'm working with: Is our moral responsibility as human beings co-extensive with our freedom to choose our actions? In other words, can we rightfully be punished for the conduct which we genuinely could not control? By "genuinely could not control" I don't mean the phony powerlessness of those who claim that they "couldn't help it" when their behavior was clearly voluntary, and I am not referring to my own bad choices either. They were choices and I am clearly responsible for them. I am referring to an inherent, unchangeable inability to act differently, such as in the Calvinist view of salvation and damnation.
I'm thinking about my own bad choices in the past. For example, every time I see a roadside sign advertising the candidacy of Brian Stewart for state Supreme Court, I remember that I have owed his sister and his brother-in-law an apology for over twenty-five years and have never had the courage to do it. I could look them up right now and send some kind of apology, if they are both still around after all this time, and I might try to do that today, but that wouldn't change the fact that I didn't do it for more than twenty-five years.
I finally have a hard copy of the entire book The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect and Accountability by Stephen Darwall (I had previously read significant portions of it online), and I'm in the process of thinking through my own beliefs on free will and accountability. Does this relate to the Calvinism stuff? Yes, it does.
Here's the basic question I'm working with: Is our moral responsibility as human beings co-extensive with our freedom to choose our actions? In other words, can we rightfully be punished for the conduct which we genuinely could not control? By "genuinely could not control" I don't mean the phony powerlessness of those who claim that they "couldn't help it" when their behavior was clearly voluntary, and I am not referring to my own bad choices either. They were choices and I am clearly responsible for them. I am referring to an inherent, unchangeable inability to act differently, such as in the Calvinist view of salvation and damnation.
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- 19:44:46: Preparing for two trials tomorrow & meal planning do not mix well. Trial prep won. Now I can watch FlashForward (sorry, impatient dog) #fb
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- 18:59:41: Long day. It looks like Friday is going to be a continuation of the "long." #fb
- 19:05:04: Hoping to check out some of this online: http://www.legalrebels.com/24hours
- 19:25:16: RT @kevinokeefe: About 600 folks already for @LegalRebels Webinar on Twitter tomorrow http://bit.ly/5MuKf
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- 22:20:28: So being a "patriotic American" is now defined by indignation that POTUS has won the Nobel Peace Prize & glee that Chicago lost Olympic bid?
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An excerpt from the upcoming animation of Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men
It's really October already? Seems unbelievable ...
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- 12:03:49: Very happy to be scheduled to attend the Collaborative Practice Training in Latham, NY on October 2-3. I've been hoping for this for years.
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- 08:20:16: Should get this coffee cup: "Lawyers have feelings, too - allegedly." http://bit.ly/DqGGU
- 08:25:53: RT @nikiblack @JayFleischman Lawyers - Welcome to the age of The Untethered Lawyer http://bit.ly/X6NVH
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Are any of you reading this members of the Whedonverse Ning yet?
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curious - Music:Rupert Holmes - Nearsighted | Powered by Last.fm
