Always a logical argument

From Twitter 11-06-2009

2009-11-07T07:03:57Z

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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From Twitter 11-02-2009

2009-11-03T07:04:39Z

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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From Twitter 11-01-2009

2009-11-02T07:03:53Z

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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Almost November, and ....

2009-10-31T01:28:44Z

I'm not doing NaNoWriMo this year. Instead I'm doing something really different: WORK!

Geocities closes today ....

2009-10-27T00:56:49Z

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!

From Twitter 10-24-2009

2009-10-25T07:04:56Z

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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From Twitter 10-17-2009

2009-10-18T07:05:09Z

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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An odd sort of morning

2009-10-17T14:25:30Z

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.

Posted using TxtLJ

2009-10-17T13:45:06Z

Test of TxtLJ

From Twitter 10-16-2009

2009-10-17T07:04:35Z

12:57:12: How much work might I have done in this longer-than-anticipated break between morning and afternoon court? Preferred to play with kitten #fb
22:04:32: Logan is all weirded out that we are going up to sleep before Jess and Maddie

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From Twitter 10-15-2009

2009-10-16T07:04:56Z

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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From Twitter 10-13-2009

2009-10-14T07:04:17Z

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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From Twitter 10-11-2009

2009-10-12T07:05:13Z

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10:32:35: Sorry for all the Twibes postings. There should be a way for people who are not interested in Twibes to screen out the tweets about joining

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From Twitter 10-10-2009

2009-10-11T07:04:44Z

14:53:12: Testing BookFresh for online booking of appointments
21:03:54: Trying to tweak BookFresh. Very frustrated. Can't get it to work the way I want.
23:17:12: Trying to redesign my website with an inexpensive template. Wish I could afford the web designer I really want (hi Mara).

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From Twitter 10-09-2009

2009-10-10T07:05:36Z

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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Astonishing X-Men motion comic

2009-10-01T23:31:11Z

An excerpt from the upcoming animation of Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men

What did you say the date was?

2009-10-01T10:27:36Z

It's really October already? Seems unbelievable ...

From Twitter 09-26-2009

2009-09-27T07:04:20Z

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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From Twitter 09-23-2009

2009-09-24T07:05:13Z

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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Fellow Whedonverse fans ....

2009-09-24T02:17:02Z

Are any of you reading this members of the Whedonverse Ning yet?

From Twitter 09-21-2009

2009-09-22T07:04:36Z

13:21:16: Now set up to sync MySpace with Twitter! ... http://lnk.ms/0SBQZ
18:40:07: We have such wild and ferocious plastic bags in this house! What's a kitten to do?

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From Twitter 09-15-2009

2009-09-16T07:04:53Z

16:49:11: How can I be this tired when I haven't finished even one of the tasks that I have started today?
16:58:35: RT @GayMarriage Respect for Marriage Act, which would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, Introduced in Congress http://bit.ly/UXw1b
17:18:41: RT @thinkgeek: Two bird species sing same song, RIAA said to be looking into the case. http://bit.ly/QJKkP

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Error

2009-09-10T12:39:56Z

Hmmmm, this doesn't exactly encourage me to join BlogFlux:

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Blog Flux

Error - There seems to be a hickup in our system

Don't panic, we'll be right back.

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Maybe you'll be right back, but I probably won't.

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From Twitter 09-09-2009

2009-09-10T07:04:35Z

18:05:38: Question authority! I have a kitten on my lap while I am waiting for a client to arrive. I hereby defy "No Cats on the Internet Day" today.

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Kitten and dog together are invincible

2009-09-08T22:39:28Z

McKenzie and Logan make a good team: McKenzie knocked off the table the wooden spoon that I had been using to prepare some stuff with chicken and cheese for dinner, and Logan seized it in his mouth and ran through the house with it.

(Edited to add: Just to make it clear, I'm preparing something to be served when Jess gets here - not planning to eat it all before she gets home!)