Notable Words

Words I have frequently found myself failing to recall, and/or savoring upon their encounter.

Neighboring pages...

Real Faith: My primary article of faith: Reality Exists. Duh.
How Does "I" Happen?: An intuitive response to the question of consciousness.
Gray Cat memories: Gray Cat was the most cool and collected feline I've ever gotten to know. I saved these memories June 6 and 7, 2007, in the days just after I had to have his life ended as he was in the grip of a fatal and unrelenting illness.
Quotes Collection: Pithy quotes appeal to my yearning for clarity. Here are some of my favorites, thematically arranged.
Intriguing Tidbits: Hard won insights or haphazard trivia? You decide.
Poetry: Sometimes I want to say more than I am able. Sometimes when I try I wind up with more than I expect.
Communication is Intelligence: Consider communication to be the medium and substance of intelligence.
Resentment and Self Pity: Resentment and self pity are anger misdirected in ways that are not helpful, and often worse.
"Free Will" and "Determinism" are Not Mutually Exclusive: Free will and determinism are concepts which cannot be compared because they represent distinct levels of abstraction, separate domains of discourse.
Some Favorite Books: A little bit about several of my favorite books.
Art From Limitations: I will always have more to learn regarding Orson Welles' suggestion, "the enemy of art is the absence of limitations". Henry Jaglom, a film creator and longtime Welles friend, describes what it means to him in an Indie World interview . This page has an excerpt from that interview .
Favorite Perlis Programming Epigraphs: Selected favorites from Alan J. Perlis' collection of programming epigraphs.
Incubator: Holding area for partly-cooked stuff. (No guarantees about any getting fully cooked.)

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Contained Pages

Elusive Words: Words (and phrases) too commonly, tantalizingly "at the tip of my tongue"
Frequently Invoked Principles: Principles worth noting
Fun Phrases and Titles: ... for chapter titles, band names, songs, whatever