Other Essays
Started my web site back in the 90’s, and have added to it for over twenty years. These ancient writings from my past may or may not reflect my current perspective. Clearly, once upon a time, I was much more opinionated.
- Buddhism
- Literature
- Mythology
- A Tale of Two Masks
- Cultural and Mystical Fusions
- Dream of the Conscious
- Faustian Fascination
- Gotta Love that Villian
- Greek and Nordic Mythology
- Happily Ever After
- Is Zeus either Odhinn or Thor
- Letter to the Creationists
- Life Begins The Dream
- Maybe Good Maybe Bad
- Myths are True
- ShangriLa
- The Mythology of Rebirth
- Unfold Your Own Myth
- Vasily
- Other
- A Dream
- Acidic Inspiration
- Advice to the Happy Couple
- Buddha Crockett
- Value Of Chess
- Children Stories
- Dance for the Sun
- Naked Old Women
- On Novel Writing
- On Time Capsules
- Pale Blue Dot
- Politics
- ACLU Christmas Cards
- Are Politicians Human
- God Bless and Pay For You
- I Changed Parties
- Is This A Christian Nation
- It is Time to Heal
- More Reflections on Peace
- My Response to Terrorism
- Political Balance
- Poll by Sex
- Re: Allah or Jesus
- Reflections on the Revolution
- Sidewalk Messages
- Tax and Spend Liberals
- The Open Space of Democracy
- What a Country
- When the Battle is Won
- Who’s Side are We On, Anyway
- Why Do We Love War?
- Why I Am Voting for Obama
- Still Perfecting Nature
- The Toaster Saga
- Yoga
- Personal
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- Absurd Life
- All Nude Art
- Am I A Nat
- Are You Happy
- Book for Nats
- BuddhaBall
- Dialog with Plato
- Evolution
- Friendly Agnostic
- How Long is Long
- Im So Open
- Internet Rudeness Part 2
- Is It Culture
- Is SETI Dangerous
- Jung a Tarot Deck and a Pile of Clouds
- Language and Thought
- Meaning, Quality and Determinism, Oh My
- Monetary Freedom
- No Beginnings
- Our Ego, Who art Projected in Heaven
- Philosophy and Parenting
- Questions
- Religion
- Atheism Is Hard
- Does Religion Own Morality
- Faith Reason Agnosticism
- Godless World
- Heaven not for People
- History of the Devil
- Noah and the Ark
- Pascals Wager
- Religious Evolution
- Removing Sunglasses
- Rhapsody on a Theme of TH Huxley
- Ten Commandments vs The Beatitudes
- The Dance of God and the Devil
- The Teleological Proof of God
- When to Disbelieve
- Who Made Us
- Smug Philosophers
- The Mystery of the Mind
- What is Quality
- Whats Wrong With Your Schnozz
- Why Hate Philosophy
- Wikiality
- Poetry
- Anniversary Song
- Apathy
- Autumn Poem
- Autumn Revisited
- Bas Lament
- Daddy Getting Kicked
- Dancing Fool
- Death of a Squirrel
- For My Friend
- Her Foot
- How Trees are Made
- I Hate Poetry
- Like is Stronger Than Love
- My Boy
- Notebook Scribblings
- Now and Then
- Ode to a Yellow Love Lost
- Office Poem
- Oft my Heart Memory Wanes
- On Watching Three Ravens
- Shining Pale at Midnight
- Spring
- Tea Thoughts
- Tears for the Lost Ones
- The Days Shadows
- The Missing Poster
- They Laugh at Jokes only They Appreciate
- This March
- Three Drunks on a Florida Beach
- To the Mortal Artemis
- Too Short to Title
- Underworld Messages
- Visiting Darol
- Weaving Without Wings
- What Burden
- Taoism
- Technical
- Brown Bag Presentations
- Clojure
- Eclipse
- Groovy
- Is Software Dead
- Java
- Computer Inspiration
- Death of Java
- Functional Programming in Java
- Freemarker vs Velocity
- Interview Questions
- Java Not Fun
- Loose Coupling Part 1
- Perspectives on Struts
- Self Signed Certificates
- Standard XPath API for Java
- Thoughtful Consideration better than any Pattern
- Threading Gotchas in Java
- Whats up with Java
- Whence Jini
- Whence Spring
- Why Not Use the Database
- JavaScript
- A-B-Testing
- Caching Ideas in the FuzzyToast Framework
- Default Arguments to Functions
- Dynalinkage
- Function Scoping
- Function Scoping Bug
- Function Scoping Bug2
- Function Scoping Fix
- Function Scoping Fix2
- JavaScript Interview Questions
- Locks
- Node Modules
- Perspective on Node
- Plugins with and without jQuery
- Linux
- Macintosh
- My Note Taking System
- Other
- Scratch
- Show-us-yer-Chops
- Web Stuff
- Z Shell