Two new Hans Blumenberg books are out in English translation, both short: Paradigms for a Metaphorology (and Care Crosses the River (1987). The second one is more aphoristic than anything else I’ve read by him and seems very mysterious at first glance (Stanford’s back-cover comment about how this book “eschews academic ponderousness” is probably not
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Blumenberg’s Metaphorology
This doesn’t really bother me emotionally, but I think it’s a pretty dangerous fallacy to say that as you get older, things don’t hit you the way they did when you were younger. I hear this so frequently from all angles (lit, music, film, you name it), and to me it seems like nothing other
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After the Sophomore’s Work
I’ve been tardy in mentioning it, but a reader going by the sobriquet “Dave Tallman” has posted a very convincing explanation of Gene Wolfe’s cryptic Seven American Nights, and in doing so has answered the challenge I made nearly a year ago. Bravo, Dave Tallman! In doing so, not only has he made the story
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Gene Wolfe Challenge Won!
In detail, the following must be distinguished: 1. the dominating passion, which even brings with it the supremest form of health; here the co-ordination of the inner systems and their operation in the service of one end is best achieved-but this is almost the definition of health! 2.
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Nietzsche on the Passions
I posted that excerpt from the inflammatory (for sufficiently small values of inflammatory) intro to Steven Moore’s book only as a gag, since people like Steve Donoghue have said much more about it than I wish to. (However! In a rebuke to Moore, his elevation of the Velvet Underground as too-avant-for-Ashbery has just been answered
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Who Cares If You Read?
(I recently wrote an overview of Krasznahorkai for The Quarterly Conversation, which may help give some context to the themes here.) Animalinside, a short work which is published as part of the Cahiers series on writing and translation, is a formal experiment for Krasznahorkai. Krasznahorkai wrote a text to accompany a drawing by Max Neumann, and Neumann
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Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Max Neumann: Animalinside
When it comes to placing an order, there are lots of options for selling. The one that comes to mind is GTC (Good til Cancel), GTEM (Good til end of month), and GTD (Good til Date). Therefore, I decided to ask my broker how I will be charged. This is the answer I got. If
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Stock market buying and selling tips
Attention, everyone currently embroiled in scandal. Make apologies easier with four phone handsets! Attention Brett Favre, Tim Profitt, Charlie Sheen, and anyone else currently feeling some heat for doing incredibly dumb things they shouldn’t have done.
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Motorola DECT 6.0 Digital Cordless 4 Handset Phone & Answering System
I purchase both mutual funds and ETF’s, but I will talk about how I purchase mutual funds. When it comes to individual investors purchasing mutual funds, he/she will often buy the ones that have a history of high returns. Unfortunately, this often does not equal high returns. Therefore, I will provide insight into what I
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Purchasing mutual funds tips
When it comes to purchasing ETF’s, many people assume that tracking an index is fairly straightforward. Unfortunately, it is not for many. When it comes to tracking an index with less than 100 companies, tracking the index should be fairly easy. Furthermore, the tracking error maybe minimal.
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ETF’s understanding tracking error
I made an online purchase using a credit card. The company that I have purchased from did not refund my money. Furthermore, the credit card company was not able to provide a refund either due from the fact that the item ordered was not a tangible item. What happened? My kids play online games and
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Making online purchase using a credit card
Currently, with the creation of open source software, creating a dedicated server or more on one machine is possible. Free open source software to create one or more hardware private virtual private servers on one machine: Xen – http://www.xen.org/ OpenVZ – http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page Free software to create one or more application private virtual machines within an
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Virtual machine as a private server
Missing Ubuntu, I decided to try to make it work on my Windows 7 box. Installing Sun’s VirtualBox, http://www.virtualbox.org/, I am able to get an Ubuntu 10.04 Server working on my system. Being needy, I also need some basic GUI tools for my Ubuntu 10.04 Server. Fortunately, Ubuntu provides documentation for those requiring additional software,
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Installing Ubuntu 10.04 Server
In order to fulfill the “This website does not supply identity information”, one needs to sign up for a SSL Certificate. What exactly does it do? By getting a SSL Certificate, one is telling the web surfer that a person of authority, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certified_copy, has verified that you are who you say you are. Furthermore, the
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This website does not supply identity information
On my Dell 1501 notebook, the user account is flaky. The shutdown button will disappear from the panel. The wifi will stop working. Ubuntu 10.04 will freeze up at times. Therefore, I had to do something. Unfortunately, the solution is not one that is likely to please everyone. Every user must have an administrator account
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Ubuntu 10.04 crashes with user accounts
Looking over the article about the $100 US IPad clone which can be found at http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/predicts_stiff_competition_ipad_100_android_tablets, I question if it will really be as good as Apple’s IPad. The hardware needs to be either purchased from a supplier and/or manufactured in-house. Furthermore, faster processors cost more than slower ones. For example, desktop processors can be
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Apple’s IPad Will Have Competition
After the 1950 external version broke down from overheating, http://aprivatebeach.com/blog/2009/04/using-the-hauppauge-wintv-hvr-1950/, I decided to purchase the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 PCI version. Since I only had one PCI slot and zero PCI Express slots left, which one to buy was an easy decision. Just like the 1950 version, WinTV version 6 must be used on Windows XP. WinTV
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Using the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600
I tried to update Ubuntu 10.04, but it ended up crashing. Therefore, I had no other choice but to reboot. Upon rebooting, I ended up getting the following error message when I tried to update Ubuntu 10.04. ‘E:Malformed 2nd word in the Status line, E:Error occurred while processing libsasl2-modules (UsePackage1), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status, E:The
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Unable to update Ubuntu 10.04
When it comes to upgrading Ubuntu, people often question what are the differences. Furthermore, people often will question if it is worth upgrading. Fortunately, I will explain the differences for those that are curious. When it comes to installing packages, going online and downloading the latest and greatest program such as OpenOffice from the Internet
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Difference between Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 and Ubuntu Lucid 10.04
Nabokov succinctly captures the two sides of cynicism–one jaded and pessimistic, the other selfish and contemptuous–in the person of the sadistic Axel Rex: On such occasions Rex could talk endlessly, indefatigably, inventing stories about non-existent friends and propounding reflections not too profound for the mind of his listener and couched in a sham-brilliant form. His culture
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Cynicism