I’ve been re-reading David Foster Wallace, both as a way of grieving him and as an escape from other, more pressing, grief. Wallace was the complicated inhabitant of his own writing, the uncertain outsider unable to accept the loving embrace of his community. He was an odd jester, exposing shibboleths but also using the mundane […]
Posts for December 2008
And I Suggest Using the Linux Kernel Next Time
The Economist had an article on disease causing genes in a recent issue. Common sense tells us that … the older a gene is, the more likely it is to be part of the irreducible structure of being alive… Another reason for expecting that disease-related genes would be recently evolved is that the older a […]