Michael Newdow’s case for a godless Pledge
I attended a lecture about the Michael Newdew’s case concerning the constitutionality of the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegience, presented by UCI’s constitutional law prof Donna C. Scheule. These are some notes from that talk, as close…
Dan Barker and Jesus
Last night, I attended another talk with Dan Barker, at Saddleback College; this time about the historical person of Jesus Christ, hosted by the free thinkers club. Again, this is a brief transcription covering all the major points of his…
Dan Barker, Godless
Tonight I attended a nice speech, Q+A, and Booksigning given by the President of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, Dan Barker. His talk was basically the same as one that can be found elsewhere online, but I took notes anyway….
Victory!
Last week, Tuesday, I noticed that my club, AAR, was counter-postering some heinous christian fundies. You see, every once in a while there are these christian fellas with obnoxious signs like “Repent Sinners, You’re going to HELL!”, you know the…
Speech on Chaos Theory and Ecological Stability
I wrote this speech on the way to an Academic Decathlon competition in high school. I still like it, but see now that I really should have been speaking of path lines in attractor fields. Other than that very important…
Posters!
Posters about my current research (Information Flow in JavaScript) were accepted to Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS ’09) and 2009 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO). This means that I have some work to…
Unhappiness
For some reason, quite unknown to me, I’ve been rather depressed lately. Normally, I coast through with a general state of melancholy, with entertaining, but superficial, jokes, comments, arguments, etc. This general state of contentment though has been displaced with…