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Someone is asking: Which is more important, IQ or self-discipline?. What’s self-discipline? According to the article, it includes the ability to delay gratification: Walter Mischel and colleagues found in the 1980s that 4-year-olds’ ability to delay gratification (for example, to … Continue reading →

Do you ever think back to what you were like when you were younger? How about feeling back to try to reconstruct your emotions and sense of self? I’ve been afraid that in some ways, age 14 was my best … Continue reading →

We’re selling our house and buying another one just up the street, as reported in Bahiyyih’s Webble. And although we scoured Champaign and Urbana for a suitable home on our own and then with professional help, in the end neither … Continue reading →

I took down my rant about nobody benefitting from racism. It was just too much of a red herring. After all, I don’t think anyone is suggesting that people who are not directly harmed by racism should be discriminated against … Continue reading →

When my brother David (the father in these pictures) was younger, he and Zivar, our sister (who has even less biographical material on the web than David — the best I can find is this snippet from her high school’s … Continue reading →

Oooohhh, The first one is the first one; The second one is some more. The third one is number three, And after that comes four!

Good ol’ Defective Yeti, like a modern-day Dave Barry with some scripting skills, has caused me to compose this, from the browser on my computer at work: These are my URL ABCs: A is for antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod – The Astronomy Picture … Continue reading →

Has this weblog ceased to be read by human beings? If so, I can hardly blame them — they should follow the spoor of the more interesting instead. But for this weblog’s most loyal reader, Googlebot, I have a message: … Continue reading →

So this guy I know, Alan Williams, has a little consulting company that does web application development for companies from time to time. And he mentioned that he had put some tech notes for his fellow programmers, whereever they may … Continue reading →

Game night, 8/11/04: Cranium around the dining room table.Clockwise from lower left: Bahiyyih, Kathy and Polly (our neighbors), Husayn, Kathleen, Liz and Nate.