Simpson is my middle name 9 Jul 200718 Sep 2017 No, really, it is. And although I followed the Identikit procedures exactly, I’m sure anyone who has met me will say I look nothing like this guy: Humor
General Science Indifferentialism 30 Jun 2009 The Sensuous Curmudgeon has a new (old) take on the accommodationism debate: indifference. To quote him/her/them: Our position is to totally disregard what we consider to be a sectarian disagreement among various denominations about whether scripture should be read in a manner to deny verifiable information about reality. One might… Read More
Book On rules 1 Jun 2009 My friend and colleague William Grey gave me a copy of F. M. Cornford’s Microcosmographia Academica, in which I read this passage which is so apposite to the modern day: The principle of Discipline (including Religion) is that ‘there must be some rules‘. If you inquire the reason, you will… Read More
Administrative More roundup 15 Sep 2008 Mohan Matthen, a philosopher of biology, has a very nice takedown of Thomas Nagel’s qualified support for teaching creationism on his blog. Hat tip Leiter. Richard Losick has an excellent piece on the problems of using cultured lab strains when studying microbes, at Small Things Considered. A new blog on… Read More
I know who you are, and next time you can buy me a coffee for that remark… Of course, I’m much fatter than the Homer body form.
For those of you who have never seen an actual picture of John or met him in person: you must know that, although he isn’t willing to aknowledge it, John is a handsome man, a living example of what means to age gracefully. He might want to block this comment, blackmail Janet Stemwedel to remove the picture and kill me for giving this link to a a picture of him (in case it isn’t obvious, it’s the first picture) in which you can see for yourselves and compare to the Simpsons’ character.
Simultaneously. As I am by nature Very Lazy, this means I have to fit all this is around my normal procrastination schedule. I’ll blog sporadically, but not much until early August. So sorry. Does all the recent blog activity mean the Mr J.S. Wilkins is procrastinating instead of doing all of the things that were supposed to hold him up from blogging? Just asking!
Actually, Ribozyme, that first snap is of Robert Brandon. Wilkins is in the third picture from the top, wearing a red shirt. But I do agree that his Simpsons avatar is rather less attractive than the genuine article.
Yebbut notice that Ereshefsky aged even more gracefully than I did. And he’s a much nicer fellow, which was inconvenient because I was all set to hate him for disagreeing with me. [I said I wasn’t a nice fellow.] I grew a goatee, but the site only had a few beard choices, so it makes me look much more hirsute than I am. Except when I haven’t shaved the rest of my face for a few days…
… could you have picked a less flattering photo? No, I’m pretty sure that was the least flattering one I took. But if you come back to New york, I’ll see what I can do!