Henry Imler January 24th, 2006

Call me a farm boy, but I am very excited that I will be traveling by plane next month. Meredith and I are going to see my brother and sister-in-law and their son in Little Rock, Ar-Kansas. I have only flown once and it was in high school to attend the National Young Leader’s Conference in D.C. Next month will be the first time I will have flown since then and I am looking forward to flying with Meredith.

When it comes to projects, I have tried on and off to get a extra
desktop that was donated to me to run as a file server. I have had some
success, but the system might go to helping my grandmother use the
Internet, if I can find a good linux/wireless adapter setup. I also
have been using ubuntu a lot on my desktop. I like it more and more. I think I will stick to the dual boot setup with Windows XP for gaming.

In a few days, my new TV/FM tuner card will show up from newegg. I am wanting to use it to record the talk radio programs I cannot listen to while I am at work, while I am hanging out with Meredith or are sleeping.

I have begun a new, and I think better way to entering my philosophy notes: The Unsound Wiki.
I really want to find a good way to keep my notes together in graduate
school (providing I get accepted somewhere) so that I might be better
able to put suff together when I go to teach. To this end, I am trying
out using a wiki. I have put hardly anything on there, a beginings of a
Early Greek Philosophy history and the nine rules of propositional logic.
I like using the wiki software because it allows me to add and revise
the pages and the organizational structure is more geared towards an
assembling of knowledge, than a blog, which is more geared towards
articles and finalized work. I am thinking about how to meld the two
together, since I want this site to be my personal collection of notes
and work and also available to people looking for info on the various
topics I cover. The hardest part is figuring out the best way to cite
sources in the wiki.

In readings, I have started three really good books. I am almost finished with the Probability of God, which is a interesting read. I have cracked Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting and A History of Philosophy by Julian Marias. Freedom
is very captivating, since I am very interested in free will vs.
determinism. I have only finished one chapter, but I am looking forward
to the rest of it. A History of Philosophy is a landmark
Spanish text that has been translated into English. Since a formal
knowledge of the history of philosophy is one of my weak points, I am
soaking up the book.

I also came across a very interesting article about using Altruism
as an argument for God’s existence inside an evolutionary framework. I
will post about it later.

That is what I have been working on lately, besides worrying about if I get into grad school and what I will do if I do not.

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