jaredrbyer on Jun 25th, 2009Men seek retreats for themselves
houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from [...]
jaredrbyer on Nov 11th, 2008Life, the universe, everything…
Everything except Sci Fi tht is tonight. I had two very positve things come up today that I wanted to share with you. Yesterday i wrote something for one of my states to use. Not a bit of programing but some information for the end users. Today it sounds like several other states are going [...]
jaredrbyer on Apr 26th, 2008Disputing Hume’s Standard of Taste
This is the final essay I wrote for my favorite philosophy professor. It was very well received.
In his essay “Of the Standard of Taste”, Hume put forth what could be considered an early aesthetic theory. Hume considered it “natural” to seek “a rule, by which the various sentiments of men may be reconciled.” [...]
jaredrbyer on Mar 17th, 2008Day One of Goodness
This morning I was thinking about what I could write this week and I realized that a series of four wonderful events have happened, are happening and are going to happen very soon. So today is day one of complete awesomeness.
European Economic History
The Philosophy of David Hume
Statistics for Business and Economics Part II
Philosophical Psychology
Those [...]
jaredrbyer on Nov 28th, 2007Nearing the End
As I write this I am nearing the end of NaBloPoMo 2007 and also nearing the end of this semester. Today I turned in my philosophy paper and we did the obligatory instructor/class evaluation sheets. My philosophy professor was nice enough to remind us that super-cool is in fact hyphenated in case we [...]

