LMXB and liberal values

During the meeting yesterday I had cause to look up the acronym LMXB using everybody's favorite tool for such queries these days, and I quickly discovered that an LMXB is a type of neutron star. But more interestingly, I stumbled across Zhurnal, the online wiki-blog of a certain Mark Zimmermann, where he recounts tales from grad school and his thoughts on various matters, as one is wont to do in a blog of any form. But I found myself clicking the "random page" button throughout the rather boring meeting, flitting through stories, enjoying Zhurnal's writing and enjoying the ability to randomly navigate a web of thoughts engendered by the wiki concept. I like his writing, and I think we need to see more hybrids of blogs and wikis.

The entry titled Lost Inheritance struck a chord with me. Of course I am familiar with the quote from Hobbes—back from those high school days where we read from The Western Tradition back whem Mr. Koger et al led us on a path of liberal education. I couldn't help but think of the text in the context of our co-op, with our co-op in the role of "Society," the way we are building capital with an eye towards perpetual development, and building knowledge in figuring out how to operate our household.

A sampling of other entries:
http://zhurnal.net/ww/zw?LostInheritance — "The resources they set aside, generation after generation, have let us build machines..."
http://zhurnal.net/ww/zw?FastTimes — "Our world is in a time machine, plunging into the future..."
http://zhurnal.net/ww/zw?TopBand — "Midnight to dawn, alone, prowling Top Band ..."
http://zhurnal.net/ww/zw?JustTheJokes
http://zhurnal.net/ww/zw?StrandsOfTruth
http://zhurnal.net/ww/zw?UnderGround

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7. I would like to form a group of people who will study current events and make speculative investments based on industries affected by these current events. Not only will we become more aware of how the world works, we may become fabuluously wealthy.