LMXB and liberal values

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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