CHAOS
MANOR MUSINGS
The View from Chaos Manor
Jerry Pournelle
The Original Blog *
This is my personal journal and day book. For computer related reviews and mail, see Chaos Manor Reviews, which is a continuation of the old BYTE column I began in 1980 with BYTE Magazine.
Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:23 AM
Some Reflections on University Education and Debt
Ethanol, biofuels, and selling the nation to the Saudis
Gods, Dawkins, and Intelligent Design
Taxes; Middle East notes; Hamit and Bezos on POD (Mail)
The Platinum Club
You will find the Computing at Chaos Manor Column at
www.ChaosManorReviews.com
WANT TO TEACH YOUR CHILD TO READ?
A STEP FARTHER OUT now on line
Most recent topics of interest:
Relapse; New Discussion, the Bell Curve and the Republic
Restathon continues. Cochran spies horse manure
Reading the morning paper and counting blessings
Sleepless but hopeful: Coming up.
Still Enduring; Climate Models
Late night. Joe Weizenbaum, RIP
iPhone works; wish my brain did
Phil Chapman on Global Cooling
Great Books, She's Back, and other musings.
Up early; Lots of mail; Global Cooling
Announcements, Global Cooling, and other matters
Zemlinsky: The Dwarf
Steroids! Will I look like Arnold?
Valentines, Nuclear Power, Self publishing, and more
On Sunspots and Ice and Economics and stuff
Recent Topics in Chronological Order. For Topics of Continuing Importance click here.
Republic, Empire, and Grand Strategy
An Important Speech by Newt Gingrich
Free Trade and Comparative Advantage
School that uses Roberta's Reading program in top 10% Nationally
More on the SFWA Anti Piracy Flap
A New Assault on SFWA and Copyright
Humans destroying Universe! Pessimists rejoice!
VISTA DEATH WATCH: A plea for help
Inferno I and II are done; on to Mamelukes
Democracy fails again; Bell's Palsy
Joey Bishop, RIP; Joey and me; E-Piracy again
Contest: Who Do You Want to See in Hell?
Cory Doctorow and Ursula LeGuin
Columbus Day. Sail on! Sail on!
Susan Shepherd on Star Simpson
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
A discussion on Jacobinism and Iraq
Unsatisfactory Alternative in the Middle East
Madeleine L'Engle, RIP (story)
My thanks to you all. Now it's time to go back to Hell
SFWA will no longer act on behalf of authors in matters of electronic piracy
SFWA, EFF, and who's the bad guy?
Global warming consensus; more on Richard Jewell
Richard Jewell and Lunar Eclipses
Science, Deniers, and Big Education
Alas, probably not FASTER THAN LIGHT?
Aerodynamicist needed for space ship design...
Diversity, Hedge Funds, Ancient Crop Records
Freeman Dyson's Global Warming Heresies
More on Global Warming, Models, and Science
Data and Query on Global Warming
On writing, and the TSA Interviews
Continuing work on Inferno; lots of mail on Iraq and other matters.
On Sea Level, Climate and Scientific Integrity
A Dialogue on Iraq and other matters.
Continuing the discussion of Ron Paul and the Legions
Various matters including Ron Paul and Iraq
Space Activity Suits, Continued
Feeling safer, on writing, and Space Activity Suits
A former student reports on California Education
National Review and Global Warming: Reprise (Continued)
THE ROSWELL INCIDENT yet again
National Review and Global Cooling
TSA and tyranny; a farce at the beach. So it goes
War Costs and some Important Global Warming Data
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SFWA Grievance Committee Warnings
Some topics of continuing importance
How to get my job: the secret of becoming a
professional writer.
Want to teach anyone to read English?
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy
How To Publish Your Book as an Ebook
Pournelle's Iron Law and a Defense of the Teacher's Unions
Work In Progress at Chaos Manor
A Serving Officer in Iraq: Letters
Want to teach your kids to read?
How the Ashkenazi Got Their Smarts
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Extensive discussions on technology and civilization, education, the space program, the future of freedom, etc. With contributions by a lot of smart people. See Current Mail and Current View. For more on what this place is about, including permanent features, see below. For Topics of continuing interest, see below. And for more on what we are doing here, including saving the space program and desert adventures, click here. For my computer columns which formerly appeared in BYTE, see Chaos Manor Reviews. And be sure to have a look at the various Reports which include trip reports, adventures, and other special topics. For Roberta Pournelle's Reading Program, look here.
I can make some claim to this being The Original Blog and Daybook. I certainly started keeping a day book well before most, and long before the term "blog" or Web Log was invented. BIX, the Byte exchange, preceded the Web by a lot, and I also had a daily journal on GE Genie.
I note that a Google Search on Blog doesn't show me, at least not in the first 10 or so pages, but then I long insisted I don't "blog" because I find the word ugly. But I have a fair amount of traffic and a quality readership, so I can hardly complain. This site is supported by subscribers on the "Public Radio" model: if you think it is worthwhile, please subscribe.
This Web Site supplements my column that ran in the print version of BYTE for twenty years and continues weekly at Chaos Manor Reviews. This web page adds more, including mail to both me and the column. You'll find: Computers, Blogs, Blogging, Operating systems, Linux, Features, Journals, Day Books, Mail, Discussions, Current Topics, Science Fact and Fiction, Space Policy, Defense Policy, Population Density, Global Warming, History, Republic or Empire?, and Other Stuff I think is interesting. It is mostly text. The main action here is in VIEW and MAIL which are updated more or less daily. There is also my work in progress. If you have not the foggiest notion of what you've found, click here.
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REPUBLIC AND EMPIRE: A continuing discussion
See Chaos Manor Reviews for regular columns and show reports.
Saving the space program: things change slowly. The latest is Getting to Space: Prizes. The older relevant papers are still relevant. Start with Getting To Space. You might also look at The Megamissions Paper about military policy. For my testimony to Congress about what to do with NASA and what we learned from DC/X, see Why Have Nasa? Most 0f the space papers are summarized in this Space Reports index page.
You will find my essay on The Voodoo Sciences (what's wrong with social science) here.
Much of what we do here ends up in Reports. The summary page is here. There are many subjects.
There are a lot of reports. Each reports folder has a summary page. Contents vary among from Republic vs. Empire (and incompetent empire) to the Yorktown Incident through Christening of a godchild to the opening of a corpse plant to picture reports of rolling my Bronco in Death Valley to a stroll along a canal in Japan. How a report ends up in one folder rather than another seems largely to be whim, but they all have quite a bit of good stuff accumulated over the years.
There also photoessays about trips to Paris and Rome.
How to get my job: the secret of becoming a professional writer.
SURVIVAL in DEATH VALLEY: With PIX
Summary Pages:
| Are you a professional? | ||
| How to get my job. |
If you got here looking for the MegaMissions paper, click here. I find that my space papers are not well organized or indexed and are very hard to find. I'll try to do something about that. The other paper referenced in my recent talk is Getting to Space.
Some not very Current Topics which continue to generate interest:
How to get my job: the secret of becoming a professional writer.
SURVIVAL in DEATH VALLEY: With PIX
Special Reports on many subjects:
This is a content oriented site. You are not likely to find pretty new graphics here. This is not a course on web design. I do try to make things readable, and keep the download times small. Topics include: New machines, chip reports, book and game reviews, musings on many matters. The View From Chaos Manor is updated almost every day. There is a great deal of mail, on many topics. If you don't know why you're here, try VIEW, then "What Is This Place?" It can be confusing here, but many like it that way. Reminds them of The Adventure Game.
WARNING: this place is updated frequently. RELOAD/REFRESH early and often. Good Luck.
We have testimonials for my wife's READING PROGRAM. If you know anyone having problems reading English, you should look into this. If you home school or know people who do you need to know about this.
I have prepared a TOUR GUIDE to this place. It may give a bit more about what is going on here.
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