Monthly Archives: August 2009

M.Div is Go!

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 21, 2009

[Note: I thought about spinning off a separate blog for M.Div thoughts/conversations/updates, and then decided against it. If you don't want to hear about my adventures at Duke Divinity, but you can subscribe to the feed at http://enfranchisedmind.com/feeds/filtered/no-school. If you only want to hear about school, subscribe to http://enfranchisedmind.com/feeds/filtered/school.] Well, I’ve registered for my first [...]

Posted in Admin, School | 5 Comments

Ruby Can’t Be Parsed?

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 17, 2009

Wherein Robert fumbles around to understand why parsing perl is equivalent to solving the halting problem, but that’s not true for Ruby.

Posted in Classic, Ruby/JRuby | 14 Comments

Clojure Syntax Highlighting in OS-X vi

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 16, 2009

I just followed Giles Goat Boy’s instructions for Vim OS X Clojure Syntax Highlighting, but there’s a bit of an improvement I’d like to throw out to the universe, and since there’s no comments over there, I’m posting it here. The last step in his instructions is to sudo and edit /usr/share/vim/vimrc. You don’t have [...]

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Soul Hacking

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 16, 2009

And now, some self-indulgent navel-gazing on the heels of the Alan Watts podcast sample.

Posted in Metacognition | 3 Comments

Podcast Sample: Alan Watts Podcast

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 15, 2009

Alan Watts is a fascinating figure, and on the short list of role models for my aspiring career as an academic1. He groks the eastern sensibility of religion, but comes from a decidedly western context. Combining that with an apparently natural ease of conversation, he really makes the wider field of comparative religion accessible, engaging, [...]

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