Camels With Hammers‘s webmaster extraordinaire and occasional contributor, Dave Smith, turns 32 today. My previous forays into blogging were so fundamentally inhibited by my programming illiteracy that I can honestly say that this blog, in so many of its most successful features would simply not be possible without Dave’s volunteered efforts. He has really made [...]
In the week that just ended we broke some milestones for readership at Camels With Hammers as we continue to steadily grow and I want to take just a moment here to say thanks, because without your visits and your willingness to support this blog with your attention, we’d be going nowhere: Thanks!
After this introductory paragraph, every sentence in this post will summarize and link a different post expressing my views, primarily on topics related to atheism, philosophy, and ethics—which are the primary preoccupations of this blog. I am organizing all of these links into this one summary statement of “Camels With Hammers’ Philosophy.” This post will [...]
Clive Thompson reports that Stanford’s Andrea Lunsford thinks so: It’s almost hard to remember how big a paradigm shift this is. Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn’t a school assignment. Unless they got a job that required producing text (like in law, advertising, or media), they’d leave school [...]
We’re incredibly excited to have our first guest contributors to join Dave and I posting on Camels With Hammers. Earlier we saw Robert’s guest contribution on his observations at the Creation Museum. And now we’re excited to announce that in the near future we will feature guest posts from Sara, the witty, passionate, and intellectually [...]
On August 7, 2009, PZ Myers and the Secular Student Alliance led a field trip of a few hundred atheists and other secularists through Ken Ham’s infamous Creation Museum, a “museum” dedicated to promulgating the idea that a certain reading of the Bible should guide scientific investigation and understanding. Past Camels With Hammers coverage of [...]
I might not blog at all today as I’ll be concentrating on my dissertation pretty heavily. I’ve bumped many of my more substantive posts to the front page for you to peruse and consider catching up on. I also encourage you to find more pieces in the right hand column’s “recommended posts” list as well [...]
I’ll be spending the rest of the day working on my dissertation and teaching. I’ve moved many of the recent days’ posts to the front page in case you missed them during my flurry of constant posting during the last 4 days. Also there is a long list of blog posts in the right hand [...]
I never dreamed of such a thing—but here I am doing it. Now if only I had something urgent to say that I could make a real post out of this. Nope, nothing’s coming to me. So, I’ll just take this chance to thank everyone who reads this blog. It’s been a blast seeing the [...]
Camels With Hammers is honored to be included in the current “Carnival of the Godless”–a blog carnival which features atheism blogs. Thanks to StateofProtest for running the carnival! I highly recommend you peruse some of the blogs profiled there. We also have been remiss in not mentioning sooner that we are now on The Atheist [...]
Sorry to have been posting infrequently. Getting my dissertation proposal complete has been quite distracting. I’m elated to report that it’s done! In two weeks, I defend it. Assuming all goes well, from there I am cleared to write my dissertation with official departmental sanction! I hear these defenses are brutal however. One friend reports [...]
Thanks to those of you who have taken the time to stop by and briefly or not so briefly peruse the new blog. In the coming weeks, I will start to provide more discussion of the Mets and philosophy and movies (particularly Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) as promised. I hope to continue to [...]
This blogging thing begins for me shortly following the demise of a website that was a sort of procrastination home to me for over four years. I was among the top ten most frequent posters for much of those four years, which I guess is something of a dubious distinction. So, now, after a long [...]
Okay, I have finally decided to use this forum. Thankfully there is good news for my many loyal readers who must be very worried that since I was not writing out ideas for my dissertation here that I wasn’t writing them out at all. The good news is that I have been writing them out [...]
I’m a philosophy graduate student/teacher developing my dissertation. My natural tendency is to talk all my ideas out before writing—except if it is writing to people who are reading. So, in order to do the painstaking work of brainstorming and honing my ideas for my dissertation, I am deciding to blog them because it will [...]