Hannah

Matt on the Computer

Here are some photos I took of Matt playing on my computer on Sunday after church. He sat pleasantly at my computer for about 45 minutes listening to "Wipeout" by the Ventures. He was having the time of his life.

Glen Beck's Conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

I normally agree with Beck's politics, ideology and philosophy -- but not really big on his dramatics or theatrics. That said, I came across this video today in which he speaks of his conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and thought it was quite nice.

Calgary Flames Vs. Anaheim Ducks

Sean took me to the Flames game on November 10, 2006. Flames won 3-0. The first period was pretty exciting. Check out the photos I took.

Dancing Gracie

Grace, Matt, Hannah and I stayed home together the other night while Erin went out. Here' are some photos of Gracie that Matt took.

Kevin Wolff Turns 30!

My brother Kevin turned 30 years old last week. Check out the photos. It's strange to think we're growing up.

Pumpkin Carving

These are some of the best pumpkin carvings I have ever seen.

Ayn Rand's Objectivism

I've been waist deep in "Atlas Shrugged" lately, and have become a bit obsessed with it ... again. Some have asked me to define what it is about the philosophy that I enjoy, and I recently came across this description of "Objectivism" in Rand's own words.

1. Reality exists as an objective absolute -- facts are facts, independent of man's feelings, wishes, hopes or fears.
   
   
2. Reason (the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses) is man's only means of perceiving reality, his only source of knowledge, his only guide to action, and his basic means of survival.
   
   
3. Man -- every man --is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.
   
   
4. The ideal political-economic system is laissez-faire capitalism. It is a system where men deal with one another, not as victims and executioners, nor as masters and slaves, but as traders, by free, voluntary exchange to mutual benefit. It is a system where no man may obtain any values from others by resorting to physical force, and no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. The government acts only as a policeman that protects man's rights; it uses physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use, such as criminals or foreign invaders. In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church.