I had terrific conversations today with Steve and with Leonard. Steve and I even watched The Daily Show together. I simply can't get over how smart the show is! Tonight Jon Stewart interviewed John Stossel …
I muse to Jade in Logic lecture. For example, I consider the savings to be had at Truth-Value Hardware, and make up bizarre "neither-noir" stylings. Ex.: "It was a dark night in the city of …
A week or more ago, upon moving in to my new place, I listed things I needed to do. Now I have to do more laundry and make a better system of putting-less-relevant-things-away, but overall …
Every year I try not to pay attention to Valentine's Day or the Academy Awards, and every year I kinda do. Hey, Lagaan is up for Best Foreign Film! Adam, it'll be a deathmatch between …
I don't ordinarily hear people worry about seeming "tribaler than thou". Scuttlebutt has it that Prof. Daniel Warren (or, as I have dubbed him, Dr. Logic) has both a Ph.D. and an M.D. My roommie …
Taking a break from installing the hooks I just bought at a hardware store. I feel like Frances or Elise with all this remodeling new-house jabbering. The music quiz I took today felt harder than …
Moira Redmond points out a particular nuance of the institutionalised idiocy of St. Valentine's Day, namely, the effect on schoolkiddies (won't someone think of the children?): And there will be conversations like this one in …
From Leonard: From JOHO, here's a series of thought experiments to help ferret out to which theory of personal identity one hews. Few surprises for me, as I already knew I was a psychological reductionist; …
