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Hole diggin' party at the TartRocks
As TartQueen recently posted, last weekend was to be "foundation weekend" for a deck from the kitchen to the hot tub. So we went and got a power auger last weekend and set to digging footings ( Read more... ) -
John McCain: 'I know how to win wars'
Seriously? He said that?
Would that be based on his experience in Vietnam? (Okay, a tasteless comment, but so is his.)
How to win at war:
#1: Don't start them
#2: End them as soon as is practical
Welcome back to the 19th century...
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Merry Christmas everyone! -
Volkswagen Eos rocks!
50 degrees in Minneapolis in December -- weird, but it let me put the top down on the Eos for fun:
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Looking for examples
Other posts have been working out ideas for myself or just getting thoughts out -- here is one where I could use examples from folks ( Read more... ) -
A diversion on thought
Several years ago, I had a theory that I vaguely tried to research, but it remains a theory. I feel like writing a little to keep in the habit, and it relates to how minds work (vaguely), so here goes ( Read more... ) -
Categorizing thought
What are the ways people have come up with to divide what is going on in the mind?
DichotomiesIt is almost of the hallmark of Western thought to create dichotomies. They aren't necessarily descriptive of how things are, but they provide frames of reference through which to view the world ( Read more... ) -
Why write about thought?
How people think: I don't think a bunch of us sharing experiences is gonna crack this open.
So why write about it? A list of reasons:
1) There may be real research on this -- if any of it is lay-readable, I'd like to know about it. Turn me on to what is out there if you know anything.
2) I think it is fun to introspect and consider what this thing ( Read more... ) -
Getting into someone else's head
I want to know what you think, but I don't think it is possible. Not the subjects you think about, not the opinions you hold. When you think about one of those subjects or hold one of those opinions, what do you perceive?
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NOTE: This is the start of a lot of writing I'm going to be doing on how people think, how ( Read more... )