For some time now and completely unbeknowst to myself, I have been considering the terms of my surrender. I have been attempting to put a pleasant face upon it, couching my decisions in existentialist trappings and framing my escape from the world's assault upon my aspirations as another movement in the process of self-becoming. Today, as I ( Read more... )

I've become obsessed with Andy Goldsworthy.  His art expresses, in a perfectly aesthetic manner, the relationship between time and earth, delving into to the opacity of the inorganic and revealing it as the vital force that it is.  Of course, many have indicated the living essence of the natural world, but usually this is part and parcel of an ( Read more... )

I thought I would pick your brains with a question that has been bothering me for some time. I am very interested in hearing your responses.

Poll Compliment or effrontery?

Please click on this link, it is very important.

Thank you.

Since I will be officially involved with students from this point on in my academic career and yet do not desire to discontinue my journal, I will be posting the majority of my musings in the future under the friends filter. I have also moved many old public posts behind the filter and included several of you who have introduced yourselves on my ( Read more... )

So for those of you who don't keep track, Amazon.com recently started giving a quote from the text of each book for sale along with various common and ideosyncratic phrases that appear in the text. I use Amazon as a giant database for ISBN numbers so I can hunt down books more cheaply from other sources. Today I went to the site to look uo ( Read more... )

SPIEGEL: We understand that very well. But because we do not live three hundred years from now, but here and now, we are denied silence. We, politicians, semi-politicians, citizens, journalists, et cetera, we constantly have to make some sort of decision or other. We must adapt ourselves to the system under which we live, must try to change it ( Read more... )

Would it be possible to get Ann Coulter nominated for O'Conner's seat? I mean they are both women, right? That's what we do in America to maintain appearances ( Read more... )

NY Times article on the concept of time and the possibility of time travelI found this to be an extremely informative, entertaining, and thought provoking article. In it, the possibility of time travel is discussed by contemporary physicists through the concept of time derived from Einstein's theory of relativity and the [sometimes incongrous] ( Read more... )

Knowing my fondness for pirates, how was I to resist!

You make me proud, mates! I couldn't ask for a finer crew! And you best check yourself, jimotron, or I will send ya to Davy Jones's locker as well, arrrrr!