This is being written within minutes of departure, so bear with me if I break off suddenly ( Read more... )

being away from journals for a month, or has it been months? has been interesting ( Read more... )

word up.
All ya'll who enjoy rockin the che gears.
http://www.economist.com/world/la/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9968985

http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=mlhxjx9y84d00ct2jxthph91zm9dcdtz

Way too busy lately.

I was walking home from a long day of study, or to be honest, study and avoidance of study, and I noticed something that made me stop. The thin, new spring leaves on a young tree were glowing bright green as they caught the orange light from the streetlight above. The effect was damn cool, maybe my brain was all addled from too much reading, but it ( Read more... )

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I just bought the makings of a boat!
Assembly, sanding, fiber glass work, and painting, and BAM PRESTO!
I will be the proud owner of a paper tiger catamaran.

"Aspirations must be pure and free of selfishness. Arising from the depths of the soul, aspirations are spiritual demands penetrating all of a human life and making it possible for a person to die for their sake. A person without aspirations is like a ship without a rudder or a horse without a bridle. Aspirations give consistent order to life ( Read more... )

The production of work continues in the poncho lair. Work on the thesis is cranking along and I'm finally returning to some real philosophy, instead of treading dangerously close to actual science. Talking about relevance, relationships between problems and solutions, categories and all that epistemic and ontological jazz. Just to make sure I don't ( Read more... )