If A picks up a piece of metal and says it is a stop sign, and B picks up the same piece of metal and says it is a car, what is it? Has it changed at all under/between the two different names?

We also toured a host of art museums, including LACMA and the Norton-Simon, where I saw Degas' Little Dancer of storybook fame. I also saw Picassos and Monets... We saw LACMA's exhibition of contemporary/conceptual art and narrowly missed MOCA... Museum guards have a tendency to follow us as we explore. At LACMA a short, stocky, uniformed gurad ( Read more... )

The weather was quite agreeable, but dry. Because I'm hypersensitive, I went around with smarting hands due to the lack of Birmingham-strength humidity. Sunny and breezy, though. Apparently they average 3 inches a year, according to an old elementary school friend of Dad's that we met up with. They've been keeping in touch, and since my Dad went to ( Read more... )

I am going to go on vacation this week to California. I'll be back on the 14th...

The newest "Bushism", which is what CNN calls Bush quotes (if anyone is a Bush fan, then tune out now ( Read more... )

I just got back from the Duke TiP program, which was amazing. I did Tension and Balance, which was fun and allowed for many strange and fun dicussions about the Ideal toaster, leaving the Cave, the real color of dyed hair, and many more societal and human issues. Quite fun. For all non-Tipsters and those who don't even know what I'm talking about, ( Read more... )

IMPORTANT NEWS: I am going to branch out a bit. Eclectic is a wonderful sort of hodge-podge, but I have decided to create a few interest-based sites. First will be a poetry discussion site, for all my fellow poetry fanatics who are entranced by the written word, whether writer or reader. I just waxed a bit romantic there, didn't I? Sorry. Next, ( Read more... )

Today I saw King Arthur. Fun, but totally historically inaccurate! I must rant on for a bit about it to satisfy myself. Annoyingly, some guy with a pronounced Southern accent was sitting right behind me guffawing loudly at the sexual jokes. He also let out a very loud "Wow!" when the Saxon campfires were revealed outside of the castle. It ( Read more... )

Well, here I am. Ubermodernist. I will now, remaining faithful to this journal's title, follow random tangents which absolutely anyone is welcome to discuss, debate, condemn or otherwise (though please be educated about it ( Read more... )