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Freeform Friday
No Roman numerals today, just little lists, some notes and reminders, and a day recapped before Ms. S. and I go shopping.
Fall Friday
It feels earlier than it really is (9am). Food, friction, and philosophy.
Posted in Various and Sundry
Tagged Baumgarten, cats, Christian Wolff, Descartes, dissertation, food, Kant, Leibniz, pie
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It’s fish-fry-Friday, but I had turkey.
Let’s clear some links: Occam’s Razor: a webcomic, the first I’ll post today, but not the last. In Praise of Bullshit: it cites On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt. Pinky TA: a second webcomic, but not the last. A Lesson Is … Continue reading
Hump Day
The middle of the week; a meeting with Hans on Friday. Today I decided to watch the new Die Hard movie — Live Free of Die Hard.
More Kant, less Life
This evening I was reading a book on Kant & Schiller & Aesthetics … well, between episodes of rewatching Matrix Revolutions. Horst Nitschack’s “Kritik der ästhetischen Wirklichkeitskonstitution” — Critique of the aesthetic constitution of reality — from Verlag Roter Stern, … Continue reading
Last night to tonight
I hate it when people write “tonite.” I’m known for my own range of silly abbreviations, neologisms and the like, but “tonite” and “lite” are the ones that get me. Last night I re-viewed (I like funky hyphenation but am … Continue reading
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Tagged analogy, Aristotle, Boise, Cronenbergian, dissertation, Foucault, Gödel, Hellboy, Kant, Leibniz, Matrix, movies
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Old week or new week?
I awoke on time this morning, having set my alarm so I could make it to town for brunch/lunch and writing with Richard and Amy. I went back to — a fitful — sleep for a while with a couple … Continue reading
New York: Day 11
Another day, another prime number. When I was a math undergrad prime numbers were among my favorite recreational math interests, perhaps due to all the prime-related work we did under Shahriari … number theory, combinatorics, you name it. The distribution … Continue reading
New York: Day 8
This was a day of relaxation, of culture consumption, of some writing and a little reading and more writing. Back from Boston, I went to bed late, and so awoke early enough (Jyoti getting up early, Cindy and her mother … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston, comics, dissertation, dreams, ingenium, New York, the Whedonverse
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Operation Cheesecake? Success
However, there is a shorter-than-expected diary here because I am f**king p***ed … my fault? I don’t know. I blame Firefox, I blame MySpace … I blame somebody else …