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The Supernatural vs. the Supersensible: ‘Bones’ and “The Pathos in the Pathogens”
No crime scene this week, no body dump … we begin with biohazard containment. A blogger has been killed by an unknown pathogen and dumped in a pile of veterinary waste. Her fiance, a source in the pharmaceutical industry, and … Continue reading
Good: Escher and Blog … an Infernal Golden Opportunity, or: Welcome to the Wonderful World of High Technology
The blog post is titled “3D Print the Impossible! Turning Escher Drawings into Read 3D Models“. As the first paragraphs states, “The researchers […] have used their own Objet 3D printer to re-create the impossible Escher Drawings as real, tangible … Continue reading
Posted in Various and Sundry
Tagged aesthetics, disgust, dissertation, Escher, Gödel, Kant, Lessing, paradox
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Poppy: “Act one beginners, please!” … or the Three-Act Structure
A couple years ago when reading some television criticism something stuck out at me that had always just floated below the surface for so long: that TV episodes and movies were structured around three acts. And everywhere I went I’d … Continue reading
2013.03.16: Waffling
Ms. S. worked an extra shift and sleeps mightily. For breakfast/brunch she gets a waffle; since Clinton at the least and a certain Doonsbury strip we taken “to waffle” as synonymous with “to flip flop”, “to vacillate”; and the waffle … Continue reading
Posted in Food
Tagged animal rights, Kant, Peter Singer, veganism, vegetarianism, waffles
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Szechuan Saturday, or: What I’m Reading but not Eating
A couple weeks ago Ms. S. and I stopped by our favorite local Mexican restaurant for a treat, and this led to a discussion or the origin of several supposedly ‘authentic’ ethnic dishes. And this led Ms. S. first to … Continue reading
A Forgettable Friday
Not much accomplished today; still recovering from the holidays.
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Tagged back pain, books, BSG, chocolate, food, holidays, is-ought, Kant, television
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Sunday Sitting Around
Sunday is brunch-promt time, and today as I wrote the cats decided that my lap and forearms were a good place tot settle down and nap … who am I to argue?
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Tagged food, Kant, programming, television, The X-Files
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Thursday Themes
Let’s treat today in several parts, one of which is narrative, one of which is merely descriptive, and one of which is abstracts from actions to pop culture.
Freewheeling Friday
It may be December, but we’ve still had temperatures north of 70 down here. That translates to humidity and warm nights, as well, and so at 3am I had to turn the bedroom ceiling fan on ‘high’. I wanted to … Continue reading
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Tagged Baumgarten, dissertation, Kant, Leibniz, Mendelssohn, No Sh*t Sherlock!, television
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