This is a response to this:
http://everamblings.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/blog-banter-10-shellfish/

The original prompt, which he gives, is repeated here:This month’s banter leans a little, OK a lot, on the academic side. It comes to us from ( Read more... )

I picked up an extra project at work. Something with ads: a little outside my purview, but not outside my ability or even my knowledge: so it's no problem. What is, or may be, a problem is that my supervisor has expressed a commitment to rewarding me somehow if I end up doing overtime as a result of this ( Read more... )

I never know whether or not to believe it when people inform me that they're crying. It doesn't feel like something that's likely, but it also seems utterly heartless to simply dismiss it as impossible. Maybe that makes me seem cold; I've taken to simply being unresponsive or purely emoticon when I can't tell. In other words, just making vaguely ( Read more... )

Conversation context. We had been talking about people not having ambition ( Read more... )

Soooooooooo.

I thought of something on the bus today that I realized was new-ish but I didn't write it down and by the time I was eating dinner, I'd forgotten about it. UNTIL NOW. Now I must make haste and scribble it into my jurnul b4 i forgets it.

I was thinking about compassion. And I was trying to understand why I was right (shut up) about ( Read more... )

I pushed very hard on definitions recently, in What's the point in discussing a word's definition. However, there's more to the term "definition" than just words.

Definition is not simply a bridge between vocabulary and concept space. There is, after all, the additional question of identity, of who you are. And what defines you. What does it mean ( Read more... )