Full day. Code. Drill vibrating head, brown crown temporarily, teeth feel bettah. The dentist wrote lighthouse-themed poems, in a poster on the wall with illustrations. He has a big hardy beard. He charged me 3 cents to fix my face. No. But we did go sailing.

Did Kung Fu lessons tonight. I like movement. I took hapkido when I was young, had a neck injury that kept hurting so I gave up. Got bored too. But I noticed the lingering accumulated motor vocabulary. Enjoyed crafty twirly steps in the kitchen.( Read more... )

Stopped by St. John's hospital today after work because I like the cafeteria. I can usually get something good there -- made a killer salad this time. With all the doctors and nurses wanting something decent, you can count on something decent I guess. I can't say the same for ALL hospitals, & even this one has taken some downturns but still. As ( Read more... )

I like me some Daniel Dennett. First there was the anthology he put together with Douglas Hofstadter, "The Minds I". I kind of didn't like him - he seems dismissive of so much when dealing with the questions of what's the mind, or what's the soul, what's an "I" and how can they be what, and where. Hofstadter's approach (they kind of both ' ( Read more... )

"I am only speaking for freedom. If you can't believe that, then by all means, misinterpret me."

Some analogies are coming clearer tonight. Let's suppose I am the relative God to my parts, the whole of them. A greater thing than they can ever know, except in the sense that they each contribute to MY knowing, which is a distributed process. There is no central kernel of me ( Read more... )

A friend twittered "You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects some thing you love or hate about yourself ( Read more... )

God floats and flexes for me. Part of my faith seems to be to vigorously defend God from much definition at all. I can't get stuck on what I expect him to be. He's the highest concept, an unbound symbol. A weird special word with a different class of mental operations. Might make sense if you're a programmer ( Read more... )

Today I did laundry -- beforehand I got some snacks from Walgreens and I passed by a young black guy. It was a loud event, as it usually is (in Springfield) - culturally loud. I observe the noise and listen to the different kinds of people in my head (people I know) voice their reactions to the collective noise, not realizing their role in the ( Read more... )

My neighbor-dog has been yowling something awful for a while now. Tonight I am drinking, and I have a really really nice stereo microphone / digital recorder and tried to capture him / address him. I don't know what it is, I know he's right next door I have seen him out the window but when I come out, he's gone. He is practically begging for ( Read more... )