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My Goals
My goals are threefold: to look good for potential partners, to avoid ever having to live in a nursing home, and to be able to lift my own weight over my head. Fortunately, these goals are compatiable, but only the last is truly quantifiable ( Read more... ) -
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I should have known better than to go to a big party, with all the alcohol and loud music. I did manage to find one woman who was really to talk to someone who wasn't drinking and we were having a nice conversation about Kant, Hegel, and Marx until a more charming guy slipped in and slide lined me ( Read more... ) -
Life on the Net
I post about lifting, I post about politics, I post about books... then I post about the male POV on a website and then I get lots of responses. -
From Robert Scholes “The Roots of Science Fiction”
“When romance returns deliberately to confront reality it produces the various forms of didactic romance or fabulation that we usually call allegory, satire, fable, parable, and so on…traditionally, it has been a favorite vehicle for religious thinkers, precisely because religions have insisted that there is more to the world than meets the eye, ( Read more... ) -
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In Aldiss and Wingrove’s article “On the Origin of the Species: Mary Shelly” promoting Shelly as the founder of science fiction, they wrote, “This book (referring to James Gunn’s collection of essays “Speculations on Speculation”) however, makes it clear that we can recognize SF fairly easily, although it is rarely found in a pure isolated state. ( Read more... ) -
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So I wonder if the verb "to diss" came from the prefix "dis" as in disregard, dismiss, disallow, etc. -
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I gained two pounds this week, but since my bench press and squat numbers went in the right direction I'm hoping those were muscle weight ( Read more... ) -
“7 Types of Ambiguity” by William Empson
I don’t think it’s ever taken me as long to finish reading such a short looking book, 256 pages of how to read, or how people can read, multiple meanings into poetry. For every interesting multiple reading, there is another example of reading too much into something minor. Another strength or weakness of the book, depending upon your taste in ( Read more... ) -
Green is the New Sexy
Do the Aristotelian unities really matter when dealing with space opera ( Read more... ) -
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I finally finished jury duty. It was actually fun, except for the repetition of evidence. Fortunately my fellow jurors were fun to hang out with and the judge, lawyers, and staff were all very polite with us and each other. It wasn't much like on TV with all the melodrama, except for the prosecutor's final summation being a little over the top for ( Read more... )