This is for those of you who are not on my friend's list here on livejournal, but who read my public journal anyway ( Read more... )

I'm living here on the river, and just above my door there are three swallow nests. Most of the deck underneath them has rotted away, but a few rusty old nails are still half driven through the cracks of a few remaining planks. You can stand out there and look up, and occasionally you'll see a couple of beaks hanging out from the rims of the nests ( Read more... )

Being a philosopher is at times as embarrassing as it is enlightening. For the record, it ought to be exclusively enlightening, as with the whole of our lives, and it is my own opinion that philosophy is essential to living a complete and successful life. Still though, I often find myself in the unfortunate circumstance of having to defend ( Read more... )

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What do Metaphysics and Metaphors have in common? You guessed it-- Metaph. And a metaph is a unit of measurement for a bit of objective, real knowledge about the way the world is. Of course, a metaphysic and a metaphor both exceed their bounds ( Read more... )

Throughout my social life, I've been in and out of phases. Usually I am socially reclusive, but occasionally I have been socially active. This contrast has put me in the unique position to share some of the things I have observed, by being me. More specifically, I believe I have devised a basic criteria on how to avoid lonliness. If you never want ( Read more... )

Houston San Antonio Fort Stockton El Paso Las Cruces Tucson Pheonix Blythe Palm Springs Los Angeles Bakersfield San Jose, goodbye. I'm back in the Bay Area. The sunset happened the exact moment I passed across the border between Arizona and California. It dipped just underneath a desert mountain in the distance, as my car passed over the Colorado ( Read more... )

Goodbye Houston.

( Just some very loose notes on Embodied Cognition I thought I'd post here while I write some papers... )

I was driving back from a concert in Austin again last night; drove from midnight to 3:00am, something like that. I went to the show and was driving alone, like usual. There is actually some nice country south of Austin, between there and Houston. Though it starts to get ugly again the closer you get to Houston. Driving at night in that country is ( Read more... )

Alright, I'm cheating on my LJ break... but as some of you know, my favorite music artist is Tom McRae. He is coming out with a new album on May 2nd, and it is going to rock. Most people don't know anything about him because he doesn't write lame radio-friendly songs, and his primary fan base is in Europe. His new album, as it turns out, won't have ( Read more... )