"There is no emoticon to describe how I am feeling!" Friedrich Nietzsche
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- Created By Pleiades Rising
Forever Undecided
Well, I'm finally getting around to reading some Haruki Murakami. I went to the library today and picked out Sputnik Sweetheart. It was described as a work that "ultimately lingers in the mind as a profound meditation on human longing." We'll see.
Also, why do I get the feeling that if I were to submit a review of it to the Library of Loons, it would simply be as follows (as those crazy kids on chat like to use):
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Of course I had to pick up something typically me. I grabbed Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Godel by John Dawson. What can I say? The man's (i.e. Godel's) work in mathematical logic amazes me--floors me. When I feel brave enough and sure of my logic, I'll have to buy his Collected Works, especially Vol.3, his unpublished essays; they give you a better peek into his philosophical mind, than do his published works.
An Essential Agnostic Stance?
Has anyone heard the latest on Cern's Large Hadron Collider? Actually, I'm referring that bit of news about how the LHC may not work because it's somehow temporally undermining itself: Its own future performance and success might affect it now, thus making it impossible to detect the mysterious Higgs boson particle--aka, the God particle.
Apparently, two physicists have worked out the mathematics to support this theory of cosmic censorship. (News item here: LHC news.) I'll admit that I marvel and wonder at the idea. It almost sounds teleological, I must say. Let's give the last few words to Niels Bohr, speaking in a different time: "We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct."
Thanksgiving, Future Style
Tomorrow (October 12) is Thanksgiving for us Canadians, so I'd like to acknowledge my fellow northern dwellers on this day. Have a good Thanksgiving, all of you! (I suspect that right now Kastom is riding a moose through the frozen wilds of Ontario.)
I'll probably spend tomorrow reading and eating. Nothing, in my books, can beat that: Historical Ontology by Ian Hacking and pumpkin pie by mom.
Sailor Bee
How many of you knew that Samantha Bee of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart once played Sailor Moon, in theater? (The Canadian National Exhibition to be more precise.)
I love this quote from an old interview (found here): "Don't judge me. I made a lot of money."
Blowed Up Real Good
NASA blew up the moon, dammit all to hell!
My favorite conspiracy theory regarding that little experiment: They destroyed a secret base on the moon. Now, the question becomes, who did this base belong to? My guess is that Wal-Mart owned it.
