Can you tell me?
Bet you can't.
You might ask why what? How can I respond? It's just...Why?
My only answer is...Why not? Of course, it is another question, not an answer.
There are no answers, only choices. The beauty is that you get to choose.
Make good choices.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Class materials
I hope you guys like this idea, but if not let me know and I will save myself the humiliation of being the only non-college educated one among us. I am taking a full load of classes now and again in the fall. Occasionally I find some really cool stuff or interesting ideas we are discussing. This format allows me to just post cool links or quick ideas about them. Here is the first from my geography class. Also, I sometimes have an assignment that I think is worth analyzing, let me know if you are interested and I can paste or maybe attach (not sure this is possible) some of them. Certainly not necessary, but could be good fodder.
Cliff
My geography site is the National Atlas. If Chris ever logs in, I think this may be classroom material. But it also has a ton of other info. Let me know if you think it is worth your time.
Cliff
My geography site is the National Atlas. If Chris ever logs in, I think this may be classroom material. But it also has a ton of other info. Let me know if you think it is worth your time.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Using RSS....
I would really like to get an RSS feed for this blog and for individual posts. You probably do, too, if you're interested in using this blog regularly.
Let me explain how the RSS feed works. The idea is that you get an application called an "RSS Reader" which checks for updates on web pages that you "subscribe" to. That is, you subscribe to the RSS feed of a few web pages that interest you, such as blogs or photo websites or newspapers. That way you don't have to visit those websites to see what's new -- you get the new content right in your RSS Reader as soon as it's posted.
In our case, if there are four or five conversations (ie, blog posts) here that are getting new comments, you'll have to check each post to see if someone added a new comment -- unless you get the RSS feed. You can subscribe to the RSS feed of the entire blog (thereby getting notified when there's a new post), and you can subscribe to the RSS feed of a particular post (thereby getting notified when there's a new comment on that post). The RSS Reader makes it very easy to read new comments and posts as they are created. It has a look and feel kind of like an email program. Also, if you want, you can click the entry in your RSS Reader to jump to that new post (or comment), in order to add your own text to the conversation. Once you have your RSS Reader set up, subscribing to a new post is as easy as clicking the RSS symbol in the address bar (something like this:
).
Getting the RSS feed is also nice for when the blog has some down-time, and there is no new content for a few days. You don't want to have to go checking it every day with nothing there. Or if you left a particularly funny comment and are anxious to see reactions to it -- just watch the reader (which updates itself) for new content rather than reloading the blog post page.
There's only one down-side to having an RSS feed on our blog. Unfortunately, after a little looking around, there appears to be no way to do this if we have a private blog. But, you know, the blog really is private if nobody else knows that it exists. And we can make it private later, if need be. And we can move to a new address, too, if needed later.
To me, the benefits of having the RSS feed seem to far outweigh this downside. What do you guys think?
Let me explain how the RSS feed works. The idea is that you get an application called an "RSS Reader" which checks for updates on web pages that you "subscribe" to. That is, you subscribe to the RSS feed of a few web pages that interest you, such as blogs or photo websites or newspapers. That way you don't have to visit those websites to see what's new -- you get the new content right in your RSS Reader as soon as it's posted.
In our case, if there are four or five conversations (ie, blog posts) here that are getting new comments, you'll have to check each post to see if someone added a new comment -- unless you get the RSS feed. You can subscribe to the RSS feed of the entire blog (thereby getting notified when there's a new post), and you can subscribe to the RSS feed of a particular post (thereby getting notified when there's a new comment on that post). The RSS Reader makes it very easy to read new comments and posts as they are created. It has a look and feel kind of like an email program. Also, if you want, you can click the entry in your RSS Reader to jump to that new post (or comment), in order to add your own text to the conversation. Once you have your RSS Reader set up, subscribing to a new post is as easy as clicking the RSS symbol in the address bar (something like this:
).Getting the RSS feed is also nice for when the blog has some down-time, and there is no new content for a few days. You don't want to have to go checking it every day with nothing there. Or if you left a particularly funny comment and are anxious to see reactions to it -- just watch the reader (which updates itself) for new content rather than reloading the blog post page.
There's only one down-side to having an RSS feed on our blog. Unfortunately, after a little looking around, there appears to be no way to do this if we have a private blog. But, you know, the blog really is private if nobody else knows that it exists. And we can make it private later, if need be. And we can move to a new address, too, if needed later.
To me, the benefits of having the RSS feed seem to far outweigh this downside. What do you guys think?
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Sleepy Pete and the infinite
This is the real me. How often do we look for that person? This is the me that feels the most comfortable in my skin. 11:30 at night, small glass of whiskey, tired but compelled to move on, looking for a glimmer of truth. There it is... oh, nope, just an illusion in my periphery. I love this place, this time.
Hmmm?
I wonder...
erd
Hmmm?
I wonder...
erd
Comfortable with no meaning, I think.
I can only come up with other two choices? Religious beliefs or depression.
You know I can't go the religious route. It seems too ridiculous and outlandish. I would have to believe in fairy tales and Candy Mountain. I guess I do make up my own belief system, but I that is it's own topic. I also prefer the idea of "evidence" as Dawkins puts it.
Depression is a path I have taken a couple times. Nothing too serious, but I have been there. It may be a natural Paulson disposition or tendency. It is certainly not enjoyable nor is it productive. Of course, since there seems to be no meaning, why worry about production?
I know the most obvious answer is that "you make your own meaning, erik." I believe that every individual is the center of The Universe, so yeh, of course, each person defines their own meaning. Even this idea perturbs me a bit, 6.5 billion meanings, or purposes, to life? Come on.
Pleasure, personal pleasure. That is all I can come to as a come point for all those meanings or statements of purpose. I don't care if you are religious, depressed, or got your own idea. It all comes down to what you, the individual wants that meaning to be.
It is all up to you. Please choose correctly, so you don't F it up for me.
e
You know I can't go the religious route. It seems too ridiculous and outlandish. I would have to believe in fairy tales and Candy Mountain. I guess I do make up my own belief system, but I that is it's own topic. I also prefer the idea of "evidence" as Dawkins puts it.
Depression is a path I have taken a couple times. Nothing too serious, but I have been there. It may be a natural Paulson disposition or tendency. It is certainly not enjoyable nor is it productive. Of course, since there seems to be no meaning, why worry about production?
I know the most obvious answer is that "you make your own meaning, erik." I believe that every individual is the center of The Universe, so yeh, of course, each person defines their own meaning. Even this idea perturbs me a bit, 6.5 billion meanings, or purposes, to life? Come on.
Pleasure, personal pleasure. That is all I can come to as a come point for all those meanings or statements of purpose. I don't care if you are religious, depressed, or got your own idea. It all comes down to what you, the individual wants that meaning to be.
It is all up to you. Please choose correctly, so you don't F it up for me.
e
Saturday, April 18, 2009
What's goin' on?
How can I answer?
So many things go on in one moment. How do I, or should I, choose the right one? Each moment poses so many tangentials that any one is the "right one." The moment that I choose to work, and live, with is so very important because it will lead to different tangents. This choice goes on and on into the infinite. How many possible lives can I live? Of course I only live one of those, but think of all the other eriks out there (in those alternate universes)living with you, the alternate yous.
I can only express that I love the thought of being with another you in another universe. I am your brother in each universe.
Yours in every universe and time,
your brother,
e
So many things go on in one moment. How do I, or should I, choose the right one? Each moment poses so many tangentials that any one is the "right one." The moment that I choose to work, and live, with is so very important because it will lead to different tangents. This choice goes on and on into the infinite. How many possible lives can I live? Of course I only live one of those, but think of all the other eriks out there (in those alternate universes)living with you, the alternate yous.
I can only express that I love the thought of being with another you in another universe. I am your brother in each universe.
Yours in every universe and time,
your brother,
e
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
I gotta a wine in my hand and two corndogs in my gut.
...and I sip and feel fine. Yeh, I feel fine.
I just got off my jog and I thought of you, my brother.
I just had what I consider a big event in my life happen. A possibility of a turning point in my life. Augs leaving me. Sure, not a total separation, but a hint of it, the foretelling of my future, a little insight of things to come. My time cone.
I thought of you, each of you. You have things in your lives, the center of your life for this moment and those moments to come.
Most obvious is Cliff, you gotta a few things on that plate, some of those major life changing things, where that time cone in front of you shifting all over. What opportunity for excitement and joy you have in that cone. New person in the family, that is, of course, one of the top 3 (arbitrarily chosen, but used to emphisize it's rank) life changing events any person can have. A new house and town, that's a biggie for changing the trajectory of life (maybe top 10). Talk about damn good luck on selling the house, you should really think about a short trip to Las Vegas real soon while you still have the groove going.
I now Archie is working at those same big changes in life. Looking for a new town and new job, like I said changes in the top 10. I understand you are thinking about making that more than just a top 10 move in the fact that you just might "settle down" which I think on an individual level that moves it to a top 5. Big changes. I know, and can emapthize with, the making a baby thing you are going through, I lived it. I have jerked off into my fair share of plastic bottles! On a more serious note I know the disappointments that come from such a great effort can really suck. The only advice I can give is to keep on jerking off into those bottles and to always keep in mind that it is impossible to go outside that time cone.
I thought of Chris's deal of the moment, on the surface it doesn't seem so big, but I say that is because it doesn't have the emotional quality of the other life changing events. Well, I guess I have to admit it probably isn't really very life changing, I would have to put it in the top 200 or 300. That does not keep it for it's value and importance to being in the moment. Being alive and what we are doing in our life should be at the top of is important in our lives. I am talking about all the work and effort in putting in your flooring. I have experienced that as well and can appriciate what it means to the moment and to your dreaming of what is contained in that time cone in front of you.
Well, I have gone off enough and really said nothing. I want to leave you with the knowledge that you are all in the time cone ahead of me, you are at the point of time that I am in right now as I am in the point with you while you are reading this.
I love you brother.
e
I just got off my jog and I thought of you, my brother.
I just had what I consider a big event in my life happen. A possibility of a turning point in my life. Augs leaving me. Sure, not a total separation, but a hint of it, the foretelling of my future, a little insight of things to come. My time cone.
I thought of you, each of you. You have things in your lives, the center of your life for this moment and those moments to come.
Most obvious is Cliff, you gotta a few things on that plate, some of those major life changing things, where that time cone in front of you shifting all over. What opportunity for excitement and joy you have in that cone. New person in the family, that is, of course, one of the top 3 (arbitrarily chosen, but used to emphisize it's rank) life changing events any person can have. A new house and town, that's a biggie for changing the trajectory of life (maybe top 10). Talk about damn good luck on selling the house, you should really think about a short trip to Las Vegas real soon while you still have the groove going.
I now Archie is working at those same big changes in life. Looking for a new town and new job, like I said changes in the top 10. I understand you are thinking about making that more than just a top 10 move in the fact that you just might "settle down" which I think on an individual level that moves it to a top 5. Big changes. I know, and can emapthize with, the making a baby thing you are going through, I lived it. I have jerked off into my fair share of plastic bottles! On a more serious note I know the disappointments that come from such a great effort can really suck. The only advice I can give is to keep on jerking off into those bottles and to always keep in mind that it is impossible to go outside that time cone.
I thought of Chris's deal of the moment, on the surface it doesn't seem so big, but I say that is because it doesn't have the emotional quality of the other life changing events. Well, I guess I have to admit it probably isn't really very life changing, I would have to put it in the top 200 or 300. That does not keep it for it's value and importance to being in the moment. Being alive and what we are doing in our life should be at the top of is important in our lives. I am talking about all the work and effort in putting in your flooring. I have experienced that as well and can appriciate what it means to the moment and to your dreaming of what is contained in that time cone in front of you.
Well, I have gone off enough and really said nothing. I want to leave you with the knowledge that you are all in the time cone ahead of me, you are at the point of time that I am in right now as I am in the point with you while you are reading this.
I love you brother.
e
Sunday, April 12, 2009
the thing speaks for itself
Anyone want to place bets on how long this blog will last?
First step is to get us all on here as authors and contributors. The idea is that we are all owners of this thing, so go ahead and change the look, make new posts, et cetera.
Second step is to pick a name for it. Res Ipsa Loquitor is just a placeholder to get this thing started. Please feel free to change the name yourself if you got a good one.
The third (and evolving) step will be to come up with some good use for this forum. Things like
First step is to get us all on here as authors and contributors. The idea is that we are all owners of this thing, so go ahead and change the look, make new posts, et cetera.
Second step is to pick a name for it. Res Ipsa Loquitor is just a placeholder to get this thing started. Please feel free to change the name yourself if you got a good one.
The third (and evolving) step will be to come up with some good use for this forum. Things like
- developing our philosophy of Life, the Universe and Everything
- commenting on a book we could read
- talk about tunes we like (and share), or movies to recommend
- miscellaneous chit chat
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