(chris’s) blog

Our ideas can’t be limp because they are in attention; somebody would notice them.
Richard Dawkins says we’ve evolved to interface with our medium-sized “middle world,” making the scales of the atom and of the cosmos queer.
Death in middle-world is unimportant to these other scales, and since death is important to us, death doesn’t exist the [...]

Recall a favorite memory of your childhood. You can see yourself there, you remember what it looked like, perhaps what it smelled like. How is it you can do that? How do you call yourself back to that moment which is no longer? ” I was there!” You might say, ” I remember it!” But [...]

alanwatts’s Podcast: Late philosopher Alan Watts is best known for popularizing eastern thought in Western culture, and has a style of presentation that is approachable to the layman while maintaining a balance of both Western and Eastern thought delicate enough to interest even veterans of philosophy. A really fascinating guy!

Patriarchy and pedals. see, not everything is opposite.

In my literary criticism class, we studied the artistic movement and philosophy of structuralism, which states that a structure (think abstract) defines a system, which then spawns interactions.
I was thinking about YouTube specifically, and Web 2.0 social interaction sites in general, and I think, with the prevalence of computers, our tool for building systems and [...]

I’m attending a wedding in three weeks and that requires a haircut, in the simplistic view of the mother-son relationship that demanded the idea. I had a peaceful morning Monday and when I went to get a haircut, I felt mildly accosted by the barber at Razor’s Edge, as though I’d violated his tranquil barbershop [...]

the people i once knew are still held as an impression in my head. i wonder how long they’ll stay there, and how different they are now?

Have you noticed you can often classify a short span of your life, shape it, that is, only after you’re through it? Life’s somewhat like being in a train tunnel, unaware of how long you’re railing in the dark, except that life teeters on moments of clarity and confusion, while a train is best teetering [...]

I’ll give the quote for this later, but “artistic style (more or less consciously) develops as a spontaneous response to the immediate experience.”