biologio-what?

Yeah, so I've been working a good chunk of the day, except for when I was eating, or when I was reading e-mails, or when I was talking on the phone, or even when I was playing some lame-time-waster game that I downloaded online. It is weird when you apparently do a lot of work (I say apparently because I haven't really gotten that much done), and the day is gone. The way it feels is this: it feels like I have done hardly anything and yet the day is gone. it doesn't seem 12 hours later. Maybe it has something to do with this biological clock thing. You know, I've always thought that was kind of just a figure of speech, or a myth, or something else like that; however I am now starting to think that...nah, I still think it is a myth. Anyways, the break is done. back to reading "Plurals and complexes" by Keith Hossack.

a new class of rules

so, i am adopting a new class of rules for my posting on this blog.

1. titles of blog posts are now allowed to be a reflection of the content of the post that they name.
   
2. following the grammatical rule of capitalization is not optional; whereas it was prohibited before.
3. posts will not always aim to either entertain or put the reader to sleep; posts can still do both of those, but they can also aim at neither.
   
4. posts need not always be accessible to a most general audience; instead, they can be on whatever i please.
5. there is no need to attempt clever in the posts--this was implicit in the old rule-class.
   

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Ah, a new life. i really feel free. I can capitalize 'I's if I want, but there is no reason to think i have to. wow, this is exhilarating. Well, now to say something boring.

I realized today, that when you need to read something (in my case philosophy) in preparation for a paper, it is a lot more fun to read something that isn't for the paper that you are supposed to be working on. In my case, I should be reading an article called: "Plurals and complexes" (I have to write a paper myself on material related to it), but I found that i am having a lot more fun reading select sections from a book called, Possible Worlds and an article called, "Postscripts to: 'Counterpart theory and quantified modal logic'." Normally it would be a bad thing to get distracted reading other things like this, but in my case, i have another paper that I have to be working on to which these two pieces pertain. So, it isn't so bad.

Actually, this suggests a strategy:

1. Plan (with all your might) to work on a particular paper.
   
2. Think about the paper that you have planned (with all your might) to work on.
3. Sit down and start reading books/articles pertinent to the one you have to write.
4. Get distracted a number of times.
5. Walk over to the shelf and pick up some books/articles pertaining to the other paper.
   
6. Start reading.
7. Think hard about the other paper.
8. Write a blog post (ok, well this step isn't mandatory).
9. Go back to the original book/article that you were supposed to be reading.

At this point, one should discover that the difficulty reading the paper has subsided. if this doesn't last for very long, return to step 5 and repeat.

Wow, everyone better click on the permalink thingy and come back to this post whenever they get distracted from whatever reading or paper writing that they should be doing!

raining in syracuse

i was walking to school the other day when i heard someone refer to the university in an interesting way, they said: "this circus is falling down the rankings, if it doesn't 'buck up' its going to be on its knees begging for students to come here." i was of course puzzled by this statement, because i think that the university is doing pretty well, considering that it costs like $30 000 per year in tuition alone. if we continue the metaphor, we might even say that " the big top is crumbling down" and we could be referring to the carrier dome or something like that. it is kind of a cool metaphor if you think about it. (well, ok, not really.)

so, right now it's raining in syracuse which sucks, however it is much better than having it snow, so i guess i should stop my complaining. so, something that everyone should know is that only fifty miles east of syracuse is ithaca, well actually it is more south than east, but the 50 miles bit is relatively accurate. i'm not actually sure why i think that everyone should know that, but then again, no one reads this anyways. however, if someone was to read this, i'll tell you where you should be, you should be where no one's around because really, if they see you reading this, they will just laugh... at you.

so, people walk around school with their cell phones glued to their heads, and if they aren't glued there, the people have the phone in their hand and are crying: "i need a phone call" i seriously don't get it! even if it is raining, like today, and they should be crying "i need a raincoat" they still whine about the phone call. you know, when i think about it, if they yelled something as stupid as: "i need a big love" i would be happier than if they bellow: "i need a phone call." alas...

so, when people say these stupid things it is like they have been trained to recite them, and then if they do get a phone call, the conversations are not even interesting enough to listen to while these people are passing me by. and i really don't think that they have anything to say. instead, they have nothing to say but they say it anyways. maybe this is what the person who talked about the uni as a circus was referring too. i guess, the people who actually pay $30 000 a year to come here, (not me) and complain about this should be told: "you get what you pay for, you pay $30 000 a year in tuition, you should expect to be around people who have been raised on mtv and cell phones. but for me personally, i just had no intention of living this way. for one, you will not hear me whining: "i need a phone call" or squealing: "i need a plane ride" or, "i need a sunburn" or even, "i need a raincoat."

so, places called 'answers' are just a bad idea. they really are just the place that i go to and i don't get no answers. i really think that they are just out to trick people. similarly, when places that i give money to have 'exact change only' sign are just out to get me. i give them money and i just don't get no change. alas, what to do, what to do.

so, it's still raining in syracuse, and i just wish my baby was here, it would be fine. but i should mention that everything else is ok if it just stays the same. there's just some things that i know she'd help me remember and other things that i know she'd cause me to forget. i don't think that i have said: "i miss you" enough times, but i guess that i should. three thousand five hundred miles is actually further than she is away, but it feels that far sometimes. but what can i do other than say that i miss you. so what would you change if you could? anything?

well, you are still not going to hear me whining: "i need a phone call," but it would be nice. maybe i should buy a new car and then i could drive home... well that is a long ways (even if it is not 3500 miles). i might be able to take a train, i can always hear a freight train. you think i could pass as 'freight' baby? if i listen real hard i think that i can hear you laughing at that. and, another thing, i wish it was a small world so that i could take 2 steps and end up at your door. because i'm lonely for you, not for the the big towns. i'd like to hear you play a little guitar, maybe even 'old apartment'.

i guess it's just about time to finish this e-mail, but in order to keep with proper rhyming fashion, i need to once again return to the beginning of the e-mail by puting some of the phrases from the top of this e-mail down here at the bottom.

no whining, but i need a phone call, i need you here, and if we were to go outside I'd need a raincoat.

i wanna hang witcha

so, if you like relations (in the philosophical, logical, and mathematical senses) and you like playing with them and massing them around, then you will like this song. it really is fun, i recommend that everyone go to listen to it.

so, i'm puzzled about why i do something; when i write on here, i am writing like there are a number of people that read this thing. i think that is a stupid thing to so, because i am quite certain that there is only one person who reads it. oh well, maybe it makes me feel better that i carry on this facade, maybe not; i'll probably do it anyways.

time to sea

these people have got to be kidding.

these people must be out of their minds... literally.

and these people... well... just imagine.

and that is the daily craziness report, from my computer to yours.

side-winding

so, today has been a day filled with logic and breaks. you really can't work on logic for too long when you get stuck on what exactly you are 'allowed' to do (within the rules). once, the rules are down, it can be kinda fun figuring out the best and shortest way to solve a particular problem. it is the set theory proofs with identity and biconditionals that kind of mess me up. i think that i have it now though. i hope anyways.

so one of the things that i read online today was this; i have no idea what people are thinking when they decide that they want to give their child a nut-zo name. like seriously. i say: good for japan on stopping stupid parents from giving their children names that will inevitably lead to the child's being harassed and teased and so on. i'm sure that there is an argument in there somewhere...you can pick it out. well... in keeping with the motto laid out in the last post, i'm stopping.

tsien

so, this is my tenth post. pretty pathetic considering that i started this blog quite a while ago. i suspect the reason is that i try to make the posts more than just a snippet or two. perhaps that is what i should do. yes, let me make a proclamation to the blogdom,

here ye, here ye, from this day hence, there will be no posts comprised of meandering, unclear thoughts. what appears on this blog shall not be written solely for the sake of posting something, contrawise good sir, it shall be for the recording and proliferation of thoughts.

well, since i must, henceforth, remain faithful to the proclamation, just made, to the blogdom, i will end this post with a quote from a once great man:

to infinity, and beyond!