Hey, guys! Sorry we've all been so absent from each other's lives for so long...
Anyway, I know most of the people here are into psychology to at least some degree,
and this article--I thought--was really well presented, even if you/I/we disagree:
http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/09/11/the-texas-sharpshooter-fallacy/
Also, I feel like Adam's personal website would be called 'You Are Not So Smart'...
Monday, September 13, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
the life aquatic
i finally finished my mariner's cap correctly! for those of you who don't know, the basic design has been almost 2 years in the making, but has always remained marred by silly mistakes--most notably the incredible difficulty in getting the length correct because of the tightly-fitting nature compounded with the extremely quick decreasing at the crown.
anyway, here it is:
and, the previously unattainable form:
it's like two hats in one! the second is with the brim unfolded, and it makes a nice winter beanie, and the first is the mariner's cap proper, sitting nicely and snugly atop the head and (mostly) leaving your ears alone.
if anybody is interested in the pattern, just let me know.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
FOUND Magazine
Hello, all! I came across this hilarious website this morning:
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/15843
You can come back each day and see more awesome stuff people have FOUND, or you can--like me--sit down and get addicted to going back through the old archives.
Enjoy!
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/15843
You can come back each day and see more awesome stuff people have FOUND, or you can--like me--sit down and get addicted to going back through the old archives.
Enjoy!
Saturday, June 12, 2010
how cool is sweden right now?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/world/europe/10iht-sweden.html?src=tptw
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Franciscan Blessing
I found this whilst poking around the internet and wanted to share it here...
May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom, and peace.
May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain to joy.
May God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done.
Amen."
Have a great day, all!
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Star FK Radium
http://www.starfkradium.com/
OK, so I don't know much about these guys, other than that their music is really awesome and relaxing. They describe their genre as 'Visual/Indie/Rock'. If you go to their website, it just plays songs of theirs, but they are also on Youtube, Myspace, Facebook, and elsewhere. I found their business card on a bulletin board at a Sheetz in Clearfield, PA. I came home and listened to them and figured this would be a GREAT place to share my discovery. Enjoy!
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
Encouragement (hopefully)
I do like the things that are going on here on this blog.
Keep up the posts!
No one but me can edit colors and settings and things.
Suggestions are welcome.
I'm currently taking submissions for the "description" section of our blog.
It should say a little something (hopefully in an articulate fashion) about what we are all about and what this blog is all about. The description will go right under the title of our blog. Whatever it is, it should be brief and beautiful. Comment with suggestions please!
Anyone who wants to post but doesn't have permission, just give me your email and I'll let you in so you can start posting!
Keep up the posts!
No one but me can edit colors and settings and things.
Suggestions are welcome.
I'm currently taking submissions for the "description" section of our blog.
It should say a little something (hopefully in an articulate fashion) about what we are all about and what this blog is all about. The description will go right under the title of our blog. Whatever it is, it should be brief and beautiful. Comment with suggestions please!
Anyone who wants to post but doesn't have permission, just give me your email and I'll let you in so you can start posting!
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
the lost finale
i know that a couple of you follow lost, so i figured i'd throw my proverbial hat in the ring and share some of my thoughts on the series finale.
but before that, some background.
i've recently renewed my love of reading, especially fiction, and found a new focus within that, specifically with russian literature. my exploration has found me beginning bakhtin's "problems of dostoevsky's poetics," which is a philosophically oriented literary critique of what bakhtin believed to be the factor which made dostoevsky's novels stand out: namely, the concept of a polyphonic novel.
to the best of my understanding so far, bakhtin believes that the ultimate aim of a novel is to present and reflect the "polyphonic" (which means many-voiced), multi-centered nature of both the world and ourselves. he posits that we do not live in some sort of vacuum, and that our own voices and natures are amalgamations and interpretations of the many others present around us. we affect our world and are affected by it.
bakhtin believed that dostoevsky created his works by refusing to condense the individual worlds and voices of his characters into or under a singular narrative voice, thus creating not the classical aristotelian "closed" text, but an open one, where his characters fully existed in an ultimately unfinalizable world, a world of the dialogical, constantly developing "we" over the monological, narrow "i."
returning to lost, i didn't like the ending.
it's not that it wasn't exciting, or well written, or illuminating enough. it's just that the nature of a series finale, in my opinion, is essentially compromising to a series like lost.
the show was never really about the island. it was about the people. the lives of jack, kate, sawyer, hugo, locke, sayid, ben, claire, sun and jin, and all the others were the points of references for the whole series, and the dynamic effects of their lives and the island on each others' was what made the show so compelling. each character existed as a means to his or her own end. they were never compressed into a monologic narrative; rather the writing chose to show that each character inhabited and experienced his or her own world, with the joys and struggles within it.
in short, lost was a polyphonic television show. lost, while keeping us amused with science fiction, conspiracy theories, and international intrigue was at its core a show about people, and more than that, about people together, trying to make sense of the world and themselves within it. it reflected life, it its own way.
and to be honest, i have to applaud the implication at the very end in the church that their stories really never did end. the ones who survived kept on living, but their lives remained connected as they prepared for whatever would come next, even after death. ending the island's story without necessarily ending the character's story was still nothing short of a remarkable feat.
i don't regret watching lost, because as in life, it's the adventures and the relationships that count. there's no ending to lost that could have done the journey justice.
but i'll tell you, they gave it a hell of a sendoff.
but before that, some background.
i've recently renewed my love of reading, especially fiction, and found a new focus within that, specifically with russian literature. my exploration has found me beginning bakhtin's "problems of dostoevsky's poetics," which is a philosophically oriented literary critique of what bakhtin believed to be the factor which made dostoevsky's novels stand out: namely, the concept of a polyphonic novel.
to the best of my understanding so far, bakhtin believes that the ultimate aim of a novel is to present and reflect the "polyphonic" (which means many-voiced), multi-centered nature of both the world and ourselves. he posits that we do not live in some sort of vacuum, and that our own voices and natures are amalgamations and interpretations of the many others present around us. we affect our world and are affected by it.
bakhtin believed that dostoevsky created his works by refusing to condense the individual worlds and voices of his characters into or under a singular narrative voice, thus creating not the classical aristotelian "closed" text, but an open one, where his characters fully existed in an ultimately unfinalizable world, a world of the dialogical, constantly developing "we" over the monological, narrow "i."
returning to lost, i didn't like the ending.
it's not that it wasn't exciting, or well written, or illuminating enough. it's just that the nature of a series finale, in my opinion, is essentially compromising to a series like lost.
the show was never really about the island. it was about the people. the lives of jack, kate, sawyer, hugo, locke, sayid, ben, claire, sun and jin, and all the others were the points of references for the whole series, and the dynamic effects of their lives and the island on each others' was what made the show so compelling. each character existed as a means to his or her own end. they were never compressed into a monologic narrative; rather the writing chose to show that each character inhabited and experienced his or her own world, with the joys and struggles within it.
in short, lost was a polyphonic television show. lost, while keeping us amused with science fiction, conspiracy theories, and international intrigue was at its core a show about people, and more than that, about people together, trying to make sense of the world and themselves within it. it reflected life, it its own way.
and to be honest, i have to applaud the implication at the very end in the church that their stories really never did end. the ones who survived kept on living, but their lives remained connected as they prepared for whatever would come next, even after death. ending the island's story without necessarily ending the character's story was still nothing short of a remarkable feat.
i don't regret watching lost, because as in life, it's the adventures and the relationships that count. there's no ending to lost that could have done the journey justice.
but i'll tell you, they gave it a hell of a sendoff.
Monday, May 31, 2010
A Peom to Consider
In hopes of making a clean slate, here is something else for us to focus on besides my ridiculous mishaps on In this Together.
When I lived in City House (Beaver Falls, PA) I met a great neighborhood kid named James (some of you know him). He was often in trouble and seemed to have a lot of pent up aggression. He came into the house one night when I was writing poetry and I asked if he wanted to join me. It was the sweetest thing I ever heard to hear him say yes. This is what he wrote:
Big and brown with busted windows,
it sounds silent.
The burnt pieces of
the house felt light
it smelled like something was
burning, there was lots of broken pieces
of glass with
creaking steps
by: James
He never got to finish it.
When I lived in City House (Beaver Falls, PA) I met a great neighborhood kid named James (some of you know him). He was often in trouble and seemed to have a lot of pent up aggression. He came into the house one night when I was writing poetry and I asked if he wanted to join me. It was the sweetest thing I ever heard to hear him say yes. This is what he wrote:
Big and brown with busted windows,
it sounds silent.
The burnt pieces of
the house felt light
it smelled like something was
burning, there was lots of broken pieces
of glass with
creaking steps
by: James
He never got to finish it.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
to caitlin
hey, the whole tegan and sara thing was not from me. if i had to guess, it was probably rob. but it's okay.
i'll try to put up something later.
i'll try to put up something later.
Friday, May 21, 2010
Sorry, Adam: here's his idea for post #1
My apologies to Adam. I accidentally deleted his post. He posted the two versions of this Tegan and Sara song for us to consider which we think is better. Im not saying it as nicely as he did, but maybe he'll come fix it. In the meantime, here are the two versions to consider. Let's get this thing rolling (and I promise not to delete any more posts--Im learning. But this is my first time on a blog, after all).
Monday, May 3, 2010
The Proposal
We have all gone our separate ways. From Pennsylvania to South Korea, and all sorts of odd places in between. I feel like I have lost a great many good friends who have helped me throughout my college years to become the person that I am today. But do I really have to lose all of you? And why should we stop growing?
So here is my proposal. The idea is that we continue to develop our worldviews, and we continue to help each other. It is a risk. You may all shut me down. I pray that you don’t. We are all busy. We are getting married, building our careers, going to school, and traveling the world. There are many negative things that come with technology, but I am a firm believer that one shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bath water. Technology can help us help each other. This isn’t meant to be another obligation, but an opportunity.
How does that look? This can be a place where we share. Share what? A poem we read or a poem we wrote. Current events. A website. A picture we took ourselves or a picture we find interesting. Folk tales or everyday anecdotes that make us think. Just a quote or a whole essay. A Scripture. A comic. Pop culture. Recipes. These are just a few suggestions. We can all post what is inspiring us at any given moment. But then there is also this crazy gift we have been given. We can share it with friends and our friends can post thier reactions. They can try the recipe, and enjoy it. They can think about the philosophical quandary and draw a conclusion. They can make a suggestion or a critique. They can love it or hate it and tell you why. We’re still in this together.
Call me a romantic, but this could be something beautiful. Just let me know if you’re in.
So here is my proposal. The idea is that we continue to develop our worldviews, and we continue to help each other. It is a risk. You may all shut me down. I pray that you don’t. We are all busy. We are getting married, building our careers, going to school, and traveling the world. There are many negative things that come with technology, but I am a firm believer that one shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bath water. Technology can help us help each other. This isn’t meant to be another obligation, but an opportunity.
How does that look? This can be a place where we share. Share what? A poem we read or a poem we wrote. Current events. A website. A picture we took ourselves or a picture we find interesting. Folk tales or everyday anecdotes that make us think. Just a quote or a whole essay. A Scripture. A comic. Pop culture. Recipes. These are just a few suggestions. We can all post what is inspiring us at any given moment. But then there is also this crazy gift we have been given. We can share it with friends and our friends can post thier reactions. They can try the recipe, and enjoy it. They can think about the philosophical quandary and draw a conclusion. They can make a suggestion or a critique. They can love it or hate it and tell you why. We’re still in this together.
Call me a romantic, but this could be something beautiful. Just let me know if you’re in.
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