Ball don’t lie

I’ll miss you, Sheed.

fpotw

From Dunne’s Back to the Rough Ground:

If the ethical life which is taken up with these human affairs now appears, by contrast with the godly life of theory, almost as a cavelike mode of existence, then one begins to ask whether phronesis, for all its suppleness and flair, does not appear, from the vantage point of theory, much as a dog’s great sensitivity in smelling and sniffing might appear from the vantage point of phrnesis itself (240).

Bdays

So, over the blogging years I’ve made it a habit, albeit cheesy, to create bday lists.  This year, the only thing I want is to not turn 29.  Everyone keeps telling me I’ll be okay, but ugh.  29.  And the same everyone that keeps telling me I’ll make it out okay also tell me that 29 is much more painful than 30.  Like that helps.  Anyway, if there’s anyway you can figure out by tomorrow how to avoid aging one more year, please please let me know…

For those of us dissertating

an interesting blog with links for writing.

FPTOW

I decided to read one essay each evening from Lost and Philosophy (I picked up this book well over a year ago and finally deicided to slog through it)–that is until I read this:

“In contrast to these action-based moral theories is a moral theory dating back to Aristotle (384-322 BCE) which places emphasis on the soul/psyche/mind/disposition/character (for our purposes these all mean the same thing, but we’ll continue to use the word character) from which the moral action stems” (Arp and Brace 34).

Huh wha?  You’re actually saying that all FIVE of those terms mean the same thing??  I think I’m done with the book now…

So, Jack’s a janitor

Yes! How’s that for some Dharma Karma And remember that they found a Workerman in the van earlier in the show? Thank you Lost writers for finally listening.

Freakin’ awesome

I know I told the Rhetoric Reading Group that I was going to post something, I just can’t remember what that was.  (Does anyone remember what it was??) Until then, a lil treat for your rainy Sunday morning, courtesy (again) of my brother:

Ah, the power of the rhetorical “silence”

fpotw

Since fpotw has resurfaced, I guess it’s only fair to play once again.  And in honor of my recent dabbling in Twitter, here’s a lil something from Gorgias

SOCRATES: Just what is needed, Gorgias. Give me a demonstration of your talent for brevity and let the opposite wait for another occasion.

GORGIAS: Very well; I’ll force you to admit that you have never heard anyone more concise.

S: Come then: you say that you understand the art of oratory and can make orators of others.  What is the object with which oratory is concerned? Weaving for example is concerned with the production of clothes, is it not?

G: Yes.

S: And music with the creation of melodies?

G: Yes.

S: My word, Gorgias, your answers are an absolute miracle of brevity, I must say.

G: Yes, I think I’m pretty good at brevity, Socrates.

Twitter (again)

Okay, I started my twitter account this morning, then canceled it within 30 minutes.  It’s not that I don’t think twitter is a cool app, I just don’t feel like twittering. I thought I’d like to, but I was wrong.  Oh, well.  It was worth a shot.

And Erik, I then went and found these two articles, which makes me feel both more nerdy and less alone…

Things I have done today:

• Made egg mcmuffin (burned bacon, which is not really that weird or catastrophic ’cause I never make/eat bacon but wanted something on my sammich)
• Watched this
• Fixed kitchen sink (water pressure: back to normal, water quality: drinkable once again)
• Blogged twice
• Went to campus, left campus
• Had minor panic attack because I thought the plane ticket (that I booked yesterday) went down $40, but really it went up $60.  (NB: Ph.D. will be in English)
• Read

Things I have not done:

• Read (but that’s next on my list)
• Write dissertation