*Transcendental *Logic

According to the Global Mammal Assessment, one in four mammal species on Earth faces extinction.

Anybody else thinking there’s a huuuuuuge “oops” in our future?

In the mood for a good conspiracy?  How about the story of a CEO who tried to warn Wall Street years ago about the terrible risks of naked short-selling (basically the behavior that caused the current fubar), and was rewarded with a slew of falsified Wikipedia entries and other fabricated news-reports that he was off his rocker, all of which can be definitively linked to the Wall Street Journal and other industry players?

I know it totally puts the surreality syrup on my Monday.  Especially since I remember reading some of the articles about how batshit this guy was; in fact, the ruse worked so well on me that when I saw his name on this article, my first response was, "Oh yeah, that crazy guy that nobody should listen to."  Yeah….whups.

(via /., because I like /.)

(Also, neat quote from the forums there:  "Stay tuned - the music has stopped on Wall Street and everyone is looking for chairs.")

Hey yo.  Sorry about the intermittent postings; things are markedly crazy here.  My house is being worked on (largely by me), we’re adding another person to the household mix (for awesome and exciting reasons), and the clock is ticking on the countdown to Starting Me Own Business.  (Once that’s happened, I can legitimately put spots on my daily schedule for "Minding Me Own Business", yeah?)

And, oh, lots of stuff.  I got my first commissions for chainmail work, so the picky little hobby has the added flavor of (minimal but actual) cash; and I’m trying to study up on math — not physics, which I like, but arithmetic and algebra, which I don’t — so that I don’t fail the test I need to take to get into grad school.  Oo, and I got my diploma…and before I had it a day, spilled a whole monsoon of coffee on it.  I was upset at first, but then I thought about it, and coffee-stains are so appropriate for a philosophy degree, especially this one.  So I’ve decided that it has character now.  (Anyway, my awesome husband washed it, and now you can barely tell.)

And while I’m on about fearlessly leaping into doctoral education and small business administration like they’re so many happy lukewarm mud-puddles, I’ve been sort of fearless about my sleep-schedule lately too. 

(This part is going behind a cut, because it contains conclusions that strongly depend on having done a polyphasic schedule for over two years now, and if you’re just starting out with, or contemplating, polyphasic sleep, this isn’t necessarily good information for you to have right now.  It’s also massively theoretical, being that I’m the only person I know about (besides Dr. Fuller) to do this this long — so if you do read further, please keep in mind that this is my experience and *only* mine.)

(But yeah, I’m getting pretty fast and loose with this…)

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This is what happens when I get any sort of free time or freed-up mental processing units…semi-sincere apologies in advance…!

Philosopher’s BoomDeYaDa

I love philosophy
I love analogies
I love the arguments
I love the fallacies

I love the whole world
And how it won’t make sense;
Boom-de-ya-da, boom-de-ya-da, boom-de-ya-da, boom-de-ya-da

I love the dead white guys
I love how far we’ve come
I love to wonder why
And where the world is from

I love philosophers
(Even at dinner parties!)
Boom-de-ya-da, boom-de-ya-da, boom-de-ya-da, boom-de-ya-da

I love the brains in vats
I love the prisoners
I love the swamp man
I love the twin Earth

I love the possible worlds
And all their paradoxes;
Boom-de-ya-da, boom-de-ya-da, boom-de-ya-da, boom-de-ya-da

I love the Ancient Greeks
I love the Rennaisance
I love the crazy priests
I love the crazy gods

I love the whole world
And all its explanations;
Boom-de-ya-da, boom-de-ya-da, boom-de-ya-da, boom-de-ya-da

I love the dualists
I love the Nietzscheans
I love apologists
I love the zombie nuts

I love the whole world
You’re all hilarious!
Boom-de-ya-da, boom-de-ya-da, boom-de-ya-da, boom-de-ya-da

Okay, here’s a good one:  What’s your favorite thought experiment?

You get bonus points if it has a funny name.  ;)

(I’ll tell mine later.)