Up, Up, and Today

Good news — I figured out what I want to do with this site, and ahead of the New Year (Chinese and Gregorian), too.  Woot and woot.

Two things were instrumental in the decision:  Twitter, and The Title.

Twitter is a weird little thing that I stayed away from as a potential time-waster, and didn’t expect to like because it’s awfully, well, social.  But I was wrong:  I love it, and it’s awesome at saving me time by allowing me to post little snippets of logos, minor polyphasic musings, and links to neat stuff, without requiring me to prepare either a whole post for a small idea, or to save up small ideas for a big messy post.  Awesome!  So, on the new / redesigned site, my Twitter feed will appear somewhere to keep all those tiny-but-nifty ideas contained and available.

Now, The Title.  The title of this blog, Transcendental Logic, is a phrase that appeals to me on many levels, the obvious (Kantian) one being probably the most minor.  Mostly I like it because it seems to speak, in modern terms anyway, to the intersection of spiritual desire and rational thought — to the questing of people who, like myself, refuse to admit of EITHER a wholly materialistic world OR a foofy one that can’t be talked about without sounding like Mokey Fraggle.  I’ve put more pondering into how to be a spiritually-evolved person without sacrificing intellectual rigor than anything, ever.  So it’s about time I had a website that was mostly about it, yes?

Lastly, I’ve decided that I’ve had enough of my ridicuhuge list of T-Shirt ideas, and I’ve enlisted my marvelous and talented husband to help me do the design work to turn them into wearable, rather than simply enviable, witticisms.  …If I make enough money from them to afford to buy one of each for myself, I’ll consider that a success.  ;)

So, that’s the plan.  There’ll still be polyphasic posts, and probably the occasional unavoidable political or economic rant; and lord knows no website worth its salt (er, are websites worth any salt?  how much salt would you give me for this one, just curiously?) ignores an opportunity to post a neat picture or bit of worthy ‘Net-flotsam.  But overall, the main focus of the longer pieces will go from being "um, hi, I felt like writing a post" to "justifications for having one’s math and praying to it, too".   I plan to take the issues in small bites, if possible, leaving as much room for discussion (or meditation, per your taste) as possible.

Hope you like it!