The first thing I thought when I saw that dancing-in-his-chair picture was that he definitely seems like he has a thing for music, like his dad. I guess it's a little harder to think that on 1am, though.
Oh, he loves music. It took lots of singing to get him to sleep last night (I'm remember "I'm So Tired," "'Til I Die," and "That Lucky Old Sun").
I am totally there with you. One of the classes I loved best in my BA was the Thermodynamics andd Statistical Mechanics class, because it did just that - I could nealry feel the wheels in my brain shaking themselves and moaning as they tried to go to different directions than they were used to. That was awesome.
Yeah! In the true meaning of "awesome."
We're reading The Mangle of Practice by Pickering now, and it's absolutely fascinating. I also loved Leviathan and the Air-Pump, by Shapin & Schaffer. It's doing the exact same thing that you mentioned - changing the ways of thinking. The taken-for-granted things suddenly aren't.
You've completely lost me with the specific references, but that's one of the things I love most about philosophy: the short sharp shock. I'm almost finished with Thomas De Zengotita's "Mediated" right now, which is a fairly brilliant Wittgensteinian examination of how ubiquitous repensentation in modern life is subtly (and not-so-subtly) changing the way that people perceive the world about them, although it's a bit thin on real data (which is also fairly Wittgensteinian, I suppose). It's such a short sharp shock. I've thought some of these things before since I had my first Heidegger head-smack all those years ago, but De Zengotita brings it all back home. Well, mostly. His theory is unfortunately flabby in some aspects (especially when he starts sounding like Seinfeld bitching about relatively value-less things), and the book is, somewhat appropriately but somewhat annoyingly, written in a chatty all-about-the-author tone. Anyway: it's definitely interesting stuff.
Sweetieface Abe! Cor, how old is he? I forget.
Three months yesterday! Hard to believe. How old is Emma? I looked at some supercute pics yesterday, but you'd posted them a while back, so I didn't mention it.
Although I prefer the medical term "coochiesnorcher".
It entertains me that I am sitting here puzzling over what snorch could possibly mean.
Abe laughing--I defy anyone to look at that picture without smiling! Go ahead, try it.
How old is Emma? I looked at some supercute pics yesterday, but you'd posted them a while back, so I didn't mention it.
She is 5 months and 11 days. Such a cutiepatootie. Babys laughing = BEST. THING. EVAH. Also, the dancing and the foot eating.
Did I miss the part of natter were discusses baffling celeb marriages and rumors of celeb pregnancies?
ita, I blame you for the fact that my calf muscles still hurt when I walk down stairs.
Kat, you mean RZ and JG?
I blame you for the fact that my calf muscles still hurt when I walk down stairs.
HELLO. EASY HIKE, REMEMBER?
You've completely lost me with the specific references
Probably because the class is heavily pointed towards the "of Science" part of "History and Philosophy of Science". Part of the point of the class is to show how the philosophers of science were out of touch with the general philosophy going on around them.
It took lots of singing to get him to sleep last night (I'm remember "I'm So Tired," "'Til I Die," and "That Lucky Old Sun").
Snerk on the selection of songs titles.
the short sharp shock
Oh, I like the concept!
ita! Did you get an e-mail from me a couple of days ago?
She is 5 months and 11 days. Such a cutiepatootie. Babys laughing = BEST. THING. EVAH. Also, the dancing and the foot eating.
Wow, she's getting up there. Has she asked to borrow the car yet? (And absolutely, there's nothing better than a laughing baby.)
Abe laughing--I defy anyone to look at that picture without smiling! Go ahead, try it.
Aw, that's sweet. I'm inordinately proud of my laughing critter, so here's another: [link]
