My Two Cents:you can’t own the mixolydian scale. you can’t own a persons understanding of music. you can’t own a person’s performance of music. by this logic cover bands, and musicians playing covers in bars, are criminals. i.e. every musician is a criminal who owes somebody money going all the way back to the caveman who smacked a coupla rocks together.
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I think I gave intimations earlier last week about my scheduling aspirations.
Here they are in writing:
Daily: I’ll be doing a Vlog which I hope to also turn into a podcast called TFS (The Fractal Standard) in which I’ll ramble about current events and pretty much anything that comes to mind. This is basically a way for me to have consistent output that not only allows me to develop ideas and my riffing skills, but to keep a steady rhytm. Something simple enough to draw me to my workstations with promises of feasible completability.
Frida – Monday: I’ll be doing background work, like researching, writing, editing, doing web design stuff, trying to arrange interviews or coordinate travel plans if the subject matter demands it.
The writing publications like essays, stories, and poems will be set to autopublish on various days of the weeks. This will keep the content stream fat, fresh, and tasty.
Tuesday – Thursday: Topical vlogs published alongside whatever work was scheduled from the weekend and TFS.
Tuesday: Historical Oddities and Little Known Truths
Wednsday: Health Science News
Thursday: The Creative Lifestyle
Clearly, this is fairly ambitious. Especially for a procrastinating shit like myself with familial and domestic duties. So it will take some time to perfect. But it is a target that I intend to aim for in earnest.
Thanks for stopping by over the years and sticking with me through my dryspells, various sudden story deaths, and general shtibaggery.
I appreciate all of my readers old or new.
Sincerely.
Alex V. Weir – WordPresser, YouTuber, Story Slayer
O did I write something you enjoyed? Yea… I’m just gonna let it die while I ride my mountain bike.
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*Note: At the very outset I demonstrate my ignorance by stating that Seneca was an emperor. He was not an emperor but a stoic philosopher and Roman statesman.
Rough Idea of Topics
In Order of Apperance
~ Seneca ~
~ My Balls ~
~ Golden Gate Bridge Suicides ~
~ Diet and Mental Health ~
~ Review of a Joe Wilson pamphlet as an example of political vaguneness ~
Wooh! Had to change that from Coffee and Shifting Diet Advice to Volatile Diet Advice so the damned title would fit. This makes me feel accomplished. Most likely because I’m an idiot.
Here’s my “show” (pfft) notes cause I’m too shattered to write a synopsis: Coffee
I’m having my fourth cup of coffee.
Just read an article from NYT via Pocket Recoomendations on Coffee. (Yes, Racoomendations I like to think Racoons scour the net for fun facts)
(Yes, Racoomendations I like to think Racoons scour the net for fun facts)
This is why all dietary advice, especially older dietary advice, should be taken with a huge grain of salt.
They found that coffee was heatlhy AFTER they took people out of the data set that also smoked. If I read this correctly this wasn’t done till 2015!
Philosophy’s Contribution to Science
“We illustrate our point with three examples taken from various fields of the contemporary life sciences. Each bears on cutting-edge scientific research, and each has been explicitly acknowledged by practicing researchers as a useful contribution to science. These and other examples show that philosophy’s contribution can take at least four forms: the clarification of scientific concepts, the critical assessment of scientific assumptions or methods, the formulation of new concepts and theories, and the fostering of dialogue between different sciences, as well as between science and society.
– PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of The United States)
My Two Cents: So in essence this boils down philosophy being integral in the understanding and communication of science. Which makes sense since science sprang from philosophy and continued to develop both parallel and in tandem.
How Much Attention Should We Pay to Campaign Theater?
Discuss the conversation you had Wednesday night and extrapolate:
I mentioned to an acquintance at my grandfather’s church that I had given up on elections and instead decided to try to educate myself and others about various issues so as to drive change at the grassroots level.
Is this an effective strategy.
Clearly at least some attention must be paid to elections.
However, I cannot help but conclude that a lot of the election process, and the debates, are highly charged emotional theater that polarizes people, and detracts from the issues by only giving a surface level analysis in order to classify ourselves into respective positions.
Just look at all the issues that have all the juice squeezed out of them till nothing but the dry core remains leaving us with broadbrush arguments for or against socialism, populism, welfare, bootstrapping, environmentalism, business etc.
It’s basically an antrhoporphization of issues into people we would like to be.
In this installment I ramble about status symbols, people’s goofy expectations of being badass loners survivng the end times on tins and grit, and the origin for the namesake of “The Fractal Journal.”
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Corporations are a collective of people treated as a single entity whose operation relies on a strictly enforced division of labor. Your cheif goal is not to become a better businessman but to climb to the top of the gulag. Where your title is the delightfully militaristic Cheif Executive Officer (read commissar).
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Disclaimer: not related to the actual WWE, if you’re here for wrestling, and not for a half assed discussion of an old Jim Breuer bit you’re gonna be bored
I begin with a whinge about my first world problems then continue kvetching steadily about everything from hypothermia to the shit show that is today’s videogame industry.
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While it’s likely just a rhetorical flourish there seem to be a great number of folks convinced that capitalism is some sort of Panacea. This overly rosy picture is inaccurate since it fails to take into account the vast difference that access to natural resources, geographic security, and technology make in living standards. I then go to list some historical oddities and revisit the concept that language affects how we function and what we become.
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