monadology and the little cyborg that could: an introduction

So, this is perhaps an inauspicious beginning... to be citing a whole bunch of theory that I'm not sure I entirely agree with... but hell...

this is my blog and I'll cite if I want to...

so yeah, here goes nothing. This blog... i guess, just to inform myself and my non-existent audience, will be me working through theory for school, my rather random adventures in this world, and possibly, the angst and humor that comes from having a family as "unique" as mine...

so... yeah... that should be what goes on. For today, I have some info about the "monad" that I'll be working with so that I can begin to read Man a Machine, Man a Plant with some sort of pretense of understanding. If you want to see what I'm doing with Leibniz, or you've read it and want to see how wrong I've gotten it, you can head on over to my LJ (yes, I even have a LJ... which means I have no life) and check it out. I'm trying to do breakdowns of everything I've read in the hopes of actually remembering it (*shock* *gasp*) and also in the hopes of avoiding some work in the future if this is what I end up doing with my dissertation...

so yeah, check it out, here is the link. Yeah, it's boring, but whatever... that's just the way it goes...

in other news... I'm sick, and I don't mean that in the "god I'm sick of Greek philosophy" kind of way... more in the "oh god oh god we're all going to die" sort of way, with the healthy addition of general ickiness...

joy... rapture...

Anyway, movie review: W.

While I'm normally one to leap at the chance to poke fun at our most recent ex-president, this one was a just a little too soon after the fact to be comfortable. You know how when you've been broken up with an ex for a year or two, and you can begin to laugh at the fact that they burned your favorite tee-shirt or killed all your plants in a fit of displaced homicidal rage?

Well, a couple months after the fact you're still a bit sore that you got taken for such a ride, and still coping with the fact that they may have been crazy, but hell, son... you were the one dating her!

So yeah, while I'm sure this is a really great movie (and I am really, really sure of this) I'm not sure that it's one that I'll be renting again anytime soon... I think I need to let it soak in that we've got a new presidential beau and that it's okay... we all make mistakes, and sometimes they destroy our lives, cause us to lose our jobs, gut our economy and send every major institution in the world into a tailspin... but that's over now... and after a year or so of heavy drinking and macking all over our latest, we might just be okay...

so yeah, that's all for now... more later when I've decided whether or not I'm going to keep up with this...

God speed and good luck,

wanderlust_llc