quote of the day...

While I would love to say that I have been oh-so-productive in the last eight hours or so... all I have is this small offering to the gods of the Internet and a rec for a pretty funny McShep SGA fic by Mallory Klohn called "One Leg at a Time."

and here is your moment of zen for the day...

"Go ahead and storm the city... Rape and plunder to your heart's content, burn it down and salt the ocean, use my toothbrush and sell me into slavery, but for the love of God, let me put my pants on first."

anyway, enjoy... I'm off to actually do work now...

wanderlust_llc


*edit* so, I also have a word of the day, one which has given me a great deal of trouble in classes, and so now I share it with the world...

Ontology, n.

1. a. (philosophy). The science or study of being; that branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature or essence of being or existence. b. As a count noun: a theory or conception relating to the nature of being. Also in extended use. 2. (Logic). Chiefly with reference to the work of Stanislaw Lesniewski (1886-1939): a system similar in scope to modern predicate logic, which attempts to interpret quantifiers without assuming that anything exists beyond written expressions (Oxford English Dictionary Online, "ontology," accessed 22.02.2009)

Cool, huh? Anyway, still not sure what it means when peeps throw it around in class, but now I think I might be able to remember it for today... which is good, since I'm reading about the subject and subjectivity and that's a word that comes up a lot.

And on that note, here is an interesting excerpt from The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy:

"Subjective Idealism: 1. a theory of knowledge: that a subject can know nothing except its own ideas. 2. an ontology: that nothing exists except minds and their ideas" (546).

I find this interesting as its a neat way to sum up a lot of theory/philosophy... the whole, "mind over matter, I am a leaf on the wind," thing neatly summed up in one little phrase, "subjective idealism." cool.

Anyway, for a look at my latest conquest in cyborg lit, E.A. Hoffman's "The Sand-Man," head on over to my LJ for a plot summary and my fairly subjective (in the sense of "mere matter of personal taste or preference" and not in "a subject's direct experience of itself" kind of way) take on the short story.

Cheers!

wanderlust_llc

subjective, adj.: 1. a subjective experience is introspective, i.e. it is a subject's direct experience of itself, in contrast to experience of things and states external to the subject. 2. more generally, subjective is that which belongs to any subject conceived as a self, a mind. 3. in another sense, similar to the above, but more restricted, subjective is that which belongs to no one, or a number of subjects, but not necessarily all. 4. what is subjective is a matter of personal taste or preference; lacking in truth or validity; arbitrary (Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy 546).