Shoot! Clearly I am not cut out for blogging! It’s been months since my last post. Sadly, I think my dreams of having one of those blogs that people actually read are down the drain. And yet, I put the link to this thing on my business cards and I’m too cheap to get new ones before I use these up.
And speaking of my business card, what’s up with the backside of that thing? I gave one to a young woman and she giggled when she looked at the back. When I asked her what was funny, she said “well, you know what this looks like!” But I didn’t. And she didn’t want to clue me in for some reason and then she changed the subject.
I kept trying to figure it out though. I had just ordered a fresh box of these business cards so I wanted to be in on the joke too. The demure tone of her snickering made me wonder if it was something sexual. And then I had my answer. Well, here’s what’s on the back and you’ll probably pick up on it much faster than I did.
Well, if I wasn’t meaning to depict a bunch of sperm cells bombarding the egg, what is the deal with this image? Continue reading →
In my previous post about centered sets, I proposed the idea that there is some “Good Life” that serves as the center of the human set. To reiterate, even if all of us would have very different ideas about what that good life is, the idea is still that there’s one center. Now, I have no idea if this is true and I’ll make no attempt to prove it. But I wanted to talk a little bit about how I personally think about this idea of a “center”. Continue reading 