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Day 165: My Earliest Memory

July 6, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

My earliest memory is of lying in a crib, watching a spider descend on a single thin strand, feeling its legs on my cheek, then feeling a warm, piercing sting. I can’t possibly really remember[…]

Day 163: FREEEEEEEEDOM

July 4, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

It’s the 4th of July. I’ve managed to keep myself blogging for almost a half-a-year (the midpoint will come this month). It’s been a good ride. Julie asked me last night how it feels to[…]

Day 162: Doing your Best

July 4, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

Julie asked me a hard question today. More on that in a second. First, for anyone who hasn’t gleaned it from reading my posts here, I am a person who walks looking into the light[…]

Day 161: Why I sometimes seem a little at-odds with my discipline

July 3, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

I have walked in a lightly defined circle around some of these issues in the past, but I was thinking today it might be worthwhile to lay this down in a post, sort of get[…]

Day 160: Understanding the Game: Some Video Game Theory to Help Understand Current Events

July 1, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

A weird tangent: Julie and I have started watching the OA on Netflix. We’re late, I know, to the party. Evs. We were discussing it during breakfast today (we’re on episode 3– not far in).[…]

Day 158: A hard day's work

June 30, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

Today I spent my entire day– 12 hours straight– in the Esports Arena on campus. I lugged tables, I cleaned, I helped install new tables, I built things, I ran lights. I had some help,[…]

Day 157: Truths about Academic Work

June 28, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

Julie posted this today on ye ol’ Facebook. If you read here regularly, you won’t be surprised to see that I chose to use it as a springboard today. I’ve talked at length about my[…]

Day 156: I need to expand on this

June 28, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

Today, I shared this story that Julie (and some of my other friends) posted on Facebook. Here’s what I said, for the odd reader who isn’t my FB friend but is interested in what I[…]

Day 148: I've been thinking about this one for a while

June 20, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

As I’m sure most of you know, because no one who would ever read my blog also lives in a vacuum, last week a congressman was shot and severely wounded (and others were wounded) during[…]

Day 147: Who wants to walk with Elias?

June 19, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

Today is my final “drawing a card from the WWE Tarot that Julie got for me” post. Today’s card is The Hermit. Here’s what my research tells me the Hermit means, via Kasamba.com Whenever you[…]