my mind begins to hum...

[the fire elf]

[Ugly Dougly]

Finally a self-portrait.

[the fire elf]

[the fire elf]

"A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind." - (William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors)

"For we are all swimmers ephemerally buoyed by what will engulf us at the last; still dreaming of islands though the mainland has been lost; swept remorselessly out to sea while we spread our arms to the beautiful shore." (Peter De Vries, Peckham's Marbles, 1986)


"In some ... in-depth interviews ... in over thirty countries, ... deep metaphors have surfaced"
"You would do well to use metaphors in your marketing, especially deep ones."

Finally a self-portrait.

[Ugly Dougly]

I never metaphor I didn't like.

[the fire elf]

Stretch. Strengthen.
As you get older, smart moves to make.

[the fire elf]

"An example of value-pluralism is the idea that the moral life of a nun is incompatible with that of a mother, yet there is no purely rational measure of which is preferable. Hence, moral decisions often require radical preferences with no rational calculus to determine which alternative is to be selected." - Wikipedia on Value Pluralism per Context

[Simon of the Playa]

[media]

[H.G.Crosby]

[media]

[the fire elf]

Pragmatism begins with the idea that belief is that upon which one is willing to act. It holds that a proposition's meaning is the consequent form of conduct or practice that would be implied by accepting the proposition as true.

In "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" Peirce argued for pragmatism as summed up in that which he later called the pragmatic maxim: "Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object".

In his 1910 Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, James paraphrased Peirce's pragmatic maxim as follows:

“[T]he tangible fact at the root of all our thought-distinctions, however subtle, is that there is no one of them so fine as to consist in anything but a possible difference of practice. To attain perfect clearness in our thoughts of an object, then, we need only consider what conceivable effects of a practical kind the object may involve — what sensations we are to expect from it, and what reactions we must prepare."

"Towards the end of the 20th century there was a resurgence of interest in pragmatism. ... In the early 21st century, embodied cognition has gained strength as a theory of mind-body-world integration. " - Wikipedia on American Plilosophy

One can compute the molecular mass of a compound by adding the atomic masses of its constituent atoms (nuclides). One can compute the molar mass of a compound by adding the relative atomic masses of the elements given in the chemical formula. In both cases the multiplicity of the atoms (the number of times it occurs) must be taken into account, usually by multiplication of each unique mass by its multiplicity.



a common example of adiabatic compression?

note that:The Pauli exclusion principle governs the behavior of all fermions (particles with "half-integer spin"), while bosons (particles with "integer spin") are not subject to it.

[the fire elf]

June 18, 2012 - "It has been over 10 years"
June 20, 2012 - "over 10 years"

[the fire elf]

Legislature's capacity to produce immanently applicable statute in interstate circumstances such as to lead a reasonable person of reasonable intelligence to rely on a course of action that supports the existance of a valid marriage...

The opinion of the Court of Appeal of the State of California in re marriage JOSEPH S. and TANYA M. CATARELLA: "Most importantly, a marriage ceremony culminated in the parties declaration that they accepted each other as husband and wife. ... Common sense and tradition tells us this is the moment at which the parties' valid consent creates a marriage. ... Sections of the statutory scheme support our conclusion a marriage was valid ... despite a failure to register"

122.090 of the Nevada Revised Statutes: "No marriage solemnized before any person professing to be a ... person authorized to solemnize a marriage ... shall be deemed or adjudged void, nor shall the validity thereof be in any way affected on account of any want of jurisdiction or authority."

"Under Nevada law, as under California law, a ... license issued by the state is an absolute prerequisite to marriage." - Los Angeles Superior Court on GAFFNEY vs. FREY

[oscillator]

[media]

[the fire elf]

ahhh... for more to have had a moment of breathless enrapture.
not that they need try to live in one


immanently, schemata culminated in traction.

traction of the principled effect of its instantiation and it's becoming into judicial opinion...

"Traction refers to ... surfaces without slipping." - Wikipedia on Traction (engineering)

weight the scales... mention of statute in judicial opinion against judicial opinion of no mention.

at least they thought to layer the courts...

[oscillator]

[Ugly Dougly]

[media]

[the fire elf]

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[the fire elf]

transeunt:
(of a mental act) causing effects outside the mind

[the fire elf]

[the fire elf]

fortune cookie saying: "Satisfaction is a full reward"

[the fire elf]

[Ugly Dougly]

[media]

[the fire elf]

[Ugly Dougly]

This group contains passive hunting traits. One part of the traits is related to preferred habitats (e.g.
slowly flowing water; caves; woods; liking mist or fog; preferring temperate landscapes over
tropical). Another part seems to be close-contact hunting traits (e.g. jumping over things; climbing;
chasing animals; biting; enjoying spinning in circles; strong grip; strong hands; physical endurance;
enjoying rodeo riders). Some other traits are related to sneaking (e.g. sneaking through the woods;
sneaking up on animals; walking on toes) and general hunting tactics (e.g. mimicking animal sounds;
digging; throwing small things; building traps; fascination for fire; sniffing)

[H.G.Crosby]

[Roberto Dobbisano]

does stanford attract assholes, or do assholes just naturally gravitate towards stanford?

[the fire elf]

"In Aristotle's works, eudaimonia was ... used as the term for the highest human good, and so it is the aim of practical philosophy... to consider (and also to experience) what it really is, and how it can be achieved." - Wikipedia on Eudaimonia

[Roark]

Ah HA! GOTCHA!

That sculpture was at the Houston Art Festival in 2011. Which implies you are local! Where ya be, Bro?

[Ugly Dougly]

[H.G.Crosby]

it's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.