Homework

This is a part of the homework feature of my blog, which is an ongoing conversation with my mate S.F.

Hey mate. Lovely to see you again, as always. Can’t wait to do it all again soon!

I have a note here for “Odd Socks”, but I don’t remember what that was about. Do you?

I mentioned about Elle Cordova. She’s made some really creative and humorous YouTube videos including Grammarian vs Errorist.

You mentioned about Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

The sublime is a way of simplifying what you don’t understand.

You mentioned The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell.

“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.” — David Lynch on Big Ideas. In fact he wrote a book titled Catching the Big Fish.

I mentioned about the Sex Ed Sketch from Monty Python’s Meaning of Life. Speaking of Monty Python there was also medical experiments for the lot of you.

I mentioned about Chesterton’s fence which is the principle that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood.

I mentioned about Cantor’s diagonal argument. This method can be used to construct the more numerous real numbers from the integers.

My essay on Cartesian Dualism is here: 2008-2-PHI130.Essay.2.

I mentioned this humorous sketch: They’re Made Out Of Meat.