Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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50 for 50
I’ve been great friends with Michael Hubly since 1994 when on a last minute dash I went with a co-worker I barely knew to five transformative days at Club Med. Eventually I would become his Best Man and Hunter would take his Michael for his middle name. Hubs turned Fifty (pronounced “Hyuebs”) and is committed […]
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Birthday Lich – February Painting
Both Ford and I have February birthdays and I was trying to drop some Lichtenstein love on the passage of time. I tried a couple of ways to come up with a good technique for regular Ben-Day dots (I learned that new word), but I think Ford summed it up nicely with “not all of […]
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bouncing, shooting, eating, playing, building
The shopping list included “large fake dinosaur head”, six different types of Pop-Tarts, a second Xbox, six new Nerf guns, 20 passes to the trampoline place and, for me, plenty of “preventative” Advil. The Second Annual Bounce-and-Battle birthday party for Ford was another big hit, already with talk of a summer time “refresher” to keep […]
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Dan Smith Guitar
My first guitar lessons came from an interesting New York creature named Dan Smith. He was giving lessons on the down-low in his apartment, so you couldn’t bring your own guitar and you weren’t supposed to hang around before/after your lesson. Dan was great. We learned by just playing songs and he navigated in-and-out of […]
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Wizardly
Me and The Fellas are working to make painting a habit. We had so much fun around the Opus Memoriae MMXVII that we decided that each month we were going to pick the “theme of the month” or some thing we really enjoyed and make a picture out of it. For January, I am the […]
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we are Star Fleet
Star Trek over Star Wars. There, I said it. The nerd debate is unresolvable. It’s science fiction versus science fantasy, it’s space wagon train versus space opera. They are both magnificent, but I want to live in the universe of Star Trek. I cast a disapproving eye on any dude of my generation that I […]
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Okay, maybe self-driving cars is a thing…
I’ve mostly ignored self-driving cars except for occasionally peering into a Google Maps vehicle. I’ll admit, I’ve been working off three long-ago formed biases. My computer degree in 1875 had a focus in Artificial Intelligence, and in particular, vision (as opposed to image or voice). Back then the Roomba was a fantasy and the idea […]
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an unexpected welcome
Got back tonight from my 6th trip to NYC since Thanksgiving…and…my battery was dead at the airport parking. I had done a pre-dawn drop-off of The Fellas and The Elder is cranking through Harry Potter, he turned on the light, and left it on in the back seat. It seems 5 days is enough to […]
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deaccession
First off, super cool word – deaccession – officially remove (an item) from the listed holdings of a library, museum, or art gallery, typically in order to sell it to raise funds. Two lightning rod deaccessions (I can’t use that word enough) are afoot with similar alleged ‘transgressions’ but slightly different contexts. The Berkshire Museum […]
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Movie: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The short: Frances McDormand has you rooting for an incredibly unsympathetic character and a character evolution you might predict as unbelievable gets pulled off. Watching this is time well spent. There was a time in the ’90s when I would easily see 80+ movies a year. Now my number is smaller and is dominated by […]
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