The Old 89ers

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Wordle

Here's a word cloud of my paper I just defended. The paper is called "Quantifier Expressions and Quinian Metaontology". Willard van Orman Quine was a bigshot Harvard philosopher for a large part of the 20th Century. Quinian metaontology is his views about the language and practice of ontology (ontology is a group of questions about what things exist). Quantifier expressions are things like "some", "most", "there are", "there exist", and so on. This paper was mostly my argument for why I think "there are" and "there exists" are not synonymous (and also why that might matter). The word cloud was made at http://www.wordle.net/

Outlander + Karoke

Have you guys heard of this? A movie about space vikings! It looks like it'll have a very small release, so it might be one that has to wait till dvd.

On an unrelated note, I haven't put much stuff up here lately because of a paper I've been working on. I've been frantically trying to get it done, so the only internetting I've been doing is playing travian between writing paragraphs. But yesterday I defended that paper in front of my committee, and it passed, so now I'm done with that. Now it's on to working on a dissertation proposal, and then the dissertation. In celebration, we went to the Vegas Lounge and did some karoke. Kelsi did this song:

I played Chevy Chase and danced around behind her, joining in on some of her choreographed moves. Then, right after her, I followed it up with my rendition of this: