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Daisy, Daisy
Sep. 6th, 2005 11:05 pm
High temp today, here: 25. Dewpoint then: 15. High dewpoint: 17.
High temp today in TO: 26. Dewpoint then: 16. High dewpoint: 17.
TO back on top. Feh.
Into Book II of Don Quixote. 2/3 of the way through Heart of Darkness. (I read Heart of Darkness maybe eight years ago, at the cottage, I think. I'd never know it, reading it again now--it all seems brand new! I might as well not have bothered reading half the stuff I read from high school into early university.) Read various crap in various newsmagazines. Damned if I can remember what any of it was. Except for a smattering of Newsweek's ever-popular spread of stats on Americans' Religious Beliefs. Nothing too surprising there. Well, I was moderately surprised that the RCs are still the biggest denomination in most states--actually in almost all states outside the southeastern cluster of Southern Baptists (which doesn't include Florida)--though that's not at all surprising when I think about it for half a second. There's also the fact that people are still progressively less religious as they get younger, despite the Red State reproductive advantage. I was also mildly surprised that 68% of people identifying themselves as "Evangelical Christians" think you can get into heaven despite not sharing their beliefs (not sure how, or if, "sharing their beliefs" is specified).
Also read a couple of reviews of books about Habermas in the latest Radical Philosophy. They had the two authors reviewing each other's book. Cute. Learned that, apparently, in more recent work, Habermas derives principle (U) from principle (D) instead of the other way around! This won't do. And none of the libraries I have access to have his book (Habermas: A Very Short Introduction, part of the Oxford: A Very Quick Cash Cow series). Yet another wrench in the Foucault-Habermas works.
There are, of course, other things that I meant to have said, and I have forgotten them, as usual. My mind is going. I can feel it.
Well, there's this: I'm in the middle of a very uneven batch of Royal Gala apples. They're coming from the States now, but big and bland isn't the problem; rather, tough-skinned and a bit sour. At least, the one I had today was. I've had at least one good one from this lot, though.
High temp today in TO: 26. Dewpoint then: 16. High dewpoint: 17.
TO back on top. Feh.
Into Book II of Don Quixote. 2/3 of the way through Heart of Darkness. (I read Heart of Darkness maybe eight years ago, at the cottage, I think. I'd never know it, reading it again now--it all seems brand new! I might as well not have bothered reading half the stuff I read from high school into early university.) Read various crap in various newsmagazines. Damned if I can remember what any of it was. Except for a smattering of Newsweek's ever-popular spread of stats on Americans' Religious Beliefs. Nothing too surprising there. Well, I was moderately surprised that the RCs are still the biggest denomination in most states--actually in almost all states outside the southeastern cluster of Southern Baptists (which doesn't include Florida)--though that's not at all surprising when I think about it for half a second. There's also the fact that people are still progressively less religious as they get younger, despite the Red State reproductive advantage. I was also mildly surprised that 68% of people identifying themselves as "Evangelical Christians" think you can get into heaven despite not sharing their beliefs (not sure how, or if, "sharing their beliefs" is specified).
Also read a couple of reviews of books about Habermas in the latest Radical Philosophy. They had the two authors reviewing each other's book. Cute. Learned that, apparently, in more recent work, Habermas derives principle (U) from principle (D) instead of the other way around! This won't do. And none of the libraries I have access to have his book (Habermas: A Very Short Introduction, part of the Oxford: A Very Quick Cash Cow series). Yet another wrench in the Foucault-Habermas works.
There are, of course, other things that I meant to have said, and I have forgotten them, as usual. My mind is going. I can feel it.
Well, there's this: I'm in the middle of a very uneven batch of Royal Gala apples. They're coming from the States now, but big and bland isn't the problem; rather, tough-skinned and a bit sour. At least, the one I had today was. I've had at least one good one from this lot, though.
