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Apr. 2nd, 2006 11:40 pm
High today, here: 12. Dewpoint then: -6. High dewpoint: -1.
High today in TO: 9. Dewpoint then: -4. High dewpoint: 0.
Low today on the balcony: -0.2. High: 12.3. Currently: 5.1.
High yesterday, here: 8. Dewpoint then: 6. High dewpoint: 6.
High yesterday in TO: 11. Dewpoint then: 7. High dewpoint: 7.
Balcony R.H. hit a low of 20% today, which increases my suspicion that 20% is as low as it'll read, indoors and out.
Liga de Beisbol Senior Felix has now secured its minimum number of players, and will become operational approximately by the end of the week. So if anyone out there still happens to be interested, let me know ASAP. (It has, btw, come to my attention that I should've specified that this is a free league, so, to check out and/or join it, you need to click on the "Join League" link in the "Free Fantasy Baseball" box, which is below the "Fantasy Baseball PLUS" box at baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com.)
I'm now holding 78 of a possible 80 points in what I have been referring to as my more competitive hockey league--so, since I benched two-thirds of my team, and since Hasek went down, I've actually increased my lead. Largely if not entirely due to snapping up Huet and Emery at just the right times.
Continental Philosophy Review says it's got too many Heidegger papers, thank you, come again. So, my post-dissertation publishing offensive has yet to penetrate to the actual reviewing stage. This is a bit disconcerting. I just hope "we've got too many Heidegger papers" isn't a nice way of saying "your paper is too embarrassingly bad to send on for review". (This is another one of those things that I doubt happens in the sciences. Does this happen in the sciences? I mean, if you've got, say, a cancer journal, and you're getting a preponderance of breast cancer papers, do you tell people who send in breast cancer papers, sorry, we've got too many breast cancer papers? I'm guessing you don't, because any given breast cancer paper might actually demonstrate an important new treatment for breast cancer. Whereas, you know, finally understanding what Heidegger's doing with his etymologies just isn't, really, that important, and you might just as well pass up the chance. This is also disconcerting.)
Yesterday, read the Crito, and a paper on the Crito that I'm giving a commentary on at CPA. Yeah, it's a Platonic spring. The gist of the paper is that Socrates doesn't believe in the arguments he puts into the "mouth" of the personified Laws of Athens as to why he shouldn't escape, but there are clues in the Crito indicating the real reason Plato thinks he was right not to escape, which is that it would disorder his soul. What's interesting, in relation to my current Strauss kick, is that the author takes care to say that s/he is not giving an "esoteric" reading, "esoteric" readings being what Straussians are supposed to give.
Finished Strauss's Republic commentary: the gist of that is, the point of the Republic is that the just city is impossible, the rule of philosophy leads to tyranny, and terrible things are going to happen if you try to artificially force a polity to conform to an ideal. One of his prominent examples is Socrates's saying that they'll have to drive everyone over the age of 10 out of the city they're founding. The second time I read the Republic seriously, that was one of the main flags that went up for me that Plato is, really, kidding.
High today in TO: 9. Dewpoint then: -4. High dewpoint: 0.
Low today on the balcony: -0.2. High: 12.3. Currently: 5.1.
High yesterday, here: 8. Dewpoint then: 6. High dewpoint: 6.
High yesterday in TO: 11. Dewpoint then: 7. High dewpoint: 7.
Balcony R.H. hit a low of 20% today, which increases my suspicion that 20% is as low as it'll read, indoors and out.
Liga de Beisbol Senior Felix has now secured its minimum number of players, and will become operational approximately by the end of the week. So if anyone out there still happens to be interested, let me know ASAP. (It has, btw, come to my attention that I should've specified that this is a free league, so, to check out and/or join it, you need to click on the "Join League" link in the "Free Fantasy Baseball" box, which is below the "Fantasy Baseball PLUS" box at baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com.)
I'm now holding 78 of a possible 80 points in what I have been referring to as my more competitive hockey league--so, since I benched two-thirds of my team, and since Hasek went down, I've actually increased my lead. Largely if not entirely due to snapping up Huet and Emery at just the right times.
Continental Philosophy Review says it's got too many Heidegger papers, thank you, come again. So, my post-dissertation publishing offensive has yet to penetrate to the actual reviewing stage. This is a bit disconcerting. I just hope "we've got too many Heidegger papers" isn't a nice way of saying "your paper is too embarrassingly bad to send on for review". (This is another one of those things that I doubt happens in the sciences. Does this happen in the sciences? I mean, if you've got, say, a cancer journal, and you're getting a preponderance of breast cancer papers, do you tell people who send in breast cancer papers, sorry, we've got too many breast cancer papers? I'm guessing you don't, because any given breast cancer paper might actually demonstrate an important new treatment for breast cancer. Whereas, you know, finally understanding what Heidegger's doing with his etymologies just isn't, really, that important, and you might just as well pass up the chance. This is also disconcerting.)
Yesterday, read the Crito, and a paper on the Crito that I'm giving a commentary on at CPA. Yeah, it's a Platonic spring. The gist of the paper is that Socrates doesn't believe in the arguments he puts into the "mouth" of the personified Laws of Athens as to why he shouldn't escape, but there are clues in the Crito indicating the real reason Plato thinks he was right not to escape, which is that it would disorder his soul. What's interesting, in relation to my current Strauss kick, is that the author takes care to say that s/he is not giving an "esoteric" reading, "esoteric" readings being what Straussians are supposed to give.
Finished Strauss's Republic commentary: the gist of that is, the point of the Republic is that the just city is impossible, the rule of philosophy leads to tyranny, and terrible things are going to happen if you try to artificially force a polity to conform to an ideal. One of his prominent examples is Socrates's saying that they'll have to drive everyone over the age of 10 out of the city they're founding. The second time I read the Republic seriously, that was one of the main flags that went up for me that Plato is, really, kidding.
