the case against moral relativism

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Top Five (or so...) Reasons to Study at Panera (instead of Hot Corner)

1. Classical music at a reasonable background volume (not loud, scary, feel-like-you're-walking-though-a-haunted-house-full-of-screaming-children-music)

2. soup in a bread bowl (not soup not in a bread bowl)

3. free internet and unlimited free coffee refills (not unlimited-free-coffee-refills-with-a-guilty-conscience)

4. managers that recognize former employees and give them free stuff (not non-managers who are too towny-cool to acknowledge that they recognize you, even though they take your order five times a week)

5. A. trash cans that are emptied regularly (not trash cans that are always too full to even precariously balance your empty cup on the top of the other overflowing cups)

B. friendly staff who bus your table for you (not unfriendly staff who don't)

C. running into normal people you know (not the weirdos-you-wish-you-didn't-know*)


*this category does not include Karen, Mitch, or...well, i think they're the only normal people i've ever run into at Hot Corner...

amor constante

once i again i cave to peer pressure. Becca's awesome poetry posting, all regarding the seasonal theme of death, has inspired me to post one of my own favorite death poems, by Francisco de Quevedo.


AMOR CONSTANTE MÁS ALLÁ DE LA MUERTE

Cerrar podrá mis ojos la postrera
sombra, que me llevare el blanco día;
y podrá desatar esta alma mía
hora a su afán ansioso lisonjera;

mas no de esotra parte en la ribera
dejará la memoria en donde ardía;
nadar sabe mi llama la agua fría,
y perder el respeto a ley severa;

alma a quien todo un Dios prisión ha sido,
venas que humor a tanto fuego han dado,
medulas que han gloriosamente ardido,

su cuerpo dejarán, no su cuidado;
serán ceniza, mas tendrá sentido;
polvo serán, mas polvo enamorado.


and (so becca doesn't get mad at me!) here's the brutal english translation, which does absolutely no justice to the original.


(Love constant beyond Death

Perhaps whatever final shadow that
the shining day may bring could close my eyes,
and this my soul may well be set aflight
by time responding to its longing sighs;
but it will not, there on the farther shore
its memory leave behind, where once it burned:
my flame the icy current yet can swim,
and so severe a law can surely spurn.

Soul by no less than a god confined,
veins that such a blazing fire have fueled,
marrow to its glorious flames consigned:

the body will abandon, not its woes;
will soon be ash, but ash that is aware;
dust will be, but dust whose love still grows.)

Mach 3 for monday

Occam's Razor: Given two equally predictive theories, choose the simpler.

Blore's Razor: When given a choice between two theories, take the one that is funnier.

Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

do you know the muffin...bomb?

mmmm...they look so delicious don't they?

so harmless...


until one day...
...
...





the muffin bomber attacks! and you, unsuspecting teaching assistant, are covered in gooey suicide muffin guts.

yup, blueberries and all.


(campus police blocked off an entire block of Lumpkin St. this morning to investigate a bomb threat in the Student Learning Center. the reportedly suspicious package turned out to be a misplaced box of muffins. on a side note, there was apparently no need to notify persons inside the SLC of said threat, including myself and my endearing spanish 1110 class.)

update

here it is folks:


















Golden Peanut Factory, Ashburn, GA

jeopardy, anyone?

Category: Conference Trips to Florida

100 pts: This is the title of Jenna's new super-fun-for-driving mixed CD

200 pts: This is what Jenna had to pay for gas to Gainesville, FL from Athens, and back.

300 pts: This is song that was playing when Jenna learned of an extension on a major paper that she still hadn't written

400 pts: This is the difference between presenting a paper in a session about poetry, versus a session on any other topic.

500 pts: You will only see this on I-75 between Valdosta and Macon


Gimme your best guesses, in the form of a question, of course.

(winner gets...uh...something cool.)

just adorable

(Disclaimer: this is not our child, she belongs to Johnmark and Taylor Battaglia)

bandwagon autumn post

today was little green bible day on the UGA campus. they think they're witnessing, but they really are just there to announce the arrival of fall.

thanks little green bible men.