but what is a hobby, anyway?

i had close to the best day ever today. so much love! ♥ also apparently my recent joy-filled conversations with elfiepike have been like a kind of crack-au-creation boot camp, because today it became necessary to soothe one of shiroi_chi's wangst trips by demonstrating my ability to create, on the spur of the moment, an impromptu crack au in which anglepoiselamp was an eccentric roman patrician and shiroi_chi was her slave (don't ask) (and would you believe after that the ungrateful bitch said she'd rather have been a pepsi delivery boy?). i believe i passed, although i wouldn't go so far as to say i am confident that the angst is cured. and fingers crossed, because if shiroi_chi can get off work we can roadtrip to helsinki and ikea on saturday.

ps. it has also been decided that i shall officiate at shiroi_chi and anglepoiselamp's wedding. don't think i'm going to forget, guys. i'll hold you to that.

criminal minds, ohmiya of the day and "oh, philosophers!"

1. ( criminal minds )

2. this philosophy book keeps cracking me up.

'We have to ask whether the mind of man can have any contact with reality at all, and, if it can, what difference this will make to his life'. [...] [I]t is not an empirical question at all, but a conceptual one. It has to do with the force of the concept of reality. An appeal to the results of an experiment would necessarily beg the important question, since the philosopher would be bound to ask by what token those results themselves are accepted as 'reality'. Of  course, this simply exasperates the experimental scientist -  rightly so, from the point of view of his own aims and interests.

- peter winch, the idea of a social science and its relation to philosophy

3. so then...

wax: and then after that quote you have a picture of two japanese boyband members -
me: yeah, it's not connected.
wax: but perhaps as an illustration.
me: so you're saying one of them represents the human mind and one represents reality, and they can't have contact?
wax: no, this is the - 
me : oh, they're reality and the human mind can't have contact with them?
wax: no, they -
me: oh, they represent the human mind and they can't have contact with reality?
wax: no. they're boyband members so they can't have contact with their own reality. they live in a little constructed reality.

a constructed reality of SPARLKLY and WEE and GAY.