Archive for April, 2004
On Truth (& A Refutation of Descartes’ Cogito)
Unlike the ancients, I do not believe that the noblest end is to think. Nor would I even grant that to think is at least the noblest end of man. But put this aside for the moment. I will grant thought as the pinnacle of existence for the purposes of this argument, so that I [...]
An Interesting Day
Today was an…interesting day.
This morning, I awoke to a knock on the door. Before I even opened my eyes, Dorek had unlocked the door, and Matt walked into the room. “Oh, sorry, guys; did I wake y’all up?” Matt’s accent is distinctively not Southern, but he still occasionally lapses into the vocabulary of a Southerner. [...]
Rearranging Ketchup Bottles
He still works there.
Every day I see him, rearranging the ketchup bottles. Except on weekends. He has weekends off.
I wonder if he ever notices me watching him. Today, he wore black jeans. His face reminds me of how old these college grounds are. There is a building on campus that was built before the civil [...]
Magic: The Gathering
The following is taken from one of my previous journals, dated 10/10/2002.
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The first time I saw a Magic card was on June 22, 1996 in the early afternoon. I was at a summer school type program at a boarding school. There were two people there playing, and while it did catch my attention [...]
