I’m leaving tomorrow to go backpacking for four days in the adirondack mountains. I kinda wish the contents of my pack allowed for total autonomy but unfortunately i’ll be relying on others for a stove, water filter and tent.. regardless i’m looking forward to this adventure. picture to come.
i built a vermicomposter the other day (aka worm bin). Inside, i’ve created an environment that worms will enjoy living in. This environment consists of bedding (shredded newspaper and hay) and food. The bedding provides a place for the worms to live while the food’s function should go without saying. As worms breath through their skin, it is important that the bedding retains moisture while also allowing some air flow. The newspaper retains the moisture while the hay prevents matting and thus facilitates ventilation.
My worms will be dinning on the food wastes produced by a house nearby. This weeks diet includes strawberries, purple cabbage, egg shells, banana peels, coffee grounds, carrots and apple cores.
I hope they do well.
Now we know the perimeters of the conversation that our country needs to start having. Everyone is saying, if we want government to help people we have to pay for it. Everyone’s agreeing on that. Democrats think that closing corporate loop holes and rating marginal tax rates on the wealthy could cover any increases in discretionary social spending. Republicans believe we have plenty on discretionary social spending, and any increase in that should come at the cost of other discretionary social spending. It’s an interesting, fundamental debate, one that we would be well served to have.
Hit the nail on the head.
haha
(Source: adrians, via gildedshit)
(Source: cuntweather)
(via houndeye)
fuck me.
Sometimes, when reflecting on…
the pro and cons of human interactions, i decide that earth would be a much more pleasant place to live if no one else were around. There sentiments are often short lived.
insomnia
has been a pretty desirable experience so far. I miss nothing.
i anticipate an emotional breakdown is inevitable.
Skepticism
Imagine we are sitting now, observing a loaf of bread. It is soft and flakey and has a particular taste. Having had experience with bread that is of similar sensible qualities, we conclude that this bread will nourish our bodies as like bread in the past has done. Modern science has shown that there is nothing in the sensible qualities themselves that provides sustenance, but that it is the molecular structure of the carbohydrates in bread. How is it that we come to know that the bread before us now will provide nourishment if its sensible qualities are no indication of its effect?
This anecdote not only illustrates the exclusive nature of cause and effect but also captures a new problem for Hume; there is no logical argument to validate experience as a foundation for causal inferences. It has been shown that our knowledge of cause and effect is based on experience and that this experience amounts to gathered sensible qualities of an object or cause being consistently conjoined with some effect. From the bread anecdote, we see that the sensible qualities of objects are not the true causes of their effects. It is tempting to say experience justifies a relationship between sensible qualities and effects but this results in a circular argument. Thus, Hume has rendered any inductive argument to validate causal inferences benign. His attempts to use deductive reasoning are equally fruitless. For the uniformity of nature that has historically held to collapse tomorrow implies no logical contradiction. “If there be any suspicion, that the course of nature may change, and that the past may be no rule for the future, all experience becomes useless, and can give rise to no inference or conclusion”.
Clay Bennett/Chattanooga Times Free Press (04/15/2012)
(via political-cartoons)
Piss
off.
Transplant your Plants
like i did today! Not only did I transplant into bigger pots but also fertilized with worm casting. I had to buy it this time but by my next transplant, i’ll have a thriving vermiculture system to provide my own.
