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I was tired while Erik drove me to work this morning. Random thoughts as I nodded off included drawing a cartoon in the style of XKCD's "my new hobby" strips. My new hobby: responding to classic philosophical quandaries by quoting Derrida.

"Imagine you have a Jeep (or Theseus' ship) and you're replacing parts one by one-"
"There is no outside text!"

"Imagine there is a trolley approaching a switch-"
"There is no outside text!"

I think (while I am far from knowledgeable about philosophy) that answer makes sense to the Jeep issue. When is it no longer the original Jeep? A non-original Jeep exists only as something signified by the existence of the original Jeep, all of which exists through linguistic dogma defined arbitrarily by people. There is no original Jeep, except as defined by the people discussing it, which means that it is up to them to decide the answer.)

I don't know if it makes sense in regard to the trolley problem. But it makes me giggle.

"What do you want for dinner? Pizza or-"
"There is no outside text!"

"Hey, good morn-"
"There is no outside text!"

I think I need a little vacation.

(This is kind of inspired by an SMBC comic that I can't seem to find right now where someone points out that any classic unsolvable problem could be solved by extending the time-frame to include the heat-death of the universe. The halting problem? The heat death of the universe halts all processes. Bam!)

Traveling Dog

I have my trip basically planned out. And I'm 99% sure I'm going to go. Lack of motivation and excitement for doing much other than staying home was depression and anxiety, I'm doing better now, and once I'm on the road I'm sure I'll be happy and excited.

12 of the things I'm seeing are some kind of commemoration of death (and one of those includes a cemetery with multiple interesting things to see). Death really compels people toward the shaping of social memory. There are far fewer things that commemorate births, though one of my stops is the the birthplace of David Rice Atchison. He may have been (but probably actually wasn't) president of the United States for about a day. He was also a pro-slavery domestic terrorist, like so many of the time's Democrats. He got more personally involved than many, though, during the violence in Bleeding Kansas.

There are a lot of monuments commemorating some pretty vile, to modern progressive sensibilities, people and things in Kentucky.

I am going to visit a place called Wolf Lick. Not because anything is there, but because I am a furry and must pose. Awooo!

If you feel like spending four days driving to bizarre things completely on my schedule and sleeping in a car, let me know and we'll talk?