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Whatever else you might say about him and whether you disagree with him or not the man truly knew how to layout an argument. Mr. Lewis' arguments are thorough, logical, no nonsense and somehow manage to include any critical tangents without losing sight of the main track.

I've been reading a few compilations of his papers and essays recently (some fascinating stuff if you've yet to read, I'm particularly found of the On Stories compilation) One of the things that struck me from reading these is that he often re-used arguments/argument proofs. At first I found this rather annoying and frankly felt a bit jipped, desiring something new. After actually thinking about this instead of simply reacting I realized my error. Of course the same argument/argument proof can, and possibly even should, be used on multiple occasions when addressing relevant issues. These papers were written for different events, different audiences and at different times over the years. Furthermore, if the argument/proof/illustration has never been successfully disproved or found wanting in anyway why should one be expected to come up with a new one?

That brings me to another thing I really admire about Mr. Lewis. He was intelligent and well educated and reading his work requires thought. It typically forces you to engage your brain or go elsewhere.

Well, I had nothing better to do yesterday...ok that's a lie, "nothing better that I was actually going to do more than think about with a small twinge of guilt and them ignore completely" is much more accurate. Anyway I had the urge to download, started small with some wallpapers (whoo hoo go FMA sheep crossing desktop!) and of course ended up at animesuki where I decided to downloaded a show called pumpkin scissors that I heard about from ladygrizelda who in turn heard about it from ensuing.

It's a good show: In a world where tanks are the ultimate weapons the story takes place after a massive war has ended and centers on the war relief squad called Pumpkin Scissors. Of course the squad adopts the big, sweet, gentle, slow seeming guy with the mysterious Anti Tank Trooper background that threatens to drag them into many dark and dangerous secrets. *insert foreboding music here* (hey that's not half bad, maybe I could write blurbs for a living *laughs*) But for me the real mystery is why anyone would name a relief squad "Pumpkin Scissors". Yes "Pumpkin Scissors" is said and written in english on the show, but you can't even claim that it's just a case of a Japanese speaker using English words they don't understand but think sound cool because the squad's emblem is a jack-o-lantern style pumpkin with scissors underneath! My only conclusion so far is that this name was chosen simply for comic relief. It never fails, no matter how dramatic or serious the situation, all it take for me to bust up laughing is for the characters to work the squad's name into the dialog.

My second conundrum is why in all the anime with a military sort of theme that I've watched recently are all the uniforms sporting the butt skirt look? That one I don't even have a theory for :P

I got off work early today, so I was able to get to the book store before it closed (yes, the book stores close at 5pm around here, typical small town hours) and was able to get 6 used books for the price of one new paper back. Then I went to the local library and lurked about the small section of books they are getting rid of. This is were I found the true gem of the evening. I got 3 large art books that probably retail for $20-$30 a piece for a grand total of $1! That's right $1! For an art major and book lover it doesn't get much better than that. Hmmm...too bad there won't ever be any manga for sale at our library...

Recently I've had the most random progression of songs stuck in my head through out the day and absolutely no notion of how they got there. You know how normally when a song is stuck in your head you've heard it recently or some one mentioned it recently or there is some discernible reason why it's stuck in your head? Well, apparently that method is just not good enough for my brain, no it must work in strange and mysterious ways. Today it began with the oompa loompa song, progressed to Fish Fight! which of course includes some flashes of the interesting imagery from the music video (a whole bunch of japanese guys singing and dancing in a fish tank and sushi is involved at one point...if your still curious...dang it I was gonna link to it but apparently its been removed from youtube and I'm too lazy to search for another link right now) this was followed by a morbid little song from my childhood know as the suffocation song and the day ended with Heart and Souls that favorite little tune for two people to attempt to play together on the piano. And this is my brain on an average day with out drugs, one of the billion reasons I shall never even be tempted to try any form of controlled substance.

*sigh* I think I'm slightly addicted to dumb little online quizzes. I find them way too amusing. This is my explination for posting the results of yet another quiz when I'm only on my 3rd post. I couldn't help myself though, the results were just too funny to me.

Your Deadly Sins

Sloth: 100%

Envy: 0%

Gluttony: 0%

Greed: 0%

Lust: 0%

Pride: 0%

Wrath: 0%

Chance You'll Go to Hell: 14%

You will get bugs, because you're too lazy to shoo them off. And then you'll die.

You see I've never got 100% in a category before...it's just too funny, and very very me, just ask any of my friends about my mad procrastination skills! This could also help explain my love of posting quiz results, I'm too damn lazy to write much on my own *laughs*

Ok, so reality and I have never been the best of friends. If anything we're more like squabling siblings, we've no choice but to be together part of the time, but after a bout of cooperation we have a row and don't speak to one another for days. Then this weekend I realized that apparently I'd been out of touch with reality for too long, and had been watching too much Fullmetal Alchemist on top of that, when I miss-read the sign on the freeway that said Auto Mall as Auto Mail. But the best part is the fact that it took me till the 2nd sign for the Auto Mall to even realize that I may have made a mistake because a sign for Auto Mail shouldn't exist and the fact that I did the EXACT same thing 3 days later on my drive home. Take that reality!

Well, I figured it's about time I put up my first journal entry. My page looks really funny all empty. But I just finished working a yard sale in 100+ degree weather and don't really have the energy for writing anything brilliant (not that I ever manage to write anything brilliant) so instead I took some random quizes that I got from ladygrizelda





What type of Fae are you?


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