Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Muhammad Ali

    Muhammad Ali was the greatest. He was the greatest not only because he was a great fighter, but that he was one of the most personable athletes that ever lived. He was smart, funny, telegenic, and principled. He refused to be drafted and was stripped of the heavyweight title, and although he probably never would…

  • June Jazz

    What a lovely way to begin June – sunny out today with highs around 70 degrees Farenheit (20 C). After the scramble to get my new computer working like my old computer, I’ve built a small backlog of special podcasts that I will be rolling out more regularly this summer. We’ll begin with a new…

  • Memorial Day

    It’s Memorial Day – unofficial start of summer, but meant to honor the war dead. I was surprised to learn that this was started in the United States after the Civil War, and not World War I (I assume that all “war-type” holidays are World War I related). So let’s take a few minutes this…

  • Sunday Morning

    It’s Sunday morning and I am sitting on my deck, looking out at my lawn, which I spent all of yesterday working on. Whew, my wife thought that I was stopping work at noontime yesterday, but I was just taking a half-hour break before returning to work in the afternoon. I started the afternoon work…

  • Lazy Sunday

    So with the inevitable nomination of Donald Trump…too soon? It’s a lazy Sunday – sure, I have a bunch of lawn stuff and other summer prep to do today, as well as shopping, cleaning and laundry, but overall it’s a lazy Sunday, since I can work at my own pace. The skies will be cloudy…

  • New Computer

    My old computer broke – motherboard issues. I got a new computer and had the old hard drive (mostly) transferred to the new computer, but it took a long time (still semi-unsure why). So I’ve been without a computer for a week. I must say that overall I didn’t miss it as much as I…

  • Home Again

    Just flew back from California, and boy are my arms…reduced to this level of humor. I am tired, as it took most of the week to get acclimated to the time difference, and now I have to get re-set to this time zone. Sad, isn’t it? Had fun in Napa and Monterey last week –…

  • Dead Computer

    My computer died on Monday (before Prince, Michelle McNamara, Lonnie Mack, and Richard Lyons (Negativland) died – this has got to stop). It was a good, solid computer that gave me no trouble until it died suddenly. We tried to save it, but the shop I took it to couldn’t fix it, either. I’ll be…

  • Memories Can’t Wait

    When I was young I had a great memory. I was very smart and could remember things so well that I didn’t develop good study habits until late in college. When I was in high school and early college I acted in plays for the high school and a community group. My roles increased until…

  • April Showers

    April showers bring May flowers, according to Bugs Bunny (really, where else have you heard this?), but what does April snow bring? Grumbling, resentment, a desire to move to warmer climes? We’ve had a mild winter, but I figured that our spring would get interrupted by snow – it’s pretty inevitable. The snow we got…

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