Thursday, December 7, 2006

A Weekend Get-Away, Just Me and Georg

Come morning (Friday), I will be off on a weekend with just me and the dead German idealist, Georg Freidrich; that's Hegel (thoughts of Weekend at Bernies come to mind). Yep, that's right, a weekend away, right here in my own room...sitting at my desk...typing on my computer...endlessly...endlessly, all weekend. Will it EVER STOP?! Oh, Hegel, RELENT!...just go away. Leave me to my Scheler or Ricoeur, Levinas or Ponty. Give me something with meaning; without masses of ambiguity, hidden under the wrinkled blanket of obscurity entitled Phenomenology of Spirit. The impenetrable jargon just clouds the mind, leaving it throbbing like a bad hangover from a real get-away weekend! Well...perhaps that's little over-exaggeration.

The title: "Criticizing Concsiousness: The Subject as Finite in Hegel and Ricoeur." Check my philosophy blog later for a summary if you're interested.

Needless to say, I won't be able to write until I get back! Wish me a safe journey, please!

Friday, December 1, 2006

Celebrity Face Recognition

My brother put up on his blog a pretty cool website where you can download a picture of yourself and will receive a number of celebrity faces that resemble you. However, I noticed some kinks: the pictures that come up not only resemble your face, but resembles also your posture: the way you hold your mouth (in a smile or closed, for example), the direction you are looking in, etc. Notice this in these two pictures that I used of myself. Oh, and by the way, by niece has a 80% chance of growing up to look like Brittany Spears!

Notice with this group how they are all looking slightly the same direction and have their mouths closed



Notice here though how they are all smiling. But do I really look like these people?