Some things I forgot to mention and some replies to comments.
Orientation: I should have mentioned this highlight, from a talk on the university's graduate student "honour code".
Speaker: The code also prohibits cheating. Can anyone tell me what cheating is?
[silence from room full of patronised grads refusing to play along]
Speaker: OK, well the honour code defines cheating as: using any device or means to cheat.
[muffled snorts from other phil grad student and me at triviality of definition].
I checked later, and it really does say that.
Housing: I've realised I've been suffering from a misapprehension for a while. I don't know if it's common, or if everyone else had kind of thought about it a bit more. So this will be either enlightening, or evidence of my occasional utter daftness.
Anyway, I'd always though that American streets must be really, really long, because I'd assumed that, if your house was number (say) 9300, that implied the existence of 9299 other houses in the street. It turns out that this isn't the case, the streets are normalish length, and the houses are numbered by some complex system that I don't yet understand. My neighbour on one side is 9250; I forget the other.
Replies: I might consider getting a bike when it cools down a bit, but at present, it's far too humid. Arriving at your destination dripping with sweat isn't a good look. I suspect rollerblades may be even more undignified. Sports cars are, well, do you know how much money I'm getting here? Ill gull wings though.
Wedding photos: Class, send 'em along. There's some on facebook already. I can't decide if we all look suave and mature, or uncomfortable and dressing-up-box costumed.
Courses: Jules, I'll write more about this once I've actually had some classes, but I'm taking a general epistemology course, one on naturalisation in epistemology and phil of science, and one which was advertised as ontology but seems to be more like phil of physics. So depending on how you look at it, I'm either getting an excellent opportunity to round out my background in unfamiliar areas, or I'm pissing about studying things that I don't really care about instead of getting on with the research I actually want to do....
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So you piss about here for n years pretending that you're all about aesthetics, and then you scoot off over the pond to do naturalized epistemology and phil sci.
DAGNAMIT! I coulda played them sorts a games with you n years ago! I'm now thinking of getting into whatever it was that you were interested in, so as to maintain the balance for the greater good.
Glad yer havin a ruck! Keep it upsk.
Gah
if there were any aesthetics courses...
It was epistemology or ethics. Though I'll have to do some of that anyways...
Credit yourself with making the naturalised stuff seem sexy.
I don't know, I thought that it was a requirement of being an american philosophy PhD student to be able to relay the proof of the incompleteness of second-order "logic" on demand. BUT YOUR NOT EVEN TAKING A SINGLE LOGIC CLASS!
Do you own a shooter yet?
Compulsory logic class next semester...
I haven't yet got tooled up, but it seems that it's easier to acquire a gun than a social security number - no permit required (if over 21) to purchase and carry a pistol, rifle, or shotgun. Quick background check to see if the FBI have me down as a gun criminal and that's it.
I think they may be more difficult if I try to buy an AK...
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