My uncle Bob is an avid gardener that lives in Denver. His back yard is lined with herbs, pepper plants, tomato plants, carrots, onions, zucchini, and a raspberry bush. Every autumn Bob hosts 'Pepperfest'. It's a sort of autumn harvest, an all day party built around the garden and its yield. Salsas, sauces, rubs, and spice mixtures are all made out of Bob's tomatoes, peppers and herbs...most of the rest of the vegetables in the garden simply get roasted and set on the table. Bob cooks ribs, grills chicken, and smokes brisket for three days prior. He's been doing this for a few years now, but I've never been able to make it out to Colorado for the big event. This year, however, my parents were going, and Pepperfest fell right in the middle of a two week period during which I was...wait for it...visiting my parents. So, although I do wish that being at my uncle's house didn't always involve the constant background drone of Fox News, I finally got the chance to get out to Colorado and see the product of some really skilled gardening.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Pepperfest!
My uncle Bob is an avid gardener that lives in Denver. His back yard is lined with herbs, pepper plants, tomato plants, carrots, onions, zucchini, and a raspberry bush. Every autumn Bob hosts 'Pepperfest'. It's a sort of autumn harvest, an all day party built around the garden and its yield. Salsas, sauces, rubs, and spice mixtures are all made out of Bob's tomatoes, peppers and herbs...most of the rest of the vegetables in the garden simply get roasted and set on the table. Bob cooks ribs, grills chicken, and smokes brisket for three days prior. He's been doing this for a few years now, but I've never been able to make it out to Colorado for the big event. This year, however, my parents were going, and Pepperfest fell right in the middle of a two week period during which I was...wait for it...visiting my parents. So, although I do wish that being at my uncle's house didn't always involve the constant background drone of Fox News, I finally got the chance to get out to Colorado and see the product of some really skilled gardening.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Propositions
Today is the first day of the Autumn '10 school year at Ohio State. I'm beginning my second year of my PhD program here at OSU. As per my coursework, I will spend my next twelve weeks thinking about the metaphysics of propositions (with Ben Caplan) and Frege's philosophy of language (with William Taschek). I'll also be sitting in (limitedly) on Lisa Shabel's seminar on Kant's first Critique and I'll be grading for Caplan's advanced metaphysics class, which will discuss basic topics like mereology, persistence, essence and change. In addition, I'll be thinking/writing a little bit about Love, Sex and Friendship, topics which I've recently been very interested in as an AOC, and I need to decompress concerning my work over the summer: I need to write some thoughts on Huw Price and his anti-representationalism. There, then, is a brief roadmap for the next twelve (or so) weeks.
I also made vegetarian sushi the other night, and it was glorious. I look forward to much more wonderful cooking in the next few months.
In preparation for the first meeting of my metaphysics seminar, I read Scott Soames contribution to the Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, titled simply "Propositions". Soames, who is one of the main writers we'll be engaging in this seminar, was helpful in setting the scene, and I thought I'd use this first post to re-hash some of the major points I took from Soames, in order to introduce the dialectic in which we'll be participating this fall. I am very new to this topic, so this should post should read as me trying out my sea legs, not me presenting myself as an expert that warrants being listened too.
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