Category: Musicology

  • Snakes on the m.f. plane

    Oh, man. I can’t wait to see Snakes on a Plan, starring Samuel L. Jackson. When Mike Stillman posted

  • Analogy as the core of cognition

    I majored in philosophy in college. At Princeton nearly all liberal arts majors (and many of the engineering students too) have to write a senior thesis to graduate. I was interested in philosophy of language and wrote a thesis called “Is Metaphor Necessary for Communication?” In it I argued that metaphor was much more than…

  • My blogger code (2.0)

    Am I a geek? Yes, I am a geek. B9 D+++ T+ K S F I+ O X- E+ L C-\- Y4 R- W P+ M5 N N+ (via [Powazek](http://www.powazek.com/2006/03/000568.html), and wondering why they use N twice.) That is all.

  • It's not you; it's me

    I was catching up with ALLABOUTGEORGE and I was intrigued by his Johari window. (I’m not sure I’m brave enough to try the negative-orientd Nohari window.) It seems like a cool way to find out how you are perceived. If you’re interested in helping me with this, please stop by and pick a few adjectives…

  • How to do precisely the right thing…

    I’m here at SXSW Interactive and I’m scattering my blog notes to various blogs, depending on the topic and relevancy. This one is kind of general and about psychology so I’m stowing it here Raw notes from the Daniel Gilbert Presentation: How to Do Precisely the Right Thing at All Possible Times: standing in a…

  • Beck's still got it