We're Genki, how about you?

In the past week or so, we have had a typhoon (the size of the gulf of mexico i've been told) and a major earthquake (several people died) but let me give those of you who are worrying a more detailed description.

the typhoon, hmmm where to start... if you have never been in one, i can sum it up for you with this one word rain. rain Rain, RAIN, rainrainrainrain. but that was about it, just a lot of rain, big deal. sometimes the rain was so light it would drift upwards in the breeze.


The earthquake goes like this. it's 10am i start to feel queesy, the building shakes "oh" i continue to use the internet. it is monday but the day of the sea (posidon anyone?) and we are off of work, sarah is sleeping still. there are small tremors the entire rest of the day, that is how we know it is a big one.

6.8 which is pretty darn big if you are a nuclear power plant sitting on the fault line.... but it was only some major problems that lead to minor disruptions. nothing we noticed in this area.



but we are genki (fine, good, well) so dont worry. Philip

Philosophy

So this past Sunday was the Tokyo international bookfair, we picked up some rather good books on the cheap, which includes various philosophical works (Derrida's Positions, an overview of western philosophy by some Englishman, and some more Schopenhaur) as per my new obsession. But I also picked up a Pratchett novel that I hadn't read The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, based on an older obsession, This led me to read a short story of Pratchett's found online "Death and the Philosopher" which more or less leads me to this quote and leaves me feeling a bit silly, a bit stupid, and mainly overjoyed

"LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE THAT IS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITIES OF CREATION VIA A LANGUAGE THAT EVOLVED IN ORDER TO TELL ONE ANOTHER WHERE THE RIPE FRUIT WAS?"


Try taking this as a compliment, really. Anyway, when your life begins to revolve around language, or a few in particular not for actuall use but as a hypothetical object set to be transfered between parties, wait what the hell am I talking about it is two in the morning. Also are coney and bunny from the same root word?

Trivia the name coney island, is a slur (derogatory discriptor?) on people who went there and engaged in rabbit like activities. Well known for its salad bars yes?


pip pip hooray!