Got the sucker!

S 41°17.186'
E174°46.750'

Success!

You may all rejoice, I found that geocache.

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Geocaching, baby!

S 41°17.186'
E174°46.750'

I had my first experience at geocaching today. It was quite exciting really. Unfortunately, I didn't get out into the bush and look for a box hidden somewhere interesting. Instead I looked for a few "micro caches" in my home town. One of them led me to this sculpture, Len Lye's Water Whirler.

So anyway, I went and purchased some pencils, put on my walking shoes and headed off from where I live. It was quite an adventure really. I've walked through the city many times, but now I was going treasure hunting!

Anyway, I couldn't find the damn thing! I got to the location and started looking into cracks etc. I ended upspent about 20 minutes looking around for the little container/log type thing that you're supposed to find. I looked all over the rocks, under the pier, all over the sculpture. Nowhere! I was really quite annoyed.

Most of all is the fact that it's a really public place and I looked like an utter dodo.

In all honesty, as soon I realised that it was that sculpture on the waterfront - I pretty much knew that there was no hope of finding it. I've been to it a number of times without finding something to write on.

Still, I did like the challenge. It is kind of made me more determined. I want me some cache.

Tags: geocaching gps wellington explore

Pretty eyes

I encountered this picture a couple of days ago. I am quite impressed. That's because I really like attractive eyes. And her eyes are amazing.

Wonderful really.

Image: http://static.flickr.com/23/32005093_10117e281c.jpg?v=0

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A new take on a new thought experiment

There's an interesting thought experiment that I encountered towards the end of my degree, the swamp man. It runs along the lines of, if a swirling mass of molecules just happened to come together in the shape of a person (Anna), is Anna a person? If we forget the negligible possibility of this occuring, e.g. a fully developed, rational, Anna sprouting from the depths of a swamp, it raises some rather peculiar outcomes. Sidenote: we can add as much complexity to Anna as we like, for example it's very easy to insert thoughts, beliefs, undying love for Brad, etc. Not convinced? Well consider that it is much smaller step to move from having a developed person without beliefs to one with some, compared to moving from having a swirling mass of molecules to a fully developed person with no beliefs.

As I understand it, and I may not, the idea was to have thinkers say "Of course that's a person!". The problem with that is then that some complications arise. Some rather significant complications. For example, it may mean that personal identity has little to do with the way you were, and is all about the way you are now. This matters because thinkers have often identified our mental history as very significant to our personal identity. More than this, it may mean that personal identity doesn't exist in a significant sense at all. It also raises some other oddities. I mean, is a person without any beliefs really a person? Can someone actually know nothing?

One interesting consequence that I thought of in the shower this morning was the possibility that Catholics would be sinful if they were to disturb the creation potential swamp things. E.g. use of condoms is only required to have the potential prevent life in order to be sinful. Sometimes, it's sinful to use condoms for infection control even when there is an impossibility that life will be created. (One of the partners could be unknowingly infertile).

My real revelation was that the swamp thing must exist. At some stage in the development of the universe, molecular structures must have just swirled into place. Single celled organisms started! I mean, admittedly it seems inconceiveable to me that things must have just swirled into DNA - that's a pretty big molecule - but the fact that it exists now and that bacterial division cannot have gone on since the beginning of time, means that at some stage there was simply a few bits of stuff floating around. Hmm. Odd.

Tags: philosphy personal identity thought experiment swamp thing

Image: By Chan, http://flickr.com/photos/chal/81023774/.

Blog love

I've often found myself reading through people's lives and have become quite moved by who they are - dispute the fact that I have no real knowledge about who they are etc etc. Interesting terms those, real and knowledge. Argh, philosophy coming back to haunt me! Still, I find it quite intriguing that you can feel quite a strong pull towards people, even though you've actually never really entered into a conversation with them.

In many respects, I feel as if his leads me to the suggestion that love isn't really about the other person. It's all about the way you perceive your other. Like, it seems as if we are attracted towards people, at times despite our own rational feelings. For example, if love was about the other person's feelings, then I don't see how unrequited love would occur. That conclusion also makes me doubt whether the Christian tradition of an exclusive pair is really that tenable.

I'm not really a cynic about love, but I also don't really know how the romatic myth got started. To me, it really does seem quite a difficult prospect to achieve. Especially the concept of 'the one and only someone'. I mean, it's such a wonderful thing to believe when you're in love. I recognise that, but it doesn't really seem to have too much foundation.

All in all, it seems as if I have completely detracted from the intention of talking about mysterious women that seem to hide from me in real life but seem ever present in the net. Grrr. Why can't interesting people just pop out of the woodwork and tell me their intimate details face to face. Sure would stop a whole bunch or wasted time!

Image: Mezoen http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=171474378&size=o

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Hey y'all..

I would be quite interested if anyone if still interested in this piece of internet heaven. Lol. That would be quite extraordinary really, especially as I have promised the world that I would populate it with ever more quirky comments.