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1. Have decided to get Scrivener which their sales reps/tech support advised me is compatible with Yosemite on the Mac. So I don't need to buy a new Mac to get it. Although, I may have to get a new Mac at some point anyhow just to continue doing taxes. I've decided to see if Scrivener can help keep me better organized. I'm writing a sci-fi novel, it has a lot of world-building and minor/major details to keep track of. Scrivener seems tailor-made for that sort of thing.
At this point, I don't know if I'll publish it or not. Figure I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. Madeline L'Engle provided some great advice on this subject. She said, ask yourself if you would write even if you had no hope of ever being published or having anyone read your work? Would you still write? The answer for me is a resounding yes. I don't write for others, never have. I write for me. It's not altruistic in the least. Although it can be used in that fashion.
2. Been watching the following lately:
* Once Upon a Time - which is quite enjoyable this season, more so actually than the last two seasons in some respects. ( spoilers, because it's impossible to discuss it without them )
2. The Good Wife
Becoming increasingly satirical as we go. Sort of glad this is the last season. Although I find Jason far more appealing as a romantic love interest...than anyone else they had paired her with.
This episode had some nice touches though - and I laughed quite a bit during it.
I think they are gearing up for Alicia to leave her husband. She really has no reason to stay with him. Both kids are heading off to college. And it works as a good end to the series - where she ceases being The Good Wife. I also think they'll have an all female firm at the end, which re-affirms the series mission statement -- which is about female empowerment, and gender politics.
The series really is about power on multiple levels.
3. Saw this weird post on Face Book...which makes me think of Star Trek, specifically Spock and Troy debating morality. I wonder if these psychologists ever watched Star Trek? Because Star Trek explored this ground long before they got around to it.
Argument Against Empathy" -- where a psychologist (god, who else?), argues that empathy from a moral standpoint is a bad thing.
And... HERE
( a sample quote - where he argues for empathy to only be used in personal relationships not as a moral guide )
Hmm, he reminds me of Mr. Spock in Star Trek...
Here's a counterpoint to Bloom's articles - which appear in the New Yorker, the Boston Review, and The Atlantic. The counterpoint is from Psychology Today - Why Paul Bloom is Wrong about Empathy and Morality.
( Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater or Lt. Delanna Troy's response to Mr. Spock )
I think she's right. The answer is not to jump to the opposite extreme, but to combine the two. Human beings are such extremists.
I wonder if Dr. Bloom has watched any Star Trek? Star Trek was about a race that had turned off their ability to feel empathy or emotion, but as Kirk points out to Spock, empathy and emotions are vital to our decision making. It can't be all rational thought. Although the above discourse is what I think a discussion about morality between De'lanna Troy (STNG) and Mr. Spock (OST) would sound like.
At this point, I don't know if I'll publish it or not. Figure I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. Madeline L'Engle provided some great advice on this subject. She said, ask yourself if you would write even if you had no hope of ever being published or having anyone read your work? Would you still write? The answer for me is a resounding yes. I don't write for others, never have. I write for me. It's not altruistic in the least. Although it can be used in that fashion.
2. Been watching the following lately:
* Once Upon a Time - which is quite enjoyable this season, more so actually than the last two seasons in some respects. ( spoilers, because it's impossible to discuss it without them )
2. The Good Wife
Becoming increasingly satirical as we go. Sort of glad this is the last season. Although I find Jason far more appealing as a romantic love interest...than anyone else they had paired her with.
This episode had some nice touches though - and I laughed quite a bit during it.
I think they are gearing up for Alicia to leave her husband. She really has no reason to stay with him. Both kids are heading off to college. And it works as a good end to the series - where she ceases being The Good Wife. I also think they'll have an all female firm at the end, which re-affirms the series mission statement -- which is about female empowerment, and gender politics.
The series really is about power on multiple levels.
3. Saw this weird post on Face Book...which makes me think of Star Trek, specifically Spock and Troy debating morality. I wonder if these psychologists ever watched Star Trek? Because Star Trek explored this ground long before they got around to it.
Argument Against Empathy" -- where a psychologist (god, who else?), argues that empathy from a moral standpoint is a bad thing.
And... HERE
( a sample quote - where he argues for empathy to only be used in personal relationships not as a moral guide )
Hmm, he reminds me of Mr. Spock in Star Trek...
Here's a counterpoint to Bloom's articles - which appear in the New Yorker, the Boston Review, and The Atlantic. The counterpoint is from Psychology Today - Why Paul Bloom is Wrong about Empathy and Morality.
( Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater or Lt. Delanna Troy's response to Mr. Spock )
I think she's right. The answer is not to jump to the opposite extreme, but to combine the two. Human beings are such extremists.
I wonder if Dr. Bloom has watched any Star Trek? Star Trek was about a race that had turned off their ability to feel empathy or emotion, but as Kirk points out to Spock, empathy and emotions are vital to our decision making. It can't be all rational thought. Although the above discourse is what I think a discussion about morality between De'lanna Troy (STNG) and Mr. Spock (OST) would sound like.