Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

How can I make a story about ‘Y’? It wants some recognition. It isn’t a he/she so it’s an it. The letter Y makes a lot of different sounds in the English language, and it gets overlooked. We could discuss the ‘p’ word but why would we want to feel ill? Should we consider it…

This is a wooden lattice that had gotten destroyed by vandalism in my yard so I cut it to size with a jigsaw. I painted with black craft paint and now I am going to make some pilot holes in the wood with a drill bit. Just take a drill bit that has a slightly…

More Zinnias… Somehow the lighting is just right and they glow. This is out in the sunlight. In another post I mentioned the other settings that an iPhone has and I use those. I didn’t photoshop these, I think you have to have the actual photoshop thingy and I don’t. I have seen those pictures,…

The mountain observed an owner of a box. The owner cut the many lids off of the box to make something else. A mountain saw that it was now empty and climbed in. The owner took the lids and created a robot. The mountain left the box and took its previous position. A tree observed…

This is a whole bunch of pictures of my puppy Mudge that passed away last year. She had so many facial expressions that I had to photograph! I took a screen shot of them in my photos one day. I was able to get Mudge at about 7 weeks. A random guy at the park…

So I looked up the idea of ‘defunding the police’ on the internet to see what that really means and if it has already happened somewhere. It is actually a really good idea in theory. The political ads make it sound really bad! But the money that you normally would have paid to the city…

Have you ever wanted to soundproof a wall? What if the wall is already built? I read that acoustic panels are made of 80% cotton, foam or other types of material. One idea that I had was using old jeans, you can always buy them at thrift stores. Take a wooden lattice that some hardware…