Today is the day my desk gets clean.

And by "desk", I mean, desk, surrounding floor, and nearby bookshelf. Today might also be the day to figure out why my printer imploded and coughed up black ink all over the place.

Constantin Fasolt rocks my world.* In a discussion of the history of papal infallibility: "What? Pope John XXII? Who he? Papal infallibility 'a pestiferous nonsense'?... was he infallible when he said that?" **


*After Wednesday's discussion of Wittgenstein, Mr. Marinides wants this statement changed to "Constantin Fasolt rocks my beetle-box".
** The answer to this question, of course, is no. There is a strict criteria a statement must meet to be infallible, and this statement doesn't meet it. It was not ex cathedra, and was not to the entire church, but was directed at the Spiritual Franciscan's use of papal infallibility.

It is currently 3:57. I started this post almost five hours ago, but was pleasantly interrupted by Worthen, who wanted a breakfast companion-- an outing followed by much time at the Reg.

Quote from brunch:

Worthen: I love the fact that Wittgenstein and Noam Chomsky can be dismissed in the same way.
Hutton: Which is...?
W: Speech follows a practical logic, not a formal logic.
H: Ah.
W: Wittgenstein can be forgiven for this, but Chomsky...
H: There are many things for which Chomsky cannot be forgiven.
W: Like existence.

The desk is still covered in stuff.