Author: Backpacking Dad

Hi, I can’t write blog posts every day for a month. I missed writing yesterday. Well, I didn’t miss it. I wasn’t wondering where it was or who it was with or if it liked them better than me or if it was bringing cake home. I just never got around to it. I’ve been…

Let’s talk about ideas. I have ideas, you have ideas. We all, apparently, have ideas. We did not always believe this. The term “idea” used to just refer to the Platonic Ideas, the heavenly forms that existed in a realm of thought and that expressed the fundamental nature of objects. The Idea of Man was…

Count to infinity. I’ll wait. Oh, you’re back. That was quick. I actually didn’t expect to hear from you again. Oh, you counted to ‘1’ and stopped? That seems like cheating. I know that the distance between ‘0’ and ‘1’ is infinite, in the sense that you can always divide the space further, but that…