Hello, World!

Many thanks to Angelica and Gene for inviting me to co-blog with them.

For those of you who don't know me from my former blog-homes, Dark Bilious Vapors and Signifying Nothing, I'm Brock.

A bit about me:

I live in Midtown Memphis, TN. The best thing about Memphis is WYPL, which plays Memphis music nightly from 8 to midnight.

I'm a professional all-purpose computer geek (Unix/Linux sysadmin, Informix/MySQL database administrator, and perl programmer).

I attended Rhodes College as an undergrad, and the University of Rochester as a grad student. I dropped out of a PhD program in philosophy when the funding ran out. A bit of my philosophical genealogy: W.V. Quine->David Lewis->Philip Bricker->Ted Sider->me. That's a pretty respectible pedigree.

My politics: liberal (of course), pro-trade, pro-immigration, pro-choice, and pro-vice.

I'm currently reading The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger and Philosophies of Mathematics by Alexander George and Daniel Velleman.

My latest hobby is postcard collecting via Postcrossing. I've started a postcard blog, Postlude, with scans of the postcards I've received.

What to expect from me here: snarky liberal politics, occasional philosophical musings, and stuff that strikes my fancy. And maybe some cat pictures.

But first, in keeping with the panda theme, here's a picture of Le Le from the Memphis Zoo, munching on some bamboo. (I'm not sure whether my wife took this one or I did.)