Lest anyone say that you can't learn anything from comics... I say to them now, HA! For behold, within three days' worth of Ozy and Millie archives, I discovered two new things for myself:
The Meaning of Like: Immanuel Kant's concept of the noumenon, the "thing in itself" or reality of an object as opposed to the mere observable phenomenon of it. (Actually, this made me think of Plato and Aristotle's universals, but I think I'd need to talk to my old philosophy prof to understand the difference, if there is one.)
And on a lighter note, take a look at Hitting for The Cycle, where I came across the concept of, well, um, hitting for the cycle. It's a baseball thing. It refers to the feat of one player hitting a single, a double, a triple, and a home run all in the same game. (Apparently they leave out pop flies and fouls. ;) ) If a player does them in numerical order, it's called a "natural cycle."
And on an *even* lighter note-- the New York Special Olympics' annual Rubber Duck Race down the East River went off without a quack today. (Sorry. I couldn't resist. Not that I tried hard.)
Posted by gris at August 24, 2004 11:57 PM