Don't Believe Everything you Hear

For godsakes. A lot of what you hear isn't even a declarative sentence admitting of truth or falsity. For instance, would you believe the whine of South Lamar (aka 71/290) over which 65000 vehicles per day travel? Or is that the whine of 360 -- fewer vehicles but more exhaust, 'cause it's hilly. Or possibly it's the whine of Mopac with a whopping 72000 vehickups a day. It could be any of these. I can hike to them all from my house in 10 minutes or less.
I was boycotting Central Markup for awhile for various non-reasons. Then I realized they have really big grapes a lot of the time and all the girls go for really big grapes.

Otherwise, not much to report. More on declarative sentences though. Gottlob Frege (yes his name means God's Love) said that all thoughts were sentences. And this was the line of thinking that lead L Wittgenstein to say ( in his youth ) that "the world is all that is the case." the idea being that the world is the sum of all the true sentences. I actually buy this. Later Witt changed his tune, but I was never interested enuff to delve into later Witt, or much more of Frege.

Here's a true sentence: I play the cello badly. and another I rock the cello. Both true.
These are not sentences admitting of truth or falsity because they are imprecise, vague, or possibly ambiguous. What is that thing? Vague sentences are those that break the law of the excluded middle (a sentence is either true or false) -- ambiguous sentences break the other law? (the principle of bivalence, that if a sentence is true, it's negation is false). Don't worry, I had to look all that up.

Here's a treat, some sentences with clear meaning. I watched "Shoot the Piano Player" tonight. This used to be my fave movie when I was 16. I got A WHOLE LOT more out of it this time. Jeez what a great movie. A little trite. But so funny. Great music. And Truffaut doing his hommage to Hitchcock with like no budget. There is no bad acting or writing. Beauty.
That movie is what made me do my life like I did.
And it has landed me here, in a backwater scene, where fun is to be had, the past is a dark nightmare, and the future is probably violent or at least difficult no matter how hard we try to avoid violence and difficulty.

I am responsible. I told someone to hit their knees today. Pretty sure they didn't. I certainly didn't. I just kept going til it got dark.

Tomorrow I celebrate 21 years without a drink ( of booze ). I have had desserts cooked in wine, stews, and an accidental bit of vodka that I thought was water. But I haven't been drunk since that Sunday night in 1988 when I bowled in the high 100's and snorted powder in the bowling alley bathroom all night.

Life is much better now? My high score bowling last month was 109 I think.
Don't believe everything you hear. Ow ! ow ow!