Good morning all! It sure is a lovely morning, and I'm dead tired. I noticed somebody mentioned Utilitarianism. I believe Ian was correct in his definition. I took an Ethics class last semester, and we learned that Utilitarianism is assigning values to certain situations and deciding what was morally right based on what came out with a higher number of points. I think the idea of assigning a value to joy or sadness is preposterous. Who is to decide what is more joyous to another person than it is for another? Does that make sense? I loved Kate's thoughts on nostalgia. I get more nostalgic every year. I remember hating my 11th grade year of high school, but now I can only think fondly of it and I actually miss it. I saw the "1979" video last night and almost cried remembering how awesome 8th grade was. I know it's old news, but I saw Miss Gracie from Ferris Bueller in the movie Airborne last night. Don't ask me why I was watching it, but I just couldn't turn off "the world's only rock n' rollerbladin movie!" I can't find Johnathan David online anywhere. I did find a live version of "Carriage Clock" though. I also checked out Hefner, and found them to be pretty rockin'. I received a traffic ticket last night for cutting off a cop whilst running a red light. Let it be known that I'm a complete idiot. I'm done wasting time now. I think I'm gonna find some Dorothy Parker to see what all the fuss is about. -Matt _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+