Well…it’s a funny old world… My second anniversary post is technically for the 11th anniversary of the blog. :D I was all ready for the 2nd anniversary…I even still have the image that I’d pre-made for it and never used (bit of a digital hoarder), and then things happened. (Or…didn’t happen?)
Every year around this time my calendar notifies me that the next anniversary is coming up, (I’m actually writing this a couple weeks in advance, and scheduling it in, since I’m in the throes of a renewed enthusiasm for it :D) and I always think, “Oh, I should get that old blog up and running again.” And I never did…for the next 8 or so years.
But now I have. :D
Trees Falling?
In the post I wrote to commemorate the re-inauguration of the blog, I alluded in passing to the old question of whether a tree falling alone in a forest makes a sound or not.
The answer of course, is, “it depends.”
And what it depends on is your definition of sound. If you define sound as the vibration that passes through the air when something happens to cause that vibration, then the answer is yes, of course it makes a sound.
If your definition is the interpretation of that vibration, by the brain, after it has intersected an ear, then no sound has happened (leaving aside the unlikely requirement that nothing living and capable of interpreting such vibrations as sound is within the range of those vibrations in the hypothetical forest). (Which really would teem with insect and bird and reptile and mammalian life.)
So What?
I like to think that, while the distinction is important, the relevance is obvious. Here I sit, writing to probably nobody, on a site that by far the majority of the few people who knew of it have almost certainly all but forgotten, to an audience that almost certainly no longer exists. (Well, as an audience anyway. I’m sure they’re around somewhere. I trust. :D ) And yet…I’m doing it nonetheless in the sure and certain knowledge of these caveats.
Mad, isn’t it? :D