See the darkness? Can you make it out? Perhaps an analogy.. hand twists, and then things resolve into .. kittens, tiny splotches of black, pink tongues moving from the small body, drinking human sadness... a thing of beauty...

At Zets tonight, I had a rather amazing thing happen. I was talking with N for most of the gathering, perhaps 2 or 3 hours, chewing on the ability to reduce all behavior to responses to selective pressures.. and, while it wasn't exactly an argument, I feel nontheless that I lost the battle :) This hasn't happened for years -- for a layperson, I think I know an awful lot about natural selection, a fair amount about genetics, and a good amount about the various other things that go into the field. Still, as her focus/degree intent is in evolutionary psychology, it's not a complete surprise. It was an amazing conversation. She's an amazing person. In response, I gave her some of my debate strategies that I don't tend to pass out to people all over..

My feet are still not happy with me. Ouch.