In which we move books

1.
Maybe some of you can relate, but it seems that my experience of moving is different from that of most people.

Most people, I imagine, have boxes labeled "Living Room" and "Dining Room" and "Hall Bath." We have boxes labeled "Books #1" and "Books #2" and "Books #3" and so forth.

2.
Matt Bell has an excellent idea about moving books. I wish I'd thought of it.

In fact, I wish I'd thought of it a week ago.

3.
From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:

What Copernicus did was take the existing a priori concept of the word, the notion that it was flat and fixed in space, and pose an alternative a priori concept of the world, that it's spherical and moves around the sun; and showed that both of the a priori concepts fitted the existing sensory data.

4.
Jason Anderson has a new album. It's not quite as amazing as The Hopeful and the Unafraid, at least not on a first listen, but it's worth every bit of five bucks. And then some.

5.
Socrates, from Phaedrus:

Now I quite acknowledge that these allegories are very nice, but he is not to be envied who has to invent them; much labour and ingenuity will be required of him; and when he has once begun, he must go on and rehabilitate Hippocentaurs and chimeras dire. Gorgons and winged steeds flow in apace, and numberless other inconceivable and portentous natures. And if he is skeptical about them, and would fain reduce them one after another to the rules of probability, this sort of crude philosophy will take up a great deal of time. Now I have no leisure for such enquiries; shall I tell you why? I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous.

6.
Must it rain while we're trying to move?

Evidently, it must.