Apropos of not much, a quick thought about suggestions for parties. Sometimes it is a good idea to bring beers that need a bottle opener (or something functionally equivalent) to a party that is bereft of said bottle opener. Provided there is little enough else to drink, imaginative guests will do what they can to open said beers using things that are really _not_ functionally equivalent to a bottle opener. The comedic value of such efforts might be worth the cost in beer.

Of course, it would be very wrong to follow this plan intentionally. That would fall under the category of deliberately inflicting suffering for your own amusement, which is wrong, as is shewn “here”:http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Philosophy/homepages/weatherson/prank.pdf. (The old folk wisdom, it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye, hits uncomfortably close to home at this point.) But if you unintentionally follow the plan, it can lead to many many amusing stories, none of which sadly I can repeat here.

Regularly scheduled philosophical commentary will resume shortly.