{"id":103,"date":"2018-08-10T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-tiger-cub\/?p=103"},"modified":"2019-04-01T20:36:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T20:36:06","slug":"10-april-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-2-tiger-cub\/2018\/08\/10\/10-april-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"10 April 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notes by David McElroy<\/p>\n<p>Recap of Last Lab<\/p>\n<p>Connor + Grace<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Put on the muffler, kickstand, need to keep working so it\u2019s easier to assemble<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Noelle + Alex<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Found parts to assemble shocks, cleaned and attached them<\/li>\n<li>Attached rod for brake pedal, spring for kickstand<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hannah + Eric<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loosening and tightening spokes, tuning the front wheel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Emily + Jordan<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asdf<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jake + Brandon<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Put together different components of the fork<\/li>\n<li>Work on stanchions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Charlie + Julianne<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Putting top end onto bottom end<\/li>\n<li>Now that covers for pushrods have arrived, can be completed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alex K<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Put the transmission in the engine !!<\/li>\n<li>Gear shifting is working well<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ricky<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cleaning wires up and putting coils in stator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Discussion of ZAMM<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 25 (led by Jake)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not many motorcycle references<\/li>\n<li>Talked about technology\n<ul>\n<li>Some people find it very ugly, but it doesn\u2019t have to be<\/li>\n<li>If people put care into something, it has Quality, so it can be beautiful<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Technology is not (inherently) an exploitation of nature, but a blending of human efforts with nature<\/li>\n<li>Practical part of the book! Giving actual life advice\n<ul>\n<li>Peace of mind: in your daily life, in your community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Generally regarded as a good chapter by the class<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chapter 26 (led by Julianne)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Motorcycle references\n<ul>\n<li>Compared motorcycles to cars \u2014 motorcycles are longer-lived<\/li>\n<li>All the things that can go wrong when you buy a part \u2014 so make your own!<\/li>\n<li>Elasticity of bolts \u2014 washers to add resistance, to hold things in place<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Gumption\n<ul>\n<li>Someone who connects with Quality is filled with gumption, and umption in turn promotes Quality<\/li>\n<li>Setbacks:\n<ul>\n<li>Out of Sequence Assembly: need to be very careful, take notes<\/li>\n<li>Intermittency: importance of learning how to fix it yourself<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Hangups:\n<ul>\n<li>Value traps: not being willing to reevaluate values; need to slow down and examine situation<\/li>\n<li>Truth traps: subjective vs objective argument, yes\/no is a false dichotomy; ask a better question<\/li>\n<li>Muscle Traps: for example, inadequate tools, bad surroundings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Form &amp; Function\n<ul>\n<li>Form ever follows function, don\u2019t add decoration \u2014 there is elegance in a well-designed structure already<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Also a well-regarded chapter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chapter 27 (led by Professor Littman)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Back behind the glass door<\/li>\n<li>Phaedrus is starting to wake up, starting come back<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chapter 28 (led by Professor Littman)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shifting back and forth between perspective, between \u201cPhaedrus\u201d and \u201cI\u201d<\/li>\n<li>His troubles as a student \u2014 between many different majors<\/li>\n<li>His struggles with Quality<\/li>\n<li>Struggles with the department\n<ul>\n<li>He wants to teach Quality<\/li>\n<li>They want him to focus on writing, not philosophy, or they\u2019ll kick him out<\/li>\n<li>So he decides to make them kick him out<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Mythos vs. Logos\n<ul>\n<li>Perhaps another form of the Romantic vs. Classical divide?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Model T!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Everyone got a chance to drive Princeton\u2019s Model T, which everyone thought was really cool!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>12 April 2018<\/h3>\n<p>Notes by David McElroy<\/p>\n<p>Gathering of the Nortons<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gathering of interesting motorcycles<\/li>\n<li>BMW with horizontal cylinders \u2014 very smooth<\/li>\n<li>Older Tiger Cub \u2014 parts in different places, points in particular in very different place, shift the whole housing to adjust timing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Updates<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ricky, Noelle, and Alex: figuring out batteries and battery box, figuring out cover and other pieces to add to the battery assembly<\/li>\n<li>David and Alex K: tried to put the cover on the case;<\/li>\n<li>Brendan and Jake: putting things through the frame, putting fork tubes in, et, finished fixing the other motorcycle<\/li>\n<li>Julianne and Charlie: assembling top end, practicing putting in the items \u2014 very finicky operation<\/li>\n<li>Eric: Made progress on wheels, but they\u2019re very difficult to deal with<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reading<\/p>\n<p>Major theme: being the master of one\u2019s own stuff<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 4 for Tuesday, chapter 5 for Thursday About 50 pages<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 29<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The example of the welder \u2014 very skilled at doing something<\/li>\n<li>Chapter content mostly about Aristotle and Plato \u2014 and Phaedrus\u2019 thoughts about them<\/li>\n<li>All philosophy is footnotes to Plato; Aristotle had a lot of interesting perspective but wasn\u2019t a great leader<\/li>\n<li>Difference between truth and good\n<ul>\n<li>Pursuit of truth and goodness are two different pursuits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In some senses, the narrator is an Aristotelian (breaking down the motorcycle into its very small parts<\/li>\n<li>He starts to reject the Aristotelian, picks up more Quality stuff\n<ul>\n<li>Also integrates the Dao<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"30\">\n<li>In the classroom, he has his breakdown<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Phaedrus\u2019 birth at the end, we follow the narrator, it is a birth, or rebirth<\/li>\n<li>His professional relationships<\/li>\n<li>Professor takes command of the classroom, saves Phaedrus (from public embarrassment)<\/li>\n<li>Relationship with Chris\n<ul>\n<li>Chris is frustrated with his current dad, saying Phaedrus was \u201cfun\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>He\u2019s starting to come back into his own self, but how much of the younger him was in there?<\/li>\n<li>Strange narration \u2014 undeveloped<\/li>\n<li>He and his wife get divorced, but not until after the novel\n<ul>\n<li>Nevertheless, strange dynamic, with Chris not having anywhere to go<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"31\">\n<li>Chris learns of \u00a0family history of mental illness<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a reckoning between the two characters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"32\">\n<li>They arrive in California<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The narrator is becoming Phaedrus<\/li>\n<li>We see Phaedrus\u2019 special font used more and more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What did we think of this book?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Did we like it? \u00a0Yes, seems the class consensus<\/li>\n<li>Most useful parts were in the beginning, some say<\/li>\n<li>Philosophy background would be rewarding, others say\n<ul>\n<li>Comparing and contrasting it with typical analytic philosophy<\/li>\n<li>But he covers a lot of breadth in terms of philosophy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>We liked going to the end! Get a nice sense of finishing it, getting closure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes by David McElroy Recap of Last Lab Connor + Grace Put on the muffler, kickstand, need to keep working so it\u2019s easier to assemble Noelle + Alex Found parts to assemble shocks, cleaned and attached them Attached rod for brake pedal, spring for kickstand Hannah + Eric Loosening and tightening spokes, tuning the front &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-2-tiger-cub\/2018\/08\/10\/10-april-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;10 April 2018&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-2-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-2-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-2-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-2-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-2-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-2-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-2-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-2-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-2-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-2-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}