tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post2864453213927302966..comments2024-03-29T05:24:12.453+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: WHAT THE PAPERS SAY, THE RADIO TIMES.call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-68281563057020080052010-12-18T13:54:16.450+00:002010-12-18T13:54:16.450+00:00Nobody understands quantum physics, Mr I, even qua...Nobody understands quantum physics, Mr I, even quantum physicists know that they don't.<br /><br />And I been down so long it looks like up to me. Relativity at work.mongoosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14173341928744479143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-68898416062942261712010-12-17T23:06:46.590+00:002010-12-17T23:06:46.590+00:00But it is measuring, isn't it? And isn't i...But it is measuring, isn't it? And isn't it one of the bases of quantum physics that in observing stuff, measuring it, we alter it?<br /><br />I don't mind people doing science, y'understand, mr m, it's their trying to make it interesting which irks, it's only interesting to them. When they can tell me a) Why is there anything and b) which way, in an infinite universe, is up, then I'll pay them the attention they will then deserve.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-58235786310283772772010-12-17T03:01:18.912+00:002010-12-17T03:01:18.912+00:00Nonsense, Mr Ishmael. Join not the savages. It is ...Nonsense, Mr Ishmael. Join not the savages. It is not measuring; it is <a href="http://videosift.com/video/The-Ascent-of-Man-5-Music-of-the-Spheres" rel="nofollow">the music of the spheres.</a> A man who has ever joined even two bits of wood together knows this harmony.mongoosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14173341928744479143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-5905960677497635732010-12-17T01:06:49.981+00:002010-12-17T01:06:49.981+00:00No,like Herr Dawkins, it's not for me, that st...No,like Herr Dawkins, it's not for me, that stuff. Further down the evolutionary ladder, scientists, all that fucking measuring. Anal, that's what it is.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-49781034997249934492010-12-16T15:47:18.076+00:002010-12-16T15:47:18.076+00:00Hey, there were five equations. I recognised three...Hey, there were five equations. I recognised three - not the symbols, the science - and properly understood only two-and a-half. Which means two. (You understand it when you can explain it to someone else.) And I am a bleeding scientist. Of sorts. It's not the understanding. Don't try to understand it. Just accept that this is the way nature is. The Dirac stuff was complete gobbledogook, though it means that a positron will go the other way, and it did. The wonder of it, Mr Ishmael! You have now seen the track of an antimatter particle with your very own eyes.<br /><br />The best bit was at the end all the scientists trying to make order out of the man's abstract paintings. We must have order, we geeks. It's why we line up our pencils like that on the desktop.mongoosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14173341928744479143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-51395591446809698972010-12-16T01:13:04.119+00:002010-12-16T01:13:04.119+00:00I have just watched Beautiful Equations on the Sc...I have just watched Beautiful Equations on the Scottish BBC television, mr mongoose and I am afraid it went entirely over my head. At King Edwards I was once given two per cent in the algebra paper, for correctly putting my name at the top of the page.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-33356495237052329642010-12-15T21:08:45.103+00:002010-12-15T21:08:45.103+00:00My Avanti broadband speed won't permit me to w...My Avanti broadband speed won't permit me to watch it, mr m but if it was by Natthew Collings I am sure it was revalatory. He used to vie for prominence on the old Late Show with the then-unknown, screeching, transexual hunchback, Kirsty Wark and the other guy, the one who did the Baroque series, Waldemar Jabberwocky; there was another bint, too, Tracey Macleod, but I think she had a thing with Loudon Wainwright the turd and we all know the fate of maidens so beguiled; insane or dead or both. I will try to look at it in the library, tomorrrow, if Mr Pickles the Pig has not had it burnt down.<br /><br />The older one gets, the more science one watches, the harder it becomes to refute Intelligent Design. That's what I find; hard or not, though, I manage.<br /><br />Same goes for South Park clips, mr verge, can't watch them at these speeds. Never having seen it, I kind of would like to keep it that way - a bit like heroin, I know that if I tried it, I'd like it. Family Guy is enough adult cartoonery for this pilgrim; they all just get worse and worse, more show tunes and dance routines, that's what they need.<br /><br />I will, however, look in wikipedia for an account of the Dawk in cartoon world, sounds quite charming.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-56006985085603133582010-12-15T17:24:40.890+00:002010-12-15T17:24:40.890+00:00Dawkins is alright but he has gone as mad as a hat...Dawkins is alright but he has gone as mad as a hatter.<br /><br />BTW I know that we do not do links but take a look on the iThingy at yesterday's BBC4's <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wltbm" rel="nofollow">Beautiful Equations.</a> Artist guy - completely lost - gets led through the glory of some of God's fundamentals. Want to know the maths of a black hole? Think that you can't handle that? Peasy. "S equals a quarter A." Done. Over. Mozart for nerds, Mr Ishmael. Explain that, Dawkins, my lad. It's almost enough to make us turn to Intelligent Design. Almost.mongoosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14173341928744479143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-88616857545726397772010-12-15T14:22:16.895+00:002010-12-15T14:22:16.895+00:00They did that a couple of years back for the colum...They did that a couple of years back for the column inches but I think they've got a similar thing to me & our Bob in that fuck it; yeah, related to the guy but let's not bang on about it type thing. <br /><br /> I think that's how Yanks like their entertainment though; used to watch Letterman and got much the same impression. However, was watching Frankie Boyle also - I like the lad a lot but sometimes jokes aren't meant to be laughed at and yet the audience do. Hmm..<br /><br /> Marcus Brigstock tried to copy the Daily Show over here a couple of years or more ago and utterly failed and that was only once a week - if ever a format could just be nicked and jazzed for local audiences then that's it but because of the unique way the BBC is funded etc they got an arrogant lefty cunt instead of someone, yer know, witty. Hey ho.Dick the Pricknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-47015117669884144342010-12-15T13:14:33.597+00:002010-12-15T13:14:33.597+00:00Aye, he is a freak. But Stewart's as big a tur...Aye, he is a freak. But Stewart's as big a turd as Snotty, isn't he, worthless, smirking git. And as for his studio audience, it's like a Max Bygraves Convention, LaffalongwithJon......<br /><br />Hitchens is not long for this world, is he; wonder if he and the bro' will be reunited, although I couldn't care less, might be some column inches in it, though, deathbed rapprochement, these fuckers have no shame, anything for a few quid.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-89685247737724275192010-12-15T12:48:54.864+00:002010-12-15T12:48:54.864+00:00Of which - Snotty was on Jon Stewart's Daileee...Of which - Snotty was on Jon Stewart's DaileeeShow last evening and the man's still fucked up. He was lecturing Yanks on how fucking stupid they were - not a bad policy in itself but even then he acted like a freak. He still thinks he runs the show - I can't remeber the exact point but there was a unreality check that he performed; a vignette into the slurry pit that exists between his ears. Fucking scary really.<br /><br /> I wouldn't mind seeing Hitchens & Blair over in Blighty - check out the deference here. <br /><br /> 'To Mr Blair - why are you such a cunt?'<br /><br /> TB - 'well, thanks for that. You see whaddya gotta understand is this....blah blah blah'Dick the Pricknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-63174052880697153132010-12-15T10:36:33.413+00:002010-12-15T10:36:33.413+00:00Not entirely a waste of time; at least it showed h...Not entirely a waste of time; at least it showed how peurile was Blair, when confronted by someone other than fawning Fleet Street hack-arseholes and Tory wannabees like the nasty joker, CallHimDave. <br /><br />I watched it all on the You-thing and was struck by how those two addressed neither the Need for God, which afflicts both the wise and the unwise, nor the works in His or Her name, many of them transcendental, greater than God, sort of, divine in themselves - art, music, architecture and literature, not to mention law. <br /><br /> I mean, Pope Nazi and the noncing monsignors, the head-chopping, babe-whipping fag Ayatollahs and the stone-mad, bitter, punitive, angry Rabbis, one could consign them all to their versions of Hell, put them up against the wall but it wouldn't stifle the need for God, which is the proper debate, the proper study; the simpering bloodmonger, thief, blackmailer, money launderer, traitor, pimp, slag and whore, Blair, though, and the ailing yet insufferably showy Hitchens, what's the word for them, yes, that's it, cunts, both of them, Godless heathen bastards.<br /><br /> I don't know what the Munck organisation is, which hosted this nonsense, some faux academic Pseuds' Corner, obviously, fronted on this occasion by a grotesque, transatlantic Dale Winton but I am amazed that anyone takes it remotely seriously, Tony Blair on God, I ask you, taking the piss, that is, even for showbiz. Next week, Gordon Brown on arithmetic.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-48869667687695577422010-12-15T09:47:56.966+00:002010-12-15T09:47:56.966+00:00Gadzooks Lils, that's uncanny.
Accidently ca...Gadzooks Lils, that's uncanny.<br /><br /> Accidently caught myself listening to the 'faith debate' between Hitchens and Blair the other day and a complete waste of time it was too. <br /><br /> I dunno about Adams; hmm..genius not questioned at all but 'to cash in is human to not cash in divine?'<br /><br /> Dawkins on the other hand can go boil his head - it's just modern day communism, choose this idol instead of that one; geez, where would it all end? I prefer reverent worship of all things olive based but as yet no book deal. Wanker. At best 1st year 6th form but with presumably better appendices to demonstrate a career of catalogues.Dick the Pricknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-19385620769744580922010-12-14T23:47:45.392+00:002010-12-14T23:47:45.392+00:00Ishmaelites not already familiar with the episode ...Ishmaelites not already familiar with the episode might enjoy rooting out the bit of South Park where Dawkins falls in love with the post-op Mr(s) Garrison ("pound my monkey vag" she coos on their first date.) Sadly, Cartman spitefully reveals that, Garrison's distant monkey past notwithstanding, (s)he was more recently plain Mr G, and Dawkins chucks his beloved in disgust. <br /><br />as they say up north:<br />There aint no God<br />his name is Nowt<br />he casts no rod<br />to fish for doubt<br />his head is clear<br />his eyes are blank<br />he knows no fear<br />the doubts all sank.Vergehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16651753975933628764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-7438960253693590602010-12-14T22:47:32.321+00:002010-12-14T22:47:32.321+00:00It turns out that Richard Dawkins is actually Herm...It turns out that Richard Dawkins is actually <a href="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:4UhyBc6SW9kHBM:http://img.moronail.net/img/0/6/606.jpg&t=1" rel="nofollow">Hermione Granger</a>lilithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05011676751221508167noreply@blogger.com