Archives for March 2008
William Shatner
This is painful to watch. I admire his self confidence though. Not many people could go on stage and do this. I think I would rather be standing there, naked and in silence, for an equivalent amount of time, than have to deliver this interpretation. Well maybe not, but I would definitely have to be […]
This guy is so dead.
I’d give the guy in this video a couple months, maybe, before he’s murdered by someone like Islamic Rage Boy. Yes indeed, the world is on runaway train to doom. Oh well, might as well move to the dining car, open a bottle of Bollie and have a few laughs.
The Origin of the World
A double feature today. Two versions of the nature of the universe, and how everything works. Lucretius’ “On the Nature of the Universe” was written around 50-100BC by a Roman Epicurean. Lucretius was an atomist, which means that he believed that all matter was composed of a bunch of unseen atoms that, while they have […]
Einstein and Marilyn
I feel compelled to write an entry about Einstein because I have this groovy image of him. From what I understand he was a smart cookie. That whole energy mass equivalence thing. The gravitation theory. I know just enough about all this to say that it hurts my head to think about it. That is […]