I can relate to this one...
And, yes, between the hours of 9 PM and 10 PM EDST, don't bother me. I'll be...occupied.
But before I settle down, I can't resist posting this special Easter 24 banner:
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So, remember back in December, I wrote a post about a Cantor crank
who had a Knol page supposedly refuting Cantor's diagonalization?
This week, I foolishly let myself get drawn into an extended conversation
with him in comments. Since it's a comment thread on an old post that had been inactive…
I go back and forth about the whole question of scientific accuracy in tv shows and movies. On the one hand, I think that complaining "Explosions don't make noise in space!" is one of the worst forms of humorless dorkitude, and I'm generally happy to let bad science slide by in the service of an…
Has it really been six years?
Six years ago today, on a dim and dreary Saturday in December, almost on a whim I sat down, went to Blogspot, and started up the first version of Respectful Insolence with an introductory post with the cliched title, Please allow me to introduce myself. Here it is, six…
I thought I was being a nice guy by not blocking John Kwok the moment he tried to friend me on Facebook. But that was a mistake.
At first, there was only the occasional strange note from him via Facebook "email." But then, several hours ago, the dam broke and the Kwok just poured in. The…
The "Bauer is Christ" or Bauer-v-Christ possibilities are immense....
Christ "turns the other cheek". Jack Bauer shoots a guy's wife in the leg.
That banner could work for lots of different characters: Mulder, Cancer Man, Doggett, Buffy (twice), and Spike all come to mind. Kind of pathetic, actually.
Oh, you're no fun...