tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post8691515045004901989..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: Humpty Dumpty Meets HeraclitusGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-15909343233277668782014-08-01T10:41:03.174-06:002014-08-01T10:41:03.174-06:00C.,
Regarding the magical thinking exemplified by...C.,<br /><br />Regarding the magical thinking exemplified by Gruber, the press has a perverse incentive to join in: How heady it must feel to a journalist to"create reality" by permitting/enabling someone like him to do this.<br /><br />They will bet that most people can't or won't read, or care, if they do.<br /><br />Gus<br /><br />Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-15834231858004737082014-08-01T08:58:17.426-06:002014-08-01T08:58:17.426-06:00Hi Gus,
While pursuing one of your links I came a...Hi Gus,<br /><br />While pursuing one of your links I came across this one. <br /><br />http://www.wired.com/2014/08/renaissance-gifs/<br /><br />The 'artist' credits Mike Judge but I thought they bore more similarity to the interim cartoons employed by Monty Python's Flying Circus. Particularly the first one. <br /><br />In regard to your previous post with Larry Elder speaking of the power grubbing Gruber, I think that this is the textbook example, also displayed by Obama and others of his regime, of not just subjectivism, but primacy of consciousness in the form of re-writing history. Oh, I've been caught in a contradiction? Easy Enough! Why, Why, I just misspoke. It's the modern, personal equivalent of Orwell's Memory Hole into which, with the connivance of the media, one's inconvenient utterances, can effectively disappear. <br /><br />The poison ivy post reminded me of my initial approach to manually exterminating parasitic wasps in leaf-cutter bee houses. You basically sat in the house, surrounded by bees until the wasps appeared to lay their eggs in amongst the eggs of the bees. Then (a very high tech approach here!) you squashed them with your thumb. The first day on bee house duty, I went in full apiary gear at the urging and subsequent amusement of the other farm workers. Leaf cutter bees only bite when constrained. They're small enough that even apiary gear doesn't keep them out and that volume of clothing makes for plenty of constraint. And leaf cutter bees are not restricted to "just one bite." <br /><br />I'm sure the payoff for the guys was when I exited said bee house in full speed stripping mode; one of the little buggers had made it nearly to my crotch before 'feeling constrained.' Thanks Guys...<br /><br />From then on, it was a light pair of tennis shorts and shoes with low cut socks. <br /><br />And as to Charles Babbage; that seems like an early statement of the GIGO motif, and I'd apply it to the MPs asking the question more than to the machine itself.<br /><br />c. andrewAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com