Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Ursa Calculus Machina Deus


Ever get the feeling you are being watched? The tools at our disposal to rid us of this blue-eyed menace are being ever-reduced by international legislation. Sue me if you dare!

Enough of cat wars! Time for the Water-Cooler discussion. Anyone see the last of Desperate Romantics?. Seemed a bit harsh to have Rossetti digging up his poems from Lizzie's Grave the day after she was buried, in the dark like a grave robber when in actual fact it was years later with official sanction and without Rossetti being there. Of course the whole thing was a concatenation of 10 years into one and most of the events happened in some form or other. Watchable and funny is the summary of the summary I suppose. The book on which it is based is as accurate as any biography can be after so many years. Of course what really matters here is what almost anyone knew about the PRB and that is the art itself - the private lives were just so much distraction. Nothing about Christina either which was a bit of a pity but here is a rather good picture by Gabriel. (We can of course use first names here now can't we?)


The notebook is approaching its limit in a sort of reverse Achilles and the Tortoise manner in that if I fill up half of each remaining bit of space each time I use it, I will never quite get it full. Of course this will mean that the writing will have to get smaller and that will mean it reaching the quantum size limit at some point and it will be full in terms of what the universe can handle physically. However, like a fractal, numbers go on for ever, infinitesimally and so in that imagining, it will never be full. Or will it? I can't be bothered to work out the flaw in this so Achilles will have to remain forever behind the tortoise. I wonder if it was the same one which did for Aeschylus? Alright - I know that's probably a bit Nana Mouskouri but it was fact on Horrible Histories which the kids love so in it goes.


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