- What is time? It rules our lives, but who can define it? Here are 10 mind-blowing attempts at explaining time. (H/T ML)
- Dear Boston: Please say hell no to hosting the Olympics.
- Oh my. Such a problem to have! Washington state pot growers and retailers face a glut of legal product. (Tip o’ hat to jed.)
- Albuquerque cops finally facing murder charges for one of their most horrible caught-on-camera moments.
- In the rage over Islamist attacks on the west and western values, let us not forget that the worst and most helpless victims are Muslims and those who live in Muslim countries.
- Lovely, starkly designed cabins from around the world But who lives in these things and how do they get by without bathrooms?
- Thanks, terrorists. From now on no more Mr. Wiseguy. 🙂
- Three more hopeful looks at Western-Islamic relations: An imam says Muslims must reject violence and governments must change course; Glenn Harlan Reynolds points out that Muslim leaders are finally realizing that their “brand” is tarnished by the acceptance of intolerance; author Irshad Manji is optimistic about the future between Islam and the West.
I’m convinced that Time is Motion (which coincides with #6, that says “Time is slowing down.”) Seasons change, the sun rises and sets, and people grow (old)… all in good time. When we’re busy, time flies because we’re doing things which take time to accomplish, and don’t notice time; whereas “a watched pot never boils” when we’re standing around waiting for it, doing nothing.
BTW, the Prologue to “A Breath of Snow and Ashes” (the author, Diana Gabaldon, attributes the prologue idea to her husband) says:
“Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There’s the always preexisting, and having no end. There’s the notion of being all powerful — because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies.
“And time is, of course, all healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed. ….”
She ends the Prologue with, “And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory is the Devil.”
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Cabins in the woods have outhouses. That’s quite a comedown from the cabins shown, though one has a shower outside, and the double-story guesthouse would certainly have room for a compost toilet.
APD thugs will never be convicted Im betting.
FWIW, hosting the World Cup is a pretty bad deal, too. Note the Guy Fawkes mask 🙂 http://www.worldpolicy.org/blog/2014/06/09/price-hosting-world-cup
Hey Claire, loved the cabins but for me this wwould be something that I could get into.
http://gizmodo.com/this-fake-boulder-in-the-alps-is-actually-a-tiny-perfe-1672716418
Almost forgot, as to the attempts to explain time, this has been done before by an expert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2nNzNo_Xps
Mr. Wiseguy was spot on with his command to his wife that she grow a beard. I was like, LOL with that comment. And the ‘respect you deserve’ line was priceless. Amen!
A great article on opposition to hosting the Olympics in Boston (or anywhere, really, except perhaps Pyongyang). He addresses the financial and security aspects of the issue, but John Oliver also did a nice piece (http://youtu.be/QrKf-fAekds) on other problems with the terminally-corrupt IOC’s host-city demands. The whole “Olympic movement” is far past its sell-by date and should be scrapped.
I experienced the “slowing down time” thing once. It seemed to give me more time to decide what to do, how to respond. Could be though, that I simply was thinking a lot faster.
It’s interesting to see how time is called out in various physics formulas, for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation
Pretty equations!
Hosting the Olympics is an example of the municipal ruling class making war on the rest of the population, as far as I’m concerned. Too bad tar-and-feathers went out of style a way back, not to mention ostracism (the real deal, like what happened to Thermistocles).
$10 a gram still sounds high to me for pot. Hell, we used to sell hashish for $5 per gram “in the day”. That’s inflation…
I wouldn’t hold my breath on getting a conviction for those cops.
From Mr Wiseguy;
“While we’ve fought forces of corruption, hypocrisy, totalitarianism and terror with reason, sanctions, humanitarian pleas and even violence, it turns out that what they really hate is when you laugh at them.’
Seems Joel was ahead of his time on that call.
Oh cool, nobody else has posted Chicago
If time doesn’t actually exist, then the universe is a much much stranger place than we currently comprehend. I suppose that at some far aethereal level of academic pursuit, hypothesizing about how such a universe would work might eventually produce some usable science, perhaps for interstellar travel. However, for practical purposes, I think time does exist. What it is, however, I have no conjecture. Tom O’Brian, Phd, the head of Time & Frequency at NIST, says time is a human construct.
That time does exist seems demonstrable by the fact that we can not only measure it, but measure how it varies with speed and gravity. We’ve had clocks capable of doing that for some time. If time doesn’t exist, then the manner of things which do exist would seem to need to be substantially different from how we perceive them. I’m trying to draw some parallels. I don’t buy into time as a 4th dimension, but it’s useful. We all know what distance is. But it’s abstract. So we have come up with units to describe intervals of distance — inches, meters, furlongs, etc. And we have seconds, minutes, years, etc. In that sense, I can agree with Dr. O’Brian, but I doubt his statement was meant to be that mundane.
Meanwhile, a Saudi cleric has declared that snowmen are verboten. “It is not permitted to make a statue out of snow, even by way of play and fun,” Sheikh Munajjid said. (Fox News) Perhaps this will give Charlie Hebdo another cover idea.
More clock stuff, including the quote from Dr. O’Brian.
Also, try a web search for ‘optical lattice clock’.
It sure would be nice if the reformers actually pulled off a reformation. But historically the radical answer to anyone who is at all effective in promoting peace is to kill them.
The only effective answer will be for the moderates to kill the terrorists right back. Unfortunately, across Europe, moderates no longer possess the necessary skill set for such.
Some salty (but hilarious) stuff on this page. A revenge for hire crew that send exploding (?) packets of glitter to thine enemies. http://shipyourenemiesglitter.com/
A.G. — I was reading just yesterday how the guy who created that site is now begging people not to use it. He’s had so many orders he says he’s sick of the whole thing. Gads, he should just bring in some minimum-wage contractors and enjoy his success while he’s got it.
(Oh. And I see he’s now suspended all ordering.)
If he’s halfway as intelligent as his humor suggests, he’ll sell out to someone who is ambitious and has a work ethic.
If you were to wear a men’s T-shirt, what size would it be?
Hint: We’re not sending you a shirt. So that should clear things up/narrow things down a bit.
Oh. Yeah. That … um, makes perfect sense. I think. Or maybe not. Or … whatever.
Yep. The glitter site is being sold:
http://www.businessinsider.com/matt-carpenter-explains-ship-your-enemies-glitter-website-2015-1