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Comment on Gnomicon 283 by Al Cram

Al Cram — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:37:02 +0000

Aha! You have it. There are more minor variables than we can ever get fully sorted and calibrated, but every calorie from whatever source must either be used for activity that day, or it WILL be stored for future needs. The rest is tedious and murky nuance, fodder for research and popular books that always propose a new breakthrough, until the next research team finds a crack in the hypothesis.

Comment on Gnomica 282 by laohutiger

laohutiger — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:25:31 +0000

For sure … There are indeed times when you don’t actually feel so good about being a member of our species!

Comment on Gnomica 282 by Al Cram

Al Cram — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:40:59 +0000

Apparently not so much for the directors at Goldman and Sachs. The bitch in their life is hard to see from my house or, I’m sure, from a tribal village in Afghanistan where human life is obviously pretty cheap. One would like to think that both the guys at Goldman and the tribal elders that sanctioned the marriage would have some trouble sleeping at night, but somehow I doubt it. People who think like they do usualy just think the rest of us are stupid for not taking advantage of any power we might have.

Comment on Art 4×4 Runner’s Torso by brasshandle

brasshandle — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:01:32 +0000

Reblogged this on express your-self.

Comment on Gnomicon 281 by laohutiger

laohutiger — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:02:22 +0000

I thank Al for his usual on-point comments: I couldn’t agree more. It seems nothing really changes – not even the fatuous fraudulent flim-flam rhetoric from on high. Did anybody catch the piece in this morning’s Times about the kind of right-thinking ‘leaders’ and their mindsets about women that — “…after Morsi pledged progress on political and economic overhaul …– ” your money and mine are supporting (‘Rise in Egypt Sex Assaults Sets Off Clash Over Blame’ [NYTimes T 26 Mar 2013])? One may be forgiven for being tempted to modulate George Orwell’s observation that “[t]here are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them” into something like “[t]here are some foreign policies so absurd that only a politician [could pretend with a straight face to] believe [in] them.”

Comment on Gnomicon 281 by al

al — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:09:54 +0000

Not to mention the money we give to our great good friends the Pakistanis, and we are still in Afghanistan, or our young brave soldiers are, getting shot by the people they are trying to train to save their corrupt government, who now accuses us of collusion with the Taliban. It must be some dark comedy. No one would believe that grown, intelligent men in charge of a nation’s destiny could possibly be directing this farce. People point to the short comings of the austerity in countries like Greece and Cyprus, but they started the austerity too late, and they HAVE NO MONEY now to bail themselves out, and the eurozone is rapidly depleting their citizen tax coffers and soon they will see what Margret Thatcher foretold, “socialism is fine until you run out of other peoples money.” We seem to be headed in that direction on the dead run. I hope I’m just crying wolf and will be proven wrong, but thanks to the First Amendment I can express my view, and if the 2nd amendment withstands the current onslaught perhaps I’ll be able to defend myself and my family if it turns out I’m right.

Comment on Art 4×4 Coming to a theater near you … soon! by Al Cram

Al Cram — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:33:52 +0000

I like it.

Comment on Gnomicon 280 by Al Cram

Al Cram — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:40:46 +0000

Take a well deserved break! I for one will use the time to run through past blogs and look up some of the links I didn’t have time to follow up when I first read them.

Comment on Gnomicon 280 by Helga

Helga — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:42:12 +0000

Thank you for the almost daily thoughts you have been sending! I always enjoy them and wonder how your mind is working so intently every day! A rest will most likely lead to more wonderful insights in so many different aspects of life!

Comment on On ἀνδροτῆτα: is there a metrical anomaly at Iliad 22.363? by Aurélius

Aurélius — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 21:51:43 +0000

Cf. δρώψ • άνθρωπος (Hésychius): the short alpha could build a short syllable before the cluster DR < *NR, δρώψ being an original *NR- (zero grade of anér ‘man’) + ōp- ‘face’.

The line

ἠδ’ ὁπόσα τολύπευσε σὺν αὐτῷ καὶ πάθεν ἄλγεα

is more curiuos. Can you explain the long alpha in ὁπόσα? I can. But I would be glad to know your opinion.

Aurélius.