Tag: Metrology
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What or who is Stoller smoking?
Headline from Stoller: The Long Annoying Tradition of Anti-Patriotism Declinism is a longstanding posture of political elites. It’s also a political choice, not a reflection of reality. I want to look at the long American embrace of anti-patriotism, of disdain for democracy, and general gloominess and dislike of politics. Because at times of populist anger…
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Kirn loses it
Katharine Boyle said: The decline in liberal arts degrees bodes well for society on almost every dimension. College students now know that majoring in Book Club won’t get you a great job. This is progress. Kirn snotted back: “On almost every dimension” isn’t English, brainiac. Close, but not quite. And what would know about dimensions…
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Mass mechviews
This blog is getting a HUGE number of obviously mechanical “views” today. Most of them are “seeing” the previous item on Campbells Soup, which is not politically or culturally interesting in any way. Normally such items are carefully AVOIDED by all real viewers. All are coming through Oracle Cloud, all are clearly timed at regular…
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9 of 10 leading readers agree
In general I was a smarter and better writer before I switched from Blogspot to WordPress in late 2021. Maybe I’m used up from fighting the “virus” monsters, maybe I’m just getting older and losing sharpness. The readers seen by Statcounter seem to share the same judgment. A wide variety of readers are STILL looking…
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It’s all about caste
Recurring to the theme of primary sources. One of Taibbi’s commenters approvingly cites Mencken’s nasty description of Harding’s writing. Primary sources tell the correct story. Mencken was an arrogant conformist elitist bully of the worst sort. Pure Nietzsche. I am GOD. You are SHIT. He constantly berated peasants and Southerners and yokels. He hated anyone…
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Endless modifiable horizons
From Apple’s announcement of its expensive Metaverse: With Vision Pro, you have an infinite canvas that transforms how you use the apps you love. Arrange apps anywhere and scale them to the perfect size, making the workspace of your dreams a reality — all while staying present in the world around you. Browse the web…
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Grudges count 2
A few days ago I hoped that Pence would channel his personal grudge against Trump to move the party in a different direction. His actual announcement video is ‘highly produced’, full of standard quotes and standard images, which is normal. Until this month I would have dismissed this as meaningless, but this month gives us…
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Reprint from 2014
Suggested by the Fleischmann deltas in previous item. STYLES AND STACKS. Continuing yesterday’s discussion of potential differences in electronics and economics. Thinking again of these alternate ways to describe a system. You can start from two TYPES of force or source, two separate poles or centerpoints…. or you can treat local pieces of the system…
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Good prison
Reading the DailyMail account of Bryan federal prison where Holmes is starting her time. I’m impressed! Bryan is a GOOD PRISON, doing pretty much everything the right way. = = = = = START QUOTE: New inmates normally spend their first three months working in the kitchen, which is considered one of the most demanding…
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Reprint from 2021
Reprint from May 2021, linked in previous. Switched and Witched. One aspect of the holocaust deserves more attention. I touched on it briefly before, and it’s becoming more obvious now. Testing and wellness laid the foundation for a fake “epidemic”. Heroic martyr Magufuli understood this from the start. He disproved the fraud at the start…
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Fibers
Convective thought: I’ve been annoyed by galaxybrain bullies for a long time. Like Ockham’s schoolmen, they know ALL the details of ALL the facts in the world, and spin intricate webs of details, precise to an infinite number of decimal places. If you dare to answer, the galaxybrain will twist and turn your answer in…
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Metrology Day 2023
Today is Metrology Day. The latest edition of courseware is in the final stretch so I don’t have any spare graphics energy or time. I’ll reprint a frequent reprint on a topic that seems appropriate at the moment, using metrology as a bullshit detector. = = = = = TRYING A QUESTION. In late 2020…
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For clarity
After mentioning homeopathy in previous item, a footnote for clarity. I don’t know for sure if homeopathy is better or worse than establishment medicine. I know for DAMN SURE that homeopaths are better than establishment doctors. Re-re-repeating an old couplet: How do you know which side of a “debate” is good? “Scientists” jail you for…
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Today is Odometer Day!
Today is Odometer Day! Time for a reprint from Dec 2020. = = = = = START REPRINT: In 1999 there was considerable hubbub over the Y2K bug in old programs, many of which were in COBOL. The language itself wasn’t busted; its date functions have four digits. But the early mainframe programmers in the…
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Good question from Sailer
Sailer asks a damn good question: = = = = = START QUOTE: The massive deinstitutionalization of the 1960s–1980s is now widely considered a blunder, but why did it seem like a good idea at the time? We need to consider why progressive reformers in the English-speaking world turned as fervently against lunatic asylums in…
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