Georgia Lee 19 Apr 2009 I don’t know if I’ll be able to post while I’m en route, so here’s a song to listen to while I’m gone, by the great Tom Waits. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtUCaUBwqCM&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0] Administrative
Administrative Happy Solar Festival 21 Dec 2009 So, I am moved from Sydney to Brisbane, but as yet have no internet at home. I must therefore steal some of my GF’s in order to wish you all a wonderful solstice for tomorrow, and sundry other religious and ethnic festivals that may fall on or about that date…. Read More
Administrative More roundup 15 Sep 2008 Mohan Matthen, a philosopher of biology, has a very nice takedown of Thomas Nagel’s qualified support for teaching creationism on his blog. Hat tip Leiter. Richard Losick has an excellent piece on the problems of using cultured lab strains when studying microbes, at Small Things Considered. A new blog on… Read More
Administrative Travel Diary 3 6 Oct 2009 Here I am in Erlangen, after two whirlwind days with Thony Christie, seeing Albert Speer’s version of the Coliseum, lots of Nurnberg and Erlangen sites, and some originals of Conrad Gesner’s never-completed Historia Plantarum. That man was a damned good artist. I owe Thony some serious thanks. But I signed… Read More
I got into Tom Waits about the same time as I got into Kate Bush (lost interest in her later). A friend of mine couldn’t get into Tom. I explained it thus: Kate is all about “Isn’t the light refracting through the beveled glass in the breakfast nook in the morning a sign of how beautiful life is?” Tom is more “Life is beautiful, as seen in the rainbows that appear in the oily water in the gutter as you wake up from passing out the night before”. Either way, life IS beautiful.
I got into Tom Waits about the same time as I got into Kate Bush (lost interest in her later). A friend of mine couldn’t get into Tom. I explained it thus: Kate is all about “Isn’t the light refracting through the beveled glass in the breakfast nook in the morning a sign of how beautiful life is?” Tom is more “Life is beautiful, as seen in the rainbows that appear in the oily water in the gutter as you wake up from passing out the night before”. Either way, life IS beautiful.