Life by Tull 24 Mar 2009 One of my favourite 70s songs, below the fold: “Life’s a Long Song”, by Jethro Tull, from the 1971 EP of the same name. For some reason the final episode of Battlestar Galacticaput this in my head. When you’re falling awake and you take stock of the new day, And you hear your voice croak as you choke on what you need to say, Well, don’t you fret, don’t you fear, I will give you good cheer. Life’s a long song. Life’s a long song. Life’s a long song. If you wait then your plate I will fill. As the verses unfold and your soul suffers the long day, And the twelve o’clock gloom spins the room, You struggle on your way. Well, don’t you sigh, don’t you cry, Lick the dust from your eye. Life’s a long song. Life’s a long song. Life’s a long song. We will meet in the sweet light of dawn. As the Baker Street train spills your pain all over your new dress, And the symphony sounds underground put you under duress, Well don’t you squeal as the heel grinds you under the wheel. Life’s a long song. Life’s a long song. Life’s a long song. But the tune ends too soon for us all. Sermon
Politics The stupidity of ISP filtering no barrier to its implementation 29 Jul 2008 The Labor government has a policy to force ISPs to filter web requests to prevent child pornography. Sounds nice in theory, but I’ve been using a filtered ISP at my university (they’re running a trial) and what I can do online at home in one minutes takes the better part… Read More
Evolution Le Guin on Rushdie and religion 1 Apr 2008 David Williams sent me this snippet of Ursula Le Guins’ review of Salman Rushdie’s The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel: Some boast that science has ousted the incomprehensible; others cry that science has driven magic out of the world and plead for “re-enchantment”. But it’s clear that Charles Darwin lived… Read More
General Science The F-word 3 Apr 2008 Idiots and the ignorant should not speak on matters they do not understand. As I am both, I want to make some vague and ultimately useless comments about Framing, yet again. This has been motivated by Chris Mooney’s admirable attempts to get to the heart of the matter: here, here… Read More
Reminds me of the first joke that I ever deliberately invented, back in the days when my age could be counted on my fingers. Q. What do you call a short song? A. A universe. (So life is the opposite of universe? Hmmm.)
Reminds me of the first joke that I ever deliberately invented, back in the days when my age could be counted on my fingers. Q. What do you call a short song? A. A universe. (So life is the opposite of universe? Hmmm.)
Always been a fan of the mighty ape, but now I see he quotes Tull!?!? Damn, now I might have to join the super-fan club.
Always been a fan of the mighty ape, but now I see he quotes Tull!?!? Damn, now I might have to join the super-fan club.