A Drunken Madman

Laurence Krauss is my new hero.

Explains curvature of space and higher-dimensonal geometry exactly the way I explain it in the pub - with triangles on spheres. Also touches on Hilbert's Hotel, a brilliant insight into the concept of infinity. Recommended watch. MAKE yourself an hour of free time so you can watch this. Seriously.

Lock Up Your Mountain Bikes, by the incomparable Half Man Half Biscuit.

Bonus lyrics and chords. The "E" is the high 'E' barred on the seventh fret, and the G is barred at 3 I'm using a capo at 2 in the video to make the B7 braindead easy to play for a big-fingered bass player like myself. 

[correction 12/11/09 - I messed up writing out the chords. thanks to steven in the comments thread]

E
There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves
                                             B7
There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves
               E
With the possible exception
      A         Am
Of being Garth Crooks
E                       B7                    E
There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves

Do you switch the kitchen light off with your chin?
Do you switch the kitchen light off with your chin?
When you’re holding tea and toast
And there’s no-one else about
Do you switch the kitchen light off with your chin?
When you’re down beside the lake you’re bound to hear
When you’re down beside the lake you’re bound to hear
When you’re down beside the lake you’re bound to hear somebody say:
“Careful now, that swan can break your arm”

E
Oh before the gods that made the gods were born
                                            B7
Yes before the gods that made the gods were born
      E
Yes before the gods that made the gods
  A                 Am
Woke up and made the gods
E                   B7
That’s when you got into
E                   A
That’s when you got into
E                                         B7
Yeah that’s when you first got into the Manics
E B7

To my knowledge, only in Christianity does this happen. You point out direct contradictions in an account, and are immediately regaled with:


There is no other field, that I know of, where this could happen. In the context of a scientific theory, two conflicting sets of data are an indication that your hypothesis may not be correct. In jurisprudence, two conflicting testimonies mean that one or more of the parties are either lying or mistaken. In everyday experience, if one friend tells you they saw Britney Spears in the street and the other says "No that wasn't Britney, is was Christina!", you know at least one of them is wrong. If they say they saw Britney/Christina shopping at Coles when you know for a fact Britney is fiercely loyal to Woolworths, then it's likely they're both wrong. Or you are.

Why, then, do christians seem to think that direct contradictions in biblical accounts, such as the number of women present at the discovery of the empty tomb, whether the stone was rolled away, the final words on the cross, the culpability in handing over the messiah to the Romans, whatever. Why is it that christians feel they can throw away sense and claim that it's actually direct evidence for the truth of the accounts?

Discuss.

From the man who brought us God's punishment in the form of bushfires, and satanic rites influencing Canberra, come some little gems:

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd about to betray Australia

and

3 very important links regarding the One World Goverment and President Obama

Some choice extracts from these ravings:


and


Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Daniel Nalliah is still a nutcase. I have no idea what is going on in this man's head, but I suspect it's not a happy place right now. Given Danny's pronouncements of "prophetic dreams", I'm starting to lean towards the idea that Danny fulfills the criteria for Paranoid Schizophrenia*.

And Nalliah is an "influential" pastor. It's hard to pin down exact numbers, but Catch The Fire's newsletter reaches over 10,000 Australians. I'm counting down the days until Nalliah completes the circle and joins forces with my other favourite nutbag conspiracy theorists, the AVN. That would be truly amazing.

Suffice to say I'm following Danny's ravings with interest, via Google Alerts, and will report in.

Oh, the one good thing to come of this story? I found the Group Sects blog. Recommended.

* I'm no psychiatrist, but hell, read the diagnostic criteria for yourself.

Yes, another in the "Keeping Two Chevrons Apart" blog series. I've been a busy, busy guitar playing maniac.

Arthur's Farm first appeared on the ACD album, and was on the first copied tape of HMHB stuff I ever posessed.

It's obviously, a take on "Animal Farm" involving Arthur Askey and Douglas Bader. To explain would belabour the joke, but if you have no clue, read the links.

Recorded on my Epi G400 SG, which desperately needs new strings, through a Zoom G1X on "accoustic emulator", with a cardioid mic through a BOSS DS-1 distortion.

Anyway. Arthur's Farm.

I've been having issues with de-sync of audio and video. please comment on how you see it. I may need to re-encode these vids to solve the problem

Questioning my own wisdom as I do so, I hereby begin the "Keeping Two Chevrons Apart" category on this here blog, in which a guy who can neither sing, nor play guitar, will post songs for the edification, amusement and possible derision of his audience. Click the date to see the vid in all its horror-filled glory

If you're wondering about the differing fonts between quick throw-away posts and multi-paragraph posts, It's because I'm now using OneNote to draft my longer pieces and I haven't quite figured out an easy way to integrate fonts.

I'll fix it soon, now, move along!