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Aug. 11th, 2002 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vyvyanxLots more work on article recently. And G brought T and K and Raven back from the KSR the other night, and we drank much and smoked and watched Red Dwarf. I got in a really bad mood, though I don't know why exactly. I got upset at G for breaking another glass (one of my beer festival ones this time), and then he went off to talk to T privately and I became convinced he was talking about me (he wasn't, it was just my random paranoia), and generally, I just got really sulky. I guess I was pretty tired from missed sleep recently, which can't have helped.
Oh, humorous quote from G: "If you really loved me, you'd let me buy a new graphics card" :-)
I've also been rereading Paul Davies' "The Last Three Minutes". He has a rather melodramatic, almost EE Doc Smith style at times, which can be obscurely amusing eg. "Many...writers have concluded from the second law of thermodynamics and its implications of a dying universe that the universe is pointless and human existence ultimately futile"; "Since simultaneous mass suicide by nineteen protons was unthinkable, the events had to have another explanation"; "It was a pulse of staggering intensity. Every square centimeter of Earth...was pierced by a hundred billion neutrinos, its inhabitants blissfully unaware that they had been momentarily penetrated by many trillions of particles from another galaxy" - and best of all, a diagram captioned "In this idealized thought experiment, a weight is slowly lowered on a string toward the surface of a black hole, using a fixed pulley system (fixture not shown)"!
Oh, humorous quote from G: "If you really loved me, you'd let me buy a new graphics card" :-)
I've also been rereading Paul Davies' "The Last Three Minutes". He has a rather melodramatic, almost EE Doc Smith style at times, which can be obscurely amusing eg. "Many...writers have concluded from the second law of thermodynamics and its implications of a dying universe that the universe is pointless and human existence ultimately futile"; "Since simultaneous mass suicide by nineteen protons was unthinkable, the events had to have another explanation"; "It was a pulse of staggering intensity. Every square centimeter of Earth...was pierced by a hundred billion neutrinos, its inhabitants blissfully unaware that they had been momentarily penetrated by many trillions of particles from another galaxy" - and best of all, a diagram captioned "In this idealized thought experiment, a weight is slowly lowered on a string toward the surface of a black hole, using a fixed pulley system (fixture not shown)"!
