In•fal•li•bil•i•ty |in?fal??bilit?|
noun
the quality of being infallible; the inability to be wrong : his judgment became impaired by faith in his own infallibility. • (also papal infallibility) (in the Roman Catholic Church) the doctrine that in specified circumstances the pope is incapable of error in pronouncing dogma.

ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from obsolete French infallibilité or medieval Latin infallibilitas (based on Latin fallere ‘deceive’ ).

Stupid. And I’m not railing against the bit about the Pope.

Luckily my older powerbook is still under warranty. I’m thinking it’s a fan of some kind failing - it definitely makes a different noise than it should. I’m dropping it at a genius bar this evening. It will be working fine and then the screen goes bonkers-freezeframe.

After rebooting…

I was a big fan of James Burke’s Connections series in high school. When Ben described Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything, it sounded pretty sweet.

So far it’s a very fast read but I have to agree with the top Amazon poster - his dismissal of some core concepts as too difficult to worry about are pretty laughable. He explains the difference between mass and weight when discussing relativity, but then goes on to say that there is not much difference for us on Earth and that it does not matter. Otherwise, the tone is light and conversational and it is a very easy read.

Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson.

I burned through it in four days and found it highly entertaining; a great break from the non-fiction / technical books that are piling up half-read under the coffee table (home brewing, security theory, theism, human-computer interaction, type design, singularity theory, etc…). I had hoped Spin would last through my two day camping trip this weekend - now I need to make another visit to the book store. After rushing through the New Vinge and forcing myself to finish the much lauded Ian Banks space opera, Consider Phlebas, I’m back in the novel reading saddle this month.

:clint:

Don’t stop until you get to the mp3’s.

The Shaggs on rotnmusic.

Interest check, Jokerbone logo shirt?

Shirt color?

‘de gustibus non est disputandum’ somewhere on it? References to past posts?

I wear my Outerbody shirt all the time. 😃

I landed the roll of best-man in Ben’s wedding. This means I’m obligated to wish them well in a speech which I get to give to the family and friends gathered before me after the ceremony at some point.

I’ve managed to get Ben to give me the first running so that I don’t have to follow anyone that gives a better speech than I have prepared, although he may not have the authority to delegate such a position.

I’ve googled a bit and listened to these things at weddings. Most that I can find seem pretty silly I think. They retell how the couple met, how I come into the picture, how beautiful Ben’s mom is (and how great both families are), how I look forward to being at their 50th anniversary and how I hope for them to have children that live into old-age, as the greeks used to say.

I’m not a very funny person.

I am also not a very good orator.

I will crib speech ideas in this post and comments. Oh God help me.

MY FAVORITE SONG: Updated to Dig a Pony.

Lennon: “it’s just words, put together for a song” in other words, stop trying to find meaning from nonsense. If it’s good to listen to, listen to it, don’t analyze it.

And…

Lennon (1970): “I just make it up as I go along” Lennon (1980): “(Another) piece of garbage.”

(Used to be You Never Give Me Your Money).

Two carboys are in the bathroom burping their airlocks away. Yesterday Ben and I brewed two beers at once - mine a Pale Ale, his a Dunkel Weissen.

It is nice to see (and hear!) both happily fermenting this morning.

Update

Spy Shot:

put put put put…