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Monday, October 6, 2008 |
We Knew This Shit Was About To Happen |
(Just saw this on MSNBC) |
With McCain DOWN in every single poll... |
They needed to change the subject... |
So our REPUBLICAN RAN executive government just issued a warning that... |
wait for it.... |
Terrorists are plotting against America. |
The best part of the article is this: |
Happy October,'s about to get NASTY |
Tyler Perry v. The Writers |
Tyler is being picketed by the Writers Guild. Seems he was less than enthused about the writers on his show getting the same benefits they'd get on most shows (most network shows are Union work). |
Now Anne Marie Johnson has come out on the side of the writers as well. |
"As a unionist and 11 year National Board member of the Screen Actors Guild, I was extremely disappointed to hear about the current situation facing the four fired "House Of Payne" writers. As an actor who occasionally appears on Mr. Perry's show, I am conflicted and angry. I realize that speaking publicly in support o... |
We'll see how Tyler responds. |
Saturday, October 4, 2008 |
There Is No Justice! |
I believe in karma. OJ is going to jail. |
This dude flaunted his previous acquittal...but sooner or later it was gonna catch up to him. He may now, ironically, spend the rest of his life in jail over trying to regain mementos to his sports triumphs. (he's a black man after all and 61, so he ain't got a ton of years left.) |
Cruel world. |
"I'm at the top of my game and can't POSSIBLY be stopped." |
BY THE WAY - if you actually read the AP article to which I've linked, Simpson is CLEARLY innocent as hell... |
But then again, so was Nicole Brown. |
Friday, October 3, 2008 |
Future Shock |
Creating comedy is a lot like creating music. |
From Pete Rock to Kanye, a lot of my favorite hip hop producers put a new spin on something obscure from the past. In other words, nothing is ever completely irrelevant and nothing is ever totally new. |
With that in mind, the below clip is a comedic filmmaker's version of "digging in the crates." |
When I grow up, I'm gonna be just like Orson Welles. Moving through the airport, smoking a cigar and spitting out facts to y'all! |
But seriously, if you get a chance, watch the FUTURE SHOCK documentary. Someone was kind enough to post the whole thing on YouTube. |
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Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 |
'The Future' |
Reaction to midlife hipster flick hard to predict |
Facebook is so awash in shared quotes and clever little sayings attached to graphics, ranging from heartwarmingly New Age to hipster snarky, that few make an impression beyond the time it takes to read them. Still, every now and then you'll hit one that sticks; for me, it was one of those faux 1950s greeting cards with... |
The Future Rating: (3 out of 5) |
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The Future |
Don't look ahead in anger: Sophie (Miranda July) and boyfriend Jason (Hamish Linklater) face existential crisis in "The Future." © Todd Cole 2011 |
Director: Miranda July |
Running time: 91 minutes |
Language: English |
Opens Jan. 19, 2013 |
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I laughed, but it got me thinking: What exactly is a "functional adult"? These days it's hard to say. The middle-class professional who just saw his pension raided and his mortgage foreclosed? The thrice-married step-mom on mood-disorder medication? The NEET liberal-arts major who's still living in his parents' basemen... |
In "The Future" — the 2011 film by actor/director/writer Miranda July, best known for "Me and You and Everyone We Know" — we meet a 30-something couple in Los Angeles. Jason (Hamish Linklater) temps taking tech-support calls at home, while Sophie (July) teaches children's ballet classes. They live a low-maintenance lif... |
Obviously, "functional" is a quite loose term these days, but we still cling to the myth that one day all the adult pieces will fall into place and we won't feel like we're making it up as we go along. For most people, we're struck one day with the realization that we've constructed something known as "a life," with co... |
This, for many people, is when something known as The Midlife Crisis kicks in, and for Sophie and Jason, it involves agreeing to adopt a stray cat. The kitty, Paw-Paw, is injured, and will require a month of treatment before the couple can take it home. But the realization that they will now face years of commitment to... |
The duo quit their jobs, with Jason becoming halfheartedly involved in a door-to-door environmental campaign, while awaiting some sort of magical "sign" to show him his direction in life, while Sophie becomes antsy over her own creative block and, unable to pull off a dance-video project, decides to have a random and t... |
Some people have reacted to "The Future" with utter scorn, viewing the characters and their predicament as "hipster angst." Those people, clearly, are the Functional Adults; while I also found Jason and Sophie a little infuriating, they were at least recognizable and sympathetic, people who were drifting through life a... |
Despite being glaringly obvious, one thing that has remained largely uncommented upon with this film is its sexual politics and jaundiced view of female desire. Jason is very much the postfeminism new male: sweet, sensitive, treating his partner as an equal, and not especially interested in viewing her in a sexual way.... |
It remains an open question as the film dissolves into a magic realist gesture worthy of Paul Thomas Anderson's "Magnolia" (a feeling reinforced by the Jon Brion soundtrack). Crazy stuff happens, hearts are broken, and the only real epiphany is that however scary, life goes on. |
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Is there a physical reason why not to think that instead of space expanding, all physical constants and parameters are shrinking (including of course the instruments we use to measure the constants) and space is static, or is it a case of Occam's razor? |
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The expansion of the universe is happening at large-scales. This means that, if you choose two galaxies, they are moving away from each other at a speed proportional to their distance. The space between the Sun and the Earth, for instance, is not expanding. In fact, some galaxies close to us appear blue-shifted due to ... |
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Thanks for the answer, but by Hubble's law the Earth-Sun space (assuming it is a constant) is expanding 0.36 $\mu m/s$. Of course the fact that the Earth-Sun distance varies due to their movements in space, but that's irrelevant. – Alyosha Oct 31 '12 at 10:38 |
I think that Hubble's Law cannot be applied to such short length scales. The reason we use an almost-FRW metric is because, empirically, we observe that matter is distributed like that. But, this applies only to large scales. So, Hubble's law cannot be applied to the Earth-Sun region. It is a "coarse-grained" law, not ... |
When you say 'matter is distributed like that', do you mean that we do not observe precisely enough to see whether or not the FRW metric holds or is it that our observations are accurate enough AND they tell us that the FRW metric is not fully implemented (if that's the right word) in our universe? – Alyosha Oct 31 '1... |
If the FRW metric is to hold exactly, there would be no perturbations in the energy density - in particular, you and I wouldn't exist. So, the fact that the FRW metric doesn't hold on very small scales is beyond doubt. If you look at how clusters of galaxies are distributed and how the CMB is distributed, you notice th... |
continued: For instance, the temperature fluctuations in the CMB are one part in $10^5$. So, we can deduce that the distribution of energy on very large scales is almost isotropic. This is the evidence that our observable universe is almost-FRW. – contrariwise Oct 31 '12 at 21:55 |
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Whether a quantity such as length is "shrinking" depends on the choice of units of length. If we used a time-dependent unit of length, we could make the numerical value of each length shrink or expand or do anything we like. |
But we are using sensible units of length that are "naturally constant". For example, one meter is defined as 1/299,792,458 of a light second (the distance traveled by light in the vacuum in 1 second) and one second is defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition bet... |
So we know that the wavelength of some atomic radiation is a constant multiple of one meter. The same is true for other types of atomic radiation because the ratios of wavelength are constant in time. And the same is true for various other lengths such as radii of planets or stars composed of a fixed material at normal... |
So as long as we use sensible units of length, and we do, the constancy of the lengths of various things enumerated above is automatically guaranteed. What you describe may be easily achieved by using unnatural time-dependent units of length, however. |
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So is there no self-consistent way that these natural constants could be changing that mimics exactly the fact that if I measure the distance between A and B (which are at rest relative to space (if that makes sense)), later I will measure a longer distance due to Hubble expansion and at the same time these constants r... |
Dear Alyosha, no, there is no way. You may describe the expansion of the Universe in a way that doesn't depend on any units, by a purely "operational" language. An atom has a volume, right? Define it in some particular way - I mean the boundaries of an atom etc. Then the statement about the expansion of the Universe re... |
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Mitch Albom Weighed in On Trout vs. Cabrera, Annoyed Everyone Who Thinks |
The Trout/Cabrera MVP debate became a flash point, hitting perfectly the divide between traditional baseball card stats and new wave metrics. The debate instantly became loud, unedifying and ugly. |
Stat heads ridiculed with snark and numbers. Curmudgeons played up a false dialectic between “nerds with acronyms” and “people who like baseball.” No resolution was reached. Most voters fell into the latter camp. How was the common man supposed to make sense of this? Enter Mitch Albom. |
Detroit’s favorite columnist infused his smug, yet folksy wisdom with ignorance and dashes of old-school baseball rhetoric. It was nonsensical and silly, but spoon-fed just the way his target audience likes it. |
So in areas such as “how many Cabrera home runs would have gone out in Angel Stadium of Anaheim” or “batting average when leading off an inning” or “Win Probability Added,” Trout had the edge. At least this is what we were told. |
OMG! Indeed. Acronyms! Confusing right? Not really. This is not adding stats or adding superfluous stats. It is replacing stats that tell one little with stats that tell one a little bit more. Clarifying not obfuscating. |
Batting average tells you how often a player hits. Since a walk accomplishes the task of a single, it’s more useful to know how often a player gets on base. Slugging percentage tells you what type of hits a player might get as opposed to just “hits.” Add the two together you get on base plus slugging. OPS. That’s more ... |
That concept is simple. Moreover, it should not need to be explained, because that point has already diffused to the masses. Moneyball was published in 2003. Kevin Youkilis won two World Series with the Red Sox. It has been incorporated. Everyone who has watched baseball the 10 years grasps this. Those are no longer th... |
Of course, why would you put that type of effort in? It’s not like you’re getting paid to write about this sport or anything… |
Besides, if you live in Detroit, you didn’t need a slide rule. This was an easy choice. People here watched Cabrera, 29, tower above the game in 2012. Day after day, game after game, he was a Herculean force. Valuable? What other word was there? How many late-inning heroics? How many clutch hits? And he only missed one... |
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