The pond slept in this day - perhaps it's the change of seasons, the changing of the clocks, the sodden sense of it being a sodden cockroach election day - and so decided to pare back its reptile coverage, and discovered the task of doing the culling was surprisingly easy ...
The pond has lost all interest in the Bjorn-again one since he abandoned straight out climate science denialism for distraction - even the irony of blather about "global dithering" couldn't stir the pond - and it was exceptionally easy to defer Polonius's anal retentive obsession with the ABC to Sunday's meditation ...
The pond rarely visits the oscillating fan, and the Angelic one on education is simply too much.
Sure there were other reptiles scribbling elsewhere, and one might be a surprise Sunday guest, but for today, the pond was content to observe the dog botherer writhing on the spit of defeatism ...
But more importantly, it's being destroyed on a daily basis by the dog botherer's News Corp chums, and that's why the pond passed on "Ned", nattering on this day in his usual destructive manner, positioned in a prime position, at the centre of the reptile triptych of terror ...
The pond didn't stick that blank white space in the middle. That's the reptiles way of evoking an intellectual void, a comment on the vapid offerings of the gloom-laden dotard ... and with that noted and avoided and out of the way, it's back to the dog botherer's defeatism, as he tries to argue with the lizard Oz elder in his dotage...
Forget Max and his date stamp of "57 minutes ago".
Last night precisely at 10.15 pm, the pond took a screen snap of his piece dated "44 minutes ago", proving that the reptiles lie as easily about the freshness of their product as a butcher does when he injects a little carbon monoxide to give aged meat a fresh, reddish-pink look ...
Who knows if Max's call will turn into a new Arizona, and some day we'll be reading a bizzaro world (Htrae to some) version of Inside the Panic at Faux Noise After the 2023 election?
No, the important news was that already difficult, pesky, uppity blacks are making suggestions and the reptiles thought it was good enough for the tree killer edition too with talk of "Noel's way" ...
Oh wait, did the pond just slip in a bit of "Ned's" ranting?
The pond has no idea where it's desire to be cruel to the dog botherer comes from, but all that ranting has produced a defeatist doggie boi ... because if doggie boi has one rule, it's never to bite the Murdochian hand that feeds him, and certainly not to get into a rumble in the jungle with "Ned" ...
Instead how easy it is for the dog botherer to fall into line with "Ned" and blame it all on Albo, as if the neigh saying reptiles and the naying mutton Dutton have nothing to do with it ...
Oh wait, the pond is inclined to be cruel and beastly to dog botherers, and what better way to follow up that last gobbet of doggie boi than with another gobbet of a 'leet member of the Murdochian 'leets blathering on mindlessly about 'leets for his closer ...
That's as much of "Ned" as the pond could stand this day, but it's enough to get the flavour.
It's all Albanese's fault, and apparently the support of all those black leaders means naught in the world of the reptiles ... there they all were, failing the "Ned" test, as Albo did his Christ pose ...
What a relief to turn to the bromancer and world affairs and yet another serve of defeatism ...
As a certified manic depressive, sometimes the mania kicks in with the bromancer, and sometimes the depression, and the sight of Vlaid the Impaler and dictator for life Xi sent the bromancer right off ...
As usual, the pond doesn't know what to think or who to believe...
A few days ago, there was talk of a snub, per Yahoo ... and a hint that things might be more complicated than in the bromancer's world ...
Oh wait, the subs will save us ...
Just stick a Roller in the garage and all will be well, though at that point the pond wondered if it might be some other sort of American road car and had a curious flashback to an infallible Pope ...
Roller? Bah humbug, there's nothing like a rebadged Lincoln ...
But what of trade? Covered ...
... and so to the final gobbet ...
How the bromancer yearns for war with China, and better still world war III by Xmas, and yet there's a certain hesitation and doubt on parade today, and so the pond turned to the immortal Rowe for comfort and an end to the day's proceedings ...
Yes, there is a Santa Claus and there is hope, Virginia, it's all in the details ...
As for the pond, a cup of tea is the answer to it all ...
GB - an aside, but a couple of days ago you put up reference to Luis Caffarelli for his work on partial differential equations.
ReplyDeleteI have been trying to follow up, first with a friend of my youth who co-authored a book on applying them to rock mining. Melancholy discovery - that friend, who I have seen intermittently in recent years, is drifting out of contact with this world.
However, having the Caffarelli name does make it easier to find discussion of what is happening in the world of mathematicians who try to study partial differential equations as - perhaps a genre? - rather than their particular application to, as the article puts it
“The tools that Caffarelli has come up with have been applied to many different problems, from equations describing nature to financial mathematics.”
This is just to thank you for putting up that item, but entered today so you see it.
I was wondering if you'd pick up on it. It was just to show that it isn't only art, literature and music - and even maybe science, for some - that are in constant change and development, but few and far are those who would ascribe such to mathematics. I did study partial differentials a little in my 'mathematics days' but I never really got into them. Simple minded two variable 'full' differentials and integrals were about as far as I got.
DeleteSorry to hear about your friend. and I guess it's only because of pass-times such as the Pond that more of us don't travel that road too. And I always check back over the still 'modifiable' days - quite a few have 'after-thoughts'.
I have said before that the one genius-level mathematician/economist I have worked with - Colin Whitcomb Clark, of Canada, showed me that very little was ever revealed just by fancy manipulations of equations. His approach was that you had to figure out what your problem was as a kind of ‘thought experiment’. Mathematics was the language you then used to describe your problem in a way that helped you analyse it.
DeleteI have never been in (even near!) the league of mastery of the mathematical process that Caffarelli seems to play in, but I am hoping that some of his writing may show me that, particularly in partial differentials, some wisdom is being won from those who are adept at the manipulations and transformations of groups of equations.
I always reckoned that "fancy manipulation of equations" simply proved that one's thinking and understanding had developed sufficiently that such was possible. None of our thinking ever gets very far without us being able to express our understanding in 'equations' .
DeleteYahoo: "It remains unclear whether Turkmenistan has been invited." And no mention of Mongolia either - is that because it's already counted as a China satellite ?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Hancock, DP.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, the days of Bill Kerr (and Dick Bentley). Amongst others.
DeleteWell, what a day: Doggy Bov, Noodlenuts Ned and the Bromancer. And it produced such gems as:
DeleteBro relaying Dibb: "The Chinese cannot detect American submarines. The Americans are a long way ahead in submarine technology."
And as we know, once such a 'superiority' is established, it lasts forever; the Chinese never, ever will be able to detect American submarines - and that's all American submarines, of course, not only those wondrous, miraculous Virginias. So all those Chinese transport ships will never get the invading PLA troops across to Taiwan - democracy is saved !
But I hadn't appreciated one simple, important thing until now: from the Doggy Bov "The previous Coalition government did an enormous amount of work on how it [the Voice] should be constructed - I should know, I was on the committee." There we go, just a simple minded reptile taking great pride in the outcome of work done in his presence - not by him, just in that "committee".
But hey, does Noodlenuts Ned know that ? Surely not, because if he did would he be so keen to destroy the whole 'Voice' thing ? But enough of mutually ignorant internal altercations between Ned and Kenny about what 'the Voce' should like like and how it was all worked out long ago.
So, now with the Bro: "Barack Obama and now Joe Biden have both handled the Middle East disastrously." Yeah, whereas Bush and Trump handled it brilliantly, of course. Oh, but then: "...where Biden is weak in the Middle East, he's relatively strong in Asia. Thus March also saw the stunning announcement of the AUKUS deal. A creation as elegant as it is purposeful. this is the lyric soprano aria of the geo-strategic moment, Tosca on the balcony (though hopefully with a different ending)."
That's it, then: we're in the midst of an operatic melodrama, flamboyantly conducted by the Bromancer. Hallelujah, we are saved. But hang on: "Perhaps the West should significantly increase the scale and type of weapons it supplies Ukraine so it has a chance of winning more decisively, more quickly." Sure, Ukraine will drive all those Russkis out of the eastern portion of the Ukraine and out of Crimea and all the way back to Moscow.
Does anybody think that Ukraine can in any way "win" this war unless Putin expires and is somehow rapidly replaced by Navalny ?
Sorry, are we supposed to be encouraged by having the US as an ally? Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq at any time. Kissinger is quoted as saying “ To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal”. Not an ethical statement, more just an observation of how the US (probably any empire) acts.
DeleteRemarkable how the world changes: just think how, in the later stages of WWII, so many nations and peoples were only too happy to have the USA as a "friend and ally". Especially us Aussies.
DeleteHere we go, Chad:
ReplyDeleteUS teens say they have new proof for 2,000-year-old mathematical theorem
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/24/new-orleans-pythagoras-theorem-trigonometry-prove
You look away for 5 minutes and the universe changes. I hope they got it right, or if not, at least wrong in an interesting way.
If the bromancer's grasp of international affairs is on par with his grasp of opera, we're in deep trouble. Leaving aside the bizarre metaphor - did even Wagner act as choreographer also? - let's get the simple details right. Tosca laps not from a balcony but from the parapet of the Castel Sant'Angelo.
ReplyDeleteOh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear.
ReplyDeleteA gasket has been blown.
https://twitter.com/barriecassidy/status/1639568688746733569
Aaaah - you beat me.
DeleteComment in thread “News Corp has captured the Liberal Party. Shifting it from a political organisation and remaking it in the image of its ideological and corporate interests. It has done to the Liberals what it has done to journalism.” - Nyadol Nyuon
Back at the rich tables of schadenfreude VC?
DeleteThe Sage: "It’s laughable how these people just make shit up because they want it to be so." It certainly is, 'laughable' that is, but it's also a very common - maybe universal - human attribute.
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