The noble lie
‘God has created three kinds of men, made respectively of gold: the rulers, silver: the soldiers, and base metals: the common man .’― Plato
Platonic Misogeny
‘Those of the men first created who led a life of cowardice and injustice were suitably reborn as women in the second generation, and this is why it was at this particular juncture that the gods contrived the lust for copulation.’― Plato
The Mystique of Mathematical Formulae
‘One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers, that we get more out of them than was originally put into them.’― Heinrich Herz
Tribute to Talk Talk Concert
This week we went to a Talk Talk tribute concert called ‘In the SPIRIT of TALK TALK’ by a few Belgian musicians in 30cc in Leuven. Stefanie Callebaut, Lennert Coorevits, Ruben Block, Isolde Lasoen, Ewen Vernal, Geoffrey Burton, Joachim Badenhorst and David Poltrock played the iconic Talk Talk album Spirit of Eden, followed by a number of the greatest Talk Talk…
Snobbery
‘That Plato’s republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.’― Bertrand Russell
Powershell or Nickel & Dimed
‘Your choice is Learn Powershell, or Would you like fries with that ?’― Don Gannon-Jones
A House of Dynamite
Watched this movie on Netflix after having read about it in the paper. In the movie a single unattributed nuclear missile is launched at the US. The whole movie tells the story what happens in the 20 minutes between launch detection and impact. It is a good thriller for the first 40 minutes at least.…
The Road From Los Alamos, Hans Bethe (ISBN 978-0883187074, American Institute of Physics)
I bought this book after reading the making of the atomic bomb. And then, as usual it ended up sitting on a shelf for a long time. After recently having read Dark Sun I decided it was time to get this book from Hans Bethe behind me. It was actually better than I expected and…
The Auk adventure continues
A few weeks ago the first cherry tomatoes started to appear. Now there are more and bigger ones on the plant but all are still very green. Also, my other 2 plants are starting to bear fruit although it is too early to tell with certainty which one is the pepper plant and which one…
AI Humor
When writing posts I often ask the system to generate title options. Very often I find them uninspired and stereotypical. The follow a repetitive pattern and as a result I don’t use them very often. Recently I posted the following quote ‘It may be that we are jogging in tandem on a treadmill to nowhere.’…
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