Diary (December 29, 2020)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Monday December 29, 2020.

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  All I am saying is give Rand a chance.

Pemdas

Pemdas the Barbarian.

Inspiration:

• Post @ Twitter

Compare Conan the Barbarian (nonfiction).

See also:

• Order of Operations @ Wikipedia

Don't Run Aground Much Any More

Don't Run Aground Much Any More.

Compare Don't Get Around Much Any More.

Songs and Other Abuses by Feral Butler

Songs and Other Abuses (often simply Abuses) - album by Feral Butler

Tracks

• Microwave Urinal - allegedly co-authored by Fell Swoop
• Prosthetic Bidet

Cromagnolin

Several tracks on Abuses feature the Cromagnolin, a hand-cranked pre-pleistocene device of wood, antler, and sinew which issues a quavering wail or moan approximating the vocables of Cromagnon-era hominids. Paleontologist-musician Frondo Ediacar was responsible for designing and constructing the Cromagnolin.

For extreme authenticity, Feral Butler formed an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which reverted the band members to proto-hominids for the duration of the recording session (and, by some accounts, beyond [citation needed]).

Influences

Compare Don't Whiz on the Electric Fence (nonfiction):

• Don't Whiz on the Electric Fence @ YouTube

Beyond Fungible

Beyond Fungible - biography of Fell Swoop. TO_DO - identify author, related to Alice Beta biographies.

Bygone Zygote

Bygone Zygote is a song by Neon Diatom.

Compare Ocean Soup by Frondo Ediacar.

Chairman of the Definite Article

Frank Sinatra: Chairman of the Definite Article

My loathing for the film The Big Chill

My loathing for the film The Big Chill is prodigious and multifacted."

Debug in Hell

"Better debug in Hell than crash in Heaven."

—Fell Swoop

Qualified inanimacy

"... and so the defendant pleads no-motion death-secondary inanimacy, your Honor."

Glass ocarina

Glass ocarina

Song mashup

"Owner of a Lonely Heart" + "Babylon Sisters"

Every thing you little do is magic

"Every thing you little do is magic."

—Niles Cartouchian

Compare "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" by The Police.

The Practical Solipsist

The Practical Solipsist

"A guide for the unperplexed."

May That as it Be

• May That as it Be

Preludinary

Preludinary mood management algorithms

Spoonerisms

• Home is where the heart is - Harm is Where the Hate Is
• The Gnomon Chronicles - The Chrome on Monocles
• Reduce my cost — Recost my deuce
• Table rapping — Rabble taping
• Going for the One — Woeing for the Gun

Footling Gesture to Boot

"... and a footling gesture, to boot."

—Wallace War-Heels

Footling Gesture to Boot

Spineless Chicken Vertebrae

Spineless Chicken Vertebrae

Half (1/2) off, U pick the 1/2

Compare -

• Chipigen
• Fugu squash

Dirk-Drivin Man

Sejanus: There goes a dirk-drivin' man ...

Dirk-Drivin Man

Houston, We Have a Pilgrim

Houston, We Have a Pilgrim

Shruggie Bear

Shruggie Bear = Sugar Bear + Huggie Bear

Feculent Nethers

Feculent Nethers

Compare Feculent blather (nonfiction) - "Do you understand me Denny? I would sooner leap from the window than see your lips move, the sight of which is the visual cue that feculent blather is about to spew forth." (Boston Legal)

Strange Days

I liked "Strange Days" quite a lot. Conventional Hollywood tech-thriller fare, with violence and sex in abundance, but also with plenty of fresh tech ideas, a lavish visual style, and a downbeat remorse attitude which passes for conscience.

• Comment @ Facebook

Russell's teapot

Russell's teapot is an analogy, formulated by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making unfalsifiable claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others.

Russell specifically applied his analogy in the context of religion. He wrote that if he were to assert, without offering proof, that a teapot, too small to be seen by telescopes, orbits the Sun somewhere in space between the Earth and Mars, he could not expect anyone to believe him solely because his assertion could not be proven wrong.

Russell's teapot is still invoked in discussions concerning the existence of God, and has had influence in various fields and media.

• Russell's teapot @ Wikipedia

• Russell Steepot
• Russell Steep-Hat
• Russ T. Pot

Believe what you must

"While you're busy being an ignorant idiot, believe what you must."

—Fell Swoop

All I am saying is give Rand a chance

All I am saying is give Rand a chance

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles