You know who I don’t get? Albert Einstein. What’s with the hair, anyway, and that thing with his cousin?
I consider myself a moderate intellectual. I’m turned on by intellectual pastimes like Trivial Pursuit. Don’t get me wrong, I like to guzzle a cold frosty every once in a while, like anybody else, but most evenings it’s tea. And the Discovery Channel, that is good stuff right there, and all the things that one can learn about DNA on CSI.
I mean, Copernicus I get, and that part in Darwin where stuff changes gradually and doesn’t just somehow morph into completely different other stuff. And Freud’s a weird dude, really, and smart women I know tell me that he’s totally discredited, so I don’t worry about that stuff. Also, I got through a Byatt novel once, so it’s not like I’m stupid. But I just totally do not get this Einstein guy.
For one thing, what’s the point? I mean, there’s two kinds of relativity, apparently, and one is more special than the other. And for another thing, I hear that he played the violin really slowly. Also, his hair was weird. I mean, I guess that I’m happy that we had him working on the atomic bomb thingie for us rather than for the Nazis (because he was Jewish), but otherwise, who cares what kind of weird stuff happens when you get near the speed of light?
I don’t get the popularity of this guy at all. For starters, he’s been dead now for a long time. And then there’s that pipe and those clothes. Come on, man, who really wants to know what E is? Nobody in my generation that I know cares about the value of E. And I know lots of people in my generation who are just like me.
So don’t give me this Einstein stuff.
The Fuck you say? Nobody in my generation cares about the value of E?
Shit’s like 40 coin a pill.
Rube.
Me, I was glad to be rid of the epicycles. No thanks to Nicolai though.
I say this in the nicest way, but Einstein, Hawkings and the whole mathematics department of MIT, are what I like to call, “reverse retarded.” I’m amazed at their ideas yet understand none of them. Dear Mr. Collins, we’re not “supposed” to get it. It would make us RR’s as well…
I’m just saying, he doesn’t speak for me.
einstien where the f**** is the grand unified theory? algore did it in 8 years
As much as I try to understand from which side of the brain you think with I cannot. Einstein (my idol) proved beyond the shadow of a banana tree , that we ARE smarter than that monkey who plans before throwing rocks at his audience. After all chimps don’t have the bomb and look how many nuclear proliferation treaties they have had to sign!
I hope chimps never get the bomb.
Q: How does Einstein begin a story?
A: Once upon a space-time…
Einstein actually wasn’t invited to work on the Manhattan Project, owing to his pacifistic inclinations and general inability to keep morally compromising secrets. Rather, he simply wrote to Roosevelt in 1939, encouraging the development of that weapon.
J. Edgar Hoover had a big file on him, concerned with his “socialist ideals, and his links to Communist figures.”
He did help in the design of better torpedoes for the U.S. Navy, though.
Whatevs.
dude equal time: what about poincaré e;
i once sat on next to a guy on the subway once who looked liked einstein-he smelled like smart pee
he tried to mind-meld me-but i was light years away
unfortunately-i forgot to take my nose with me
Oh, yeah, Feynman would have bounced you around the room. Made you like it too. Then go out and have Liz buy him a drink. He was an OUTLAW!
oh to heck with html: poincare with a thingamigjig on the e
I consider myself a Newtonian Reactionary myself. How do ya’ like them apples?!?
Einstein was a stone cold pimp.
One-stone pipe smoker with googly eyes says no dice.
Still he noticed something and they set up the clocks to run a teeny bit faster out there on the GPS satellites, so he’s got that going for him.
adrien brody/ how do you like them nostrils?!?
Right? I’m a busy man, if you can’t be bothered to figure out a universal theory I have no time for you.
Now a cage match between him and Newton might change my mind. I think we should make that a priority once we get the cloning thing done.
Dan, I have this sudden urge to vote for your Daddy. I wonder what Freud would say.
There are subtle machinations afoot, aren’t there?
amirite?
OTOH, Maxwell would be a cool dude to trip with. I mean, EM is the bomb yo!
Dude, you got it all wrong; Quantum Mechanics, not relativity (special OR general) is what blows MY mind. Of course, one direct result of that damn theory is the transistor, now most commonly known as the computer chip…don’t think I would be blogging without THAT, eh?
O! have some fun:
Give President Obama a grade
The transistor replaced the vacuum tube.
integrated circuits are a series of transistors.
Therefore…like the internet…the computer is a series of tubes.
cas, I’m sure that Obama will put them to work fixing all the broken quanta that he inherited from Bush.
Pablo, LOL
Yeah, I think Einstein preferred tubes…but give me a ole’ good sem-eye conductor any day
tag team
galileo/corn-hole-e-pus
kirkdegard/tony robbins
rain man/l.ron hubbard
loggins and messina
bring it!
spell check/if ur into that shit
oh to heck with html: poincare with a thingamigjig on the e
You gots to press and hold the Alt key while typing 0233 on the numeric keypad, thus: é.
On a laptop? PDA? Crackberry? iPhone?
Sux to be you!
we might be using those tubes for heat soon, if cap-n-trade goes into effect…by the way, if regular incandescent light bulbs will soon be illegal, to be replaced by those wonderful compact Fluorescent Bulbs, does that also make vacuum power tubes (still used for amplification) illegal too?
Sux to be you! or poincare w/o a an official french spelling
Router:
As of 7:25pm MDT, the Fs had 58% of the vote, while the others trailed far behind. A had 19%.
Strange to see a poll freeped in a way I agree with.
compact fluorescent cause “climate change” b/c in colder climes they don’t produce any heat.
Laptop tést.
does anyone here use amplification for music?
because there is [was] a debate about transistors/tubes
in amplifiers
personally/ i find no difference/
i just remember the guilt selling points
“dude/u gotta get tubes”
or “transistors are more-adaptable”
whatever/they both sounded good to me….
my only question was….which makes my ass look fatter?
…by the way, if regular incandescent light bulbs will soon be illegal, to be replaced by those wonderful compact Fluorescent Bulbs, does that also make vacuum power tubes (still used for amplification) illegal too?
Moonbats would lose an assload of the guitar players vote. Don’t know how significant that would be. It would be kind of funny seeing a black market of vacuum tubes develop, though.
Use &– eacute– ; with out the dashes and spaces. Poincaré
i think ™
A lot of guitar players hate solid state amps, buttons. I have four amplifiers, three of them are all tube, the other is a hybrid.
37 thanks
Tubes are great for instrument amplification if mild-to-heavy distortion is part of the style (as it is for many electric instruments).
Not so much for accurate reproduction of prerecorded sound, despite what the purists will tell you.
But I’ll never forgive Einstein for inventing the Photon torpedo; the federation should ban all photon torpedo use!
Site here with the various codes to use.
air guitar contests by candlelight…
kinda makes me an outlaw
cuz if i do the whole “pete townshend” windmill..
i might actually hit someone
and as us outlaws make our getaway into the night
i offer these two woprds…
“pedal faster!”
u can manipulate sound better nowadays w/ comp and all its glamifications/ tweak anytang/
tube amps are so x-pensive/
u can shade anything in the final mix
mr. microphone-“hey-I’ll be back to pick u up a bit later”
embrace ur uma thurman japanese robot
my toilet of the future told me…make dookie-or get off the pot
I always felt like Einstein got desCartes in front of his horse.
tube amps are so x-pensive
They’re not too hard to build if you’re at all handy.
I built a few from tubes salvaged from junk TVs I found at the landfill when I was a broke-ass teenager.
Sadly, that source of parts is long gone.
tubes or transistors…
oooh look
rush limbaugh
One time I was at this party with Albert and he was talking about relativity this and speed of light that and then he said he wanted to get a beer and I told him if he moved fast enough he could already have it by now, Einstein!
He looked at me and laughed until he puked. I think he’d had enough beer already.
He looked at me and laughed until he puked.
Not many people know that Einstein was actually a nickname, from the German “eine” (one) and “stein” (beer mug).
In college, he’d invariably be on his lips after one beer.
Fuckin’ lightweight.
Albert did not play the violin slowly, he played it badly. Like all bad violinist, he rushed.
The famous theory was published as a guess and without the physics in 1903, by an Italian industrialist and amateur physicist. Albert knew a fine skirt or a great theory when he saw one, and did the heavy lifting.
The whole relativity thing worked out well for the old man; he got laid by every co-ed in Princton, and the relative he was married to got to keep house for them. The first wife committed suicide. She’s looking better and better.
what’s a junk-yard?
u mean the obama-reclamation project?
mama said/mama said
never eat anything bigger than ur head…
btw-u can’t “build” tubes
tv ‘s have different tubes than amp tubes
the military/ do they use tubes?
{sssshhhh-they’re spying on me]
dot dot dot dash reindeer dot
[it’s a full moon-it’s tubular]
he got laid by every co-ed in Princeton
Wasn’t Princeton all male back then? Maybe that explains this:
The first wife committed suicide.
u can manipulate sound better nowadays w/ comp and all its glamifications/ tweak anytang/
tube amps are so x-pensive/
u can shade anything in the final mix
Tubes are much more responsive playing live, how you pluck the string makes a huge difference in the sound. You are correct about the expense, mine are all old Fenders I have had for awhile, I couldn’t afford to but them now most likely.
btw-u can’t “build†tubes
Actually, you can.
tv ’s have different tubes than amp tubes
A triode is a triode and a pentode is a pentode.
Tubes are all made in foreign countries now anyway. Lots of toxic chemicals needed to manufacture them. Russia is one prominent source.
Aren’t most tubes now made in the former Soviet Block countries?
I was at protein wisdom. Apparently I have accidently stumbled into a Star Trek convention.
That’s twice today that someone answered an question while I typed it.
Looks like there are still a few maniacs doing this as a hobby.
Time wrap at PW.
Feynman quit drinking while in Brazil (I believe) but still hung out in the strip clubs.
i hate the australian boomerang einstein
when ur thinking ur so cool and u make an emphatic declartive statement
u can’t build tubes
i can’t
classification 4 tubes
most tubes in tv sets are for the visual/not the sound
i don’t know if u can change the connections/but if i go to the junkyard for tubes from old tv sets
shoot me
Er, warp.
So, Big D, are you some kind of anti-geek or something? Because I can slash your credit rating in an instant. OUTLAW!!
most tubes in tv sets are for the visual/not the sound
There is one tube in a TV which is for the visual. The picture tube.
The other tubes amplify electronic signals, and do not give a shit (nor do they have any way of telling) whether the signal encodes audio or video information.
sorry/back to reality
hey einstein/ don’t hijack a thread
Still, SBP, people like to use either 12AX7 or EL-38 tubes for pre-amps, so one wonders what a generic tube did for a guitar signal. Probably not a whole lot, but I’m sure you could amplify it with just about anything.
That’s okay, Cranky. I took thor’s financial advice and now I’m rich!
Jerry Lee Einstein? “Great Balls of Cosmic Fire”?
my last tube a reffic tube comment
true story
my father fixed tv’s as a night job thru-out the sixties and seventies/
when he died i had to arrange the cellar
i swear he had a million tubes[a thousand anyway]
i just started to play guitar and i was -like- cha-ching- i’m the tube man [cuz i knew how x-pensive they were/ i called a few tube dealers [i tried to save or…create jobs]
they came over and told me
the 12ax7/el-38
were the only ones worth shit [for music]
that is what i’m basing my thinking on/ if i’m wrong-well-u just misunderstood me
i was taliking about tube socks and ur a rascist
don’t matter too much about his cousin; they didn’t have any kids
that was WAY before the coeds in Princeton, tho
How come he had to square the speed of light, anyway? couldn’t he have squared the circle, or some other bit o’ matter? took away any chance of warp speed, at least until we pay off The One’s stimulus bill
Dan, you wield a pretty mean stiletto. :)
couldn’t he make a plane outta the material that they make the “black box” outta
or ask alfred hitchcock how he got birds to act?
Still, SBP, people like to use either 12AX7 or EL-38 tubes for pre-amps, so one wonders what a generic tube did for a guitar signal.
Yeah, and EL34/6BQ5 for the final. But all that really mattered was the thing would amplify… efficiency doesn’t matter so much if they’re free.
If I remember right, it was pretty common for clock radios to have a 12AX7, and maybe a 6BQ5 too.
my point
outta daddys legacy [of tubes]
i’d say 97& were tv tubes/ visual/they didn’t have the output/conflaguration
true?
i wouldn’t bullshit a garbage picker
submit to ur japanese transitors
it ain’t the meat/ it’s the motion
twilight zone w/ agnes moorehead
you’re so 2010
get with the pogrom
no more stars on sleeves…
buff arms are in/ i laughed as i stroked my chinny-chin chin
Not so. I spent several thousand pre-stimulus dollars on a head with all TV tubes in it. Fetishists overpay.
The tubes are too common to sell by piece, but you can wire a mess of ’em up inside a plywood box with fifty switches and a stupid name on it and cash in. The worldwide market for your squeaking box of garbage will only be about ten dudes, but they’ll really want it, so price accordingly.
Theory of Relativity:
E=mc2
Everyone is my mother’s second cousin.
i had a friend who had over 3,000 jimi hendrix albums
jap/german/bootlegs/
u name it!
i laughed…
who u gonna sell it to? i asked
i love ur love for hendrix…but
good luck…
castles made of sand…
I don’t understand how exactly a scientist gets famous. Iconic famous. Except for maybe Hawking who do we have really in our time? James Hansen? Something’s broken. I think Steve Jobs and Gates, Bill have the Einstein niche now really.
All I know is hundreds of thousands of Marines and Army GIs owe their lives because Hiroshima and Nagasaki made the invasion of Japanase Main Islands unnecessary.
And even if Albert probably opposed their use, I still say thanks for that.
Gates, Bill is a dirty fascist. I spend my life trying to undo the fascist default settings and other
“helpful” features that Microsoft OSs provide.
“No, I really meant it when I said to disable that feature. Now quit re-enabling it, you monstrous piece of steam-punk garbage!”
Is that genius behind Microsoft’s default settings or fascism? You decide.
My Dad one of them so I wouldn’t have been here either. Thank you Albert. For that and for your science.
I just got Vista like weeks before they announced they were moving 7 up. I hate them. Vista is useless and I bet 7 is uselesser.
Francis Collins is the man. Brian Drucker is also the shit.
AE had the name weight but Szilard had the letter and Teller the car.
Homaro Cantu is off the hook too.
But they’re not famous exactly, P. You can’t put them on a t-shirt really. I just realized I forgot what Kurt Cobain looked like.
I just remember he was kinda scruffy.
I don’t understand how exactly a scientist gets famous. Iconic famous. Except for maybe Hawking who do we have really in our time? James Hansen? Something’s broken. I think Steve Jobs and Gates, Bill have the Einstein niche now really.
Carl Sagan made “beelyuns” a household word, so there’s that.
Was the famous heralded scientist a function of Look magazines and Time magazines way back in the 20’s and 30’s that everybody read in the barbershop?
Nobody was wearing Einstein T-shirts until he was long dead, ‘feets. And Hawking is only a celebrity because he’s so horribly disabled yet crazy smart. Full appreciation usually takes time.
Even Che Guevara didn’t get the mass merchandising until he was pushing up the daisies.
This is version 7.
Vista makes me want to jam a fork in my eye to ease the pain. It won’t let you configure the VPN client unless it has an active Internet connection. And you have to hack the registry just to configure the settings manually so that they’ll work with non-Microcrash gateways. VPNs are bad enough as it is, but Microcrash makes it ever so much more complicated.
(If you didn’t follow that, consider yourself lucky.)
I’m working in a lab environment, yo! I don’t need no steenking VPN crap going out over our live LAN. They just don’t configure their software with an advanced user in mind. And the alleged simplicity only works if everything else in the universe is aligned just perfectly; otherwise, your hapless techno-squib user has to call someone anyway to get them to hack the registry so that the blasted thing will work.
And then after you reboot the machine, it resets everything you asked it to change. If compatibility weren’t the Prime Directive, Microsoft would have been left in the dust a long time ago.
Albert had a hook, too.
Good point, P. This would be a smart time to buy the copyrights to some James Hansen pics.
tv tubes/ visual/they didn’t have the output/conflaguration
true?
Not true.
Steve Jobs and Gates, Bill have the Einstein niche now really.
That was always the case, really. Edison was way more famous than Willard Gibbs.
Not one person out of a hundred has heard of Norman Borlaug, who has done more to alleviate human suffering than all the “community organizers” ever whelped.
we’ve got the same birthday, so there’s that.
whee/look at me! [no-i”m hideous}
c’mon/ just a peek/ i’m pledge week
at pbs/such duress-the lack of a moist bush
makes every tale a white whale
dan quayle mis-spelled potato!
the FUCK U SAY!
“Carl Sagan made “beelyuns†a household word, so there’s that.”
It’s too bad he got all stiff-brained at the end. Crackpottery always gets them, Arthur Conan Doyle style.
(Sagan’s His was the nuclear winter/ all cultures equally valid/slavery has been eliminated crap.)
I ran across a mash up of Sagan and a scene from the matrix that was full of Cosmenace. It’s probably way old but I liked it.
I REMEMBER SAGAN
Sorry-caps off
and he used to say bill-llll-i-ooonns of light years away..
now we got a smooth operator sayin’
trillll-lll-lll-lll-ons
sweet!
Not one person out of a hundred has heard of Norman Borlaug
Now you’re talkin. Around our house we call him either ‘Saint Norm’ or just ‘Good Old Norm.’
He sure set the crazies on their ass, didn’t he? “Sky falls! Population bomb! Food Riots! Now! Soon!” Oh wait, Borlaug’s here…
“Never mind.” What a man. Talk about your hope and change.
A wrestler, too. Gosh, if he’d only made it to Cornell.
Uh, he’s a lefty, methinks (irrelevant to discussion) but Freeman Dyson’s Project Orion was as awesome as a platinum set of Hindenburg-sized bull’s balls. His son George wrote a book about it called naturally “Project Orion.” Ah, what could have been.
freeman dyson was actually named freeman tyson
cluck..cluck..
project butter/garlic/butter/cornish game hen..
has been rescinded
and we shall never talk of it no more…
we mite bob our heads…
and pretend we’re looking for food/ but we shalkl[cluck] rise up..
[i got full moon fever-ha! thanks]
It’s too bad he got all stiff-brained at the end.
True. But I’ll overlook a lot of that for giving us Cosmos, for that ability to take huge concepts and make them comprehensible even to a schmuck like me. When you’re 8 years old and some guy with a funny accent tells you you’re made out of starstuff, then goes on to explain it…it kinda sticks with you.
Besides, even at his nuttiest, Sagan had more gravitas than Michio Kaku.
Einstein was not a handsome fellow
Nobody ever called him ‘Al’
He had a long mustache to pull on it was yellow
I don’t believe he ever had a girl
One thing he left out in his theory
Of time and space and rel-a-tivity
Is something that makes it very clear he
Was never gonna score like you an’ me.
He don’t know about Quark Strangeness and Charm
Quark Strangeness and Charm
(Apologies to Hawkwind, although they deserve to be ripped off because of the stuff about Al not getting laid)
OT, but if anyone is interested in how NOT to read and respond to someone’s argument, here you go.
I understand it’s easy to get entrenched in previous positions and not want to let go or admit to any reservations, but shortening my argument until its unrecognizable while arguing against my Hot Air piece should be, in a perfect world, a self-defeating piece of performative irony.
Apotheosis, his Dragons of Eden is in my personal pantheon of most influential books…
so far t-nite i got
a HAWKWIND reference…
and my name is LUKA….
tailor
lay out my swan dress..
love this site..if u could rerckomend 20-25- dvd’s…i’m…losing my site/good on ya’
my wife would watch u doing push-ups…
good on ya”
Nevermind. Made it a new post. I haven’t finished burning bridges yet, I guess.
do u think beau bridges hates his brother jeff bridges 4 being so skinny?
do they get in cat-fights?
is “fabulous” baker boys a homo-denial metephor?
Heisenberg’s principle of socks.You have many socks. You either just don’t know where they are, or you know exactly where one sock is.
Apotheosis, his Dragons of Eden is in my personal pantheon of most influential books…
I still haven’t read that one. I stuck through “Pale Blue Dot” and “Demon Haunted World” but after that, I noticed it was getting more difficult to ignore the interjection of his politics into nearly everything. I figured I’d quit before I stopped liking him.
Heisenberg’s principle of socks.
There’s also a Pauli exclusion principle for socks.
No more than one of a matched pair of socks can exist in the same drawer at the same time.
Y’know who I never understood? A.E. Houseman.
Yeah, I know. Weird, huh?
You know who I never understood? That guy who runs the convenience store about four blocks from the courthouse.
u know who i never understood?
you!
Bleevingort mukovek.