Posts by giovanni tiso
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Heather Gaye,
He was Egyptian in Highlander, right?
He was a Spaniard by the name of Ramirez by the time whatshisface met him. But I should stress these are memories harking back a quarter of a century.
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Heather Gaye,
FWIW Danielle’s been using the “dimsie” handle for a long time.
Maybe she's like the Highlander. You know how Sean Connery's character already had a Spanish name on his home planet? That sort of thing.
ETA: Or maybe she inceptioned Danyl. 'We planted a simple idea: you shall call your blog The Dim Post.'
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
I guess I am easy to fuck with, if you set up a twitter feed which is - I assume, but really who the fuck knows, named after my blog - and post oblique messages about me on it, and if by 'fuck with' you mean bemuse me by how much of your emotional energy you spend on me even though I'm a random stranger on the internet.
Seriously, the idea that Dimsie derives from Dim Post is one of your funniest lines ever, Danyl. And I'm still unsure how a side comment on Twitter qualifies as worse than your calling out a PAS commenter and branding him an idiot on your blog instead of taking issue with him directly here. But perhaps it's just me.
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Jackie Clark,
BETRAYAL
What, I can't leave you guys alone for five days?
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Russell Brown,
Just in this morning from Nielsen: Public Address has the highest proportion of "high internet users" -- 39.2% -- of any NZ website it tracks.
Unlimited and Computerworld are 2nd and 3rd, and The Standard 10th. No sign of Kiwiblog.
That's a massive achievement for Kiwiblog, no? That it rates highly amongst people who are not regular users of the medium.
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Yours and mine both.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Carol Stewart,
Thanks Giovanni. Anything by Primo Levi has my undivided attention.
If there is a book that makes a better case for why we shouldn't think in terms of humanism vs the sciences than The Periodic Table, I have yet to encounter it.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to richard,
Regge is (or was?) a very smart guy
He also invented reggae (true story).
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to richard,
Going purely by his science, Regge is (or was?) a very smart guy.
He's alive, although he retired a decade ago. A friend of mine did his postdoc in Turin and they put him in Regge's vacated office, which meant he had to spend a lot of time fielding his calls.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to richard,
But simple as in easy is what we read on the bus.
I read Feynman's Six Not So Easy Pieces on the bus. (Well, okay, the train.) That is not to say I understood them however.
Incidentally, and speaking of humanism, science, physics, one of the most wonderful books ever to have been through a printing press is the transcript of the conversations between Primo Levi and physicist Tullio Regge, which I see to my surprise has been translated into English even.