I had a college friend who liked to compare philosophy to a five foot penis. Sure it's impressive, but not very useful in a practical sense.

Unless you're the 50 foot woman.

Or the 50 foot man.

Gud, may I tag?

Sure

If the lighting is bad or the cat is blinvisible, then you still didn't manage to check up on it and you still don't know anything about it. You have to actually see for it to actually be checking, right?

My favorite quote on Quantum Mechanics is something a professor once told us after taking advanced quantum mechanics, in grad school: "Wtih Quantum Mechanics, you can either understand it or get used to it. I think you will soon start to get used to it".

shrift! How was your trip?

[Edit: 8=2³ and 27=3³. 827 is, of course, a multiplication of neither. Numbers are neat, and I can never get used to that.]

Why would you want to replace fountains with cheap, ugly bleacher seats? Have you no soul? First off, fountains pretty. Second off, there are already plenty of cheap seats there.

Plus, it's not like the park sells out very often.

If the cat was looked at, the looker can tell definitely if it's alive or dead, though, right?

You can't always tell with regular cats, I don't see why this one would be different. Recall Susan's experience yesterday with a dying cat that turned out to be just supremely uninterested.

Recall Susan's experience yesterday with a dying cat that turned out to be just supremely uninterested.

Maybe the cat just needed to be confused. </Monty Python>

Maybe the cat just needed to be confused.

Oh, studying Quantum Mechanics is perfect for that.

You can't always tell with regular cats

Yeah, but that's a physics cats. I mean, physics horses can be shaped as circles, physics air doesn't always resist anything going through it, physics particles are often described as completely free, and physics students are often described in questions (like the one I have to grade right now instead of playing online) as "deciding to check the law of gravity on themselves and therefore jumping from a 50-meters high building".

We let ourselves run around with a lot. Then we wave our hands a lot and say "from symmetry consideration" and "that's negligible" and "it's trivial to show that". Then we use these things to help talented people like lori to send rockets to Mars. And pretend it's obvious that it actually works.

Why would you want to replace fountains with cheap, ugly bleacher seats? Have you no soul? First off, fountains pretty. Second off, there are already plenty of cheap seats there. The highest ticket price in the entire ballpark is $27 for the seats by the dugout.

WTF?? This is one of those alternate universes where games never sell out and there are no obstructed views, isn't it? $27 in Fenway is a standing-room ticket and one hotdog.

Someday, far in the future, when the Royals don't suck and the tickets sell like hotcakes, the stadium owner will be very sad that he does not have more seats.

I should note that my master's thesis included a reference, in the dedication, to mr. flea and his colleagues, who (over beers, natch) offered to design me a computer model for the environmental processes I was studying (archaeology, Greece, erosion episodes, possible causes include destruction of terraces due to abandonment of land for farming and reversion to grazing...). They did indeed say, "First, we'll assume spherical goats..."

I am so wanting to hide from my work today. Hide hide hide.