“This scenario,” the memorandum stated, “is derived concept-for-concept from Rabbinic writings on the mystic ‘holy book’ kabbala dating back at least two millennia.”

How clever of those kabbalistic rabbis to formulate a creation theory that would be supported by evidence requiring orbital telescopes and other measuring instruments that wouldn't be invented for another two millenia.

How clever of those kabbalistic rabbis to formulate a creation theory that would be supported by evidence requiring orbital telescopes and other measuring instruments that wouldn't be invented for another two millenia.

I was at a talk a few months ago that compared some of the talmudic and kabbalistic theories of creation to the Big Bang. Specifically, it was looking at how the rabbis reconciled the statement that G-d created "light and darkness" several days before creating any source of light, like the sun or stars. It was really interesting.

Somebody please hit Representative Ben Bridges in the head with a brick.

Damn, Sean. If you'd only said stick. I feel less qualified with brick.

If I didn't have 400+ discs in my queue, I'd totally add it, sumi. I should definitely buy it--it was fan-formative for me. I wonder if it's the same as the UK region version.

I went to two Robin of Sherwood cons at Cornell. They were small, and fannish, with just a couple of guests like Kip Carpenter, the creator, and Mark Ryan who was Nazir. I had been kind of fannish before, mostly literary cons, but Herne's con and Son of Herne's con were a lot of fun and a great connection to a lot of RoS resources.

I don't have the dvds, as I had only seen the uk ones which were really expensive. If they're available over here now, oh boy.

Hey, has anyone seen Metafilter today?

Thanks for posting that, Holli. Our erinaceous is a total rock star! I really enjoyed that talk.

ETA: Her bit about what would you rather give up than Google like, the internal combustion engine or your non-dominant hand, cracked me right up.

Oh dear, I'm the only person in the world who's awake. Tomorrow's gonna suck badly.

I almost bought the UK Robin of Sherwood DVDs a while back. And then a very nice TWoP poster sent me video copies for no reason at all, which was amazing of her. I loved it in high school, and the love (most particularly of Ray Winstone, though Nickolas Grace was pretty awesome as well) did remain, but I do think on review the oddball character moments were a lot more interesting than the, well, plots.

I really am going to go to bed now. Really.

I'm awake.

I'm awake. I've been awake for 2.5 hours. I never figured anyone else would be awake. I've been watching infomercials. I need all sorts of products. I saw it on TV so it must be true.

And this was my last time checking the forums before I crash at 4:18 am. See you all in eight hours or so.

I've been awake for an hour or so. As usual, the cats were very motivational in getting me up. Almost as if they had a mission they needed me to accomplish.

Three days worth of low-level sinus headache is about to make me consider taking stronger measures, like sniffing up ground red pepper....

Oh dear, I'm the only person in the world who's awake.

It's the Chinese New Year festivities. Wallybee assures me that Shanghai's getting pretty loud, it must be keeping you up.