Twice in as many days … another footbal story, two actually. Great to see Blades get the decision on the Tevez fiasco at West Ham two seasons ago and love or hate him, great to see Warnock happy. No amount of compensation fixes it of course, but justice is done. (I love the Warnock quote [...]
Entries from September 2008
Football Bizarre
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September 23, 2008 at 10:48am
by Psybertron
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Re-organization Update
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September 22, 2008 at 9:19pm
by Psybertron
Just a quickie update. I’ve pruned the overloaded side-bar – by using a simpler collapsible “previous posts” javascript, and removing a couple of dozen old, redundant or little-used blog-roll links. I’ve also moved the Pirsig / MoQ links to the newer [Pirsig] page, and added additional internal navigation links to that page. The original Psybertron Pirsig Pages [...]
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Bereft of Reason
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September 19, 2008 at 12:27pm
by Psybertron
Humiliated. Headless chickens. Privatisation of profits, socialisation of losses. Staunching the flow of blood, but not fixing the wound. A real downer from Robert Peston commenting on the (proposed) US bail-out of the banking industry, and a whole spectrum of comments from his readers. I’m no expert of international banking, but the scale of the [...]
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Terry-ble Decision
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September 17, 2008 at 10:55am
by Psybertron
Despite it being an important part of our lives, I suspect this is only the second post in the 7 year history of Psyberton on the subject of football (real football that is, played with the feet). I’m making this posting because this is a wonderful illustration of why objective logic is a useless decision [...]
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Science shoots itself in the foot, again.
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September 16, 2008 at 2:03pm
by Psybertron
I agree with Sir Robert Winston here. The Royal Society has miscalculated if it thinks denying opportunities to even respond to questions about whacky alternatives does anything for the understanding and credibility of science.
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Collaboration – An Outbreak of Common Sense
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September 15, 2008 at 9:28am
by Psybertron
Turbulent times for global finances, but interesting take here from the BBC’s Robert Peston. Talking of accidental shocks to the system. OK, so the wind and water of a hurricane like Ike can cause danger, damage and disruption anywhere it strikes, but why does modern Texas and Houston, have such poor infrastructure that recovery requires [...]
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Hoops of Fire
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September 14, 2008 at 10:35am
by Psybertron
As I near the end of a period of living & working in the US, in the Tennessee Valley in northern Alabama, I notice a few of my blog posts recently closing circles, mainly in musical connections. One obvious circle for Sylvia and I is that, purely coincidentally, the move from the US, is not [...]
Zen and Now on Point
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September 14, 2008 at 7:57am
by Psybertron
Tom Ashbrook “On Point” on WBUR Boston public radio, interviews Mark Richardson, Ron DiSanto, Jim Landis (and Henry Gurr, calling in) on Zen and the Art, the Guidebook, and Zen and Now. Excellent free-ranging discussion across the appeal of the original book, and more.
Forensic Linguistics
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September 8, 2008 at 1:48pm
by Psybertron
Just collecting this link to a BBC Story about txt msg style being used to convict. Liked the formal language of the expert; “powerful enough attribution to discriminate”.
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ZenAndNow Live
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September 7, 2008 at 3:59pm
by Psybertron
Mark Richardson’s Zen And Now web-site is now live in time for his book launch this Tuesday (9th Sept). On the news page you’ll find a list of stops on his promotional tour, where you can drop in and say hello. As someone particularly interested in the biographical side of the Pirsigs, I can safely say there [...]
Stats and Causation (again)
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September 3, 2008 at 2:18pm
by Psybertron
A BBC Story.
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Browsing My Own Archives
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September 2, 2008 at 8:48am
by Psybertron
Keep coming across things I blogged years ago, totally forgotten, usually prompted by cross-hit reports, that seem “good” – if I say so myself. This is an example from 2004. Nothing new under the sun. I really MUST do some consolidated writing – from the blog and from discussion-forum contributions.
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Spoonfed Tribe
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September 1, 2008 at 8:13pm
by Psybertron
We weren’t really up for a late night this last Friday after an early evening Mexican meal featuring The Deltones at Madison (Al) Bandito Burrito – ’nuff said – we went into town (Huntsville) ‘cos I had a vague recollection I’d noticed an interesting gig at Crossroads, and I’m glad I hung onto that thought. [...]
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Another Reversed Adage
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September 1, 2008 at 6:17pm
by Psybertron
One in a series of many … the reversal of “sticks & stones“. For every wise old adage there is an equal and opposite adage. Does that mean adages and old-wives tales are worthless – Nope; it means context is everything.
