Tag: Filler

But until then, let me reveal to you the beauty of a recent spam comment:

Well, that mastodon is much less flaunting than that conjoint llama.

Isn’t that just sublime?

There’s not much to report here at All-Embracing Central; I’ve finally managed to get Quicktime to do the thing I wanted it to do and thus the media for Wednesday’s lecture is ‘sorted’ (as they say down at the docks). The research paper continues a pace and I may have a corporate speaking engagement lined up for the last quarter of the year-that-is.

Thus, no content. Wish me luck for Wednesday, although I’m confident enough to think that I shan’t need it.

My ego will be my downfall.

The Comte de Saint-Germaine works late night at the University Library. We don’t know what he is studying and it isn’t clear that he is the Comte de Saint-Germaine, but he fits all the qualifying criteria. The beard that looks like a disguise, the archaic language use and, most importantly, the name-dropping of long dead personages.

I only mention this because a similar character appears in Umberto Eco’s ‘Foucault’s Pendulum,’ and whilst both his character and mine are very definitely mortal men doomed to die they still have a certain majesty and mystery around them that make you realise that learning for-the-sake-of-learning can be respectable in its own right.

Even if it does drive you mad.

The FHG tells me that I will, one day, become such a figure. I don’t know whether that scares or pleases me.

You can tell that thesis reading is working for you when you are able to answer the question ‘Can you develop an Assurance View of Testimonial Transmission along Reliabilist lines?’ knowing that, a few months ago, most of those terms were seemed just like gobbledegook.

Anyway, that’s what I’m doing at the moment, so I recommend we make this post[1] ‘Open Season’ and you can ask, if you feel the want, all those questions you were denied when I ‘accidentally’ locked down this blog to comments.

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1. I actually have substantial content, but I’m postponing posting it until Thursday for reasons that aren’t entirely clear. I have a headcold, if that helps make sense of any of it.