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I have a theory about the lottery I can't let go.
I'm one of those wing-nuts with a bulletin, yarn, thumbtacks, pictures of the Queen, Justin Trudeau, Lady Gaga, connecting the dots to a Komodo Dragon, a Pyramid, All-seeing eye, ...
Doing all the thinking myself...
I'm trying to get Chat GPT to help, and it's been useful, sort of, until I started fact checking it.
And I discover errors. Statistical Errors. Input read errors. Several of them.
An example:
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I'm not particularly a fan of Joe Rogan, given the general popularity & quality of his guests and show. I'm all for freedom of speech, but there does have to be some checks and balances, and very often his guests reflect his own quality of 'thought', which is to say he frequently exhibits all the credulity of Art Bell, only whereas I suspect Art Bell might have on occasion known or suspected his guests or call-ins were insane and was too kind to say, I too frequently see Rogan embracing guests without allowing for a more reasonable POV. And I suspect Joe Rogan buys it.
In any event, given the current state of the world I think we need to start running out of patience for self-serving stupidity.
On that note, here's a long Joe Rogan podcast wherein he interviews accomplished archaeologist Flint Dibble - by his dress alone a character, and Graham Hancock, who's made a great deal of money entertaining all manner of theories involving Ancient Aliens, fringe archaeology, etc. He's the Erich Von Däniken for the 21st Century. Entertaining, yes, but yet another example of someone who managed to "think for himself" with absolutely no credentials whatsoever.
I like to hear from people who've done the work.
Anyways, the Embed YouTube Videos feature still not working, I'm waiting for the solution, the perils of being an early adapter. So follow the link here - it's over 4 hours long, and it's entertaining to hear them 'debate' - and if you happened to think that Hancock's any sort of historical authority prepare to be undeceived.
Link: The Joe Rogan Experience #2136
Perfect for listening to while you're painting, drawing, or your otherwise busy.
Actually, I have to revise that. It's largely an aggrieved Graham Hancock arguing that his 'life's work' is being undermined by real science and legitimate archaeology. He's an embittered person who feels his "opinions" deserve equal weight to the work of thousands of Archeologists worldwide over hundreds of years. And - really, given the traction his idiocy has gotten him - specials on Netflix, for example, he's done pretty good. But it's time to lay aside the fairy tales and get back to the science. It's a little bit like Facebook Mom arguing treatments for Bacterial Meningitis with her Doctor.
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Yeah, no, it isn't me, don't even start here, I'm one idiot in a hundred, a thousand,,,,
Cure me and? Fuck that. Cure the culture that created me. Cure the myriad religions and races...
Cure the...
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Watching Netflix at a friends, the price I have to pay for dinner.
It's my meal-of-the-day at the moment, and I don't want to miss it. And I don't mind the break from my head, it can get a little claustrophobic up there at the moment.
We'd started on "The Gentlemen", Guy Ritchie, then given up after 4 episodes, derivative, silly, Guy Ritchie has a knack for dialogue, stereotypes, but it was proving far too predictable, and even the presence of Giancarlo Esposito from "Breaking Bad" couldn't save it. It would have been a bad 90 minute movie, spread out over 8 1 hour episodes it was unbearable.
So we switched to "The Brothers Sun", absolutely no better, another "Crime Family" ala every other show on Television, the 'hook' is the fact that most or all of the actors are Asian. I sort of recognize some of them, but can't remember their names, and jokingly put it down to the fact that all Asian Actors look the same.
This is of course a heinous prejudice that I sincerely don't share, but it was funny at the time, most probably because there weren't any Asians present.
But you can see the room for confusion - I mean, I recognized all the black actors in "The Nutty Professor" and "Meet the Klumps", but other than Eddie Murphy I don't think I could name a single one...
But it recalled a certain interview - and I'm pretty sure my memory deceives me, but it's of Samuel L. Jackson on a talk show - David Letterman maybe? And the host, or perhaps one of the guests, congratulates him on his work in ... such & such a film, to which Samuel L. Jackson dead-eyes him and replies as only he can "You must mean the Other Black Actor", which from the movie I knew to be Morgan Freeman...
It sounds like something Ricky Gervais would do, and I thought it's be funny to confuse Samuel L. Jackson for Robert Downy JR's character of Kirk Lazarus from "Tropic Thunder", which would be even more offensive and therefore funny...
But since the memory is somehow compromised and I can't really say where it's from, or how it's compromised, but damn, I'm pretty sure Samuel L. Jackson would even have a laugh at that...
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Yesterday, writing, catching up on a lot of sidetracked projects. When the librarian begins to speak, loudly, to customers, on the phone...
At the library...
And I want to tell her "Shhhh", I'm in flow, things are getting done and she's ruining it...
She's the librarian. I can't. And so I abandon projects.
And today, now, again, at the library, writing up the events of earlier in the day, and there's another wing nut yelling and threatening a bylaw officer for impounding her dog, a Salmo crackhead, loudly, showing how focused and in control she is, telling the bylaw officer the law (she knows, she's from Salmo), how he's breaking the law, and - yet again I'm dying to yell "Shhhhh" but it's become very apparent that there are no more Sacred Places...