Smackdown Stream of Conscience

Last night was very snowy, so I decided not to attend an astronomy talk with Rich on his side of town, although it did sound interesting. He also wanted to grab dinner at a fast food restaurant, which may be a selling point in his world, but is not much of one in mine. Instead I stayed home and had a substitute slow food meal.

Hamburger on white bread bun – I substituted sandwich of homemade bread with artisan cheese

French fries – I substituted roasted pumpkin seeds

Chocolate shake – I substituted a pumpkin smoothie

And what has that got to do with the title of this post? Nothing, but this post will have something to do with the title of the post, as soon as I tell you that one of our trainees is a Horny Toad or whatever you call a TCU alum, and she was watching the Rose Bowl with another trainee who was not amused when she wore her Horny Toad shirt. When I told Toque McToque this story, she said good thing the Texas trainee didn’t get beaten up, and I said she could totally take the other trainee, but Sock Puppet could take her, and our really crazy coworker Snowflake could take them all down.

“How many people were at this Rose Bowl party?” Toque asked in astonishment, and I realized she thought I meant Sock Puppet and Snowflake were there as well. So then I had to explain that they weren’t at this party at all, I was just thinking of who could take down whom in a Smackdown Stream of Conscience.

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The Quotable Rockstar Tailor

Rockstar Tailor is so quotable that I have to quote her here yet again. Today she had two particularly good ones:

1. In response to someone who wrote an instant message that ended with an ellipsis (...), she wrote, "What does dot dot and dot mean in this case?"

2. In a story about a doll she wrote: "Then my brain sent me an email that said DUH!"

And here is yet another movie of Tiffy and me having smackdowns using various toys and kitchen gadgets: a snowman candle, an elf, a My Little Pony, a martian, a corkscrew, and a can opener. Once again I was having some fun with Garage Band for the background music.

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Smackdown: Boethius vs. Heisenberg

B: (sitting alone in jail cell) Philosophy has finally helped me reconcile predestination and free will. God doesn't affect our choices by His knowledge of which path we will choose, because He sees all our actions - past, present, and future - in the Eternal Now.

H: WRONG!

B: Werner Heisenberg, my mortal enemy!

H: So, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius - we meet again! Don't you know that the act of obervation directly affects the act being observed?

B: Yes, but is that effect in every reference frame or only in my own reference frame?

H: Certainly in your own reference frame.

B: And could God not exist in ALL reference frames?

H: Hmm... I'm not certain.

So you, my loyal readers, get to weigh in. Who takes this round: philosophy or science? Inductive or deductive reasoning? Since there are only three of you, it shouldn't be a tie!

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