Been walking 10-12 miles a day
Got sore feet but at least I've been able to get fully acquainted with Glass's opera 'Einstein on the Beech's
(every cloud and all that)
Thank you
I feel weirdly (but truly) irrelevant now
I thought that 'temporary respite care' (which began last Thursday) would have brought some relief for both of us
I had not anticipated how empty and valueless - purposeless, meaningless - my life would be disclosed as being
“We don't have tomorrow / But we had yesterday / wasn't it me who said that nothing good's gonna last forever”
Never imagined that lyric could carry so much (unintended) meaning
Gah! This is much harder than I thought it would be
Social services now trying to engineer permanent institutional care
Rand Paul: "As far as reasons for the war, there have been many different ones floated, but none have been very convincing... we were told their nuclear weapons were obliterated, and now we're told their nuclear weapons are just moments away from being a bomb. I don't think the arguments are valid."
so, is there a war or isn’t there a war? don’t ask Donny — because as always, you’re not going to get a coherent answer out of him. we’re dealing with Schrödinger’s Moron.
so, are we at war with Iran, or are we not at war? is it going to be over soon, or are we just getting started? don't bother asking Mad King Donny, he's too fucked in the head to keep his story straight. thank you for reading my post in which I mock the shit out of it. link is here: bit.ly/3NpGqPv
Too true
Just relaxing with a good book while my lunch is cooking...
The genuinely revelatory thing here is how sensitive nuclei are
Mo-84 and Mo-86 differ by just two neutrons
Yet the internal structure changes dramatically
(That’s a bit like adding two grains of sand to a sandcastle and watching the entire shape collapse and reform)
This kind of discovery matters because of how it tests nuclear force models
Nuclear interactions are extremely complicated and observations like this help to constrain the theory
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Contrary to the headline, nothing fundamental was violated
What changed is just where islands of inversion can appear
We previously believed they required large neutron excess
Now we know they can also occur at N = Z symmetry
An interesting result...
Exactly. And Trump can’t cope with Starmer’s probity because it makes it harder to hide his own culpability re the war in Iran.
A very touristy shot but the truth is that unless you actually live here, and hence can get up and out before the city wakes, it's practically impossible to snap this good boy without either encroaching on or being encroached upon by others...
Currently strolling through Chambers Street...
Here's another 'prelude in the jazz style' by Ukrainian composer Kapustin...
Apologies for the poor quality recording... posting this just as a reminder to myself that I used to have Prokofiev's 'Visions Fugitives' in my repertoire
(I'm trying to encourage myself to return to the piano after a few weeks off)
Just enjoying going through some oldish video clips
This is an excerpt from Olivier Messiaen's epic 'Vingt regards sur l’Enfant Jésus'
For the record: I am a staunch antitheist (I think religion is unethical) but even I am awed by the meaning of this work
Or, more precisely, it's at the end of Crawfurd Road and at the end of East Suffolk Road (the point at which those two streets meet)
Thank you very much
It's where St Margaret's girl's school used to be, tucked away behind dalkeith road commonwealth cemetery, between Cameron Toll and Newington
I'm very happy that you like the photos
It's something Edinburgh does uniquely well: the contrast between austere stone and luminous sky
The Scott Monument especially - that great Gothic lattice - seems almost designed to catch the first glister of the day, the way it does in my shot
The Meadows, Edinburgh, just now...
St. Cuthbert's Church and graveyard (with Edinburgh Castle in the background) photographed from Lothian Road, just now...
St. Cuthbert's Church, Lothian Road, as seen from Princes Street, Edinburgh, just now...
The Castle, as seen from the intersection of Princes Street and The Mound, Edinburgh, just now...
Another photo of the national galleries on The Mound, Edinburgh, taken just now...
The national galleries, on The Mound, as seen from Princes Street, Edinburgh, just now...
The Scott Monument, Edinburgh, just now...
