Verizon, in its wisdom, has decided that Chateau Steelypips is not, in fact, in need of DSL service this weekend. We’ve been without Internet connectivity since mid-afternoon yesterday. This is probably for the best, as my neck and shoulder are starting to suffer some twinges indicative of muscle spasms brought on by too much typing, so after this quick trip into the office to check email and do a quick blog sweep, I’m going home to lie on the couch and watch tv, the way God intended us to do on Sunday.<\/p>\n
If you’re wholly dependent on my recommendations for your entertainment, here are a couple of quick links:<\/p>\n
1) Aaron Bergman has written a review of Not Even Wrong<\/cite><\/a> (which is actually a rather long PDF file linked in that post), and Peter Woit has posted a response<\/a>. I haven’t read the book (Peter didn’t send me a review copy), and I’m not going to sit here long enough to read the review (see previous comment about God and television), bu if you can’t get enough of the debate over the scientific value of string theory, I recommend reading those posts.<\/p>\n If you can’t get enough of people with Ph.D.’s calling each other names, I recommend reading the comments to those posts.<\/p>\n 2) If you’re not quite up to wrestling with string theory today, but still feel a little cynical, Kevin Drum offers a twist on the “five random quotes” game<\/a>: Pick five quotes you think are a crock of shit.<\/p>\n That could be fun, and would certainly be easier than finding five I agree with. Maybe I’ll give it a whirl, once we’re back on the Internet at home.<\/p>\n If those don’t work for you, well, you can always watch bizarre videos on YouTube<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Verizon, in its wisdom, has decided that Chateau Steelypips is not, in fact, in need of DSL service this weekend. We’ve been without Internet connectivity since mid-afternoon yesterday. This is probably for the best, as my neck and shoulder are starting to suffer some twinges indicative of muscle spasms brought on by too much typing,… Continue reading Datastarve<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}