freecounterpoint: The view from Mount Olympus

Saturday, October 02, 2010

The view from Mount Olympus

16 comments:

Mr roT said...: Where's the Obamakles label?

Goddamn, we had this nailed > 2 years ago. They pay Gerson for this?; 10/02/2010 7:33 AM
Tecumseh said...: (1) Of course, I looked for it. But it's not a label! So make one, already.

(2) Life is a bitch. To think some people get paid for their slobberings, and we don' even get a warm IPA...; 10/02/2010 8:19 AM
Mr roT said...: Tecs, you owe me about one million VCPs and 500,000 IPAs and never pay.

You can't complain about the WaPo guys paying Gerson. At least they pay.; 10/02/2010 9:39 AM
Mr roT said...: Add a VCP too, for not making the Obamakles label >2 years ago, when I coined the expression.; 10/02/2010 9:40 AM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Is Rotter sure it was Rotter who coined the "Obamakles" expression?; 10/02/2010 11:44 AM
Mr roT said...: Duh.; 10/02/2010 12:30 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Earliest post on FCP with "Obamakles" was on Wednesday, January 21, 2009; a post of mine titled "A Warnering for Obamakles".
The bottle of Port had better be of the finest quality, Herr Rotter.; 10/02/2010 12:39 PM
Mr roT said...: You stole the idea.; 10/02/2010 12:39 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: The Port should be accompanied by a Bacalhau fest worthy of Dionysus himself; 10/02/2010 12:45 PM
Mr roT said...: I thought Neptune would be the bacalhao - eater.; 10/02/2010 1:12 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: That would hit too close to home; 10/02/2010 1:50 PM
Tecumseh said...: I always thought AA coined the Obamakles moniker, and der Rotter then stole the idea, and used all those Latin variations (Pater Patriae, etc). Of course, Rot hogged all the labels on this theme, not leaving space for AA's seminal coinage.

I think Rot owes a bottle of old port to AA (I'll be happy to help AA finish it off). May I suggest a vintage Graham, from 1963?; 10/02/2010 3:28 PM
Mr roT said...: You older guys always try to steal the ideas of the younger, more vibrant minds such as mine.

Just think Wronsky.; 10/02/2010 4:10 PM
Tecumseh said...: You mean, Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński? He related to Henri Marie Coandă?

At any rate, you're right: good ole Wroński sounds like your typical Rotterman.

His theories were strongly Pythagorean, holding numbers and their properties to be the fundamental underpinning of essentially everything in the universe. His claims met with little acceptance, and his research and theories were generally dismissed as grandiose rubbish. His earlier correspondence with major figures led to his writings gaining more attention than a typical crackpot theory, even earning a review from the great mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange (which turned out to be exceedingly unfavorable). In the ensuing controversy, he was forced to leave the observatory.

He immediately turned his focus towards applying philosophy to mathematics (his critics charged that this meant dispensing with mathematical rigor in favor of generalities). In 1812 he published a paper purporting to show that every equation has an algebra solution, directly contradicting results that had just been published by Paolo Ruffini; however, Ruffini turned out to be correct.; 10/02/2010 5:34 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Ruffini? Dead!; 10/02/2010 5:53 PM
Mr roT said...: Niedermeyer? Dead! Dean Wormer? Dead!; 10/02/2010 5:56 PM

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