30 September 2010

ahead by a century - th

First we'd climb a tree and maybe then we'd talk
Or sit silently and listen to our thoughts
With illusions of someday casting a golden light
No dress rehearsal, this is our life
That's when the hornet stung me and I had a feverish dream
With revenge and doubt tonight we smoke them out

You are ahead by a century

Stare in the morning shroud and then the day began
I tilted your cloud, you tilted my hand
Rain falls in real time and rain fell through the night
No dress rehearsal, this is our life

That's when the hornet stung me and I had a serious dream
With revenge and doubt tonight, we smoked them out

You are ahead by a century
But this is our life and disappointing you getting me down

29 September 2010

Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism

http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2009/01/02/how-to-think-about-science-part-1---24-listen/#episode21

Christopher Norris and Mary Midgley


Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism, by Christopher Norris. Published by Routledge, 2000.
In his life of the 18th century writer Samuel Johnson, James Boswell relates a conversation with Johnson about the philosophy of their contemporary Bishop Berkeley. Berkeley's philosophy, as Johnson and Boswell understood it, held that all we really have of the world is our idea of it, and Boswell remarks to Johnson that this position, though false, is impossible to refute "I shall never forget," Boswell then goes on, "the alacrity with which Johnson answered. Striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, [he cried] - "I refute it thus."
In this episode of How To Think About Science, philosopher Christopher Norris, takes his stand with Dr. Johnson. He believes that the best philosophy of science is a robust realism
Christopher Norris talks to David Cayley about why he thinks realism makes for the best philosophy, and the best politics. Then later in the hour, British philosopher Mary Midgley, argues that science always sees the world through the lens of some orienting story.

26 September 2010

Crossroads (Don McLean)

Intro: G / Em / C / Am / D

Em Am
I've got nothing on my mind
D
Nothing to remember
G D/F# Em
Nothing to forget
Am D
I've got nothing to regret
G Am
But I'm all tied up on the inside
C D G
No-one knows quite what I've got
Em Am
And I know that on the outside
C D
What I used to be - I'm not
G C G
Anymore


G Am
You know I've heard about people like me
C D G
But I never made the connection
G Am
They walk one road to set them free
C D
And find they've gone the wrong direction
G Am
But there's no need for turning back
C D G
'cause all roads lead to where I stand
Em Am
And I believe I'll walk them all
C D G
No matter what I may have planned


Em Am
Can you remember who I was
D
Can you still feel it
G D/F# Em
Can you find my pain
C D
Can you heal it
G Am
And lay your hands upon me now
C D G
And cast this darkness from my soul
Em Am
You alone can light my way
C D
You alone can make me whole
G C G
Once again


G Am
We've walked both sides of ev'ry street
C D G
Through all kinds of windy weather
G Am
But that was never our defeat
C D
As long as we could walk together
G Am
So there's no need for turning back
C D G
'cause all roads lead to where we stand
Em Am
And I believe we'll walk them all
C D Em C G C G
No matter what we may have planned


There are two sets of chords for the verses:

Verse 1 & Verse 3 are identical
Verse 2 & Verse 4 are more or less the same