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News Briefs 06-11-2014

The ending of V for Vendetta always makes me cry.

Thanks to V & Nonno.

Quote of the Day:

“How calmly does the olive branch
Observe the sky begin to blanch
Without a cry, without a prayer
With no betrayal of despair

Some time while light obscures the tree
The zenith of its life will be
Gone past forever
And from thence
A second history will commence

A chronicle no longer gold
A bargaining with mist and mold
And finally the broken stem
The plummeting to earth, and then

And intercourse not well designed
For beings of a golden kind
Whose native green must arch above
The earth’s obscene corrupting love

And still the ripe fruit and the branch
Observe the sky begin to blanch
Without a cry, without a prayer
With no betrayal of despair

Oh courage! Could you not as well
Select a second place to dwell
Not only in that golden tree
But in the frightened heart of me?”

~Tennessee Williams, from The Night of the Iguana.

    1. The Abyss is my home
      I think you’re right in pointing out that the Navies of some countries are the ones who have developed the more advanced technologies to stay immersed indefinitely. My guess is maybe someday the private sector might want to license those technologies, but for that they need to see a profit, and that’s not going to come from pure research.

      The scenario in Cameron’s movie The Abyss, with a giant underwater platform where workers of an oil company work for prolonged shifts, seems like the most plausible at the moment; especially seems there doesn’t seem to be any rush in trying to move us from our fossil fuel addiction. Not sure if Fabien would be cool with that, though…

      Yet I hope I get to see underwater cities in my time 🙂

    1. Pseudo-science
      Well, that’s why I mentioned it. IMO the Electric Universe is a very interesting theory, although perhaps they go into extremes in supposing MOST of the features of the Universe are the result of electromagnetism. Yet this new theory that tries to explain the alleged influence of dark matter as a result of electrical charges kinda has the same tone –at least to my non-peer mind 😉

      So it goes to show that what might have once been proposed by a loonie with no credentials, gets to be accepted if it’s endorsed by someone with the right ‘pedigree’ 😉

      Mind you though, only because someone published a paper –and in this case, self-published– doesn’t mean it will be accepted by Academia.

  1. Yay! Another podcast to follow!
    So glad Mandy has started her own blog/podcast and the first episode is with Chris Ryan, jackpot!

    I will listen to it as soon as I can, but I’m sure it will be good.

    Her last podcast on Chris’s show was one of my favorites.

  2. EELS! THEY’RE COMIN’ AT YA!
    For some dark and twisted reason the eel story made me think of the Mighty Boosh’s Eel Man and the some he sings at the shop “EELS”…I wonder why 😛

    1. Commin’ atcha!
      Hmmm… I seem to remember you plugging this particular video before. Makes me think I myself might have linked to that story already, or a very similar one… hope this doesn’t develop into some kind of trend >____<

  3. Come on grab your friends…
    As you can see from my avatar, I am an Adventure Time fan even though I am no longer a kid. Although this, in my humble opinion, is not a kids show anymore. That threshold got crossed when Lumpy Space Princess molotov cocktailed Bubblegum’s palace and she told the guy she was meeting with (Lumpy’s then boyfriend) to chew the cyanide gum under the table if things got hot. What the serious fuck?!

    Actually I read this story a while back from somewhere, which makes sense since AT has had it’s sixth season since he left. I hate the haters in the comments who go “Poor successful baby” they seem to forget that while he was successful it was only after a hard struggle. Oh yeah and HE’S HUMAN! He’s allow to get fed up and walk out. Shit’s tough so tough shit!

    *takes breath*

    So anyway, here’s hoping to many many more years of craziness for AT.

    1. Picked that one for you 😉
      I was expressly thinking of you when I decided to include that story link.

      But I also chose it for myself. Because it reminded me of how much I struggled many years ago with the realization that, no matter how smart and/or talented I (thought I) was, if I didn’t have so-called ‘people skills’, I’d never be able to ‘make it.’

      I resented that tremendously. It was the main fuel of my depression.

      It seems Pendletorn was one of the lucky few who actually ‘made it’ despite his obvious lack of social skills, and yet he was even lucky enough to be able to walk away from said success unscathed. Now he has the recognition, and (hopefully) the financial security to have even more creative freedom and dictate his own rules 🙂

      1. What time is it?!
        [quote=red pill junkie]I was expressly thinking of you when I decided to include that story link.[/quote]

        Awww. All the feels.

        [quote=red pill junkie] But I also chose it for myself. Because it reminded me of how much I struggled many years ago with the realization that, no matter how smart and/or talented I (thought I) was, if I didn’t have so-called ‘people skills’, I’d never be able to ‘make it.’

        I resented that tremendously. It was the main fuel of my depression.
        [/quote]

        It may be hard to believe but I completely understand and perhaps why I too can relate so well to both the creator and the show. I am as far from a social butterfly as it comes and I HATED the thought of working with someone ever since I was a child. Heck I still believe I’m the best in my area doing the work I do and half the time when I do work with the people in my office, I feel as though I’m surrounded by complete idiots (as many people do). Maybe your lack of social skills doesn’t stem from the same reasons as mine, but I sympathize. Me and my family have had long battles with depression and my previous job was such a fuel of it to me I came close to either hurting myself or others. It is the cause of my misanthropy. I have improved, but I still loathe having to rely on others and having others rely on me for a deadline that doesn’t let me fully express myself or stresses me out so much my mind goes blank. Pendletorn is lucky indeed…

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