Epistemic Ingemination

The words of Hank Alrich, who originally gave me my first audio engineering shot at the Armadillo WHQ three decades ago, and who is now back at Threadgill’s with Dave & Eddie, threatening me:

“I hired you once, and I can do it again!”

(So you can, brother, so you can…) I’m again doing knob-turning on Friday and Saturday nights, as well as the Sunday brunches at Threadgill’s North for the foreseeable future.

So much for that ‘retirement’ I was talking about. But it’s two blocks from the house, a relatively early gig. Ryan can come hang whenever he likes. And I am again working with three of the folks that I respect the most in this business. Seems like a good enough confluence of positives to make allowances, n’est pas?

Cory Doctorow, quoting a conversation with a physicist about the startup of the Large Hadron Collider. (A few uninformed alarmist doomsday fearmongers concerned people think that it’s going to destroy the world.)

“Look, it’s a 10^-19 chance, and you’ve got a 10^-11 chance of suddenly evaporating while shaving.”

Just to comfort: we know of collisions more energetic deriving from cosmic rays, all the time. They just don’t happen where we can study ‘em. The Large Hadron Collider will produce energies approximately equivalent to two mosquitoes colliding head-on. Just in a very small space. Don’t worry too much about it.

I’m a-gonna start blogging again soon. In the meantime, watch the Republican convention. (On CSPAN; you don’t need commentary — you’re smart enough to form a personal opinion.) The “red meat” speeches are hilarious. I’ve never seen so many white people in one place.

I’ll tell you what I did on my summer vacation soon. Thanks for checking in over the drouth; I’ve been aware of it. Will ‘splain soon.