HULK SMASHED
Hello!
That looks dirty.
Sibelius, you magnificent bastard!
Get ready for war in Iran.
You know it's coming. Just listen to the rhetoric.
(From below)
Echidne,
Son accosted me to make him lunch. So I am still up. No, I don't see it as a problem. Did you read the link: honest answer now?
DWD
Goodnight, my lovelies. JFK beckons us early. Be good to each other.
fresh sheets. what a treat.
Also, in case you weren't aware, Huggy Bear is an asshole.
Noonan suggests what Obama "think[s] of America" is a mystery -- but he wrote a whole book on the topic
heh. indeed.
I'm having a serious music fit. Listening to Schubert's string quintet now, totally into it...
Get ready for war in Iran.
No. I wouldn't even if I knew how to.
Thanks for the fresh linens, Echidne.
No. I wouldn't even if I knew how to.
Apostate
Indeed. From your lips to the FSM's ears. And noodly appendages.
NToddler, of course, would be Princess Buttercup.
Sinfonian, Earl of Warren
NToddler would be Duke of Dildo.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is happy with the outcome. In a blogger conference call today, he said the results in Basra and southern Iraq were a “pleasant turn of events” in his view. Sadr, McCain says, is now marginalized. The bloggers reported on McCain’s responses:
Hot Air: It’s a “pleasant turn of events.” We’ve been pressing Maliki for action, and he persevered through some setbacks to success. Basra now is under Maliki’s control, and it has united the central government. Sadr is marginalized. “Overall, I’m rather pleased.”
Commentary: He described the outcome as a “pleasant turn of events” and said that Prime Minister Maliki “surprised us all.” McCain conceded that there were setbacks at first, but said that with limited American support the Iraqi army has wrested control of Basra from the Sadrites.
Sadr is dead! Long live Sadr!
play for the 3 run homer, bitches!
So we spent the last two days at a pre-retirement seminar put on by my employer. It was actually pretty impressive; very well done & well thought out, not just about money but about first, envisioning what your retirement will look like, and then talking about all the 401k, etc., stuff to make that happen. It wasn't nearly as depressing as it sounds.
And the dear spouse came with me, which was excellent, and what was even more excellent was when we did the guided meditation, we both envisioned the same thing -- city apartment overlooking a park.
Dragging up my profound comment from below:
ellroon: as bad as it is now, and it's bad, it's nothing, nothing whatever like the slaughter of the first world war.
It's too easy, with a volunteer army, 'only' 4000 or so American dead, and rigid control of information, to pretend there isn't a war on.
ProfWombat |
I know. The slaughter of men was beyond horrific.
Now we are just supposed to watch American Idol and go shopping. The volunteer army stupidly volunteered so they have to go and die.
ellroon bitterful
omg, sibelius.
it's been a long time
thanks echidne
Ooh, I love Sibelius! I used to play oboe, and I've never heard this piece. Jesus, it's beautiful. I don't think I was ever that good.
Of course, I wasn't that good. We used to play "Finlandia" a lot, though.
I put Ralph Vaughn Williams in the same category in my feeble little mind; music that is very simple but hauntingly beautiful. His oboe concerto made me wish I'd never quit playing.
It's a composer AND a governor of Kansas!
It's still Friday here in the midwest, so I'll sneak in a catblogging pic.
i'm the king of nothing...
those paintings are freaking me out.
How come none of you hypocrites mentioned that Duncan just posted 2 videos posted by a Ron Paul nut? What's next, videos about how Hillary is just another little Jew Tool?
Ralph Vaughan Williams = my musical hero
I have left instructions to have "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" played at my funeral. Doesn't have to be live; a recording will do. 
And the dear spouse came with me, which was excellent, and what was even more excellent was when we did the guided meditation, we both envisioned the same thing -- city apartment overlooking a park.
That's really nice.
I received in the mail the other day a statement from the SSA telling me how much SS I would receive monthly if I worked to age X, Y or Z. If I'm lucky, I have a lot of years of work ahead of me.
we both envisioned the same thing -- city apartment overlooking a park.
strawhat says
Sounds like a good plan.
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A sphincter says what?
Huggy Bear does not have clue one as to what is really going on in Iraq.
Which means he's perfectly positioned to continue the deserting coward's "plan" for that country.
Echidne,
I was save you the trouble. Here is the real meat of the long article, Yet, rather than being read as evidence of a Clinton strength, these results mostly have been interpreted as a worrying sign for Obama's ultimate general election chances.
For Obama, Bositis' analysis is both bad news and good news.
The bad news is that white women voters, who exercise outsized power in the primaries because of their relatively high turnout, continue to rally behind Clinton despite the long odds against her securing the nomination. They will likely continue to frustrate Obama's efforts to end the contest before the close of the primary season in June.
The good news for Obama is that his defeat in Pennsylvania, and his decisive loss among white voters Tuesday, may not indicate, as some observers and Clinton partisans have contended, a fatal weakness with white voters that could doom his chances against Arizona Sen. John McCain in November.
While the MSM has been content with the narrative that Barack Obama has a problem with white voter and Hillary has a problem with black voters the problem is actually much different.
Hillary is commanding incredible loyalty from white women. This is skewing the racial results to make it look like Barack is having trouble attracting white voters. Contrarily it is making it look Hillary is having trouble where she is not.
Interesting read.
http://www.newhouse.com/white-re...ti-black-
2.html
No VJ in this as far as I can see.
DWD, I answered you below.
You know it's coming. Just listen to the rhetoric.
Sinfonian, Earl of Warren
I've noticed the same rhetoric and it scares me to death...
Sinf: yup; 'Tallis' is great. 'The Lark Ascending' is among the very best noises I've ever heard. Even his hymns, odd for a not too religious guy...
God Damn America for allowing president Bush to steal the election.
God damn America for voting in Bush for a 2nd term.
God Damn America for killing Hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis
God Damn America for killing our soldiers for a useless war.
God Damn America for letting the rich get Richer.
God damn America for letting the poor get poorer.
God Damn America for believing the useless Media Fodder
God Damn America for letting those people suffer and die in New Orleans during Katrina.
God Damn America for not giving a shit about the environment.
God Damn America for torturing.
God Damn America for not covering peoples right to health care.
God Damn America for being Ignorant
God Damn it.
dont worry sinf. Congress will stop bush.
Ralph Vaughan Williams = my musical hero
Mine, too! We have two of his compositions in the "Oxford Easy Anthem Book" that we use in our church choir, and I'm dying to use them, because, well....
Now, the prounuciation: "ralf" or "rafe"?
My mother taught me the latter, but the local NPR station uses the former.
I thought I hated Huggy Bear before, but after his hypocritical ass said what he said in New Orleans, during his "whirlwind visit," he can get fucked with a rusty chainsaw, sideways.
Goddamn, I hate that fucking douchebag.
It's still Friday here in the midwest, so I'll sneak in a catblogging pic.
FeralLiberal
I've already blogwhored my borrowed kitties...
'Raife', I believe, as with most Brits...
Hillary is commanding incredible loyalty from white women.
Shorter Hillary: "Where the white wimmin at?"
hamletta: what ProfWombat said.
Your station is hopelessly provincial.
good evening bats
finally got around to watching no country for old men
man, death is the new black
And sorry about the surrealist paintings. This was the best noise of the available choices.
Love the Swan of Tuonela. You can hear the swan swimming in the still waters of the world of the dead.
DWD: my wife, a career woman who's dealt with her share, at 56, is for Obama...
ellroon: gets back to the old trope of who loves the vets. By all evidence, Republicans don't, except to wrap themselves in the flag.
Much to do tomorrow. May you all have DFH tonight (Dreams From Hecate).
I think a large part of white women's loyalty to Hillary Clinton is that they see the unrelenting barrage of sexist abuse heaped upon her at every turn, which reminds them of the unrelenting sniping of sexist abuse that they take every day as well. Many men, even well-intentioned men who love their mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters, just don't see it.
Shakespeare's Sister blog had a very good post earlier today about how that's like the Matrix. Once you see it, nothing's the same, but until you make an effort to see it you'll never notice it.
For years, I had a CD of "Tallis" done by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra under Slatkin. I damn near wore that thing out.
Then I moved to St. Louis. Then "Tallis" was on their season. And I went.
I wept openly. I believe it's the closest to the Divine I've ever been, hearing that in person in Powell Hall in St. Louis.
"God damn America for voting in Bush for a 2nd term."
God knows he wasn't elected then either..
Ah, to me, "Go figure" is an expression that means the idea expressed just before it is so obvious that it really needs no qualifier.
Looking at incredible wind and rain damage a man turns to another and says, Storm last night? The other man says, Go figure.
That sort of thing. Not meant to be insulting, just a statement of the obvious. Yes, women are supporting Hillary.
"Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis"
Here
'Raife', I believe, as with most Brits...
ProfWombat
Thank you, sir. My mom isn't one for pedantry. She may actually have met him, or maybe it was that french horn player pictured in the gimme folders from the music shop where I took lessons that she worked so hard to provide, even though she was a single working mom, and I suck....
Sinf: have you ever heard the Tallis Scholars sing Tallis? Cross state lines to do so if you have a chance; they're transcendent.
im not going to brush meh teeth tonight.
my little rebellion.
ellroon: gets back to the old trope of who loves the vets. By all evidence, Republicans don't, except to wrap themselves in the flag.
ProfWombat
Exactly.
That sort of thing. Not meant to be insulting, just a statement of the obvious. Yes, women are supporting Hillary.
My deepest apologies. I misunderstood.
the paintings didn't bother me at all.
I wept openly. I believe it's the closest to the Divine I've ever been, hearing that in person in Powell Hall in St. Louis.
I once wept watching a ballet. (The Bolshoi). It was superlatively beautiful and the dance spoke more clearly than words could ever speak.
Hello good people.
It's still Friday here in the midwest, so I'll sneak in a catblogging pic.
FeralLiberal |
Your pic reminded me of this poster.
I'm uploading some tallis scholars for sinfonian right now...
Palestrina- Missa Benedicta es
"Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis"
Here
Apostate
Thanks. It never occurred to me that it would have made YouTube.
I won't listen now ... have to be in the right mood. I'll wait until I get dumped via e-mail again or something.
the Tallis Scholars sing Tallis?
I dig them.
Hillary is commanding incredible loyalty from white women. This is skewing the racial results to make it look like Barack is having trouble attracting white voters.
The question is what will these hard core Clinton supporters do in November?
How many usually vote Republican and will vote for McCain in the General once its a contest between two men? How many will be so disappointed when Obama wins that they stay home?
Sinf: have you ever heard the Tallis Scholars sing Tallis? Cross state lines to do so if you have a chance; they're transcendent.
ProfWombat
No, but I'll keep an eye out for them. Thanks.
Watching Judith Jamison dance Alvin Ailey's 'Cry' did that to me. Couldn't speak for an hour. Don't get that way often.
ProfWombat,
I just thought the article interesting because it brought up a POV I had not heard expressed before. The skewing of statistics because of the loyalty of one group.
And yes, I can believe that women perceive much of the press comments as being anti-women. I have worked in the black community for three decades. I perceive MUCH of what is passing for criticism - some of it from the Clinton Camp - of Obama as racism.
In the end you just do the best you can. I only brought the article to people's attention because I perceive it to be positive news. The news media is trying to bury the Dems again and what this article is saying is that Barack (still the likely nominee) really does not have nearly the problem with white people voting for him that is being reported. That, to me, is good news.
Night
Hillary is commanding incredible loyalty from white women.
Well, so we've got that in common.
A wise and holy old priest said that weeping at an experience of transcendant beauty (seeing tears on our faces after singing in Rome) is the touch of the divine.
Have you looked at this guy's other videos?
The question is what will these hard core Clinton supporters do in November?
How many usually vote Republican and will vote for McCain in the General once its a contest between two men? How many will be so disappointed when Obama wins that they stay home?
The Old Man From Scene 24
If the nominee is Barack Obama they will vote for him. I say that without qualification for the contrast between a Democratic progressive and four more years of Bush is an easy choice.
The question is what will these hard core Clinton supporters do in November?
How many usually vote Republican and will vote for McCain in the General once its a contest between two men? How many will be so disappointed when Obama wins that they stay home?
They'll probably vote Democratic, as the vast majority of most Democrats, regardless of whether they are white women.
This BSG episode contains an illustration of Chicago Dyke's complaint about the mindless, useless fumbing of Greek myth. Zeus's "rape," far from being shocking, was as vital an element of the Patriarchal redefinition of sex as a sphere of masculine domination as the rapes of pretty much every other man in Greek mythology, and it is certainly weird to hear criticism of it from Baltar's mouth.
Watching Judith Jamison dance Alvin Ailey's 'Cry' did that to me. Couldn't speak for an hour. Don't get that way often.
ProfWombat
I came close to that after singing "Carmina Burana" a couple of weeks ago at the Knight Concert Hall in Miami.
Of course, as a first tenor, it shouldn't be surprising that I couldn't speak afterward. But it was an incredible experience. Nearly three thousand people fairly leapt to their feet as one to cheer as the last note faded away ... chills.
k&Y
Careful. You're coming mighty close to spoilers there.
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A tractor trailer that witnesses said didn't seem to slow down rammed into a crowded bus shelter and a Chicago Transit Authority rail station Friday during the evening rush hour, killing two people and injuring more than a dozen others.
Emergency personnel remove the wreckage of a tractor-trailer from the front of a Chicago rail station Friday.
"This is rush hour, so it's bad," Langford said.
Those killed, both women, were apparently walking near the Cermak-Chinatown Red Line station on the city's South Side, Fire Department spokeswoman Eve Rodriguez said. They were dead at the scene, she said.
Twenty-one people were transported to area hospitals, said fire department spokesman Larry Langford. Eleven were in critical condition, including four children, eight adults were in stable condition and two adults were in good condition.
Witnesses said the truck didn't appear to slow down before ramming into the station's stairwell
k&y remind me of this post of mine from below:
"Democrat vicotry" by any name smells pretty much the same, as the poet said.
Rev Wright was too kind, too hopeful.
If I believed in God I would say he damned America a long time ago. Nixon, Reagan, Billy Graham, and the two George Bushes have been fucking its corpse and making us pay to watch.
Reverend Wright is a conservative compared to me--and compared to every thinking person I know. So don't come in here with that weak shit, you strange little insect-like person.
(Why am I doing this?)
I came close to that after singing "Carmina Burana" a couple of weeks ago at the Knight Concert Hall in Miami.
Of course, as a first tenor, it shouldn't be surprising that I couldn't speak afterward. But it was an incredible experience. Nearly three thousand people fairly leapt to their feet as one to cheer as the last note faded away ... chills.
Sinfonian, Earl of Warren
My husband utterly loves Orff. I have to leave the room if I'm not in the mood, for his music walks right in and sits right down. It is so powerful.
one of his playlists is filled with videos ( well, they are power points, probably) of modern artists works set to music.
ok, tallis scholars is up at my place
Sinf: 'Carmina Burana' is one of those things that's so overplayed it's become a cliche. But a lot of things are cliches because they're true. And it's an amazing piece of music.
Dick Cheney is an inhuman fascist psychopath.
So don't come in here with that weak shit, you strange little insect-like person.
Oh, yeah? Well, fuck you too.
Beloved Dimocrat LBJ instigated and presided over some 30,000 US combat deaths in Vietnam, over 7X our casualties in Iraq.
Beloved NPR "national treasure" and left-wing fraud Moyers was LBJ's main media guy.
you go, "progressive" liars and frauds!
ok, tallis scholars is up at my place
::matthew
Thanks, d00d.
Dick Cheney is an inhuman fascist psychopath.
Duane V, Too Serious
Dr. So to you!
A wise and holy old priest said that weeping at an experience of transcendant beauty (seeing tears on our faces after singing in Rome) is the touch of the divine.
So true.
Oh, yeah? Well, fuck you too.
Gregor Samsa
I don't believe I've had the pleasure...
Sinf: 'Carmina Burana' is one of those things that's so overplayed it's become a cliche. But a lot of things are cliches because they're true. And it's an amazing piece of music.
ProfWombat
Every now and then we have to perform something "popular" ... keeps us in the black. But there's a reason "Carmina," the Mozart Requiem, the Brahms Requiem, Handel's Messiah, etc. are "popular."
Hillary is commanding incredible loyalty from white women. This is skewing the racial results to make it look like Barack is having trouble attracting white voters.
Well I would hope that Democrats will vote for Obama in November, but much has been made recently of Clinton's popularity among so-called "Reagan Democrats" and the fierce loyalty she has among many women especially those of the baby boomer generation. I'm just wondering how many of those are "moderate" Republicans supporting Clinton because they want to see a woman in the White house.
(And please understand I'm not implying there's anything wrong with that, despite my problems with how she has run her campaign I think she is an extremely capable person and it seems reasonable to think that she would attract some non-crazy Republican women who want to see a woman in the Oval Office.)
Oh Christ, I haven't been on this blog for more than 4 hours and the first comment I see is from Lubeandyankit.
I don't believe I've had the pleasure...
Shall we dance?
Look! The good news video that the Liberal Media are suppressing -- the ponies have been found. A whole field of them!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xY42U1FMmU
I get my kicks on Route 66
listening right now, ::matthew.
Amazing. Thanks again.
e2-e4
Did a signet ring feature prominently in The Man Without Qualities, or did I wait to long before giving up the drink?
Sinf: they come to the Boston area every year, usually in a church. They are uniformly stunning in concert.
This is the most erudite blog on the internets.
Speaking of Tallis and music of that type I am always in awe of Allegri's Miserere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x...h?
v=x71jgMx0Mxc
This is the most erudite blog on the internets.
Sinfonian
there is one other...
Seriously. The brain power of the regular commenters here is, at all times, inversely proportional to that of the trolls.
listening right now, ::matthew.
Amazing. Thanks again.
Sinfonian, Earl of Warren
Me, too.
Beautiful.
This is the most erudite blog on the internets.
Sinfonian, Earl of Warren
Who youse callin' err rud ite?
Bugger. Hate to leave this thread and your good company.
Night, bats...
Hillary is commanding incredible loyalty from white women. This is skewing the racial results to make it look like Barack is having trouble attracting white voters.
Obama is getting over 90% - OVER NINETY PERCENT of the African American vote -
there is one other...
::matthew
Well, okay, other than Blast Off!, I mean. Thanks for the reminder.
Fighting a war in the mists of a marijuana jungle?
http://blog.wired.com/defense/20...ng-weed-
ca.html
I heard that sinfonian blogwhored once, can you believe it?
I love to go a-wandering
Along the mountain track...
I heard that sinfonian blogwhored once, can you believe it?
Shocking!
Speaking of Tallis and music of that type I am always in awe of Allegri's Miserere
Oh, yeah.
I'm also a sucker for a requiem. And Palestrina, Gombert, Isaac.
We're singing two Tallis motets at Mass this Sunday, coincidentally. "If ye love me" is one of those transcendant pieces of music like we've been talking about.
We'll be doing Messiah again this winter, baroque pitch, and the plan is to have the whole thing, choruses too, from memory. No books. That will be *electric.*
well, if you like art and classical music, you really need to check out this guy's you tube channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/rodiero
fantastic!
I'll blogwhore for eli, who hates us and would never stoop to our erudite level
http://multi-medium.net/2008/04/...d-in-fine-
style
"A week in politics at this level is an eternity."
Some old wardheeler turned pundit.
He's right. 'twas ever thus.
Unless something completely unexpected happens, Obama will be our candidate shortly.
Then will come the campaigning targeted at the GOP and McCain. Then will come the debates between Obama and McCain.
Every time the two meet, McCain will be eviscerated, and left at the podium, bruised and muttering.
If Obama can reduce him to one of his temper tantrum rages, so much the better.
Obama is not the President, yet.
But let us not concern ourselves too greatly about events today, tomorrow and the next day.
We have eternities of time left to us and to Obama, we can slip and stumble today and tomorrow and the next day and it will make no matter.
A week is an eternity and the voters have a short memory for such foolishness about flag pins and angry preachers.
That's awesome, strawhat.
We're doing Mendelssohn's "Elijah" in the fall ... then a holiday concert with the Empire Brass in December.
Spring is still up in the air a bit, but we want to do an American thing, or maybe something commemorating the Haydn bicentennial. I've heard Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms" come up in discussion ... 
We're singing two Tallis motets at Mass this Sunday, coincidentally. "If ye love me" is one of those transcendant pieces of music like we've been talking about.
So lovely.
We'll be doing Messiah again this winter, baroque pitch, and the plan is to have the whole thing, choruses too, from memory. No books. That will be *electric.*
Wow.
I heard that sinfonian blogwhored once, can you believe it?
::matthew
But...
That'd be SO out of character...
A couple weeks ago we went to a young friend's master's recital -- she's finishing her MM in sacred music -- and she conducted a small choir in an evening with William Byrd, Tallis' colleague (teacher?). Oh my goodness. (Except for a couple showboatin' countertenors. What is it about countertenors?!?)
Shit.
My battery is dead.
This has been a blast, but I've got to sleep. Speedette (the greatest kid ever) has her first violin lesson in the morning. And I'm also out of cigarettes.
Gosh I love this place.
Deep thought: Chekhov would have made a really shitty blogger. But he sure could write.
Night all. Peace and love.
Every time the two meet, McCain will be eviscerated, and left at the podium, bruised and muttering.
worse than Stockdale?
If they set up the mics in the shower, I think I could sing one of these pieces...I did nessum dorma once
My battery is dead.
HoneyBearKelly
long live the battery
How come Atrios never does any Moody Blues?
Old Man, thanks for the link. It's really beautiful.
There's a hymn written by Luther in the biopic that is not in any hymnal, and I think it would be nice to do for Reformation Day.
It's in that more chanty/contemplative style, very different from "A Mighty Fortress."
Which they always have cheeseball arrangements for.
How come Atrios never does any Moody Blues?
threadpicker
gotta get through a blue oyster cult backlog first
Y'know, George Bush was eviscerated in two sets of debates.
I think we'll win, too. But debates aren't all that much. The amateurs talk of tactics. The pros talk of logistics.
Since cars have alternators the keep the battery charged while driving, how come we haven't figured out a way to run an electric car that charges its own batteries as it runs? A perpetual motion machine?
A good bit of the artwork featured in the video is by Vladimir Kush http://www.vladimirkush.com/
He's a brilliant Russian artist and former Soviet Army Soldier. We had the pleasure of meeting him in Maui several years ago. He's humble, smart, and very talented. Look him up at his studio the next time you're in Maui or Vegas.
(Except for a couple showboatin' countertenors. What is it about countertenors?!?)
strawhat says ☮
If they were in a jazz band, they'd play trumpet.
My voice teacher in college explored the idea of turning me into a countertenor, as my head voice/falsetto is rather strong. I nixed the idea. The castrato lifestyle ain't for me ...
This is the most erudite blog on the internets.
Sinfonian, Earl of Warren | Homepage | 04.26.08 - 12:46 am | #
sinf, you obviously forgot that i sometimes post here...
Hans, a better question:
How come the fucker wasn't fucking aborted?
Shit.
My battery is dead.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants
Not. Gonna. Go. There.
gotta get through a blue oyster cult backlog first
oooooooh!
tucker:
great advice. Obamagasmics need to keep flitting and fluttering around their beloved Messiah, even as GodDamnAmeric Wright, et. al, get hung like albatrosses around your Messiah's neck...
Billary's doing it now, numbnuts
Old Man, thanks for the link. It's really beautiful.
Isn't it? Its so serene.
How come Atrios never does any Moody Blues?
threadpicker
Here's some.
Since cars have alternators the keep the battery charged while driving, how come we haven't figured out a way to run an electric car that charges its own batteries as it runs? A perpetual motion machine?
angryspittle
IIRC, it's because there's always some lost energy in the transaction, and over time, the battery eventually dies, no matter what.
"worse than Stockdale?"
Very likely. Remember, Stockdale was deaf as a post (that can really make you look and sound loopy at times. I speak from experience), and, frankly, really wasn't all that interested in being V.P., I suspect he was just doing Perot (was it?) a favor, knowing full well he was never going to be V.P.
My opinion of course, but as I recall, Stockdale didn't have nearly as many "senior moments" as has McCain.
ok, off to bed for me.
I've got 4 workers coming tomorrow to help me clear the jungle that is the south side of my property.
Oh, Sinf, Elijah! I'd *love* to do Elijah. We don't do much Romantic music and it'd be *so* much fun to do some rip-roaring Romanticism.
The Creation is great fun -- we did that a few years back. Our conductor did that for his doctorate and the little "liner notes" he gave us during rehearsal were a riot. The first part represents primordial chaos, resolving to a big beautiful C Major chord -- and he tells the orchestra, okay, now I'm going to bring out the sun.
A perpetual motion machine?
angryspittle
yep, won't even happen with superconductors.
angry: well, that's it. You generate a certain amount of energy that's needed to move the car forward. The trick is to waste as little of it as possible in radiated heat. And every time you change the energy's form--chemical to mechanical to electrical and so on--you have to lose some of it. First and second laws of thermodynamics. So, let's say you use a gas engine to turn a generator that makes electricity that powers an electric motor. It isn't necessarily a net gain over a direct drive.
"Since cars have alternators the keep the battery charged while driving,
how come we haven't figured out a way to run an electric car that
charges its own batteries as it runs? A perpetual motion machine?"
The immutable laws of Thermodynamics prevent that.
In the words of that noted Engineer, "Ye canna change the laws a' physics!"
I am clueless. Is that how hybrids work? Does the gas engine recharge the batteries as it runs?
and he tells the orchestra, okay, now I'm going to bring out the sun.
strawhat says ☮
Well, you're invited to hear our "Elijah" in Miami in November.
And with that, I'm