Room 101

Christopher Hitchens suggests that Orwell’s Room 101 in 1984 is derived from his experiences in Room 101 at the BBC’s Portland Place headquarters in London.It also occurs to me that room 101 may be the most common hotel room number. If you think about it.

Many Worlds Theory

Two questions: (1) If this is correct, what’s the theological (Catholic) stance? When the universe splits, presumably God, remaining outside the multiverse, doesn’t, but what happens to the souls of the populace? Can they split? (2) If two quantum events happen in the same planck time, does the universe split once or twice in that [...]

The Objectivity of Reviewers

I’ve been listening to a lot of music over the past year, and what’s interesting is that, if I go back to music I listened to a couple of years ago, it often sounds different to me. What I previously perceived as structureless noise not seems much more ordered and interesting (e.g. Jesus and Mary [...]

Goodbye to Yahoo360

I tried it for a fortnight. It didn’t work, so I’m pasting all my posts over here. It means a pile appearing in go. In reality, today’s posts go back to 29 December 2007