Comments on: Categorically Not! – Resistance

By: Bad Physics Jokes | Cosmic Variance

Bad Physics Jokes | Cosmic Variance — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 03:55:46 +0000

[...] To compensate for the curling remark, I’ll end with a better bad physics pun, or collection thereof. It was on a slide that my colleague Stephan Haas showed as part of his excellent presentation on “Resistance” in the last Categorically Not! (which was great….I’m supposed to do a post on sometime…..Hmmm.) Anyway, here it is…I’m not sure if it is attributable to him or not (I’ll try to find out): [...]

By: Grooming for the New Semester | Cosmic Variance

Grooming for the New Semester | Cosmic Variance — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 06:33:46 +0000

[...] This took longer than I expected (involving some accidental “symmetry-breaking” due to my being tired….. symmetry which then has to be restored, which is of course much harder than breaking it….there’s a lot of physics in there…..) I made myself really late for Categorically Not! as a result. I did make it there eventually, after some rather fun (but careful!) high speed drag-racing along the rather coorperative highways (the 101, 110, and 10 – when they’re running well it is just great driving them…..). Made it from my place to Santa Monica in some sort of record time, in fact. I will report on tonight’s “Cat Not!” events later. It was excellent. [...]

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 03:53:11 +0000

For the youngsters out there who were too young: that was a very popular film here in Madison WI when it was released. While on the topic, another great French film from roughly that period was released in two parts six months apart: Jean de Florette followed by Manon of the Spring. It was a haunting and heart wrenching tragedy of greed and stupidity that I think remains unsurpassed to this day in film, and should be seen by everyone.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:43:41 +0000

Richard… the movie sounds good actually. As to the Cat Not. I can’t promise anything…. I might have to cancel going (first time ever!) if I can’t get everything done this weekend to prepare two sets of classes, and furthermore get my system to want to be awake and alert at that time after the recent timezone shift. It might be a bit confused at that time, and sitting in a reverently hushed dimmed room will likely just mean I’ll snooze.

-cvj

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:31:03 +0000

Daniel will tell us why 17th Century French Baroque music is considered a form of resistance.

Clifford,

Please give us a full report! French Baroque, which seems to be distinctly different than German and Italian Baroque, is one of my favorite genres, and I’m curious what he has to say.

Oh my goodness, I just noticed on Amazon that, after all these years, the movie Tous les Matins du Monde will finally be released on DVD in March! The movie has a gorgeous sound track directed by Jordi Savall.

Plot Synopsis: It’s late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds a small house in his garden into which he moves to dedicate his life to music and his two young daughters Madeleine and Toinette, avoiding the outside world. Rumor about him and his music is widespread, and even reaches to the court of Louis XIV, who wants him at his court in Lully’s orchestra, but Monsieur de Sainte Colombe refuses. One day a young man, Marin Marais, comes to see him with a request, he wants to be taught how to play the viol.