{"id":12237,"date":"2023-11-08T21:51:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T02:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12237"},"modified":"2023-11-08T21:51:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T02:51:29","slug":"saying-clever-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12237","title":{"rendered":"Saying clever things"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes it feels… so pretentious.<\/p>\n

Here I am, saying all sorts of clever things in my blog. I once declared blogs to be write-only media, my way of shouting at the world without the world saying anything in return, but that kind of ceased being true when I decided, eons ago, to share my blog posts on social media, where a few friends at least reacted occasionally.<\/p>\n

So who do I think I am, proclaiming my wisdom to the world, really?<\/p>\n

For instance, a few days ago I thought I’d blog about the first precision clock arriving in America centuries ago, and promptly failing<\/a>, leading to a better understanding of how the gravitational acceleration on the surface of the Earth may change with geographic location. But is there anything I can add to the subject other than what’s in the article I am citing?<\/p>\n

Or take this report from earlier today, about Singapore’s Prime Minister expressing very much the same concerns that I have about the world experiencing a moment of danger<\/a> not unlike the moments before the Great War. OK, so I blog about it. Is there anything I can add other than, hey, look, I am ever so clever, even Singapore’s PM shares my views!?<\/p>\n

I suppose I feel most comfortable blogging about my actual research or my work. These are subjects that I can address with some competence.<\/p>\n

Or maybe just blog about cats. They know how to be wise and silent, after all.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, in the world of humans…<\/p>\n

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F-15s strike weapons facility in Syria <\/a><\/h4>\n
By Lauren C. Williams and Jennifer Hlad<\/h6>\n

ABOARD A MILITARY PLANE\u2014<\/strong>Two U.S. F-15 fighter jets attacked a weapons storage facility in eastern Syria on Wednesday, in what Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called a \u201cprecision self-defense strike\u201d in response \u201cto a series of attacks<\/a> against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria by the [Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps]-Quds Force\u201d and related groups.<\/div>\n

So I must now follow my cats’ example and resist the urge to blog about how the US and Iran might already be at war…<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes it feels… so pretentious. Here I am, saying all sorts of clever things in my blog. I once declared blogs to be write-only media, my way of shouting at the world without the world saying anything in return, but that kind of ceased being true when I decided, eons ago, to share my blog […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-personal","category-physics","category-politics","category-7-id","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12237"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12253,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237\/revisions\/12253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}