musing

[ajva]

Random pensification sparked by a comment from josh_the_cat in adjectivemarcus's journal.

It's really annoying when people go on and on about a subject you know a lot about, and they quite clearly know very little and are wrong about many things, but you have to listen to them because 'everyone is entitled to their opinion'. I had this experience yesterday, when I was in a debate with someone about the implications of the BBC threatening to pull its channels from BSkyB. Now, this is my job. But they didn't see that as a reason that I might be any more right than them. It used to piss me off no end also when people would give advice about music and the band. Fucking endlessly. Everyone's pet subject, you see. 'You should send a demo tape to record companies'. 'You should dress like X'. 'You should play a festival'. 'You need to sharpen your sound'. I really used to hate that.

Comments

[brain explosion]

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

Just spent a few minutes figuring whether that's ever possible in 3 dimensions or indeed in more... would I be right to suggest it might be feasible but it would require going all the way round the planet to do so?

For some reason I have an excellent sense of direction in 2 dimensions and get hopelessly confused as soon as another one is involved. Perhaps I have a dimension-sucking vacuum between my ears?

Re: [brain explosion]

[conflux.livejournal.com]

No not even then. But if her office was more than one story high, was built into the side of a hill and had an exit at the top and an entrance at the bottom then it could be possible or is that cheating?

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

If you could you could use it to build a perpetual motion machine, so no, no matter how many dimensions you have. Imagine the Earth covered in contour lines of potential energy: you're either going level with the contours, or uphill through them, or downhill through them. The official definition of "sea level" is a two-dimensional contour of constant potential energy at average sea level. This is what you get for working for a navigation company for a year.