tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post9100473285762665652..comments2024-03-29T08:54:53.425-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Flashback, 2005: On the frontiers of science.Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-63879379564181103352017-02-25T17:26:13.947-06:002017-02-25T17:26:13.947-06:00If you're interested in reading more on Gray, ...If you're interested in reading more on Gray, I go into him in some detail in "Complete and Utter Failure."Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-57156850151057419652017-02-25T16:11:02.180-06:002017-02-25T16:11:02.180-06:00Very clever, Tom, but be careful what you ask for ...Very clever, Tom, but be careful what you ask for :)<br /><br />SandyKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-23723015164179895102017-02-25T10:21:33.469-06:002017-02-25T10:21:33.469-06:00I'm indebted, as so often, to Neil for proddin...I'm indebted, as so often, to Neil for prodding me to look into the matter of Elisha Grey, who I knew about only slightly. Wikipedia informs that he lost in the courts his claim that Alexander Graham Bell had stolen an aspect of telephone technology. However, he did invent the synthesizer.<br /><br />Neil didn't, I thought, end up taking a bazooka to a flea, or, as we put it more euphoniously during the Inquisition, breaking a butterfly on a wheel. As Cervantes demonstrated some centuries back, dreamers deserve celebration exposure even if those dreams are destined to die with them.<br /><br />On an altogether different topic, Hedy Weise, noted in today's paper that Chicago is experiencing a Russian trifecta, with Ivan the Terrible at Symphony Center, Uncle Vanya at the Goodman, and Eugene Onegin opening at Lyric Opera. All we need now is a state visit by Czar Putin to Trump Tower.<br /><br />Tom EvansTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-76141288794848063102017-02-25T09:02:57.209-06:002017-02-25T09:02:57.209-06:00The USPTO Manual of Patent Examining Practice stat...The USPTO Manual of Patent Examining Practice states:<br /><br />With the exception of cases involving perpetual motion, a model is not ordinarily required by the Office to demonstrate the operability of a device. If operability of a device is questioned, the applicant must establish it to the satisfaction of the examiner, but he or she may choose his or her own way of so doing.<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-22618723080950588932017-02-25T08:29:37.706-06:002017-02-25T08:29:37.706-06:00YES!
I love the fact you treated this guy as a rea...YES!<br />I love the fact you treated this guy as a real person with feelings and beliefs, all while knowing he was slightly un hinged.<br />The original part of the story how you got your first calls from him is the work of a real journalist.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00949565001013397802noreply@blogger.com