Plenty of Nothing

Hato's Emanation

If Genshiken gets any deeper psychologically, I'm going to have to start studying Jung. Chapter 61 is out and introduces a new character, Hato's floating naked, female, BL-loving emanation. What is she? She's not even sure herself, except that she is Hato, in a way. I wonder if we'll ever see her when Hato is cross-dressed, or only when he's in male costume?

Jung: "She is his anima, for heaven's sake. It's spelled out more clearly in the anime."

The anime is available?

"In the collective unconscious, yes."

D

 

Melt

Elevated

Dundee Versus Morton

Morton travel to Dens Park to face the best team in the division: Dundee. 

"Haud on a minute. Isnae Morton abune Dundee i the table?"

Aye but there's that 25 point administration penalty. If it were not for that the Dark Blue would be six points up on Raith for first.

"I kent that. I wis juist testin ye."

Furthermore, Dundee have not lost a league match since September 25.

"Jings!"

Raith might be on their way to the Premier League for the first time, but it is also possible that no one will be promoted from the First Division this year. If the Premier League gets its way, and quickly, the two leagues will merge this summer with the top level reduced to ten clubs, meaning two clubs would come down and none go up. But that's assuming that everyone concerned comes to an agreement soon, which don't bet on.

[Morton come back to tie it 1 - 1.]

Yotsuba and Pitagora Suichi

Yotsuba&! volume 6, page 99. Sample Pitagora Suichi.

Anger is an Energy

John Lydon is my awful saint. Public Image Ltd, "Rise". D

Cornwallis

The Aylesford Bucket

This bronze bucket, with its attendant jug and pan, was found in an Iron Age burial in Ayleford, Kent, and dates to about the time of Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain. The swirly design and human head motif are distinctively Celtic. Compare the Battersea Shield.

Partickle Theory

Few people are aware that "Partick" was the medieval name for that branch of physics concerned with the study of sub-atomic particles. 

All right. That was a lie. It's widely known.

In the fourteenth century scholars came from across Europe to use Glasgow University's partickle accelerator, which doubled as a bread oven. Here is the periodic table of biscuits.

Of the two clubs, Greenock Morton and Partick Thistle, which is the more illustrious? Both joined the Scottish Football League in 1893 but neither has been Scottish champion. Each has won the Scottish Cup once, in the 1920s.

What about the Scottish League Cup? Partick won it in 1972, and were runners up in 1954, 1957 and 1959. Morton were runners up in 1964. With regard to Scottish League Cup success, Partick is more illustrious.

Partick beat Glentoran in the first round of the 1963-64 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, then lost to Spartak Brno. Morton were invited to the 1968-69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, where they lost 9 - 3 to Chelsea in the first round. Partick were invited to the EUFA Cup 1972-73, where they lost 4 - 0 in the first round to Budapest Honvéd. In Europe Partick is more illustrious than Morton.

Years in the top division. Partick 81, Morton 64. For years in the top division Partick is more illustrious.

And so to conclude, Partick is more illustrious.

Currently Partick sit fifth with 24 points and a -2 goal differential. Morton are sixth with 24 points and a -3 goal differential. They play today!

[And Morton win! They move past Partick into fifth! And of course Dundee win! They can't seem to lose! And of course Morton play Dundee Saturday!]

Asteroid 7345 Happer

7345 Happer is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered in 1992 and named after Felix Happer, Burt Lancaster's astronomy-obsessed oil baron in Bill Forsyth's 1983 comedy Local Hero.