I just got back from the lair of The-Evil-Doctor-Merlin-Channing-Lowe-Jr., so I could give my Super Bowl XLIII report.

While I cheered for “The Local Team”, I truly enjoyed the game, especially the final quarter.

WOW.
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There are four kinds of people in this world, and at any given time/subject you fall into one of these types:

1. The people who know that they know
2. The people who know that they don’t know
3. The people who don’t know that they know
4. The people who don’t know that they don’t know

I’m not claiming to be any one of these people, exclusively, but I’d like to think I fall in number 2 or number 3 most of the time.

However, one thing I know, is something they teach you at Clown College. It is difficult to make fun of a subject you don’t know much about.

And this got me to thinking, it is almost common knowledge that there are multiple worldviews out there. Western Culture has several, but they are all usually bundled together, Eastern Culture has its own nuances that are literally foreign to Western Culture. Middle Eastern Culture is likewise its own culture. Those are just three examples.

Lots of talking heads like to say what we know about these various foreign cultures, but do we REALLY know what we know, or are we falling into that later group, listed above, of the people who don’t know that we don’t know.
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I just crossed Patrick O’Brian’s The Letter of Marque off of the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Reading List.

When I was first introduced to this series, the title of this book caught my eye, because it suggested Pirates. (Granted a Pirate does not use a Letter of Marque, but often, a Privateer ship with a Letter of Marque often had to “make ends meet” and go Pirate.) For those of you unfamiliar with the term, a Letter of Marque is an official document from a nation-state which gave a private man of war license to attack another country’s ships in the signing nations name.

With all this talk about Politics, Sports, and Childrens in the news, you might have missed a very important story from the Scientific Community.

I almost missed it, but fortunately, I read IowaHawk.

MATHEMATICIANS DISCOVER LARGEST NUMBER
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Yesterday, I upgraded Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com to WordPress 2.7.1.

It was one of note, because this was the first time I used the new internal update feature in WordPress.
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Outer Space had its first Space Wreck today, as two satellites were victims of a collision:

Scientific American :: Space crash: Commercial and Russian satellites collide in orbit
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Here is a snippet of a conversation one might have overheard in the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-Compound yesterday:
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The Modernist Papers

One concern, I had, going into this election, after both Governor Romney and former Governor Huckabee had dropped out of the Republican Primary, was that it was inevitable that a current sitting Senator was going to become the President of the United States.

You might ask, why is this a concern; a senator is an elected official, the President of the United States is an Elected official; why is there a concern?

One of the things I’ve learned about Politics, over the past 16 years, and two Presidential Administrations, is there is not a single delicate balance in our system of Government, its a series of Balances.
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Cisco sented me this link about my former Favorite Philadelphia Eagle:

Travel Channel: Dhani Tackles the Globe

“The Thinker” has his own show.
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I just finished filing my 2008 Taxes, and I learned a lot of things. Quite amazing for being unemployed the entire year.
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Leave it to the web comics to put things into perspective:

This one is from User-Friendly-dot-org:
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