My painstaking research on the rights of challengers and the challenged in a duel is from what I could remember from fantasy novels.
–Geoff
http://www.ftg-comic.com/2009/05/21/index.php
James Clerk Maxwell suddenly finds himself a most sought-after man. The Queen, Newton, and Flaveraham need his genius to foil Gilbert, while Gilbert needs him to make his Ireland Bomb make an earth-shattering kaboom. These are weighty decisions, and there is really only one way to make them… in song!
– Geoff and The Count
As a teacher, I make all manner of inane reminders to myself on my black and white boards nestled between Riemann sums and drawings of gastropods. Clearly, I’d like to think that Maxwell did too…
In the meantime, the new Punch Out is just sitting here, waiting, waiting… it took me a good 15 years to stop having nightmares about the Bull Charge, and now…
– Count Dolby von Luckner
Today’s song is When the Night Wind Howls from Ruddigore.
We tend to treat the historical figures we respect rather poorly here. Maxwell is apparently no exception.
–Geoff