Bloom County 2019 by Berkeley Breathed for March 26, 2018

Thank goodness he removed the watermelon from beneath him. Don’t want to have another running joke like he had with his behind falling off which came from him being hit with a laser when he was in the comic strip Outland.

Oliver, you old piffle-bender. What’s new?

Is there any coffee to go with that nutcake?

I read it. Godspeed, Professor Hawking.

I finished it; wait until you read his “dishing” on Isaac Newton…

Pretending to have read it and also to have understood it. What if all of these theoretical physicists were just pulling a big scam and it’s all a bunch of bunk?

I skipped ahead to the sex scenes..

We should be eternally grateful that he didn’t write the expanded and complete version, and that he kept it brief. Wowsers!

It’s only possible to get pickled on peach kombucha if one makes it with an airlock (bubbler) to keep the air out – which makes it peach hooch. Otherwise there isn’t any alcohol in kombucha, just acetic acid (vinegar). Tasty stuff, though!

Picking a nit here, but shouldn’t it be “proffered piffle” rather than “preferred”?

I did.

I read it. Also read his BLACK HOLES AND BABY UNIVERSES and Other Essays. I also showed the video of Brief History of Time in class every January 8th.

I tried a BriefER History of Time. I just don’t have the grey cells up there to really grasp that stuff. But I’m glad some people do. Mr. Hawking was a great man, and not to proud to be an occasional guest on “Futurama.”

I actually read it all the way through: what a disappointment! You can tell early on that the butler did it.

I actually read it all the way through: what a disappointment! You can tell early on that the butler did it.

I can’t say I got a grasp on Dr. Hawking’s explanation of time.

… but then I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe.

Gotta envy theoretical physicists. They spend their lives publishing papers about theories they believe ‘could’ happen, but never have to prove that what they believe actually exists.

Opus to the rescue.

My favorite takeaway from his book was his explanation of light cones. That is how I was finally able to comprehend spacetime geometrically.

Of course I read it. Hawking was my inspiration to study astrophysics. :- )

I finished my copy.

I finished mine so long ago I need to refresh my memory. If I can find it.

Ho hum. I don’t deal in popularizers. Just don’t drop that watermelon off the roof, Opus; if you do, and injure anyone, you could find yourself living out a very different fantasy….

Like a number of other commenters here, I read the book. It was many years ago, so I should probably go back and read it again. In any event, I don’t remember it as being especially difficult to follow, though it no doubt helped that I already knew a fair amount of basic astrophysics. I’ve certainly read books that were much harder to read, both non-fiction and fiction (Ulysses, for instance…).

I finished it but should read it again. I kinda got lost towards the end IIRC.

Well, where Mr. Hawking is now, he doesn’t have to sit in a wheelchair, use a synthesized voice, or suffer with the condition he has anymore. He doesn’t need any of that.

Read it through a couple times back in ‘89. Also, “Black Holes and Baby Universes”. A little education goes a long way. Maybe then an overgrown kindergartener wouldn’t have been elected POTUS.