Wonder if Uhrmanator is suggesting tv game schedulers are not being simply obnoxious, but actually making serious efforts to take ‘obnoxiousity’ to a very high level?
This whole “if no one sees it “discussion just ignores the (ironically) readily observable fact that there is simply too much going on in the universe and not enough consciousness to observe it all. Just on my little 5 acre property, there’s stuff going on under the soil, inside the trees, high in the tree branches, in the dead of the night, in fact constantly and everywhere, and there is no way it can all be observed even if I had the help of all the squirrels and the birds and the deer and the mice and the voles and everybody else—which I don’t; they’ve got their own fish to fry. Every day I go out there and something new has happened that I didn’t know about and neither did anybody else.
There will be sun rises and they will be observed until the next asteroid impact mass extinction, which is currently unscheduled. The sun will be blocked by the dust and, eventually, nobody left to observe them.
The persistence of language: We’ve known for centuries that the Sun only appears to rise because the Earth is rotating, yet we still pretend it’s the Sun that’s doing the moving.
This has been alluded to, but if the game is on late in Central Time Zone, it is on 2 hours earlier on the West Coast, so Caulfield’s late would be just right for, say, Mickey’s California Adventure.
While this strip and Caulfield’s question are running the week following the NCAA national-championship basketball game, I wonder how big a game that actually is, in terms of everybody staying up too late to watch it. It’s a very big game if you’re a fan of one of the teams in it, or if you’re still in the office Final Four pool at that point. But I wonder, and maybe there’s an actual basketball fan out there who can tell me: If your team got bounced earlier in the tournament, do you care much about who’s left? And not just from an apathy standpoint, but presumably you were up watching your team play the past two weeks until they did get bounced, and maybe you’re just tired.
I myself am probably not a good gauge. I don’t particularly care for basketball, nor for the whole sportsporn-industrial complex, nor especially the NCAA’s farm-team service to the big revenue sports (even though I know that funds the college sports I do like). But I’m from Michigan, I lived in Lansing a long time and my household possesses two degrees from Michigan State University and I took a few classes there, so I’ve got some emotional connection to Michigan State. And I’ll confess that I watched the end of their win against Duke over my wife’s shoulder and got a little caught up in it. I didn’t watch the finals, though, and I didn’t watch the semifinal they lost. The partial Duke game was enough, I guess.
But I watched the sun come up the morning after each. I never get tired of that.
Nachikethass about 5 years ago
I like the Uhrmanator!
SonicFan91 about 5 years ago
hopefully NOT sports
McColl34 Premium Member about 5 years ago
Okay, I like this guy.
Stuart Donaldson Premium Member about 5 years ago
This guy’s good.
cervelo about 5 years ago
I have two questions for my comments colleagues here:
1- with the impact IT is having in every other workplace, is good old fashion chalk still used much in classrooms?
2- to what second ulterior motive is Mr. Uhrmann referring to when he talks about “they”…?
rf_in_va about 5 years ago
The sun is going to rise regardless of human observation. Rather a self centered world we live in isn’t it?
sandpiper about 5 years ago
Wonder if Uhrmanator is suggesting tv game schedulers are not being simply obnoxious, but actually making serious efforts to take ‘obnoxiousity’ to a very high level?
Uncle Bob about 5 years ago
If there was a sport but Jef didn’t like it, would it still be a sport?
Fido (aka Felix Rex) Premium Member about 5 years ago
I’m waiting for a comment from Caulfield about Mr. U having pi on his shirt…
kunddog about 5 years ago
there are a lot of sun rises in our solar system that are unobserved. they are pretty much ignored.
rugeirn about 5 years ago
This whole “if no one sees it “discussion just ignores the (ironically) readily observable fact that there is simply too much going on in the universe and not enough consciousness to observe it all. Just on my little 5 acre property, there’s stuff going on under the soil, inside the trees, high in the tree branches, in the dead of the night, in fact constantly and everywhere, and there is no way it can all be observed even if I had the help of all the squirrels and the birds and the deer and the mice and the voles and everybody else—which I don’t; they’ve got their own fish to fry. Every day I go out there and something new has happened that I didn’t know about and neither did anybody else.
Flatlander, purveyor of fine covfefe about 5 years ago
they, subgroup of genus everyone
PoodleGroomer about 5 years ago
There will be sun rises and they will be observed until the next asteroid impact mass extinction, which is currently unscheduled. The sun will be blocked by the dust and, eventually, nobody left to observe them.
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 5 years ago
The persistence of language: We’ve known for centuries that the Sun only appears to rise because the Earth is rotating, yet we still pretend it’s the Sun that’s doing the moving.
Jeff0811 about 5 years ago
This has been alluded to, but if the game is on late in Central Time Zone, it is on 2 hours earlier on the West Coast, so Caulfield’s late would be just right for, say, Mickey’s California Adventure.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 5 years ago
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While this strip and Caulfield’s question are running the week following the NCAA national-championship basketball game, I wonder how big a game that actually is, in terms of everybody staying up too late to watch it. It’s a very big game if you’re a fan of one of the teams in it, or if you’re still in the office Final Four pool at that point. But I wonder, and maybe there’s an actual basketball fan out there who can tell me: If your team got bounced earlier in the tournament, do you care much about who’s left? And not just from an apathy standpoint, but presumably you were up watching your team play the past two weeks until they did get bounced, and maybe you’re just tired.
I myself am probably not a good gauge. I don’t particularly care for basketball, nor for the whole sportsporn-industrial complex, nor especially the NCAA’s farm-team service to the big revenue sports (even though I know that funds the college sports I do like). But I’m from Michigan, I lived in Lansing a long time and my household possesses two degrees from Michigan State University and I took a few classes there, so I’ve got some emotional connection to Michigan State. And I’ll confess that I watched the end of their win against Duke over my wife’s shoulder and got a little caught up in it. I didn’t watch the finals, though, and I didn’t watch the semifinal they lost. The partial Duke game was enough, I guess.
But I watched the sun come up the morning after each. I never get tired of that.