Knockin' on wood

Corpus Clock Conspiracy

The Corpus Clock is certainly a very odd device. I shall probably make a trip all the way to Cambridge when next in Blighty, just to see this thing.

I find a few things rather odd about it, and you can't help but wonder if there is some deeper meaning. It's quite good fun to come up with conspiracy theories, so here's mine:

The clock being displayed at Corpus Christi and the large locust thing on top, cannot help but draw biblical references. Most of the official images and videos online are of the clock set between 2 and 3 o
clock. There's even a night shot, which still shows three. From Mark 15: "It was the third hour when they crucified him."

Looking at the inscription on the pendulum, Ioh, symbolised by a horned cow, is related to a heifer, also a red heifer is a sacrificial animal in judaism. It is said a red heifer was born in Israel within the past decade symbolising the second coming of Christ, or the first coming for the jews, I guess.

The second word, Sartor, means to patch or to tailor.

Monan is more difficult to link up and I suspect I'd need to figure out the coat of arms. Any how Saint Monan worked as a missionary in Scotland. Scotland is of course, closely connected with genetic cloning. Dolly the sheep being the first, Polly and Molly were also cloned and interestingly both sheep contained a human gene.

YHWH, Yahweh or Jehovah are words for God and are supposedly associated with IOH, although I cannot find out why!

So is there a connection? Are some radical scientists up in Scotland now trying to patch the human genome into some kind of Godly gene? Or worse still, was the body of Christ really found (Evening standard story) and they're cloning it?

It does make me wonder. The bible clearly states that Marys' body was assumed, her body and soul went to heaven, however I cannot find references that Jesus body actually rose three days after his burial or that his body was assumed, indeed it makes sense to me that he had no need of an Earthly body once freed of it. The Catechisms say that Jesus was both man and God, if his body were obtained and a clone man grown from it's DNA, would it be God or would it just be a man?

Anyhow, it's all a bit weird, go take a look at the clock and see how you feel about it.

Something new!

I wanted to try a portrait image on my site today. This was taken back
in May on a Nikon F75 with Fuji Velvia 100.

Whenever you dig deep into code written by Edi Weitz you're bound to learn something you didn't know (What an odd saying. Is it possible to learn something you did know?). Today I was playing with his easy dispatch handler in hunchentoot. Easy being what comes out of the other end, it's a complex beast if you try to look at it. Apart from dispatching in interesting ways, I also picked up a small code snippet

(loop :for choice :being :the :hash-keys :of meal :collect choice)

Indeed a wonderful way to iterate through elements of a hash table, even if it's a bit ugly with lots of spots.

It also seems that Edi is a great photographer! I'd recommend a browse through his blog. On top of this, his contributions to the Lisp world are incredible. There are so many, but Hunchentoot is quite simply amazing, the more you know the more you like it. Whilst cl-ppcre is one of the sharpest knifes in my toolkit. Both of these tools are key technologies behind Traderisk

Two years, two and a half months

Family pic

Well, what does one put as a first post. I guess this will suffice, a little picture of my family. I guess I'm tired of Flickr. It's pretty much one size and shape. Most people browse through thumbnails and the whole site gives not artistic control. I wonder if Blogger will allow me more flexibility?