I seem to be leaving a trail of noisy wreckage behind me as I cruise through California. You can read one account of my talk at Davis in their local paper — I sound very ferocious in the description — and my evening in Chico was recorded. That one was a little different; we just gathered for beer and pizza, and then we sat around and people asked questions, so it was more of a casual Q&A.
I’ll be heading out shortly to talk some more. I think my voice is getting a little huskier after all this…it must hold out for another week and a half!
interesting…the Davis account was written by one of Professor Dude Dendy’s colleagues at American River College.
I do hope that security–you didn’t hire the Angels, did you?–is keeping the Zedheads at bay. Travel on!
This may be an indication of how much California has changed since you were, Sven, but my first thought was “Why would PZ hire a baseball team as security?”
Speaking of getting pissed off at those consummate liars, the creationists, this is relatively new at the DI’s blog (by Jay Richards):
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2010/01/getting_id_right_more_response.html
Oh, right, if you’re “allowed to consider ID” as something that produces something with no demonstrable purpose, rational design, or forethought, a process that yields what evolution predicts, my God, the arguments for common ancestry are ambiguous.
Then again, if you quit lying, the arguments aren’t the slightest bit ambiguous.
What these liars are doing, of course, is trying not to find actual purpose or other marks of intelligence, but to be able to force God into life, then God’s unknown purposes rule over everything. Explaining anything other than through what is not evidently purposeful, but which is purposeful by definition and decree, is what ID is about.
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p
Ah, the Angels. The Rolling Stone coverage of the problems at Altamont was the first long article I had read in that magazine. Back then it was considered counter-culture.
Hmmm. I haven’t seen “Professor” Dendy at my talks, and he hasn’t risen to challenge me. Odd. He seems to be obsessed otherwise.
Huskier voice? Obviously not enough beer.
Da perfesser is probably too busy at his blog, spouting lies about people he doesn’t know.
Hopefully the Dandy realizes the limitations of his meager intelligence.
Get your rest, especially your voice.
Anyone else see this?
Four young men arrested after trying to hack into Sen Landrieu’s office phone system.
ACORN ‘gotcha’ man arrested
O’Keefe’s three alleged accomplices
Oh PZ, what have your done? Speaking science and atheism you have created a monster!
I told my friend that I have a sore throat. She has an excellent remedy: ten drops of echinacea on the tongue for five minutes…. then she described how incredibly disgusting it tastes and how I’ll probably feel sick for the rest of the day and…. well, honestly I kinda tuned out after that.
Hope the voice holds out.
I hate typos!
“Oh PZ, what have you done? Speaking science and atheism you have created a monster!”
Looking forward to tomorrow night!
PZ, you need to come to the South. It is easy to talk big in a super liberal state. We really have a much harder time down here and could use the morality booster generated from a cool guy such as yourself.
It is easy to talk big in a super liberal state.
wait, you’re talking about the state that launched the career of Ronald Reagan.
the state where Nixon retired.
the home of Howard Ahmanson
the place where proposition 8 was ratified.
liberaldom in CA is in very isolated pockets, really.
Ichthyic, I did not mean it as an insult. I <3 this blog.
If you lose your voice, PZ, you can just live-blog the whole time, and let the audience see your posts on the giant screen you keep in your luggage. It’s a foolproof plan!
I really enjoyed the recordings of PZ and his bar cohorts just discussing and chatting. This is so nice of a way to sort of “get to know” PZ, and I think is charming for its background noise and everything. Maybe its just that the audio quality was exceptional, IMHO. I hope others at some of his upcoming after-talk whistle wettings will record him also. (Even if you have to do it clandestinely!)
I’m the guy who asked PZ about the Cambrian :) I showed up without knowing the Secular Student Alliance existed on campus. I met one student member named Emily who was quite nice, but I was afraid to strike up conversations with anyone else lest I miss any part of PZ’s conversation.
I’m glad that the audio was recorded. It was a nice relaxed meeting, but it was hard to hear what PZ said and more difficult to hear what other people were saying.
The burgers and nacho cheese at the Grad was fantastic. I’d like to see PZ lured back to Chico to give a lecture, maybe in the Laxson Auditorium!
See ya’ tomorrow, PZ :o)
Is PZ slurring his speech after a while ? And I like the taking a swig parts in between talking…:D
Oh, yeah. Joe Basel. I remember him: thuggish and stupid, and an exceedingly poor writer. I believe he’s the one I predicted “will go far in the Republican party”. Getting arrested for a break-in fits in perfectly.
I can’t be blamed for him. He didn’t take any classes from me at all, and no, he wasn’t pushed into his position. He came here with an agenda.
PZ – IF you getting worn out by all this – just wait until you have to fly to Aus for the convention….you gotta love that 14 hour flight from LA to Sydney.
Oh and ot – Dr Rachie is no longer in front for that twitter contest – not that it really matters but do we really want someone like Mercola to take it?
For the record, Dendy is an adjunct professor. That means he is hired on a part-time, temporary basis (if not the actual definition, that’s a good working one here). Maybe he was hired because a warm body was needed in the classroom? It happens. I somehow doubt his department knows/knew of his public blitherings.
I, for one, am offended by comparing masturbation to religion. One is a deep spiritual activity that I engage in regularly and gives me great comfort.
The other is religion.
I’m glad to hear some of you are enjoying listening to PZ’s recorded bar conversation. I was the one that recorded PZ and do audio/video production for a living and so was a little wary bringing in my bulky pro gear and spoiling such a cool intimate setting (plus I generally don’t like mixing beer and expensive equipment). Fortunately, PZ was very cool about it as were the other lucky folks around the table. The bar was incredibly noisy, so I’m particularly glad to hear this wasn’t too distracting. The down side of rejecting the noise is it also suppressed the questions…sorry about that part.
BTW, as soon as PZ put the link to the clip on his site, my bandwidth usage jumped by nearly a hundred fold in one day. Good thing it is unlimited!
You were in Chico? Bastard! I would have come had I known. :(
My one and only chance….(sob)
The one bright note is that there were only 20 attendees. Which makes me feel much better about our lousy attendance at heathen events up here in Redding.
Really, dude, sorry I missed the opportunity to bend an elbow and be awed.
Many thanks for recording and posting the talk, PPV’. I’m hopeful of joining PZ in a beer here in Melbourne.