Comments on: Galileo’s telescope http://www.starchamber.com/2009/04/galileos-telescope.html Ned Gulley's Blog. Resident buzzwords: wise crowds, accelerated design, swarm robotics, synthetic biology. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:08:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: JMike http://www.starchamber.com/2009/04/galileos-telescope.html/comment-page-1#comment-131075 JMike Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:07:11 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/?p=2794#comment-131075 I'm not sure this makes good narrative, but having recently seen a Lewis Black comedy bit where he waves his middle finger around, a lot, in a way that looks a little like he's got motor control issues, and seeing as how I'm going through significant issues with my own left middle finger (I can *almost* bring the finger down into a loose fist with the rest of them, but the fingertip joint is still frozen solid), I feel a bit of a connection with the aforementioned disembodied, permanently gesturing Galilean middle digit. Yours sincerely etc. I’m not sure this makes good narrative, but having recently seen a Lewis Black comedy bit where he waves his middle finger around, a lot, in a way that looks a little like he’s got motor control issues, and seeing as how I’m going through significant issues with my own left middle finger (I can *almost* bring the finger down into a loose fist with the rest of them, but the fingertip joint is still frozen solid), I feel a bit of a connection with the aforementioned disembodied, permanently gesturing Galilean middle digit.

Yours sincerely etc.

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