Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for April 15, 2022

I don’t think it’s knowledge people hate Roy. I think some people just hate a smart a$$.

No, people hate being told they’re wrong, even when they are.

People who think they know it all really annoy those of us who do.

Must be that time of the month where the stars aren’t aligned well

Isn’t it strange that, while humanity as a whole feels compelled to study and learn about every subject imaginable, so much of humanity strenuously resists knowledge?

This is partly why certain constellations look “Odd” by modern standards. Ursa Major used to legitimately look like a bear, but the stars have since moved so it now looks like “The Big Dipper”.

And that is cool in and of itself.

“All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by”

John Masefield

I think Sue had other things going on.

There’s being intellectually smart and then there is being emotionally smart. Roy’s got the first one nailed, the second, not so much. . .

Wrong knowledge, wrong time.

Roy is a romantic, in a nerdy sort of way, but totally clueless in the usual sort of way.

The time thing only matters in the sense that the information gets here slowly. We see everything as soon as the light gets here. It’s the same in the living room only at a much shorter distance.

Smartest guy in the….RUN!!

You have thirteen billion light year old ancestors?

Actually, the nearest stars are less than 5 light-years away, so billions of people alive today would (eventually) see it if one of them actually were to go out tonight.

It seems a vast majority do.

Reality Bites!

No, just Sue.

Cliff Clavin’s nephew?