Subj: Kirk, did you just cite Occam's Razor in support of the existence of Bigfoot?? *Heh*Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 at 07:40:55 pm EST
| Reply Subj: You will all pay for scoffing at Bigfoot. :P
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 at 05:48:40 pm EST (Viewed 368 times) |
> I'm with Jason ... I thought most of the seasons currently being broadcast had already finished filming? Aside from that, so much of what I watch is in syndication anyway that it's hard for me to keep track of what's in reruns and what's original-run anymore. In my world, Jerry Orbach will never die, and he will always be Det. Lenny Briscoe on Law & Order.
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> As for writing, the fact that I have cable and Internet in my name now at my house should make things more convenient, since my housemate who had ordered it had moved out recently, so I was kind of living on borrowed time there. Aside from that, I find myself still paying off the expenses of my move in late August, not to mention a speeding ticket that jumped from $110 to $165 after the post office refused to deliver it to my address (they had the right address, but our local postmaster refuses to deliver any mail to an address unless the receiver has registered themselves as living at that address, which I've never had to do before).
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> I'm trying to experiment with my writing style a bit, by taking some of the techniques I took for a test drive in my fanfics and adapting them to my Parodyverse writing. I'm thinking of a point-of-view exploration of a bedroom scene, that focuses more on the spiritual than the physical, by exploring how the characters relate to one another through metaphor.
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> And with Sasquatch, the key is not the photos, but the footprints, which remain the best evidence. Plaster casts with distinct dermal ridges remain from as early as the 1950s and '60s, made at a time when such fine details simply could not be forged by technology, much less duplicated across the country. Couple this with the width of the strides between many sets of documented tracks (far greater than humans could stretch their legs) and the depth of the footprints in hard soil (which would indicate a weight at least twice that of most humans), and Occam's razor would tend to indicate that a series of hoaxes is actually more implausible than the existence of such a creature. I'd recommend the works of Grover Krantz, former professor of anthropology (and head of the department) at Washington State University in Pullman. Dr. Krantz has since passed away, but when I was in grade school, I got to meet him. The man came to a logical conclusion based on the evidence, and he stuck to his guns, and I always respected that.
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