Heatstroke Or Hypothermia, Feast Or Famine, Narrow Or Broad

Really, Today Could Have Gone Either Way
It was one of those mornings where the indeterminate grey glop overhead might congeal into storm clouds and unleash a deluge of rain, a shot-blasting of hailstones and a catering of frogs, or it might blow over to reveal a bright blue mirror scorching the eyeballs with solar radiation.  Art?

Mean weather

     Here is the damning evidence in broad daylight.
     At which point, your humble scribe's mind having all the consistency of a weathercock in aforesaid hailstorm, Conrad abruptly stopped fussing about whether he'd be swimming or sandalling to work.
     "Why is it 'Broad' daylight?" I pondered.  How does it differ from Narrow Daylight?  For that matter, what of Middling daylight (what you might call the mean value - see above)?  And if the mean wavelength of visible light is 450 nanometres, what does that make the average Hom. Sap. of about 2 foot breadth?
     I think we should be told!
     In fact, let's ask Richard Feynman; not as famous as Albert Einstein but just as clever, and better at playing the bongos.  Richard?

"Conrad, you should be asking Philip K. Dick.  Not me."

     Normally at this point we deploy the motley, except I've been having some spectactularly bad luck with it recently, running into adverbs and damaging prepositions, having the wheels come off - so today we're going to gently saunter out of the Intro in the company of a gallimaufry.  Go Go Gallimaufry!

Bleeding Edge Explicatory 
And once again I impress with how thoroughly I've picked over the bones of Thomas Pynchon's last novel.  Yes, you and I could both resort to the Pynchon Wiki, except it doesn't list all the items that Conrad wants a definition of, or merely mentions the word - as if that's enough for an enquiring mind!  Nor does it have the trademark BOOJUM! sense of humour*.  I will point out that the following details do tend to hang towards the technical side of forensic accountancy, which is by all accounts - Ha!  do you see - O you do - a tricky profession to follow.  So without further ado -
     P41:  Benford's Law:  A phenomenological law, about the frequency distribution of of leading digits in real life data sets, for example stock prices - which are the sort of thing that our heroine Maxine looks at to earn a living.  Practically, the number "1" appears 30% of the time, and the number "9" only 5%, when the expected mean should be 11%.

Benford's Law is dull.  Here's a sectioned self-sealing fuel tank instead.

     Disbursement:  Either payment of money from a fund, or by a lawyer to a third party, which is claimed back from the client at a later date.
     P42: Luhn Checks: An algorithm checksum intended to validate a number, e.g. a credit card number, distinguishing it from mis-typed or incorrect ones.
     P43: Korobushka:  A Russian folk song.  Herein the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg0N3xhOzc8

     And that's yer Pynchon allocation for tonight.

"Prognathous"
Ah, what a word to conujure with!  It sounds like a Greek psychedelic band, doesn't it?  Inspired by Vangelis and Nana Mouskouri (in her trippy hippy acid-dropping days**), singing about Elric of Melnibone or The Black Monolith -
     - what's that?  It's nothing of the sort?
     It merely means to possess a projecting lower jaw?
     Bah!  Reality, I spit on you!

Geek prog

Grit Your Teeth And Hang On -
Here we go on a stream-of-consciousness-ride review of "The Force Awakens".  No explanations, no refunds, no more delay!

"Max Von Sydow.  Stormtrooper raid - they mean busines.  BB8.  Chap in black.  Who's the pilot?  Scavenger - a very Chris Foss wrecked spaceship.  Interrogation. Droid not for sale.  Fin and Po escape (FN2187 that, is).  Back to Jackoo.  Fin, Rai and BB8 all meet.  The garbage.  Someone has anger management problems!  Han and Chewie!  Rafters.  The Big Bad.  Map to the Stars.  Greenland.  Grandad.  Fin confesses.  Rai has a vision.  Planetblaster.  1st Order arrives.  Big Dogfight.   Leia arrives after Rai's captured.  R2 and C3PO turn up oh it's like a reunion.  Rai versus Renn (is this the man in black?).  We'll blow it up!  They meet up.  Han versus Renn - Han loses.  Oops.  Big explosion!  Light sabre fight.  Even BIGGER explosion.  R2 comes online with the rest of the Map to the Stars.  Rai  meets Steel Hand Luke.

     There you go, I trust that's made everything clear, it certainly has for me after a gap of four months.

BB8 and his BD I.
("beady eye?  get it? Huh?  Hmmm?)

    Oops, the Gallimaufry's just rolled over and died.  Not very robust, apparently.  Sorry!


*  Good thing?  bad thing?  Only you can judge!
** That may never have happened.