Zermelo's Axiom Of Choice

Ah Yes  
We'll get to that later.  
     In the meantime, allow me to bring you Bring Me The Horizon, because this will make sense later on.  Art?

Surly lot

     Rough gruff tough lads from Sheffield, which gets them a pass.
In the meantime, allow Conrad to inform you that his first official day of being minus gainful employment has not been spent in idleness.  Okay, I did get up late, but at my age (157 at last count) this is about the highlight of one's day, if you discount watching explosions on Youtube.  I have been out of the house.  Art?

Evidence

     Because who else was there available to take this picture?  And, incidentally, carry the poop bags, which is probably as much detail as you wish to receive.
     We were lucky with the weather, because we chose the window where the sun came out, albeit briefly.  It has made another appearance.  Forgive me for making much of this, we pallid island folk have learned to make the most of sunshine when it arrives, as my fading sunburn from Saturday will attest.

Pub Quiz:  The Answers
I remembered!  I hope this hasn't kept you on tenterhooks since yesterday afternoon.  If it has then I shan't apologise because I'm horrid like that. Anyway -

7)  Humans have 52 of which in a lifetime, 20 of which are deciduous?Teeth!

12)  Which singer featured in the film "Desperately Seeking Susan"?Madonna.  Please note this does NOT make her an actress, a lesson she has taken a long time to learn.

18)  Which of the following is not a Bronte sister:  Charlotte; Emma; JaneEmma.  Obviously.

22) What makes more as you take them?Footsteps.  One of those thinking questions

2)  The film "All The President's Men" was about what political scandal?Watergate.

Water Gate

     Out of sheer mercy I shall not bother inflicting another set of questions today.  Tomorrow - ah now that's another story entirely.

     "Yes, yes," I hear you query.  "But - about 'Zermelo's Axiom of Choice"?
     Patience!  I said we'll get to that, later.  Sit down and be quiet.

More Of The Political Warfare Executive
Or, Perfidious Albion Reveals A Devious Mind.  "Gustav Siegfried Eins" is the broadcast station I mentioned yesterday, supposedly from a fiercely patriotic Prussian officer who relentlessly criticised the Nazi Party for going soft, being corrupt and offering the Fuhrer bad advice.  His broadcast career ended when the SS stormed his illicit studio and shot him dead whilst still on the air - supposedly.  In fact it was all a fiction cooked up by the Political Warfare Executive, who certainly took the "Fair" out of "Warfare".
     Another little poison gem of theirs was forging stamps that were smuggled into Germany, depicting the head of Heinrich Himmler, that chicken-farmer-turned-autocrat, rather than that of Der Fuhrer.

Heinrich.  Hardly a superman.

      The idea was that this would be seen as self-aggrandisement on the part of HH, which would not go down well with either Der Fuhrer or any of the Nazis who flocked around him.  Since they all hated and detested one another in the first place, it would take very little to foment suspicions.

     "Zermelo's Axiom!" I hear you quibble.  "We must know what it is!"
     Blimey, the patience of a flea on amphetamines, that's you lot.  Okay!

"Bleeding Edge" By Thomas Pynchon - A Glossary
And once again we're off on a journey of discovery as Conrad decrypts and deciphers exactly what Ol' Tom meant, to see if it was real and to enlighten those of us who don't live in South Canada.
     'Lenox Hill':  part of New York, in fact part of Manhattan's Upper East Side.  Full of verrrry expensive real estate, up-market shops and the odd museum or two, as what's a ton of money without any culture?

Lenox hill

     'Promis Software': I can only outline this story.  "Prosecutor's Management Information System" aka "Promis" was software designed for the administration of various law agencies.  A twenty-year legal battle then followed with all sorts of allegations about corruption, piracy, theft, fraud, espionage, Mossad, mixed fretwork classes, dogs and cats, living together - Google for the full story.
     "Zermelo's Axiom Of Choice": Hmmm.  Apparently a " - set theory that the Cartesian product of a collection of non-empty sets is non-empty".  There you go.  I hope that clears any confusion right up.
     "Ofeq":  Hebrew for "Horizon".  Conrad is not sure what the context in the novel is, but this is the name of a series of Israeli reconnaissance satellites, mostly launched from Palmachim airbase in Israel, atop the Shavit rocket.  Which rocket can convincingly be said to form the basis for an ICBM, so you might not sleep a lot easier tonight.

Bring me the Horizon!

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