Whitechapel - December 25th 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9473#Comment_9473 2007-12-23T01:36:10-08:00 2007-12-23T01:36:47-08:00 Kosmopolit http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1346 To some it's just another day. But to some of us it's much more. It's the day on which we remember one very special man who was born on that day long ago - a man who changed our world and our ...
But to some of us it's much more.

It's the day on which we remember one very special man who was born on that day long ago - a man who changed our world and our perception of the world forever and whose work has touched the lives of essentially every person around the globe including those who've never heard his name or his message.

I refer, of course, to Sir Isaac Newton.

Merry Newtonmass, everyone.]]> December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9474#Comment_9474 2007-12-23T02:00:04-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=75 I'll stick with Teslaween on July 10th, thank you. :P December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9475#Comment_9475 2007-12-23T02:02:42-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 Kosmopolit http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1346 But there's just something so festive about the jolly strings of red and green apples and the multi-colored light displays honoring Newton's work on optics. December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9480#Comment_9480 2007-12-23T04:18:23-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 TechnocratJT http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=558 Thinks about my struggles with Quicksilver at this special time. Quicksilver at this special time.]]> December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9486#Comment_9486 2007-12-23T05:41:40-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 Fauxhammer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=27 Keep your vaunted science off my Feast of The Unconquered Sun. Sol Invictus, motherfuckers! science off my Feast of The Unconquered Sun.

Sol Invictus, motherfuckers!]]> December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9521#Comment_9521 2007-12-23T13:18:32-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 Kosmopolit http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1346 Ah you guys just stole it off the Mithrans. December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9567#Comment_9567 2007-12-23T21:09:37-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 munin218 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=246 I have my Yule, kthxbye. December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9568#Comment_9568 2007-12-23T21:16:33-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 steveburnett http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=941 My concession to the holiday season this year, in an Everyday is Halloween spirit. Everyday is Halloween spirit.]]> December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9578#Comment_9578 2007-12-23T23:58:00-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 David xvx Ludd http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1059 Um. Isaac Newton was born on 4 January 1643. December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9579#Comment_9579 2007-12-24T00:24:26-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 Ariana http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1 Um. Isaac Newton was born on 4 January 1643.
Um. Isaac Newton was born on 4 January 1643.
Conversion of Julian to Gregorian dates]]> December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9594#Comment_9594 2007-12-24T03:53:45-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 David xvx Ludd http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1059 Ah. December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9600#Comment_9600 2007-12-24T04:37:59-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 curb http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1334 I feel some of you may not be treating Newtonmass with the gravity it deserves. Arf! December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9624#Comment_9624 2007-12-24T07:38:12-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 alwayscrashing http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=162 I live where he grew up and went to school and no one seems to care here. Although, we do have a big statue of him and preserved Newton graffiti. He carved his name under a window at school, and it's ...
School kids never change....]]> December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9630#Comment_9630 2007-12-24T10:06:30-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 Confusion http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=826 Sorry to break the Newton theme, but i thought I could pitch in with some festive cheer.
What I did for this years Christmas party]]> December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9643#Comment_9643 2007-12-24T13:25:25-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 pygmy http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=636 I wished my friend Mel, who was previously an astrophysicist, and now shoots great big lasers at teeny little nano-shit (and throughout both is a hot, nerdy lez-been) a Happy Queer Scientist Day. December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9659#Comment_9659 2007-12-24T18:52:28-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 Alan Tyson http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1299 Did xmas sneak up on anyone really stealthy and really quick? Cuz that's what happened to me. Happy Christmas, Whitechapel (which, when taken in the historical context, sounds kinda cool).
Happy Christmas, Whitechapel (which, when taken in the historical context, sounds kinda cool).]]> December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9667#Comment_9667 2007-12-24T22:18:56-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 obliterati http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=351 Oh my god it's Christmas here now, someone make it stop! someone make it stop!]]> December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9675#Comment_9675 2007-12-25T00:02:46-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 Severin http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=983 It's Christmas? Fuck. I thought it was my birthday. December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9676#Comment_9676 2007-12-25T00:06:23-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 Unsub http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1446 Thanks Kosmopolit I totally intend to swipe that. J Traub Quicksilver is such a good book once you get past the boring Newton at school part. As an X Mass present I will summarize the boring ...
J Traub Quicksilver is such a good book once you get past the boring Newton at school part.

As an X Mass present I will summarize the boring part so you can skip right to the good part.

Newton was smart but bad at school and was your typical absent minded professor. Daniel took care of him. Daniels father was a Puritan who thought cromwell far to soft. Newton was into Optics ,coins and alchemy and possibly politics and sodomy but kept those 2 things quite close to the vest. Rich dreunken teen royals at Oxford were predictably not nice to poor puritan scholarship students but mostly ignored them. Newton had a real thing for coins.

Why that took Neal Stephenson the length of a Stephen King novel I have no idea. The Parts with Jack are up there with Snow crash for being fun and exciting but it totally screwed my vague knowledge of history.]]> December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9678#Comment_9678 2007-12-25T00:19:11-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 ARES http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=329 Noel Redding, Josh Freese, and Cab Calloway were born December 25th. Rad. Also, Karl Rove. BOOOOOOOOOO!
Also, Karl Rove. BOOOOOOOOOO!]]> December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9690#Comment_9690 2007-12-25T01:31:30-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 sacredchao http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1501 I'd much rather have my grandfather read the wikipedia entry on Newton tomorrow afternoon, but, alas, that seems unlikely, being that both he, and my dad, are Free Will Baptist preachers. December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9695#Comment_9695 2007-12-25T01:52:03-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 graphicartistx http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=525 Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Solstice, Happy Saturnalia, Happy Holidays, and Happy December 25th, everyone. December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9696#Comment_9696 2007-12-25T03:06:52-08:00 2007-12-25T03:07:17-08:00 Mark Seifert http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3 Here's a good one -- also born today was legendary illustrator and art teacher Burne Hogarth. Burne Hogarth.]]> December 25th http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=380&Focus=9698#Comment_9698 2007-12-25T07:33:29-08:00 2013-05-18T12:31:12-07:00 Mark Seifert http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3 And Rod Serling!