Wrath of the Math

I've been trying to read Relativity, Einstein's explanation of his theory. In the Preface he claims that "the present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who... are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics." That's a description of me if ever I read one, so I thought I'd be held by the hand all the way through the process and I'd be able to impress people by explaining to them exactly what E=mc2 actually means. However, I think "as far as possible" might be the operative phrase; thus far I haven't lasted very long, but I will keep trying.

Speaking of Einstein, here's a picture of him hanging with Charlie Chaplin, from Awesome People Hanging Out Together:

I'm visiting home this weekend, waiting for our new flat in Salisbury to be ready to move into. I think I might pop in and check out the Jeff Koons exhibition in Edinburgh. I'm not sure what to think of his work; it seems to combine Duchamp's questions about "what is art?" with Warhol's answer that everything popular, banal and crass is art. Except I guess that neither of the would like me to call it "crass", because they're trying to avoid making such distinctions between "high" and "low" art. Anyway, I'm sure his work will be visually impressive. I hope they have one of his Balloon Dogs:

Jeff Koons - Balloon Dog

Or one of his Cracked Eggs:

Jeff Koons - Cracked Egg

Although I think they would have mentioned that on the website, as they're pretty famous works. 

I'm still looking for a job of course, so get in touch if you want to pay me to write some cack-handed articles about wrestling or art or whatever.