This is, without a doubt, one of my favorite pictures of Robert Carlyle. EVER.
Let us count the ways:
– Lovely, long coat? Yes.
– Shiny, fluffy hair? Yes.
– Specs? Mmmmm…yes.
– Waistcoat? YES.
– Scruff? YES.
– Open collared shirt? YES! Is it getting hot in here?
– Tight jeans? OH, YES. Definitely hot in here.
I think my work here is done. Time to open up the wine and make some dinner! 🙂
DON’T FORGET THE STUDDED BELT.
You know it’s a good pic when you just hear me say “oh my!” as it appears on my screen. And then you hear from the other room, “Who is it this time, Robert Carlyle or Jason Isaacs?” 😂
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your
feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the
universe exist. Be curious. However difficult life may seem, there is
always something you can do and succeed. It matters that you don’t just
give up. – Stephen Hawking
I usually don’t share much online…but since I’ve kinda gotten to know several people here *raises head above couch i’m hiding behind* and since we’re about to rewatch SGU, i thought I might share this…sorry its kinda long.
When people say fictional characters don’t matter…I’m here to tell you…
I think the difference between him and a lot of other scientist characters (even Mr. Spock, who I love immensely) that makes him more relatable for actual scientists is that he’s not always perfect with his science. He’s not a prodigy. I think he’s smart, like a few standard deviations away from the mean smart but that doesn’t make him a born genius. He still is shown working very very hard, and sometimes he still doesn’t know the answer. At the beginning of the series, we see him not knowing how to solve the ‘dialing the 9th gate’ problem and having to embed it in a video game to get help. Later in the series, he genuinely doesn’t know that the ship will fuel itself by flying into the sun. He suspects it will, but he doesn’t want to risk the lives of everyone just based on that suspicion.
This makes him a person, not a human calculator or a source of technobabble.
I look up to Rush a lot myself because of how driven he is. He stops at nothing until he gets the right answer. He was able to get where he is because of his self-discipline and self-confidence. I wish I could be like that all the time.
I wonder what Bobby would think if he knew that 20-something science students look up to Rush…
I feel like I have no foundation in my life right now.
I graduated, I’m submitting a few papers for publication, and I’m just sort of throwing myself out there trying to get a job and not even sure if I am able to.
I am seriously thinking about going back to school and becoming Dr. Rush Keating.
In my uncertainty, I keep coming back to Rush. I know I don’t talk about that character as much anymore but I remain completely fascinated by him. He was asocial, dishonest, insufferable, and hated people but he loved humanity, respected women, and worked his ass off. He clearly loved science and that was his motivation for literally everything he did. Yes he’s like the very definition of morally grey but, fuck, I still consider him #careergoals in many ways and maybe that’s just how that one goes.
On this, the first Floof Friday I’ve been awake for in weeks, I would like to pay tribute to Nicholas Rush.
“I’m here to kill a man, but dammit I will look gorgeous doing it.”
Floof + white shirt + scruff + heart eyes = total babe
“I want to change my major to astrophysics.” “Um…you’ve taken exactly one science course since you enrolled here. And you barely passed it.” “Don’t tell me how to live my life.”
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