{"id":960,"date":"2005-01-01T14:46:04","date_gmt":"2005-01-01T14:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2005\/01\/the_da_vinci_ch\/"},"modified":"2005-01-01T14:46:04","modified_gmt":"2005-01-01T14:46:04","slug":"the_da_vinci_ch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/the_da_vinci_ch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Da Vinci Chronograph"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Dan Brown phenomenom roles relentlessly on, I was amused to see an advert for the Da Vinci Chronograph<\/a>. A bargain at just £145, made by an ancient German company or something.
\nAnyway, I’m not exactly a horologist or anything, but it strikes me that Da Vinci owned no such watch. He died in 1519<\/a>, and undoubtedly brilliant though he was, he didn’t make watches. I’ve read Longitude<\/a> and know what a difference John Harrison<\/a> made some two hundred plus years later. So the idea of a Da Vinci Chronograph has about as much going for it as a Cleopatra Alarm Clock or a William the Conqueror DVD Player.
\nIncidentally, I came across this ad after reading an article from a recent Observer magazine about Paul McKenna<\/a>. I’ll admit to being interested in pieces about him because I think that while he’s genuine, I’m not sure that there’s anything much to the whole hypnotism (and by association NLP) at all. Indeed, I believe that it’s just suggestable people being easily suggested to! The other reason I like to read something about him is that he went to my school, and it seems that no article can go by without him saying how much he hated it:<\/p>\n

Though, in a way, it did intrigue me, because I saw that the Jesuits are a bunch of mind-manipulators and … I remember reading recently that Hitler had the SS trained on the Jesuit training models … you might want to check it, but it wouldn’t surprise me. It’s a highly manipulative doctrine. But really, I think, apart from Catholic school, I had a happy childhood.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s not my experience of school in the slightest – but then he seems to have deeper issues with his upbringing and what, if any part, his parents’ religion seemed to have on him. I’m pretty comfortable in that regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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