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Short quotes, odd bits, etc.

"The Talk" (quantum computing)

Racist history of Portland

Archery

auguremia

  • auguremia

Fortune Tellers: Ayn Rand, Kurt Vonnegut & Aldous Huxley

Elliott Erwitt

  • Nikita Krushchev and Richard Nixon, Moscow, 1959.
  • Glassmakers of Herat

Line drawing tattoos

Jimi Hendrix

On Voting

There's only one "i" in "voting".

National Anthem

Few people know this because we only ever sing the first verse. But read the end of the third verse and you’ll see why “The Star-Spangled Banner” is not just a musical atrocity, it’s an intellectual and moral one, too:

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Fay Cluff Brown

Fay Cluff Brown (1881-1968) was a physicist and inventor who created and supervised the development of educational exhibits, most notably in the Museum of Science and Industry at New York City’s Museums of the Peaceful Arts. Much of his scientific research focused on the element selenium. Early in his career, Brown invented a device using selenium, which translated printed text into sound.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_82/May_1913/Scholarship_and_the_State

Peter Struycken

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Struycken

copular deixis

copular deixis: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_case

AutoDraw

Autodraw is a web app that looks at what you are drawing and offers up clip-art style images that resemble your sketch.

https://autodraw.com/

http://boingboing.net/2017/04/12/this-web-app-guesses-what-you.html

Shining Shields

"Shining Shields" reported by Pliny the Elder

I Cannot Forgive

I Cannot forgive (AKA I Escaped from Auschwitz) by Rudolf Vrba

Wooley

"Commodore Woolsey was of middle height, sailor-built, and of a compact, athletic frame. His countenance was prepossessing, and had singularly the look of a gentleman. In his deportment, he was a pleasing mixture of gentleman-like refinement and seaman-like frankness. His long intimacy with frontier habits could not, and did not, destroy his early training, though it possibly impeded some of that advancement in his professional and general knowledge, which he had so successfully commenced in early life. He was an excellent seaman, and few officers had more correct notions of the rules of discipline. His familiar association with all the classes that mingle so freely together in border life, had produced a tendency, on his excellent disposition, to relax to much in his ordinary intercourse, perhaps, but his good sense prevented this weakness from proceeding very far. Woolsey rather wanted the grimace than the substance of authority. A better-hearted man never lived. All who sailed with him loved him, and he had sufficient native mind, and sufficinet acquired instruction, to command the respect of many of the strongest intellects of the service." — James Fennimore Cooper, Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melancthon_Taylor_Woolsey

Cantor Parabola Meets

Hmmm. Oscar Barnack certainly. Lewis Carroll. Allan Turing. Jules Verne. And Georg Cantor of course.

Cassady on Graham

Neal Cassady summed up Bill Graham on sight: "He was out on the street checking tire treads to see if they’d picked up any nickels."

Blowing Mad: Neal Cassady and Music

Books

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Konr%C3%A1d

Though Konrád has frequently portrayed his Berettyóúfalu childhood in his novels, and particularly in The Feast in the Garden, he attempted to present this period in a more precise documentary form in two more recent books, Departure and Return (2001) and Up on the Hill During a Solar Eclipse (2003). The first of these books treats a single year – 1944-45 – while the second covers fifty, after beginning with a reflection on the final years of the twentieth century, more precisely the morning solar eclipse of 1999, experienced from the peak of St. György Hill. These books were published separately in Europe, and together in New York as A Guest in My Own Country (2007).

Links

Nonsense

On This Day in History

Latin phrases

  • Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. ("Kill them all. For the Lord knows those who are his."). Supposed statement by Abbot Arnaud Amalric before the massacre of Béziers during the Albigensian Crusade, recorded 30 years later, according to Caesarius of Heisterbach. cf. "Kill them all and let God sort them out."

Links to pursue

Overheard (true quotes)

  • "I vow to crush all of my children's dreams. That's my main goal in life." (Female co-worker in her mid-thirties.)

Etc.

  • Trysting, trysting ... one, two ....
  • Florin for your thoughts.
  • I Gambol as I Grumble.
  • Cards Longa, Vita Brevis.
  • As far as I'm concerned, your out of control is under control.
  • I'll take it under behoovement.
  • Squanderosa: the dinner club for a gilded era.

Pynchon

Art Wars

Games etc.

Egypta Commodificata

Lords of the Phantom Zone

Mashups

Rodeo Clown MASH_UP Mystery Date

Moon in your perfume MASH_UP Shooting Star

Misc.

  • Copper: the Shameless Metal
  • Alba Zorba
  • Straw dogs, plastics sturgeons -- whatever it takes.

Boat-builders

Boat-builders are a breed apart. What Texans are to land, boat-builders are to water.

External links

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