Diary (May 3, 2020)
Online diary of Karl Jones for Sunday May 3, 2020.
Diary
Grace and Force
Thinking about David Dyer-Bennett, whose rhetoric combines "grace and force" - qualities which typically counteract each other, show their quality when combined.
Jig my wig
What? Oh, jig my wig.
Community-supported agriculture
C'mon people now
Scale down to CSA
Everybody get together
Try and localize agriculture now
Wikipedia:
Community-supported agriculture (CSA model) is a system that connects the producer and consumers within the food system more closely by allowing the consumer to subscribe to the harvest of a certain farm or group of farms. It is an alternative socioeconomic model of agriculture and food distribution that allows the producer and consumer to share the risks of farming. The model is a subcategory of civic agriculture that has an overarching goal of strengthening a sense of community through local markets.[2]
In return for subscribing to a harvest, subscribers receive either a weekly or bi-weekly box of produce or other farm goods. This includes in-season fruits and vegetables and can expand to dried goods, eggs, milk, meat, etc. Typically, farmers try to cultivate a relationship with subscribers by sending weekly letters of what is happening on the farm, inviting them for harvest, or holding an open-farm event. Some CSAs provide for contributions of labor in lieu of a portion of subscription costs.
The term CSA is mostly used in the United States and Canada, but a variety of similar production and economic sub-systems are in use worldwide.
- Comment @ Facebook
- Community-supported agriculture @ Wikipedia
Conjoined twin Mickey Mice
Brass knuckles: Steampunk conjoined twin Mickey Mice.
- Comment @ Boing Boing
Venetian polymaths
Venetian polymaths ... always with the Venetian polymaths ....
Count Francesco Algarotti (11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764) was a Venetian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector. He was a man of broad knowledge, an expert in Newtonianism, architecture and music and a friend of most of the leading authors of his times: Voltaire, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis and the atheist Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Lord Chesterfield, Thomas Gray, George Lyttelton, Thomas Hollis, Metastasio, Benedict XIV and Heinrich von Brühl were among his correspondents.
Alex Jones
Alex Jones thinks he can Unleash Primeval?
Can't touch Paddy Chayefsky, I say:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91v5o7wmzxg
- Comment @ Boing Boing
Fancy Brass Tool
We’re so sorry / Fancy brass tool
We’re so sorry we’re not buying anything
We’re so sorry / Fancy brass tool
But the template’s on the table and you’re so eeeeeeeeasily reverse engineered ...
(Nyaaaaah, nyaaaah, nyah nyah nyah nyah ...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DupyAkOZLYA
- Comment @ Boing Boing
Criminal nation
I would like to see some acknowledgement that organized crime is a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States, and that there is either a useful analogy or a direct connection to the idea that the 1% rule the 99%.
Organized crime is not some abstract idea, nor is it what you see on TV shows.
Organized crime is people who make a living through crime, some of whom have inherited or earned fortunes through dynasties of crime. It was *okay* for Moe Dalitz to retire to Las Vegas and live an open respectable life, attend synagogue, make charitable contributions, even though he was a stone-cold gangster, a true Prohibition-era killer who built a criminal empire.
It was *okay* for John Gotti to walk free and dine in nice restaurants, despite (because of?) his criminal celebrity status.
It is *okay* for there to be Five Families in New York, and crime families in every other major American city.
This is a criminal nation. It's okay to be criminal if the money works out.