Snippets

Short quotes, odd bits, etc.

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

• http://bikeshed.org/

Nonsense

• Nonsense word generator

On This Day in History

• February 4, 1936 – Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.

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

• Aimee Laurel
• Andrea Graham
• http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/760947/what-cubic-problems-did-tartaglia-and-fior-pose-to-each-other

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

• Pig Bodine (nonfiction)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_Bodine
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon

Art Wars

• Abstract Impressionism (nonfiction)
• Harold Rosenberg (nonfiction)
• Manhattan Project (nonfiction)
• Manhattan Project
• Rock the Cradle (nonfiction)
• Diego Rivera (nonfiction)
• Diego Rivera Shakes His Fist
• Atomic Manhattan (drink)
• Soviet Union (nonfiction)
• Julius Rosenberg (nonfiction)
• Ethel Rosenberg (nonfiction)
• The Book of Daniel (novel) (nonfiction)

Games etc.

• Balloon Wars - speech balloons vs. thought balloons
• Origami Crane - Origami Crane game
• The Stepford Consumers
• Green Treacle 5
• The Bespokesman
• Carrie d'Auouei from Hawaii
• Egocluniac
• Too Early Gig ("Twirly Gig")
• Silk Tornado
• Ocean Front Properly
• Ocean Front Prosperity
• Leonyda, Leona, Lyonah
• Tarski's World

Egypta Commodificata

• Pharaoh Unlimited
• United Afterlife
• Necropolis Associates
• North-South Kingdoms Free Trade Association
• Greater North Kingdom Co-Prosperity Zone

Lords of the Phantom Zone

• Lords of the Phantom Zone
• Lords of the Phantom Zone (nonfiction)
• Belle Reve: Prisone Bastille

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

• Untitled DC Comics Project.com.