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March Pieces Of MY Mind #2 [Aardvarchaeology]
Monday, March 21, 2016 6:33
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- Pretty groovy example of restaurant spelling the other day: “A là cartè”.
- ”From what black wells of Acherontic fear or feeling, from what unplumbed gulfs of extra-cosmic consciousness or obscure, long-latent heredity, were those half-articulate thunder-croakings drawn?”
- I know I’ve said this before, but it is such a remarkable fact that it bears repeating. Dungeons & Dragons was designed by two members of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
- In library catalogues, books are sometimes categorised as “diss”. It means that the librarians don’t like them and you probably shouldn’t read them.
- Had a chat with a charming and knowledgeable German colleague. She signed off with the words “have to leave now, my man wants me for lunch”. Clearly a happy marriage.
- Fela Kuti argued that Africans must be the cleverest people in the world because their continent is in the middle of the map. Sorry, Mr. Kuti, that’s actually because West Africa is due south of the Greenwich Observatory.
- One of the coolest applications of wifi is for printers. It blows my mind to be able to print from my laptop wherever I am in the house.
- Mungo Jerry’s “In the Summertime” was one of Mats P. Malmer’s favourite songs.
- I love streaming music with an automatic discovery algorithm! It’s improved my enjoyment of music enormously. A lot of people have a fairly static collection of favourite albums and songs, amassed in their youth. I discover several new songs and bands every week that make my music enjoyment meter max out!
- I’ve got this Albanian colleague who looks just generally European and speaks excellent Swedish. In conversation yesterday, he said offhandedly, “… back when I was a refugee and lived illegally in Sweden”. Made me think.
- Love these springtime field trips, looking at sites before the leaves sprout and obscure everything. A sense of freedom and belonging.
- PhD student supervision course done, diploma in hand, check.
- I wonder if Duane Gish was on a debate team at school. You can win US school debating matches by talking really fast and making more arguments than your opponent has time to respond to. Sounds like a tobacco auction and is absolutely worthless from a rhetorics perspective.
- Verdi’s Requiem to a full house! And in the basement some of my ancestors rest in urns.
This Arnebo farmer and flight mechanic has an unusual garden ornament: a SAAB 340.
Source: http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2016/03/21/march-pieces-of-my-mind-2-3/
