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- dave 1-01-2020 11:00 pm [link] [8 comments]

Merry Christmas 2019

 

CHRISTMAS 2019

Through Time, and Time Again

Christmas Recycles

One Year’s Tree

Is another’s Yule Log;

Yesteryear Fuels the Future

 


- alex 12-23-2019 8:57 am [link] [5 comments]

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31135/how-did-slipping-banana-peel-become-comedy-staple


- bill 12-20-2019 7:16 am [link] [1 ref] [1 comment]

http://www.openculture.com/2018/12/behold-original-deck-oblique-strategies-cards-handwritten-brian-eno.html


- bill 12-15-2019 10:12 am [link] [add a comment]

http://www.openculture.com/2012/08/the_character_of_physical_law_richard_feynmans_legendary_lecture_series_at_cornell_1964.html


- bill 12-09-2019 8:36 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]


- steve 11-12-2019 11:04 am [link] [add a comment]

Jim was the first person I know to mention meteorologist Jeff Masters, who I've followed ever since (like, almost 20 years).

At the end of the month Dr. Masters is leaving his company Weather Underground, which was absorbed by the Weather Channel and then IBM (!) and will be blogging at Scientific American.
 


- tom moody 10-29-2019 7:29 pm [link] [1 comment]

It's the weekend...


- jim 10-26-2019 9:01 pm [link] [1 ref] [1 comment]

HB for AW

https://youtu.be/CUVRd4UoKwM


- bill 10-26-2019 3:44 pm [link] [1 ref] [2 comments]

Yesterday was International Sloth Day, so I'm just getting around to posting this.


- alex 10-21-2019 7:32 am [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

https://patch.com/new-york/ditmaspark/skunk-spotted-prospect-park-what-may-be-first-time


- bill 10-18-2019 8:09 am [link] [add a comment]

RIP R Hunter

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/robert-hunter-grateful-dead-dead-889788/


- bill 9-24-2019 4:38 pm [link] [1 ref] [7 comments]

No real surprise, but the actual numbers are staggering:

North America has lost 3 billion birds in 50 years

 


- alex 9-20-2019 7:07 am [link] [3 comments]

damn I hope you Canadians have been living beyond your means


- mb 8-09-2019 4:41 pm [link] [1 comment]

rip second wave (2002, please) blogger, mark kleiman


- dave 7-25-2019 11:05 pm [link] [add a comment]

Remembering my father, on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Time flies.


- alex 7-23-2019 7:04 am [link] [2 comments]

RIP Mad Magazne

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mad-magazine-winding-down_n_5d1da141e4b04c48140eed2e

 

dont go away mad, just go away

 

 


- bill 7-04-2019 10:11 am [link] [1 comment]

Back to the future


- steve 6-30-2019 10:50 pm [link] [add a comment]

anybody ever go to the jane hotel? saw some comedy-type monologue show interspersed with a couple of songs last night. couple of the performer were good including the one i went to see, others not so much. but i was fortunate to get one of the last seats in the balcony though it was on a low couch and i had to spy the acts through the ironwork railing and occasionally fronds from a large plant. place definitely has a wes anderson vibe only slightly creepier. the room was cool though. here it is on its best day bathed in natural light. probably 25% shabbier in reality which is fine by me.

 


- dave 6-25-2019 8:48 am [link] [3 comments]

whats this place go for? 2, 300 grand?


- dave 6-24-2019 12:06 pm [link] [add a comment]

the walk of life.


- dave 6-22-2019 11:20 pm [link] [add a comment]

Hogging the blanket? The endless carousing?


- steve 6-02-2019 7:27 pm [link] [3 comments]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8971695/new-york-cabbie-nyc-taxi-window-usa/

 

hack photog nyc 


- bill 5-02-2019 8:07 am [link] [2 refs] [add a comment]

remember when we all talked about moving to butte? good times, or times, at least.


- dave 4-14-2019 12:59 pm [link] [3 comments]

Talk about Main Stream Media crap…

I’ve got a new work computer with Windows 10 (yech) and every time I open a tab it throws a bunch of clickbait pseudo news stories at me. I’m a sucker for history, so I check out “on this date” from MSN “news” and read “1862: Siege of Yorktown begins” a weird conflation of the revolution and the civil war: “The Battle of Yorktown begins as union forces under Gen. George McCellan arrive to take command in Virginia. The culmination of the Yorktown campaign after the siege proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War. The surrender by Cornwallis, and the capture of both him and his army, prompted the British government to negotiate an end to the conflict.” Then I learn that Howard Hughes died in a plane crash, which he didn’t; he almost did earlier in his life, and he was probably on a plane when he died, but it wasn’t from a crash. How do they come up with this stuff, millennial bots going through Wikipedia backwards? And these are just obvious ones I happen to know; how much bullshit goes undetected? (Wonder if they will make corrections.)

 


- alex 4-05-2019 7:22 am [link] [3 comments]