It’s one thing to encounter this in some fringe blog or video and another thing to see it as front-page news.
In my opinion, this is very very significant.
These are people like us, anatomically, cranially. Were they just sitting around, for all those millennia? What were they up to ?!
Came across this in a large coffee-table size book on the Hindenburg.
Imagine doing repairs on the side of this giant airship, while in the middle of the ocean!
I’ve decided to only check out graphic novels (for various reasons).
I enjoyed the last one I’d read (“The ring of the Nibelung”), and moved on to something random yet promising (essentially, browsed the stacks, picked one of three that I liked).
“The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.”
Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
We’ve had this series for a while now.
It’s the one set of stories that works for children before they can read, when they can read only a few words, and for adults too!
Highly recommend 🙂
The content I find online is largely crap, of the form
(These days I’m finding occasional success with Substack. But only occasional.)
My favorite kind of content was a bit of the rambling sort, sharing opinions on this-and-that, without really any expectations of being read at all.
Quoting from other sources, making connections, the dream of hyper-text as briefly presented in the mid-90s, some time before the end-of-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-history.
This current “mood” was brought upon by accidentally coming across a blog I read around 2005-2010, and learning that the author passed away in 2013. Time flies.
Yes, there’s a risk of getting nostalgic here, and there are forms of content (most notably video, more on which some other time), and I used to be tired of “backward-looking-ness” too, but there you have it.
I know that kind of blogging isn’t going to come back, and I miss it.
Something about keeping this old car running seemed really inspiring.
Saw this “for pickup” on the sidewalk recently.
I can’t imagine who would use something like this, but it was pretty high-end in its time!
This is as old as me! The style then was to “embed” these into large cabinets (I’m guessing), hence the simulated woodgrain.
Here is a view of the connections at the back, which really show its vintage (“look, it’s stereo! you can even turn the left and right speakers on and off!”)
Here is a 1985 newspaper advertisement for it (link courtesy Wikipedia).
Saw these two articles side-by-side, the contrast was too much 🙂
On one hand, “we need to raise the debt ceiling, we’re about to default, the Treasury will exhaust emergency measures“, on the other hand, “we need to borrow another 3.5T”
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