Bruce Tindall @BruceTindall@scholar.social
Copy editor and indexer for scholarly authors & publishers. BS Math, UNC; MA Liberal Studies, Duke; MFA Poetry, Vermont College of Fine Arts. Recovering adjunct
Britpol, but actually USpol could do with some of this.
The new issue of The Speculative Grammarian (a satirical linguistics journal) is now available! Enjoy!
PhD Comics reveals the secret of the academic summer life: http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=2013
"Wagner's operas end long after they are finished." --Stravinsky. And yet I did see the whole Ring in one week at the Met in 1990 and enjoyed it. On the "day off" I went to Lloyd Webber's "Aspects of Love " and when it was over in 2 hours I was like, "Is that ALL?"
Chelsea Manning calling in her new video statement to #AbolishICE, and to change the #prison system as a whole.
'they imprison the poor and the volunerable'
watch:
https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/deb82d04-ab5c-4011-83bf-a0c8db9927a6
'together we can do better - together we can win - together we can #AbolishICE #WeGotThis #OccupyICE
Beginning June 11, no more free API key for Google Maps (now Google Maps Platform) if you don't provide a credit card.
A lot of custom Google maps that have been created over the years will likely no longer work.
Time to use #leaflet and #openstreetmap
https://leafletjs.com/
https://www.openstreetmap.org/about
https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/sheet/
https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1004515486187577347
<<Jurassic Park: The Startup, about a company that decided to just not worry about the regulatory angle and release thousands of dinosaurs directly onto the streets of San Francisco >>
Last night my computer reminded me to be grateful to a lot of people most of whom are no longer around. Superimposed on my screensaver, a photo of a beach, was the date, June 6, and the time, 19:44.
My students launched their high altitude balloon today!
You can track it here: https://aprs.fi/#!call=a%2FKD0ZTV-2&timerange=3600&tail=3600
For some reason the altitude is reporting correctly on desktop but not mobile web? Currently at 48k feet!
The login page at www.queendido.tn:
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___ Remember me
___ But ah, forget my fate
Khajiit has wares if you have coin
GNU David Buckel. RIP.
May angels lead him into paradise and may his fellow holy martyrs rejoice at his arrival.
GNU Carliss Blossom McGarrity Tindall, M.A., born in Arkansas 1921, died Friday in North Carolina. Supporter of human rights for EVERYONE. And probably the last surviving member of South Carolina Students For Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate for president in 1940 . Eternal rest grant unto her, Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon her. GNU
The Grauniad informs us today that "the dream of nuclear fusion is on the brink of being realised."
If I could remember how to log on to Usenet I'd post that to alt.edward.teller.boom.boom.boom, and backdate it to 1952.
(They meant, of course, nuclear fusion that will generate electric power without vaporizing everybody withing a zillion miles, but that's not what they said.)
fascinating article on designing a font for chinese https://qz.com/522079/the-long-incredibly-tortuous-and-fascinating-process-of-creating-a-chinese-font/
We are nothing.
We have fallen
Into the dark and shall be destroyed.
Think though, that in this darkness
We hold the secret hub of an idea
Whose living sunlit wheel revolves in future years outside.
--From the play by Comrade Sir Stephen Spender, "Trial of a Judge."
The Bowers Museum, whose exhibition on the Late Qing era will close soon, has sent me an email titled "How to get the most out of the Empress Dowager's final weeks!" (exclamation point in original).
Hmm, let's see. How about starting a revolution that topples a centuries-old system of imperial rule? That sounds promising!
u were so preoccupied browsing wikihow u never stopped to think if u should browse wikishould
Excuse me, Comrade, can you tell me how I can liberate Carnegie Hall? Show more
