[UC## [redacted] offers the following reflection on domestic tranquility.] I’m sure I’ll be over it in 2 hours but a limerick is in order: Why not have a digital family calendar with noted citations? To keep everyone apprised of laborious social obligations Telling me in January of an event that will occur 3 months in […]
Category: Meaning of Life
First…. Don’t Panic! Check for left behind items in our Lost and Found gallery: Amygdala lost and found Lost and Found: Georgia State Library New Procedure All valuables (wallets, purses, cell phones, laptops, bank cards, licenses, passports, keys, etc.) will be turned over to security staff at the Library North security desk for safekeeping. Security […]
“Spiegel im Spiegel” seemed like an appropriate start to a gray day in central Texas. This led to the program notes for a concert given by Austin’s own Conspirare back in 2013 that featured, in addition to “Spiegel im Spiegel”. “daffodils, lilacs, roses”, and “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen”. in time of daffodils by […]
Today we hear from elder UC#3. The heart is a muscle where fluid will pulse It moves blood through us in a huge expulse Why does a Valentine’s card sent to your lover Feature a heart with no chest cover Alas, I’ve learned this kind of analytical discourse can cause ladies to convulse Leaving No […]
It’s wonderful to have our tactical nuclear family together for a few days. UC#2 is visiting from Santa Barbara. We’ve got a busy schedule of fun activities. Our Tactical Nuclear Family Playing the Childhood Game “Potato Onion Turnip” I almost had UC#2 convinced that we really did play this game when he was little. Family […]
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Girl Scout Cookies
Girl Scout Cookies are cookies sold by Girl Scouts in the United States to raise funds to support Girl Scout councils and individual troops. The cookies are widely popular and are commonly sold by going door-to-door, online, through school or town fundraisers, or at “cookie booths” set up at storefronts. The program is intended to […]
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Slide Rules
One slide rule remaining in daily use around the world is the E6B. This is a circular slide rule first created in the 1930s for aircraft pilots to help with dead reckoning. With the aid of scales printed on the frame it also helps with such miscellaneous tasks as converting time, distance, speed, and temperature […]
As part of his studies, UC#2 was reading The Sacred Is the Profane: The Political Nature of “Religion” by William Arnal and Russell T. McCutcheon “This hard-hitting collection overturns common ideas about religion. Arnal and McCutcheon argue that ‘religion’ has no independent existence but is rather the unstable creation of political and economic forces. These […]
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White Rabbits, Part II
[ed. note: thanks to UC#2 for today’s topic] Marginalia Marginalia (or apostils) are marks made in the margins of a book or other document. They may be scribbles, comments, glosses (annotations), critiques, doodles, drolleries, or illuminations. Wikipedia The British Library Medieval killer rabbits: when bunnies strike back Vengeful, merciless and brutally violent… yes that’s right, […]
White Rabbit => Bolero Connection She said that the music was heavily influenced by Miles Davis’s 1960 album Sketches of Spain, particularly Davis’s treatment of the Concierto de Aranjuez (1939). She later said: “Writing weird stuff about Alice backed by a dark Spanish march was in step with what was going on in San Francisco […]