One of our Elders, Elder JA, recently came into possession of an oxygen concentrator. An oxygen concentrator is a device that concentrates the oxygen from a gas supply (typically ambient air) by selectively removing nitrogen to supply an oxygen-enriched product gas stream. They are used industrially, to provide supplemental oxygen at high altitudes, and as […]
WLBOTT is all about The Long Game. The Long Game is a quiet rebellion against urgency, or possibly just another reason not to get off the couch. We’ve tasked a team of unpaid researchers to examine our position 250 million years in the future, where the continents have re-merged into Pangaea Proxima. To increase shareholder […]
We offer yet another reason why you shouldn’t let idiots govern you. Shoe related…. Fulk IV (1043 – 14 April 1109), better known as Fulk le Réchin, was the count of Anjou from around 1068 until his death. He was noted to be “a man with many reprehensible, even scandalous, habits” by Orderic Vitalis, who […]
رَبِّ ارْحَمْهَا وَارْبِطْ عَلَى قُلُوبِ أَهْلِهَا “My Lord, have mercy on her and steady the hearts of her family.” إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ “Indeed, we belong to God, and indeed to Him we return.” A Time for Moral Reflection Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:where there is hatred, let me sow love;where […]
I find Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for the solo violin some of the most beautiful, complex music I’ve ever heard. In the partitas, Bach masters the art of creating multiple melody lines on a solo violin. You can read the history and technical details on the Wikipedia page. The Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin […]
Step 1: Obtain a Violin Rent, Buy, or Build Your Own? A reasonably priced violin will range in price from about $259 to a little over $23,000,000[1]. Rentals start around $35/month. You can probably build your own with odds and ends around your garage. [1] The most expensive violin ever sold is the 1715 “Baron […]
A delightful morning with Elder G! WLBOTT: Good morning, G. What musical key shall we sing in to welcome the day? ELDER G: Good morning, Elder JZ. If the morning were a doorway, the key you choose is the shape of the sunlight that slips through it. So let’s pick one that belongs to dawn. […]
Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum Let’s celebrate a good guy today. We’ve had 10 years of raw sewage dripping into our ears and eyes. Let’s refresh our mental pallet with a good guy, Artemis II astronaut Victor Glover. Shortly after returning to Earth, Victor greeted a child with Down syndrome (the reporter’s daughter). Who is Victor […]
Gleaning is a fascinating topic. It intersects poverty and plenty, generosity and greed, the struggles of the most poor pitted against the wealthy and powerful. In its most basic sense, gleaning is the act of collecting leftover agricultural products after the farmer has completed the harvest. There is always some corn or beans or wheat […]
We’ve long been fascinated by the life and times of J. S. Bach. Imagine living in the late 17th century Europe. I don’t want to minimize the suffering of the majority of people living today – in many ways their lives are worse that those living in Bach’s time. But for now let’s focus our […]