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Young Strephon: freeman on the land
Young idiots were disdaining the real courts even back in good Queen Victoria's glorious days.
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Ontario COVID vaccination certificates
Ontario's new "enhanced" COVID vaccination certificates are now downloadable by any resident: https://covid19.ontariohealth.ca/ .
I've found that if it's scaled down to 48%, it can be printed onto a pair of 3"x5" index cards (or both sides of a single card), with the division line lying just below the QR code block. The block is a 29 mm square and ( Read more... ) -
Sorry Fish Poker
I continue to sleep very poorly. Part of the problem is long-standing, and part is due to ongoing pain from adhesions from my bike accident last summer. I get enough hours of sleep, but not enough deep sleep. Even if I add a couple of hours to my sleep time, I'm no better rested. My sleep study of a decade or so ago showed no indication of ( Read more... ) -
CLOVID
This is supposed to be a 3D print of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, from the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. When I saw it, I thought that it looked very familiar from 25 or 30 years ago... and should for any SCA member of about my vintage.
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Good King Wenceslas
Some folks who do traditional folk music in Ottawa assembled a rendition of "Good King Wenceslas" that I'm reasonably pleased with.
We were given an early version of the video with just a few voices and instruments, and asked to record ourselves performing along with it. I took an old SATB score sheet that I had, transcribed it into MuseScore ( Read more... ) -
Heinlein x Mary Sue
A Mary Sue should be able to raise a perfect family, lead an invasion, teach all of the people and animals of the world to be vegetarian, command a fleet, design an architectural wonder, write a world-changing book, obviate the need for money, build an impregnable defense, cure an incurable disease, restore the dying to health, re-interpret "orders ( Read more... ) -
Concessions
Trump is unlikely to ever concede, so long as he is able to persuade people to send in money supposedly for his "legal fund" but in-the-fine-print partially diverted for other purposes. This is not unlike the televangelists' financial scams.
Trump has:- Great debts
- Enormous greed
- No ethics
- No loyalties except perhaps to his immediate family
- Access to ( Read more... )
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"Something like this..."
Listening to a Trump "press conference" is remarkably like hearing the other half of a Bob Newhart phone call sketch.
"... No, sir, the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic was a bit later than 1917."
"... But not as late as World War II. No, sir."
"... 'Second World War'? Sure, you can call it that if you want, sir. It means the same thing."
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Fantastic noses
"The Eye of Argon", by Jim Theis, is mocked for... well, many things. One of the speed-bumps in reading it is the description of the female protagonist as having a "lithe opaque nose".
I've just been reading The Complete Dying Earth, an SFBC 4-in-1 collection of novels by Jack Vance. It's been sitting on my shelves, unread, for a couple of decades ( Read more... )
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