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My neighbor just harvested asparagus from his garden. In March. In Wisconsin.

Our local university art museum sponsors a free concert on Sunday afternoons, which are called, appropriately enough, "Sunday Afternoon Live at the Chazen". The program was as follows:

Pro Arte Quartet, with Christopher Taylor, piano and Samuel Rhodes, violaDarius Milhaud: String Quartet #7 ( Read more... )

I encountered these this morning from this link: Japanese Fart Scrollswhich in turn, referenced this online archive: Waseda University’s archive links ( Read more... )

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This - a Tworse Code Generator.

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Bugs Bunny and SymphonyIf you can manage to fit it in your schedule, go and see it! If can't, you're probably not prioritizing your life in a manner that would lead to euphoric bliss. Well, not quite that great but it was quite the amusing evening. We drove to Minneapolis to catch the show and stayed at a hotel for a more relaxed outing. It was ( Read more... )

This is a magnet status update. "Yarnton" would be the old Oxford Instruments facility in England that built this superconducting magnet back around the turn of the millennium. The magnet was brought fully up to field over the weekend, the cryoshims were energized yesterday, and now we're into the stabilization phase wherein the drift rate of the ( Read more... )

My last data point for functional make-up was in ancient Egypt with their use of copper-based eye shadow that was postulated to keep away various infections. Now, there is this:

Dazzle Paint Make-upAs mentioned in the article, dazzle paint is a camouflage scheme designed to disrupt visualization of the painted object. This make-up uses a similar ( Read more... )

A magnet update: the 800 MHz magnet is currently a 743. The attempt to bring it to full field won't happen until the second week in January, 2012. Basically, Company A (in the spectrometer biz, it's pretty much only companies A and B) has some labor issues - not enough hands in the field nor back in the office. They can't get anyone out here ( Read more... )

I'm trying to get my lazy bum back up into the air. I need my medical completed but that's not quite on the radar yet. However, I am going to take a VFR refresher course. I'm not sure what's on the agenda but a copy of the FAR/AIM, a current sectional, and an E6B "computer" were encouraged as tools to tote along. My preferred tool for ( Read more... )