There are two ways to view the stars: As they really are and as we might wish them to be. We were hunter-folk. So we put hunters and dogs, lions and young women up in the skies. All manner of things of interest to us. When 17th century European sailors first saw the southern skies, they put all sorts of things of 17th century interests up there. Microscopes and telescopes; compasses and the sterns of ships.
-C Sagan
I want everyone to watch Cosmos. Please watch all of Cosmos.
turbo-jet engines of a thrust less than 25 KN
parts and accessories of typewriters
parts of hoists and winches
valves, pressure reducing
snowmobiles, golf cars, similar vehicles
helicopters of an unladen weight less than 2000 kg
waste or scrap of cast iron
diamonds, unsorted
human or animal blood prepared for therapeutic uses
tarpaulins, awnings, and sunblinds
builders’ joinery and carpentry of wood
wood sawn or chipped of a thickness exceeding 6 mm
wood in the rough
women’s suits, not knit
lenses, prisms, mirrors, and other optical instruments
hand tools (including glass cutters) not elsewhere specified
angles, shapes, and sections of iron and nonalloy steels
monofilament
worked monumental or building stone (except slate)
soups and broths
carpets, tufted
(Source: atlas.media.mit.edu)
Anyone who has witnessed the actions of a locoed horse must have concluded first that human beings are on account of its peculiar manifestations exposed to great bodily danger; a locoed horse without any warning starting over dangerous places or into deep water.
My own observations and experiments have convinced me that the use of the muriat tincture of
iron, and in fact one or two other drugs, with the accessories of hygienic treat-ment, will, if taken in time, act favorably upon the animals affected. In view of the evident importance to the economical interests of that portion of the country, I think that the Government should make the necessary experiments.
(Source: sciencemag.org)
uncharted
—Cynthia Ozick, “The Dock-Witch”
I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.
-John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
[trivia; we lose 28 to 56 to a team of some vague acquaintances. we have entered the contest late but this is still difficult to accept. it bears mentioning that this is the most poorly run contest in new england. we successfully heckled the emcee throughout]
guy from other team [preening — clearly he is the worst]: hey yo, so we beat you guys.
ian [amiable as ever, working his neck to accommodate this obvious faux pas in friendly conversation]: ahh, we came in late, so you know…
guy from other team [gloating now, and totally a dick about it]: we scored twice as many points as you
guy from my team: Yeah, barely!!
epilogue
sis: Sorry I couldn’t come visit you at work. [our brother] gave me terrible directions.
me: I don’t think you missed out on much. I do a lot of putting a box onto another box.
sis: You mean like
sis: grafting cardboard?
me: Some kind of, artisan? No, just- stacking.
sis: Why don’t you just find a rich heiress and lock that down. Someone in toothpaste or trashbags or something
or soap
everyone loves soap
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denouement
me: Whoever had your portable james joyce before you, wrote some brilliant notes in the table of contents
sis: I wrote them.
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prologue
I see a portable j joyce and begin glancing through it happily. I inspect the table of contents. crammed into the margin are brief penciled-in annotations.
The Sisters boy stuck w/ one now dead companion
An Encounter old guy talks to 2 boys in a spoiled adventure
Araby boy wants to buy a gift for a girl that doesn’t care
Eveline changes her mind and stays home w/ angry father instead of getting married
After the Race gambles everything away all night
Two Gallants meet up w/ girl that steals for them
The Boarding House marries her daughter off
A Little Cloud little man w/ new baby & passionless wife
Counterparts gets drunk and beats his kid
Clay woman thats a spinster visits the boy she nursed on halloween
A Painful Case guy meets girl girl kills herself guy feels used
Ivy Day in the Committee Room no one trusts the candidate they support like the disciples
A Mother woman wants her daughters commission then storms off
Grace man bites a bit of his tongue off then goes to a catholic church he doesn’t believe in
The Dead guy has an epiphany
(Source: Wikipedia)
The thing people don’t understand about an army is its great, unpunctuated wastes of inaction: you have to scavenge for food, you are camped out somewhere with a rising water level because your mad capitaine says so, you are shifted abruptly in the middle of the night into some indefensible position, so you never really sleep, your equipment is defective, the gunners keep causing small unwanted explosions, the crossbowmen are either drunk or praying, the arrows are ordered up but here yet, and your whole mind is occupied by a seething anxiety that things are going to go badly because il principe, or whatever little worshipfulness is in charge today, is not very good at the basic business of thinking.
-Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
—Rememberlifdoff
-malcolm brown
(Source: homestuck.bandcamp.com)
The full Classical Mongolian name for the morin khuur is morin-u toloγai tai quγur, meaning fiddle with a horse’s head. It produces a sound which is poetically described as expansive and unrestrained, like a wildhorse neighing, or like a breeze in the grasslands. On the national festival “Naadam” praise songs are played for the most magnificent horse and for the highest ranked wrestler and archer. During the winter time, but also in beginning of the spring time a morin khuur player is called in for the “жавар үргээх”, the “ceremony for scaring away the frost”. In general many traditional pieces are played, divided in the different styles: “urtiin duu” (long song), “magtaal” (praise songs) and “tatlaga” (solo pieces, mostly imitating horses or camels).
(Source: Wikipedia)
