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The kraken awaits. Your tea.
DEEP MAT TURQUOISE BLUE Squid Octopus Stoneware by skybirdarts
"always so hard to explain to americans that no other country has “children’s food”—kids elsewhere eat what adults eat, no fuss, no drama."
I always wondered about this. Some time ago I started to look into what toddlers eat in different countries, and I was shocked to see them eating ‘adult’ food.
I saw a trailer for an indie film which follows 4 mothers raising babies in different cultures around the world — rural African was represented and three others. Wish I could remember what it was.
PALAEOBLOG: Asteroid Impact Did Kill DinosHowever, the reviewers find that what appears to be a series of layers neatly laid down over 300,000 years near the impact site were actually violently churned and then dumped in a thick pile in a very short time. Models suggest the impact at Chicxulub was a million times more energetic than the largest nuclear bomb ever tested. An impact of this size would eject material at high velocity around the world, cause earthquakes of magnitude >10, continental shelf collapse, landslides, gravity flows, mass wasting and tsunamis and produce a relatively thick and complex sequence of deposits close to Chicxulub.Incidentally, the rest of the post has probably the most amazing bullet-point talking point “Quick Facts” ever.
‘Gravity flows’ and ‘mass wasting?’ That just sounds badass.
This paragraph also describes the consequences of Indian curry.
People saying stupid things on the Internet is hardly news. Thanks to Google Buzz, however, we know exactly when—and where—it’s happening.
Looks like it could have been taken today.
August 1937. “Indian girl and her baby cousin. Blueberry pickers’ camp, Littlefork, Minnesota.” Medium format nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
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I have fond childhood memories of this underground tunnel at Chicago O’Hare airport. “The moving walkway will now end…”
I think this article got lost in translation from German because it feels like a high schooler wrote it. But there are still some bone-chilling quotes. I love reading about airplane emergencies.
言葉 / Words
Watching old GITS SAC: 2nd GIG episodes. Most of the Japanese dialogue is unintelligible background noise, but occasionally I’ll hear sentence constructs or words I know. They stick out like a sore thumb. It’s shocking, like “why are they using such newbie grammar?”
Or maybe one shouldn’t treat a language with too much reverence and respect. All Japanese falls into two categories, stuff I know and stuff I don’t know yet. Nothing is “beginner” or “advanced.” It’s flat. Emptying one bucket into another.
In some sense, learning a language is backfilling knowledge gaps until you know just enough to understand and say what you need to.
Also, I saw a Tachikoma holding and referencing that famous Richard Dawkins book The Selfish Gene, which I (partially) read last year. Odd confluence.
Thunderbirds vs Winterhawks: A Recap In Photos
Perhaps a Thunderbirds game is worth a drive to Kent.
