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HALO Effect Originally shared by Noah Friedman This is how automation is probably going to kill us all: tell a computer to optimize for something and it will. (This observation is just a variation on the nanotech grey goo problem.)

Precursor Michael Lang: "Miami Pop was my first Festival and made a profound impression on me about the power of music to bring people together. Ric O'Barry and I came up with the Idea sitting around my Kitchen table in Coconut Grove. It was a 2 day affair and the first day was Magic. The second day was rained out. (Jimi Hendrex wrote a song about it - RAINY DAY, DREAM AWAY : "Well I can see a bunch of wet creatures / Look at 'em, on the run / The carnival traffic noise, it sings / The tune splashing up / Even the ducks can groove ...") The Festival was produced by Ric and I, Barry Taran, James McBarren, and Marshall Brevitz. I guess you can say a seed for Woodstock was planted there, just as one was planted when Artie Kornfeld embraced music as his path in life. These seeds bore fruit during the fall of 1968. After weeks of talks between Artie and I and Artie's wife Linda we had one of those "eureka" moments and Woodstock began to take shape. The r...

The Service Economy I've also been there, done that, only with much less fear for my life. via Meep https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c0ea571e4b06484c9fd4c21?ec_carp

Breaking The Party Line "Hotline, you make new friends The hotline, we want you to stay We have found a way to meet that no one has ever thought of But they say stop, we cannot be left trying to throw us out Oh, Alexander Graham Bell, we thank you for every minute!" Reading this reminded me of Thomas McMahon's novel, "Loving Little Egypt": https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/thomas-mcmahon-2/loving-little-egypt/ https://blog.historyofphonephreaking.org/2009/11/loving-little-egypt.html McMahon admitted his novel was inspired by this article about phone phreaking in Esquire, in 1971: http://www.historyofphonephreaking.org/docs/rosenbaum1971.pdf Originally shared by Irina T. 2018-12-28 https://medium.com/s/love-hate/how-a-phone-glitch-sparked-a-teenage-riot-eb785c39bd01

Originally shared by Mattias Adolfsson http://mattiasa.blogspot.com/2018/12/new-jigsaw-from-heye-regatta.html

Going To Pot Or not. But what do I know? I live in a place where all the liquor stores are owned and operated by the State. https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-marijuana-year-anniversary-review-20181227-story.html

Feelin' Frosty Chill with The Ventures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS-nF4vD1Rs

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Marginal Call https://www.postandcourier.com/news/do-a-marginal-number-of--year-olds-believe-in/article_2c86d3ec-0876-11e9-a470-87234a04ef7e.html

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Christmas Green That right there? Twenty bucks worth of collards. Sacrifices must be made for the support of Tradition. https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2018/12/24/blame-extreme-weather-for-a-collard-greens-shortage-this-christmas/#7d91a04373f9

Window Dressing Oh Tannenbaum, Eric Carle Style. The local lots sold out more than a week ago, and the prices were pretty high, so we opted for an alternative. https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article222033770.html

Rules Of The Mess https://twitter.com/themonaogg/status/1077344217800761344

A Christmas Carol Yippee Ki Yay! https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=OTyw6cq86kY

Misfit

Christmas Wave One more playlist on 8tracks. 1. Hang On Rudolph-The Ebenezer Scrooge Appreciation Society 2. Go Tell It On A Mountain-The Zion Harmonizers 3. Sleigh Ride-The Ventures 4. Donde Esta Santa Claus?-Guster 5. Deck The Halls-The Roches 6. Back Door Santa-Clarence Carter 7. Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree-The Fab Four 8. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town-Chris Isaak & Stevie Nicks 9. Jingle Bell Rock-Los Straitjackets 10. Father Christmas-The Kinks 11. Christmas Blues-Canned Heat 12. Blue Christmas [Porky Pig]-Seymour Swine & The Squealers 13. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas-The Husky Team 14. The Twelve Days Of Christmas-Gary Hoey 15. Christmas Twist-Syd Straw & Los Lobos 16. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus-John Mellencamp 17. Merry Christmas Baby-Booker T. & The MG's 18. Did You Spend Xmas Day In Jail?-Rev J. M. Gates 19. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen-Los Straitjackets 20. Reindeer Rock-The Sportsmen 21. Christmas In The Congo-The Marquees 22. Xmas...

Christmas Swing A playlist by Yours Truly on 8tracks. 1. Here Comes Santa Claus-Ramsey Lewis Trio 2. Baby, It's Cold Outside-Leon Redbone & Zooey Deschanel 3. Cha-Cha All The Way-Capitol Studio Orchestra 4. Winter Wonderland-Peggy Lee 5. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen-Oscar Peterson 6. Santa Claus Got Stuck In My Chimney-Ella Fitzgerald 7. Christmas Island-Dinning Sisters & Bob Atcher 8. Sleigh Ride-Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass 9. Santa Baby-Eartha Kitt With Henri Rene & His Orchestra 10. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo [Malibu Remix]-Billy May Orchestra 11. Zat You, Santa Claus?-Banu Gibson 12. Santa Claus Baby-The Voices 13. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm-The Starlighters 14. Christmas Medley-Maynard Ferguson And Big Bop Nouveau 15. Little Jack Frost, Get Lost-Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee 16. Home For The Holidays-Perry Como 17. Jingle Bells-Duke Ellington 18. Happy Holidays-Bing Crosby 19. The Man With The Bag-Kay Starr 20. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindee...

Pick Up The Pieces Jam with the Average White Band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnH_zwVmiuE We had all jammed together but then moved down to London. One day, by chance, we met up again at a Traffic gig. We were grumbling about music and someone said: “Why don’t we get together and play like we used to?” A friend heard us jamming and said: “This is too much for the average white man.” When we’d all stopped laughing, the name just stuck. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/aug/14/average-white-band-how-we-made-pick-up-the-pieces-interview

Astounding! "Astounding is the landmark account of the extraordinary partnership between four controversial writers—John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and L. Ron Hubbard—who set off a revolution in science fiction and forever changed our world." Recommended by Greg Bear,Barry N. Malzberg, Robert Silverberg, and David Drake. Kindle version on sale for $2.99 until 12/24. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B074M6QRMP/ https://twitter.com/nevalalee/status/1076952134401314816

Globalism Fabricated Out Of The Whole Cloth with materials and components Made in the USA. https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/19/magazine/on-language-out-of-the-whole-cloth.html Originally shared by Robert Rambusch Flyover explained... Suddenly we do matter, but only because everyone wants to be the hero pundit that cracks the code of the current rural psyche. There are only two things those writers seem to have concluded or are able to pitch to their editors  —  we are either backwards, living in the past and have our heads up our asses, or we’re like dumb, endearing animals that just need a little attention in order to keep us from eating the rest of the world alive. https://spectator.us/der-spiegel-small-town/

Well, There's Spam, Egg, Sausage and Spam, That's Not Got Much Spam In It Originally shared by John Hardy Google reaches sentience and self-awareness and realises that a lot of Google is just spam.

Un-Reality TV The Relentless Demands Of Higher Production Values. https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/12/21/youtuber-admits-aspects-of-viral-homepod-glitter-bomb-video-were-faked

#PrayerAndPoundCakeWork https://twitter.com/CandiceBenbow/status/1074010643592814592

Press The Flesh Originally shared by Andres Soolo Danish lawmakers are signalling that they don't want Howie Mandel to seek Denmark's citizenship: Starting in January, Denmark will require a handshake at naturalization ceremonies. Danes are critical of the idea, as is Billy O'Shea, an Irishman who applied for Danish citizenship but refuses to shake hands to get it. https://www.dw.com/en/denmarks-handshake-law-for-new-citizens-is-un-danish/a-46831804

Extraction Plans I think I'm going to bite the bullet and pay for a license to run the Google+ Importer, despite a certain amount of trepidation about what it doesn't say on the tin. I don't think there is that much value to the ruminations, asides, and photos I've posted, but there is some, I think. Like all Old People, I find myself repeating certain likes and dislikes over the years, so I expect I'll consolidate certain posts into canonical items that will be added to. I'm also inclined, due to the ephemeral nature of links, to store snapshots of external pages. Not sure what format I'll choose, or what rights issues will ensue. I've downloaded Google Takeout a few times. It is a remarkably unstructured mess. No wonder the Algorithm can't figure me out. I'm likely to try importing to Blogger and Wordpress, see how that shakes out. Not sure how the "social" part will work. Probably Twitter, Pluspora? One of my problems with Socia...

Still Better Than Fresca Because Food Groups for Elves: Candy, Candy Canes, Candy Corn and... Syrup." J. Geils-Bow Buh Buh Bow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QYTxozuVaY

...Put Up A Parking Lot Senior Druid, King Arthur Pendragon said problems with parking had "totally ruined it" for some people. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-46658823

Back To Basics At first he wanted to make the Duomo in Florence and I had to explain that, a) this was completely new to me and I had never made gingerbread houses before b) this was not the Great British Bake Off c) I had no idea how to create curved gingerbread After scaling back his expectations we compromised on Stoneghenge. Originally shared by Assia Alexandrova coolness http://www.turquoiselemons.com/blog/winter-solstice-gingerbread-stonehenge?fbclid=IwAR13_7AJvjabyruWR9FDjTr_9rrcKZjejVMwlXkUuwBavq-B8Zu8bzPzzVM

The Rhino Of Realization http://wondermark.com/c1444/ http://wondermark.com/c1444/

Party Line The real line is between a war party, and everyone else. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-syria-withdrawal-772177/

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When He's Sixty Four Not Just A Gigolo. Diamond Dave weighs in on various topics of interest, and a new line of skin care products for the Tattooed You. The Road: "But for some musicians, experience is a fatal funnel. You say to them, “So, you’re making a new record — but what’s new now?” And they say, “We’ve been on a tour.” And that always becomes the same story, and you’ll hear it in the music. Or not. It’s like the opposite of the 14th minute of The Wizard of Oz. Instead of the color coming in, the color goes away. How did that happen? Because the life of a rock star is a limiting existence. Actually, it closely resembles that of a federal witness: You’re inside a hotel room with handlers. You’re transported urgently to a waiting vehicle. Then you’re whisked somewhere public, but first you’re taken down into the cement basement where you wait in a room. And then you’re taken upstairs and judged. Harshly." Trump: "But guys, you elected a billionaire. You’re never...

Putting On The Spritz Spritz Cookies, that is... With the trusty vintage Mirro Cookie Press.

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The Queen's Gambit Outside the tournament, they wore sandwich boards that read, “One Man Is Worth Ten Women?” and “What Good Is A King Without A Queen?”, and came up with a song: I’m gonna lay down my queen and pawn / Until the queen that fights gets paid like kings and knights / ‘Cause queens got appetites. A man burned his U.S. Chess Federation membership card in protest on the sidewalk. Originally shared by Ray Radlein More than 50 years ago, Lisa Lane became the first chess player ever featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated (Bobby Fischer was the second and last). Not long thereafter, she vanished from public life. https://www.si.com/more-sports/2018/12/17/lisa-lane-hou-yifan-womens-chess-gender-inequality-world-championships

The Big L Originally shared by Self-Rescuing Princess Society Very sad news this morning. I grew up watching her on Laverne & Shirley, and have admired her work behind the camera. I think my love of A League of Their Own is pretty obvious. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/penny-marshall-sitcom-star-who-directed-league-of-their-own-dies-at-75/2018/12/18/d81ed3ac-02f5-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html?utm_term=.274bc415f1cc https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/penny-marshall-sitcom-star-who-directed-league-of-their-own-dies-at-75/2018/12/18/d81ed3ac-02f5-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html?utm_term=.274bc415f1cc

Glitter Bomb Glitter is the Herpes of Theatre. Now with Eau de Pew! via Meep Of possible interest to John Bump, Kiki Jewell. Originally shared by Brian DeVille This is awesome. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/18/nasa-engineer-mark-robers-glitter-bomb-traps-amazon-delivery-thieves.html

Comfort Food Some ruminations on the role of food at funerals. Southern funerals without food? Not Done. Here, have some stories and recipes... https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/life/2018/01/08/funeral-food-southern-sympathy-cookbook-perre-coleman-magness/1002035001/ Originally shared by Irina T. 2018-12-18 https://www.topic.com/comfort-foods

The Sky Is Falling! Originally shared by NASA 🚨 Ring the alarm! 🚨 Scientists from NASA Goddard have discovered that not only are Saturn's rings younger than previously thought, but also that the rings are actually disappearing at a rapid pace through a process called "ring rain." Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/2EtPpJw

Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out https://www.naacp.org/logout-facebook/

Kilroy Was Here Also, see: Foo Was Here. Originally shared by Anton Romashko Volunteers of #InformNapalm volunteer intelligence community found evidence of the participation of military personnel of the 99th Logistics Brigade in the occupation of #Crimea. This investigation focuses on the servicemen of the 1st Automotive Battalion of the 99th Logistics Brigade of the 49th Field Army, military unit 72153 belonging to the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces. Permanent station of the brigade is in Maikop, Republic of Adygea. The Automotive Battalion is permanently deployed in Novocherkassk, Rostov Oblast, Russian Federation. #TyrantPutin #War #Russia #Kremlin #Putin https://informnapalm.org/en/99th-logistics-brigade-participated-in-occupation-of-crimea-photo-evidence/

Empirical Analysis

All Star Special Murder Van Originally shared by Michael Coen Hey ya’ll, I’m Pancake Patriot.

It Was A Monday Day like any other day... They were telling me, I'm telling you... Death Is Always Certain. Foreigner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eedm15ZEaEg

Side Dish I know families who guard the mac and cheese recipe more zealously than the BBQ sauce recipe. That's some kind of serious . https://www.charlotteobserver.com/living/food-drink/article184866748.html

IFR So things were thoroughly socked in yesterday. We had to navigate 6 nm downriver to the race start area. GPS is definitely a great help, but it has limitations. The new boat doesn't have any compasses installed, yet, and GPS is noticeably laggy and inaccurate at actual heading. Fortunately, I had a handheld stowed in my bag. Spent a fair amount of time in the pulpit, scanning for markers and traffic with ears and eyes. 6 knts doesn't sound very fast, until you start doing the math to convert to fps when visibility extends between 10 to 20 yds. Was fun playing Marco Polo to find the committee boat at the end. We were The Only Ones dedicated/stupid enough to show up. Race was eventually called off, so we tinkered a bit, and then slogged home. Using GPS on our phones is interesting. A very feature rich experience for not much money, but touchscreens get fussy when wet, and they aren't always bright enough for sunny days. Dedicated tactile controls are hard to live ...

Beat To Seven Bells We're racing the new boat today. In one of the eleven levels of Irish rain. Yes, Irish rain goes to eleven. We're at about a four, now, but warmer than it was back home, so there's that. https://www.dailyedge.ie/irish-rain-scale-1275040-Jan2014/ Originally shared by Randy Culler Second Thoughts

Sugar Boogie 'Cept Not In The Cornbread... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l2GDavXadY4

Did You Spend Christmas Day In Jail? Will you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AChLeNC4jns

Originally shared by Rick Wayne (Author) It's a Hepcat Christmas, Baby! Modestly, the greatest holiday playlist of all time. Quite possibly the key to peace on earth and good will to all. 40 classic tracks from vocal to jazz to blues. Guaranteed more fun than a color wheel. Enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL64sdu9pXr6LQx3pEFdLotcwHDFtOCeCO

What Would Lenny Bruce Do? Vincent Cuccia, one of the Assistant District Attorneys who tried the case: “I feel terrible about Bruce. I watched him gradually fall apart. It's the only thing I did in Hogan's office that I'm really ashamed of. We all knew what we were doing. We used the law to kill him.” What District Attorney Frank Hogan and his men thought they were doing was erecting an impenetrable barrier to obscenity and pornography in New York. License Inspector Herbert Ruhe: “We aimed for Bruce. We picked him out of all the performers. ... I know he was not obscene... yet in a way I feel he had to be convicted. I rationalize it this way: ‘O.K., Bruce is not obscene, but he does use 4‐ and 10‐letter words. If he uses them, then other people will use them—people who are not talented and who have no ideas. We'll have people paying $2 to hear some character say “mother___” five times in 10 minutes. So, I figure, if we prosecute Bruce, we cut off the use of those kinds ...

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In The Can We're not sure why, but we decided to make jelly. Not just any jelly, mind you. Dr. Pepper Jelly. Yep. Said it. Did it. Plan on having a Dr. Pepper PB&J later today. Will report back. Also, Cheerwine jelly, which I'm told is featured on the Wine List of a local college dining hall. Not sure if ironic, or not.

Mrs. Putnam's Butter Mints I've helped make these butter mints. It's exacting, nigh unto mystical, and hard work. But they're pretty special. If you want to know more, including the recipe, it's here: https://www.journalnow.com/archives/making-mints-pulled-butter-mints-are-a-dying-art-but/article_23013b19-0a6c-5e86-8ef2-b2774fd94895.html The closest commercial product I know of is made in Lexington, NC, at the Piedmont Candy Company. https://www.charlotteobserver.com/living/food-drink/article119165698.html Red Bird is pretty good, but not as good as Mrs. Putnam's. https://bittersoutherner.com/folklore-project/2018/mrs-putnams-butter-mints-christine-rucker

Redactomother Is what I called the damned thing. The public radio station I worked at had acquired it from somewhere, probably the federal surplus depot. It did not have a display, but it did let you generate personalized form letters, using arcane formatting characters. If you screwed up, you had to start from the beginning. I could only get it to run the merge function properly when I gave it a stern talk, and leaned a twelve pound sledge against it, as a threat against poor performance. It was innovative, but complicated and unreliable enough that it was never highly prized. via Ray Radlein Originally shared by Frederick Wilson II https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/obituaries/evelyn-berezin-dead.html

Add-A-Kid Originally shared by Moss Drake http://www.breakingburgh.com/cousin-oliver-joins-trump-administration-blatant-attempt-boost-approval-ratings/ http://www.breakingburgh.com/cousin-oliver-joins-trump-administration-blatant-attempt-boost-approval-ratings/

"Are We Having Fun, Yet?" Originally shared by Susan Jahn https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/12/deadpool-defends-nickelback-watch/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Blue Passportses, My Precious! Andy Serkis sends up Teresa May on FB: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=338850266702681&id=2522309174462553&refsrc=http://t.co/ETpHUqmilf&_rdr

Wickedness "A Danish cattleman named Axel Hansen later said he was near the Snake River and tipping a teaspoon of saleratus into a yearling's mouth when he heard a faint groaning in the north that was like the noise of a high waterfall at a fair distance. Axel looked toward Dakota, and there half the sky was suddenly gray and black and indigo blue with great storm clouds that were seething up as high as the sun and wrangling toward him at horse speed. Weeds were being uprooted, sapling trees were bullwhipping, and the top inches of snow and prairie soil were being sucked up and stirred like the dirty flour that was called red dog. And then the onslaught hit him hard as furniture, flying him onto his back so that when Axel looked up, he seemed to be deep undersea and in icehouse cold. Eddying snow made it hard to breathe any way but sideways, and getting up to just his knees and hands seemed a great attainment. Although his sod house was but a quarter-mile away, it took Axel fo...

Dune Flowchart https://www.patreon.com/posts/dune-23198419

Pitchpoled Golden Globe Race - Susie Goodall’s Boat Pitchpoled and Dismasted "IN NEED OF A GOOD CUPPA TEA! BUT SADLY NO COOKER" http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2018/12/golden-globe-race-susie-goodalls-boat-pitchpoled-and-dismasted/

Breakfast Of Champions For when the Weather Outside Is Frightful.

Flake Out 5 Hour Time Lapse of the Snowpocalypse's Arrival in Lenoir, NC, overnight. https://twitter.com/chiaroscurotv/status/1071716203465453569

Originally shared by Richard Bensam As always, my fondest wish for Santacon this year. May yours be Mary as well.

Allen & Son Closes "I wish that somebody was smart enough to step in, and walk on, but I haven't found 'em." Might have something to do with getting up at 2:30 in the morning. "Never too early, never too late." https://www.wral.com/entertainment/out_and_about/video/18047607/ "The ritual of barbecue starts with the woodpile and ends with the best sandwich ever." https://www.southernliving.com/travel/south-east/allen-son-barbecue https://www.wral.com/popular-nc-bbq-joint-quietly-closes-its-doors/18046402/

You Can Go Your Own Way In this Song Exploder podcast, Lindsey Buckingham breaks down “Go Your Own Way,” a song he wrote about his relationship with Stevie Nicks: http://songexploder.net/fleetwood-mac Ken Caillat produced the Rumours album: "I spent at least 3,000 hours on it. I wish I could enjoy it like everybody else," says Caillat. "But every time I listen to it I can remember every part, every issue, every fight, everything. So it's not as much fun for me." https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/ken-caillat-revisits-rumours “By the time we got to Rumours, the emotional rollercoaster was in full motion and we were all in a ditch. Everybody knew everything about everybody and I was definitely piggy-in-the-middle,” Fleetwood recalls. “But my best friend was also having an affair with my wife and it was all weird and twisted. It was a total mess and that’s how we made the album.” https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/fleetwood-mac-everybody-was-pretty-weirded-out-the-s...

"We’ve Lapped The Field On Crazy" "It was literally boxes. Sydney [Pollock] had died and then there was this delivery of all this stuff. There were just reams of documents and releases and things. There was an invoice to pay the choir director for lip-reading, and that was the tip-off that something is not right here. I started just going backward in sort of a detective way: Why were they lip-reading? It was, Oh, they don’t have any sync. There is no work print. There is no assemblage that he had made. Sydney had no experience doing documentaries. Sydney’s guys were turning the cameras on and turning them off, so they had thousands of pieces of footage in 1972, where footage hung on a clothesline with a hook and then had to be synched up to a quarter-inch piece of tape, so they had no chance." https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/the-story-behind-aretha-franklins-delayed-doc-amazing-grace.html

"Better Served" https://splc.org/2018/12/media-adviser-in-alabama-being-ousted-after-students-post-story-upsetting-provost/

Enemy Of The People https://twitter.com/joshuamckerrow/status/1070898889757212672

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Bye, Bye, Birdie "The showgirl is the national bird of our state.” The Sad Death And Curious Afterlife Of Las Vegas Showgirls via Ray Radlein https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-sad-death-and-curious-afterlife-of-las-vegas-showgirls/2018/12/04/122049bc-ec1e-11e8-8679-934a2b33be52_story.html

King Of The Night "You have to believe that what you take is what you give." Caxton's "The Game And Playe Of Chesse", long believed to be the first book printed in English, was a speculum regis , or a mirror for a prince. The book doesn't actually describe the game, but is something of an allegory of fixed social structures where each rank has its allotted role. https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/adams-caxton-game-and-play-of-the-chesse-introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh8U6SLvNgs

PO TAY TO, PO TAH TO "They’ve got these Lays Stax right next to the Pringles as though they are equivalent. How can they do that? One is a positive semi-definite quadratic form and the other is an indefinite quadratic form - they’re not even the same definiteness!" http://fuckyeahphysica.tumblr.com/post/136460893736/food-science-saturday-the-geometry-of-a-pringle

A Fitting Memorial "...and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed." Herodotus 440 BC

Left Behind Trying To Be Kind and Rewind. https://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/short-films-in-focus-my-dead-dads-porno-tapes

Bowdlrized Originally shared by Bill Brayman As reported in the Verge and explained in their company blog post, Tumblr will be clearing out their adult content beginning this month in an effort to become a respectable blogging site. They seem to be doing this in a thoughtful but expedient manner. https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/3/18123752/tumblr-adult-content-porn-ban-date-explicit-changes-why-safe-mode https://staff.tumblr.com/post/180758987165/a-better-more-positive-tumblr https://staff.tumblr.com/post/180758987165/a-better-more-positive-tumblr

Lit Mejor King. Of. The. Lobby. http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2015/06/king-of-the-lobby.html The Brecker Brothers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAhEnzR_z2A

The Old Gray Mare Ain't what they used to be... Walter Planckaert, 70, doesn't want to be put out to pasture, yet. The same guy who didn't want to hire the hirsute: He told Het Nieuwsblad at the weekend that the decision was based on preserving “the elegance of the sport.” The 1976 Tour of Flanders winner continued: “We’re cyclists, not motocross riders or rugby players. https://road.cc/content/news/229860-no-beards-belgian-pro-cycling-team-bans-facial-fuzz http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/belgian-cycling-introduce-certificate-of-fitness-to-drive-for-directeur-sportifs