tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36551499641138460352024-02-06T20:05:06.870-08:00Jim'sJim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-66944161146634115732023-02-24T11:22:00.004-08:002023-02-24T11:22:32.421-08:00Friday Links: Reptile Care and an Italian Film of 1968<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Laid_an_Egg"> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Laid_an_Egg</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://zoosnippets.com/post/environmental-enrichment-diversity-checklist">https://zoosnippets.com/post/environmental-enrichment-diversity-checklist</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://reptifiles.com/reptile-care-sheets/">https://reptifiles.com/reptile-care-sheets/</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Bonus Link! A nifty looking rental cabin in NE Alabama:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/749841315052135433?adults=1&s=42&unique_share_id=2FEDA4EE-B126-4E80-A317-92E2A91DC58D&_branch_match_id=1157002784934182089&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXT0zKS9LLTdXPdMqPigoLCk8qSwIA0xRsohsAAAA%3D&source_impression_id=p3_1677089187_sfPtkwkfeHYiWK0Z">https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/749841315052135433?adults=1&s=42&unique_share_id=2FEDA4EE-B126-4E80-A317-92E2A91DC58D&_branch_match_id=1157002784934182089&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXT0zKS9LLTdXPdMqPigoLCk8qSwIA0xRsohsAAAA%3D&source_impression_id=p3_1677089187_sfPtkwkfeHYiWK0Z</a></span></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-24287440542166771792022-06-17T13:08:00.002-07:002022-06-17T13:08:14.120-07:00Friday Links: Pizza Dough and a Good Poem<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The pizza expert in this video has some great, refined tips on dough handling. Definitely will improve my technique: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjsCEJ8CWlg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjsCEJ8CWlg</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the "long list of advice tidbits" genre, with a few good slightly out-of-character items: <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57243/how-to-be-perfect?fbclid=IwAR2m6Fy06qUPy8NEniPFRYLOkHSmeGf9l5MUmqZ4yQzaOdlRR4gCA7ty6m8">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57243/how-to-be-perfect?fbclid=IwAR2m6Fy06qUPy8NEniPFRYLOkHSmeGf9l5MUmqZ4yQzaOdlRR4gCA7ty6m8</a></span></span><br /></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-86957728027535263952022-06-01T10:35:00.005-07:002022-06-01T10:35:51.131-07:00Recent Reading: Tokarczuk's Flights<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I have recently been reading <a href="https://www.powells.com/book/flights-9780525534204">Olga Tokarczuk's <i>Flights</i></a> with a good deal of pleasure. Much of what I love about the work of <span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: large;">Italo Calvino is here, and more. An early reference to <i>Moby Dick</i> (without actually naming it, a thought-provoking move) hints at why the book is structured as it is. Human movement is the topic; not whales, whaling, and obsession. Rather than feeling like a strung-together series of short pieces on a theme, Tokarczuk's text of many texts accretes its segments unto itself until the reader grasps it holistically, as a deeply empathetic meditation on some humans' need to move. Here's a slightly different perspective than mine, which I enjoyed reading: <a href="https://www.triangle.house/unmapping-on-olga-tokarczuks-flights">https://www.triangle.house/unmapping-on-olga-tokarczuks-flights</a></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">In February, I read Tokarczuk's <i><a href="https://www.powells.com/book/drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead-9780525541349">Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead</a></i>, and enjoyed it for different reasons. Comic, grisly, with a twist near the end, and not a plot twist, a genre twist. This one would be good beach reading; <i>Flights</i> would be better for a long, cold, rainy weekend in an empty house.</span></span><br /></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-81724597213037037762022-05-18T04:44:00.000-07:002022-05-18T04:44:11.510-07:00Reconstructing the Antikythera Mechanism<p> </p><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Clickspring" makes gorgeous videos about an inspiring project: building a replica of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism" target="_blank">A</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism" target="_blank">ntikythera mechanism</a> using only period-appropriate tools and methods.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBRCL090PxA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBRCL090PxA</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">I particularly like this project because it's an excellent way to debunk the "ancient astronaut" kookery surrounding this piece of ancient technology (and other "too advanced" ancient human achievements). </span></span><br /></div>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-31327186715173402162022-05-09T10:38:00.001-07:002022-05-09T10:38:11.403-07:00Cory Doctorow on John Deere's Tractor Killswitch<p><a href="https://doctorow.medium.com/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors-bc93f471b9c8"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">https://doctorow.medium.com/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors-bc93f471b9c8</span></span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Most of us have heard about the Russian looters who stole a bunch of John Deere equipment from a Ukrainian dealer and hauled it to Chechnya, only to be foiled when the dealer remotely disabled all those implements. Heartwarming! But . . . This essay ties together several issues in a very neat, very disturbing bundle. The big surprise for me was <span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: large;">the fact that John Deere sells data (</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">on soil density, moisture, crop yields, etc.)</span></span> mined from its farm implements to funny-money speculators who use the information to bet against farmers.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I think any thoughtful person realizes that new tech comes with harms along with its benefits. Doctorow is right, though, to focus on the harms. We end users are being kept in the dark about the down sides.</span></span><br /></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-7793903086797261492022-04-29T05:39:00.002-07:002022-04-29T05:45:10.819-07:00Recent Reading: Solnit, Pogue Harrison, Adams<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rebecca Solnit: <i><a href="https://www.powells.com/book/orwells-roses-9780593083369" target="">Orwell's Roses</a></i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not really a biography, but an exploration of certain aspects of Orwell's <span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">attitudes and behavior aside from his writing life. Is that vague enough for you? Okay, how 'bout: Solnit's starting point is roses Orwell planted in a garden he kept during one of the happiest times of his life. Solnit uses the garden as the opening to discover Orwell's attitude towards pleasure. As she says, many readers have the impression Orwell espouses grim commitment to principle in even grimmer circumstances. However, the biographical details she lays out for us, held up to Orwell's writings, show his conviction that access to privacy, nature, and pleasurable pastimes are all at the core of any meaningful resistance to totalitarianism. A charming book, it does a good job of humanizing Orwell while showing how his thinking is far more germane than commentators realize as they attach the label "Orwellian" to the day's news. (Bonus points for a mention of Robert Macfarlane.)<i> <br /></i></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Robert Pogue Harrison: <i><a href="https://www.powells.com/book/forests-the-shadow-of-civilization-9780226318073">Forests: The Shadow of Civilization</a></i><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">A dense academic treatment of a literary theme, traced from <i>Gilgamesh</i> to modern times. The theme is the town/forest dynamic, which Harrison shows to be no mere opposition, but rather an ever-fruitful relationship with shifting tensions, a relationship that constantly tests civilization's ideas and images about what it means to be civil, human, mortal - - - all the big stuff. Harrison's command of the material he uses as examples varies, but is never weak; seldom does he generalize. Implicit in every chapter: "we" need the forest, but the forest, preceding our existence, does not need us.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carol Adams: <i><a href="https://caroljadams.com/spom-the-book" target="">The Sexual Politics of Meat</a></i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thirty years ago, when I was in grad school and this book was published, it was frequently cited as the <i>ne plus ultra</i> of political correctness, a phrase now superseded by "woke." Just as 99.99% of those who now decry the <i>1619 Project</i> as woke CRT have not read it, those who snickered then while saying "Sexual Politics of Meat" didn't read the book. I may have snickered myself. This year I finally read it. It is excellent. It may be a minor spoiler to say Adams's text is not the dense, jargon-filled prose we might expect, though I found that a pleasant surprise. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">By now we've all heard plenty about the environmental and ethical cases against meat as it's produced and consumed in industrialized countries. Adams doesn't spend much time with all that; what she does is show how popular culture images of the animals we eat, the process of producing meat from them, and the circumstances in which we eat meat are all enmeshed with images of women's bodies and human sexuality. This enmeshment creates mutual reinforcement of all those activities as they are practiced, while obscuring and erasing the violence which, in the case of meat production, is inherent, and which, in the case of sexual violence against women, is a problem we would rather not see or hear about, let alone make powerful changes of cultural scope to address. Adams had me engaged with her discussions of the appearance of vegetarianism in Euroamerican literature from the late 18th century to the present, but she really hooked me when she explicated a typical dinner table argument between vegetarian guests and meat-eating (+ meat-serving) hosts. <i> </i><br /></span></span></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-34747707684386606892022-04-15T11:53:00.000-07:002022-04-15T11:53:18.052-07:00Friday Links: German Expression, Knife Sharpening, a Recipe, and Atlanta<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I know that the principles of this knife sharpener are sound, I don't know if this version works well. At this price I'm tempted to try. A company called "Wasabi" has been selling the same thing at a multiple of this price.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002806278575.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.100009.1.6013e215hW2M1i&gps-id=pcDetailLeftTopSell&scm=1007.13482.271138.0&scm_id=1007.13482.271138.0&scm-url=1007.13482.271138.0&pvid=5946f051-089f-46be-8974-ac65ec5f40bc&_t=gps-id:pcDetailLeftTopSell,scm-url:1007.13482.271138.0,pvid:5946f051-089f-46be-8974-ac65ec5f40bc,tpp_buckets:668%232846%238108%231977&pdp_ext_f=%257B%2522sku_id%2522%253A%252212000025558963981%2522%252C%2522sceneId%2522%253A%25223482%2522%257D&pdp_pi=-1%253B30.8%253B-1%253B-1%2540salePrice%253BUSD%253Brecommend-recommend">https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002806278575.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.100009.1.6013e215hW2M1i&gps-id=pcDetailLeftTopSell&scm=1007.13482.271138.0&scm_id=1007.13482.271138.0&scm-url=1007.13482.271138.0&pvid=5946f051-089f-46be-8974-ac65ec5f40bc&_t=gps-id:pcDetailLeftTopSell,scm-url:1007.13482.271138.0,pvid:5946f051-089f-46be-8974-ac65ec5f40bc,tpp_buckets:668%232846%238108%231977&pdp_ext_f=%257B%2522sku_id%2522%253A%252212000025558963981%2522%252C%2522sceneId%2522%253A%25223482%2522%257D&pdp_pi=-1%253B30.8%253B-1%253B-1%2540salePrice%253BUSD%253Brecommend-recommend</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A varenyky recipe. I think this is too much sour cream but I haven't tried it yet. Let me know if you do!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.allthingsukrainian.com/Recipe/Varenyky/VarenykyRecipe.html">https://www.allthingsukrainian.com/Recipe/Varenyky/VarenykyRecipe.html</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Did you know? One German near-equivalent to "painting the town red" is [literally] "letting the sow out."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/die_Sau_rauslassen">https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/die_Sau_rauslassen</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here are some good local writers and reporters making their suggestions for improving Atlanta. I am in strong agreement with Andisheh's.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://austinlouisray.com/#/how-id-fix-atlanta/">https://austinlouisray.com/#/how-id-fix-atlanta/</a></span></span><br /></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-7213766937510561762022-03-10T05:18:00.000-08:002022-03-10T05:18:01.552-08:00What I'm Listening To, Early March 2022<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Trippy, gentle, relaxing: Panda Bear's "Boys' Latin."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prBaZzYmQrI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prBaZzYmQrI</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Alan Watts + beats: INZO's "Overthinker."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luQSQuCHtcI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luQSQuCHtcI</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Alan Watts + beats: "Alan Watts Chillstep Mix."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbu-OTEHnf8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbu-OTEHnf8</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Enough with the mellow! Hyperstimulation for the ADHD brain:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vd2nyk-4Lo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vd2nyk-4Lo</a></span></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-74491528772295355482022-03-08T06:44:00.000-08:002022-03-08T06:44:09.411-08:00Link: Research on Calorie Restriction in Humans<p> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We've known for decades that calorie restriction prolongs the life of lab rodents. There's also correlation between a low-calorie (but nutritious) diet and longer life in some human populations, Okinawans being the most frequently mentioned example. This recent summary of NIH-sponsored work starts to hint at what the mechanism might be:</span></p><p><a href="https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2022/03/08/biology-of-aging-study-shows-why-curbing-calories-counts/"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2022/03/08/biology-of-aging-study-shows-why-curbing-calories-counts/</span></a></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-49003963882397716152022-01-07T08:12:00.008-08:002022-01-07T08:14:03.046-08:00Random Friday Links: FAO Blacksmithing Manual<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> An FAO publication: <i>Agricultural Engineering in Development: Basic Blacksmithing: A Training Manual</i>. Might be worth getting a hard copy of this one.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.fao.org/3/ah637e/AH637E00.htm">https://www.fao.org/3/ah637e/AH637E00.htm</a></span></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-42642976957812490852021-09-10T12:14:00.003-07:002022-04-15T11:57:08.211-07:00Friday Links: Diet for a Small Planet at 50, Scythe Resource, Farm Tractors in Forestry<p> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Diet for a Small Planet is being issued in a new 50th-anniversary edition: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.dietforasmallplanet.org/">https://www.dietforasmallplanet.org/</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I have unexpectedly become interested in working with a scythe. I own two, a heavy one for brush and a very light and slim one for grass. Turns out you can still buy all the parts and maintenance tools, and there are modern-day experts ready to train you. This seems to be one of the good sites for both:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.baryonyxknife.com/scac.html">https://www.baryonyxknife.com/scac.html</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And here's an English translation of a Swedish government publication about using a small farm tractor in the woods. There are still forestry winches being made for tractors, so this is all of interest to me:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mfs/publications/general_publications/farm_tractor_in_the_forest.pdf">https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mfs/publications/general_publications/farm_tractor_in_the_forest.pdf</a></span></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-75804506823681188992021-09-03T11:53:00.007-07:002022-04-15T11:55:41.966-07:00Friday Links: an Onion Video Series, Axolotl Husbandry, a Woodworking Blog of Note<p> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Amusement:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0C7941B0228E0240">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0C7941B0228E0240</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Axolotl information:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.axolotl.org/">http://www.axolotl.org/</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Jack Plane's sister blog, Orson Cart, is building a vardo (house on wheels):</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://orsoncartatlarge.wordpress.com/2020/12/07/a-vardo-part-one/">https://orsoncartatlarge.wordpress.com/2020/12/07/a-vardo-part-one/</a></span></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-69769674610871079802021-08-27T12:38:00.011-07:002022-04-15T11:57:51.897-07:00Friday Links: Some Raw Climate Data, a New Art Gallery, BWCA Trip Planning<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Weather averages for Tomahawk, Wisconsin, 1980 - 2010.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/orders/cdo/2691475.pdf">https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/orders/cdo/2691475.pdf</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">The art gallery of my retired colleague Tom Zarilli:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://gallery378.com/about/">https://gallery378.com/about/</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">A good site with resources for planning BWCA (and other) canoe trips:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.paddleplanner.com/default.aspx">https://www.paddleplanner.com/default.aspx</a></span></span><br /></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-15396463920813202242021-08-20T10:40:00.002-07:002022-04-15T11:58:39.821-07:00 Friday Links: an Interior Wall System, Bowl Gouge Sharpening<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Just a pair of YouTube videos this week.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">First, I like this approach to paneling an interior wall, as demonstrated by Mr. Chickadee. I will be using rigid foam to insulate the Rib Lake shack</span> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">, and I had planned on horizontal wood paneling nailed to battens nailed along the inside faces of the timbers. The added step of screwing the paneling pieces to their own battens to form larger, removable panels strikes me as a huge boost to subsequent repairability.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fdm9R1Cbm0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fdm9R1Cbm0</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Next, one of my current obsessions is bowl turning. I have watched many, many hours of YouTube videos on turning techniques, sharpening techniques, and pretty girls in tight-fitting tops that somehow end up covered with shavings as they turn giant bowls. As far as fine points of technique go, I find a couple of low-quality vids of David Ellsworth and Stuart Batty demonstrating to woodturning guilds quite enlightening. However, the champions of cramming pertinent information into the least time with the best videography are Dictum Tools, in a series of videos showing Nick Agar sharpening various gouge profiles and then demonstrating the geometry of the different cuts each can make. I can picture myself actually calling up this video on my iPhone while standing at the lathe for a quick refresher.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMzNN_IMhUE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMzNN_IMhUE</a></span></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-91271260444513754772021-08-13T12:06:00.010-07:002022-04-15T12:00:01.510-07:00Friday Links: Freelance Writing, Tabletop Radios, Movies Within Movies, Romanian Village Photographer<p> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Only a few this week.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A nuts & bolts look at the world of writing for money:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://countercraft.substack.com/p/everything-ive-learned-about-being">https://countercraft.substack.com/p/everything-ive-learned-about-being</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Some good-looking radios from a brand I hadn't seen before. I have one on order, I'll let you know:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.sangean.com/products/all_products.asp">https://www.sangean.com/products/all_products.asp</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Nestflix: a directory of movies-within-movies (and tv shows). Yes, they have Logjammin'. Yes, they have McBain. But you can submit any they don't have.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://nestflix.fun/">https://nestflix.fun/</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The photographs of Zaharia Cusnir. A village photographer in the Romanian/Moldovan border region from 1955-1970, Cusnir lived and died in relative obscurity. His negatives were found in an abandoned house, scanned, and now some are on this website. Some of the images are quite powerful: your heart goes out to the subjects. I will be spending more time with these over the weekend.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.zaharia.md/en/about/">https://www.zaharia.md/en/about/</a></span></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-44851675807432986492021-08-06T12:07:00.006-07:002022-04-15T12:01:07.842-07:00Friday Links: About Tabs, Citizen Science in ATL, MEI Packs, Wood-Fired Ovens<p> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">First, a tab about tabs and tabbing:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://dirt.substack.com/p/dirt-the-season-of-tabs?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzI5NzkwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozOTUwMzAxOSwiXyI6ImxhdlFlIiwiaWF0IjoxNjI3OTA5ODYyLCJleHAiOjE2Mjc5MTM0NjIsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yMzIxODciLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.64QlW_nl-AdQCVALWma1__jJDvrWBuQCExTjM9yjI00">https://dirt.substack.com/p/dirt-the-season-of-tabs?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzI5NzkwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozOTUwMzAxOSwiXyI6ImxhdlFlIiwiaWF0IjoxNjI3OTA5ODYyLCJleHAiOjE2Mjc5MTM0NjIsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yMzIxODciLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.64QlW_nl-AdQCVALWma1__jJDvrWBuQCExTjM9yjI00</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">(Some of our clutter is there because it's stuff that reminds us of who we want to be.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">An opportunity to do citizen science here in Atlanta:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://urbanheatatl.org/">https://urbanheatatl.org/</a></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">MEI makes the Voyageur, my favorite carry-on with backpack straps. I have ordered these as gifts several times and gotten excellent feedback each time:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.meipacks.com/collections/carry-ons/products/deluxe-voyageur-new?variant=29110618751056">https://www.meipacks.com/collections/carry-ons/products/deluxe-voyageur-new?variant=29110618751056</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">An old-school website on old-school woodfired ovens:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.traditionaloven.com/">https://www.traditionaloven.com/</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-76406930167754356782021-07-30T09:05:00.006-07:002022-04-15T12:02:03.990-07:00Friday Links: Rhetoric, Plant Preservative, Tandoors<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some rhetoric, some plant preservative, some good music, some instructions on building a clay tandoor. What else do you need?</span></span><br /></p><p> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question</a> <br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.mckenziesp.com/Plant-Life-Preservative-C4150.aspx"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">https://www.mckenziesp.com/Plant-Life-Preservative-C4150.aspx</span></span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMKDxxJ6rI8"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMKDxxJ6rI8</span></span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciZBwAG54iY "><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciZBwAG54iY </span></span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyOSXRCJlIg"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyOSXRCJlIg</span></span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-47003677351543737052021-07-21T06:02:00.004-07:002021-09-10T12:56:35.933-07:00Friday Links Come Early: July 2021<p> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Friday links are early this week. I'm taking Thursday and Friday off, so I'm turning off my desktop today.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.musserforests.com/prod.asp?p=SMR"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">https://www.musserforests.com/prod.asp?p=SMR</span></span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ge6f3bDmWM"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ge6f3bDmWM</span></span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yielLYZ5lo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yielLYZ5lo</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.timberlinesharpener.com/?doing_wp_cron=1626872506.8145170211791992187500">https://www.timberlinesharpener.com/?doing_wp_cron=1626872506.8145170211791992187500</a> <br /></span></span></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-78831826776346762982021-07-16T09:01:00.001-07:002021-09-10T12:56:20.028-07:00Random Friday Links July 2021<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Here's an anticipated new feature: Random Friday Links</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Every week at work, I leave my computer running, only turning it off on the weekend, for reasons having to do with the age of my computer and the amount of time it takes to boot up.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I am in the habit of not closing browser tabs I am intrigued by, or interested in. But then on Friday afternoon, I shut down the computer, only to start up the process again on Monday. I feel like it might be worthwhile to preserve these links in this ephemeral form. Here's the first entry.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I anticipate no annotation, to explanation, no explication for these links. Just check 'em out. Or not.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://ashesstillwaterboats.com/making-a-canoe-paddle/">https://ashesstillwaterboats.com/making-a-canoe-paddle/</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://ensorings.com/products/elements-classic-silicone-ring-gold">https://ensorings.com/products/elements-classic-silicone-ring-gold</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sKmX40HA6Y">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sKmX40HA6Y</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://app.crackingthecryptic.com/sudoku/6D4r2QfF7N">https://app.crackingthecryptic.com/sudoku/6D4r2QfF7N</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.qajaqusa.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=349669&module_id=358631">https://www.qajaqusa.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=349669&module_id=358631</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6ifqKK_voU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6ifqKK_voU</a></span></p><p><br /></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-9938701524393827192021-06-16T05:18:00.005-07:002022-03-10T05:19:01.119-08:00What I'm Listening To, June 2021<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Elephant9's <i>Arrival of the New Elders</i>: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8AhM_vwdnM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8AhM_vwdnM</a></span></span></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-26050866785443783582021-06-14T05:41:00.003-07:002021-09-10T12:55:31.086-07:00How Many Genders Are There?<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">I like this guy. The only better answer I can think of is "When's lunch?"<br /></span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMDlFn-NGKk"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMDlFn-NGKk</span></span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">For family reasons, I have been<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"> attending a couple of online support groups lately. One for trans folks, one for the parents (and other family members) of trans folks. Attendance at these groups has been quite valuable for me. Just spending time together with people who are thinking about gender issues as though their lives depend on it - - - because they do - - - has been an education. Most of the group attendees have also been in psychotherapy of one or more forms, and so there's a lot of active listening, affirmation, and excellent advice given. All in all, I feel lucky to get to spend time with them, lucky for their acceptance of me, and much clearer about who I am and whom I support in this front of the current culture war.<br /></span></span><p></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-10403399528820258142021-05-27T05:43:00.005-07:002022-03-10T05:19:30.973-08:00The Rhythm of the Machine (What I'm Listening To)<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Schnellertollermeier's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJpdX2VWU60" target="_blank">"Piccadilly Sources"</a>: a recent find thanks to <a href="https://www.wrek.org/" target="_blank">WREK's</a> afternoon randomness. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">I enjoyed it thoroughly as I drove from work to the studio, then played some more of their music (via iPhone) on the stereo in the studio as I worked. They've released several albums. A cursory glance at <a href="http://www.schnellertollermeier.ch/" target="_blank">their website</a> suggests they are Swiss, and seem to have great momentum (career-wise) at the moment. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">As I listened to "Piccadilly Sources" again this morning I reawakened to the saturating influence of Stravinsky on everything that came after:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZtWAqc3qyk" target="_blank">"Danse Sacrale" from Rite of Spring</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Note that I speak of Stravinsky's influence as though it's a given. I base the statement solely on my own life as a listener, including a few offhand comments by radio announcers and orchestra program notes. Have I made a study of Stravinsky's life and music? No. Did something prior to Stravinsky influence him? We have heard about Matisse, Picasso, and their appropriation of forms from West African art (especially sculpture); is there something analogous going on with Stravinsky? Would the knowing be worth the effort of finding out? I think it's worth a peek, anyway.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">The question rises in me because of my own life as a listener. In my 20's and early 30's, I would have told you that this "relentless rhythm of the machine" theme came from the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXOanvv4plU" target="_blank">"Mars" section of Holst's <i>The Planets</i></a>. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lots to unpack here. That Holst video from the BBC Proms was recorded about a mile and a half from Piccadilly, for instance. And Holst taught at the St. Paul's Girls' School not much farther away. The horror conveyed by the "Danse Sacrale" stems from religious zealotry, while in Holst's "Mars," war is the horror. And where were the Swiss through the long 20th century?<br /></span></span></p>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-54714904973326786502021-01-08T06:15:00.004-08:002022-04-15T12:12:00.241-07:00The Futile Utility of the Cell Phone<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thursday morning I woke up and found that various family members had been texting and calling all night (my cell phone is set to stop ringing at 9:30). My mom had been on the couch watching the aftermath of the Capitol riot like the rest of the country, gotten up for a glass of water, and tripped on a throw rug. Bottom line: </span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">minor to medium medical emergency, she's in the hospital and doing well, expecting to come home today and heal up.<br /></span></span><p></p><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Yesterday, I reacted by spending some time changing settings on my cell phone, and telling everyone our land line number. The cell phone can let selected numbers ring 24 hours a day, so now my mom and sister and aunt will be able to get through. This isn't very practical, since I can't DO anything in an emergency. I won't get to Wisconsin any quicker if I am summoned up there at 2 am vs. 7am, I'll just be less rested when I get there! But immediate family can now reach me whenever they feel the need.<br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Toshio Odate told a story about the death of his mother. He was teaching at Pratt Institute in New York, so couldn't get back to Japan on a moment's notice. His brother considered this, and when their mother died, didn't call until after the funeral. Toshio was angry at first, but then grateful: If they had called him immediately, he would have been tearing his hair thinking about how he couldn't get to Japan fast enough for the funeral. Instead, he went through an extra 5 days assuming his mom was still alive. "So I had a mother 5 days longer than the rest of my family," he said. Years ago I shared this story with Mom and she saw the logic right away. "That's why I never give you a specific itinerary when I travel!" she said. "If something happens, I'll be too far away to get back before the crisis is over, and how does it help anyone if I'm stressing out 5,000 miles away?"<br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Changing the settings on my phone violates that principle, a principle I agree with. But in talking it over with my sister, I saw that the approach of retirement means I will be assuming a new role for my parents. Sometimes it might be helpful even if all I can be is a reassuring voice at the other end of the line.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The way I've just described this makes it sound like progress, or forward motion: stepping in to a new role. But it's also a step back. A couple of years ago, as my younger kid was finishing college, I spent some time thinking about my transition out of what the Hindu tradition describes as the "householder" phase of life and into a less worldly-involved, less responsible phase whose name literally translates as "forest dweller." The forest dweller, having raised a family and earned a living, turns away from that and devotes more attention to the shape of the world, and understanding humanity's place in it. Their action vis-à-vis others is advisory rather than engaged. Read about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanaprastha" target="_blank"><i>Vanaprastha</i> here</a>.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here in the early 21st century, our parents are often still alive and in need of more physical care when we reach the age where we might become forest dwellers. Some of us loop back to become quasi-parents to our own parents. I mention this to a friend, who nods in recognition. Among her peer group it's widely understood that taking care of parents in their old age takes as many years as raising children to adulthood. The part of me that longs to fade into the forest dim and contemplate Flora recoils and says "a sordid boon!" The more reasonable (or should I say, accommodationist?) part of me placatingly offers this thought: do you really think the four life stages of the <i>ashrama</i> system are rigid, self-contained units that apply to the life of a contemporary American man? Maybe your life isn't a series of four rooms, each with a door locking behind you as you pass through! Maybe you should just think of forest-dwelling as something to be aware of as you orient yourself to your world.<br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Last night that same friend called her dad in the memory care unit where he is in hospice. He told her that he and 3 or 4 others are leaving tomorrow. When she asked where they're going, there was a long silence followed by "Back where we came from!" Every day, he offers a different theory about where he is and what he's doing there, but this one seems quite apt. Aren't we all going back where we came from? Why worry about the order in which we pass individual landmarks? I hope I can be content to compare a few maps against each other as I travel, for enlightenment and enjoyment, and remember that the maps and the terrain are different things.<br /></span></span></div>Jim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09793788789446338672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655149964113846035.post-48374254419400416832020-06-25T06:24:00.004-07:002021-09-10T12:51:55.941-07:00Buttercream Dream<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A few years back, a regional wrestling league called Southern States Wrestling had a heel called "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Richards_(wrestler)" target="_blank">The Progressive Liberal</a>."</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This guy seems a little more dynamic.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Has anyone else noticed the gleeful way certain people use the word "thug"? Like it tastes good in their mouth when they say it? Like they have found a socially acceptable substitute for the N word? That anagram of "ginger," which was "taken away" from "us" by "political correctness?" </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">It turns out that "thug" was brought into the English language in the 19th century to help justify the British Empire's conquest of India. So it's been doing the work of dehumanizing the racial "other" to justify violence against them all along.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sshankar.net/2020/06/04/s-shankar-thug-the-rhetorical-work-of-a-contemporary-american-word-originating-in-colonial-19th-century-india/?fbclid%3DIwAR2ud0eiL1aFU4x02wcWDYPENvh9vwjiX0zXX8wrcctKJFQOa0h6phhAY34&source=gmail&ust=1591451156886000&usg=AOvVaw1CmItDbAi4N2fc4Ootgd7B" href="https://sshankar.net/2020/06/04/s-shankar-thug-the-rhetorical-work-of-a-contemporary-american-word-originating-in-colonial-19th-century-india/?fbclid=IwAR2ud0eiL1aFU4x02wcWDYPENvh9vwjiX0zXX8wrcctKJFQOa0h6phhAY34" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://sshankar.net/2020/06/<wbr></wbr>04/s-shankar-thug-the-<wbr></wbr>rhetorical-work-of-a-<wbr></wbr>contemporary-american-word-<wbr></wbr>originating-in-colonial-19th-<wbr></wbr>century-india/?fbclid=<wbr></wbr>IwAR2ud0eiL1aFU4x02wcWDYPENvh9<wbr></wbr>vwjiX0zXX8wrcctKJFQOa0h6phhAY3<wbr></wbr>4</a><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I knew Shankar in grad school, where he was a real standout. Proud to point at him and say "I know this guy!"</span></div>
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