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Rambling recollections of an aging engineer
About Me
- kai
- Back in academia after a decade in industry, with a new generation of students.
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- Get involved, get informed
- I wish I could sing like that
- Det hör rörelser till också…
- More weird maps (weirder maps?)
- Other views of the world
- Damn those kids!
- Spam, spam, spam, spam!
- Going home
- Hot and bothered
- I feel holier than him
- Translation of the week
- Rather disappointing
- A Day in the Life
- Truth in advertising (cont)
- Foresight
- If it's printed, it must be true
- Ow, I've been infected!
- Dysthemic, that's what I am
- Oh carp!
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Recently read
- Last of the Ten Fighter Boys J Corbin. A humble pilot, more interested in booze and women than glory and heroism.
- A Splendid Little War D Robinson. RAF pilots and the Russian people, both so different from us normal people.
- 1491—New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, 2nd ed C C Mann. Mann aims to shatter colonial preconceptions, yet at the same time argues US exceptionalism is based on Native traditions.
- The Sirens of Titan K Vonnegut. Play music, entertain your fellow organisms.
- Täby hembygdsförenings skriftserie nr 21: F2–Hägernäs E Jarneberg, ed. Another of those wonderful local history societies making a difference.
- Flygkamraterna gör en insats S Wernström. Wernström eventually became a much better author.
Places I keep track of
- IPMS Stockholm One of the best plastic modelling forums you'll find.
- Hyperscale More modelling stuff.
- Occasional kvetch Thnidu is a linguist and an old friend.
- Another CyborgManifesto Small and large, always with alarming skill.
- Aardvarchaeology What kind of archaeologist doesn't have a whip or even a fedora?
- Arkland Archaeology and random bits.
- Pharyngula Biology, politics and atheism. And eight-legged animals.
- Something positive Magical realism in a very cynical way.
- Chicken Wings It's about birds…that fly…
- xkcd Don't miss the mouse-overs.
2 comments:
Yeah! One of my favourites is Olaus Magnus's 16th century map of Scandinavia and the Baltic region. Full of cool little details, like the wolverine squeezing between two close-set trees to get the food out of its digestive tract and become able to eat some more...
Yes! In Palazzo Vecchio in Florence there is a room with the walls covered with maps of all the world known in the late 15th Century and I spent I don't know how long there studying in particular the map of Scandinavia, musing over how some places had been important already then, and others were important then now have become back waters.
The museum book shop in the palace had a very expensive, nice-looking book about this map room, but unfortunately they had not thought of photographing the maps at sufficient resolution that you could make out any details, so I forewent buying the book.
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