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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
- Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1681: The Dynamical System Generated by the 3n + 1 Function G Wirsching. Occasionally I could follow the reasoning.
- Historic Commercial Aircraft Series, Vol 2: Boeing 707 R Mak. Planespotter pictures in random order.
- Airlines series, volume 1: Garuda Indonesia J Mols. It’s always the poor people who are paying for everything.
- The de Havilland DH.60 Moth S McKay. The women’s plane in its glory.
- Handbook on Rigid Class 23 Airships Admiralty Airship Department. An industry fumbles with high-tech.
- Barney Barnfather: Life on a Spitfire Squadron A Mansfield. Focussed on the progress of the war from the perspective of Barnfather’s squadrons.
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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