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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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- International brotherhood
- You cheat!
- Word of the week: abs tract
- Veckans ord: hagalen
- Best mashup ever!
- Analysis of Evolutionary Analysis
- The stage is all a world
- Don't mess with me or my baby will kick yer arse!
- A full day
- Word of the week: lecturd
- Covering all the bases
- Internationally renowned
- Veckans ord: kokostopp
- Creative process
- 桜
- We must tend our garden
- The middle-class intellectual calculating his gut ...
- Veckans ord: ohållbart
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Recently read
- 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.
- 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.
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.
1 comment:
I folkmun tappar ju långa ord gärna stavelser, t.ex. "sjutt'n'atalet" och "art'n'atalet". Samma sak ser vi i ett ord som är besläktat med "hagalen", nämligen "hagalavund", vilket gärna uttalas "hagal'und", särskilt på den mikrodialekt som talas i Solna.
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