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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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Recently read
- A Dictionary of RAF Slang E Partridge. Clearly the inspiration for RAF banter.
- Spitfire Voices D Sarkar. Some pilots had very short careers.
- Algiers to Anzio with 72 & 111 Squadrons: Experiences of an RAF Officer in North Africa and Italy 1942–46 G Farish & M McCaul. “Me 109 Mk 9” Really!?
- Swift to Battle: No 72 Fighter Squadron RAF in Action, vol. III T Docherty. Better photos.
- Swift to Battle: No 72 Fighter Squadron RAF in Action, vol. II T Docherty. Disappointingly bad photos.
- Swift to Battle: No 72 Fighter Squadron RAF in Action, vol. I T Docherty. Not for the political analysis.
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.
- Piled Higher and Deeper Mike Slackenerny, that's me. Free food, anyone?
- 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:
Verily, WP saith:
The tune [of "American Tune"] is based on a melody line from Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale from "St. Matthew Passion," itself a reworking of an earlier secular song, "Mein G'müt ist mir verwirret," composed by Hans Hassler.[2] The melody used for American Tune can be heard quite distinctly in part 1, number 21 and number 23 and in part 2, number 53. "American Tune"'s melody is identical to that of the hymn "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded", with the tune Passion Chorale.
Indeed. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain are masters at locating these commonalities. (Must have something to do with playing chords all the time.)
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