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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
- 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.
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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