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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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kai commented on respect: “Now, here is a recent respectful, initiated, and interesting interview of Paul Simon by Stephen…”
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Blog Archive
Recently read
- NARA-Typenbücher 5: Avions de Transport Regional ATR 42 H-J Becker. With a feel of being glued together from press releases.
- Girls’ Last Tour, 1 Tsukumizu. Nothing is really dangerous.
- Ju 52/3m g3e–g11e Bedienungsvorschrift-Fl (Stand Februar 1943) One gets a feeling for the hard work put in by the mechanics.
- Pedagogisk portfölj – för karriär och utveckling K Winka & Å Ryegård. Excellent and easily-read summary of the subject.
- Biggles jagar kidnapparna W E Johns, transl M K:son Lindberg. Disappointly little flying.
- Duell på månen S C Swahn. [Reread] The film would have had a soundtrack by Ralph Lundsten.
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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