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Rambling recollections of an aging engineer
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- kai
- Back in academia after a decade in industry, with a new generation of students.
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Recently read
- Legends of Warfare Aviation: B-25 Mitchell, Vol.2—The G through J, F-10, and PBJ Models in World War II W Wolf. Don’t trust the captions. Or the title.
- Legends of Warfare Aviation: B-25 Mitchell, Vol.1—The A through D Models in World War II W Wolf. Can the data be trusted?
- One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem N Tennant. Compiled by Neil in a melancholy mood.
- De röda kattorna M Lang. A satisfactory number of red herrings.
- Agile Game Development—Build, Play, Repeat, 2nd ed C Keith. Lots of good anecdotes, presupposes knowledge of the subject area.
- Ögonen M Lang. The final story is ostensibly concerned with the Royal Opera, but I was more fascinated by the graduation rituals of the time.
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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