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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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- Se, döden på dig väntar M Lang. [Reread?] I remembered the murder method, but absolutely nothing else.
- Tragedi på en lantkyrkogård M Lang. [Reread] Martel has noted how we never remember who the murderer is in detective stories, so they are rereadable many times.
- Rosor, kyssar och döden M Lang. Sex and drugs.
- The High Mountains of Portugal Y Martel. Closure of sorts at the end.
- Enciclopedia de la aviacion militar española № 101. It ends in the middle of a sentence, presumably one has to buy № 102 to find out how the story of the CANT Z.501 ends.
- Holistic Game Development with Unity, 3rd ed P de Byl. The code is very un-DRY. Maybe it’s a pedagogical choice, but it annoys me.
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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