Another song that pops up in my head every now and then has the refrain ”Soft lights like in Chinatown”, which I think is quite evocative and romantic. However, I haven’t been able to find any reference to it on YouTube or elsewhere, but now, apparently because it is trending on TikTok for whatever reason, I found it, and the actual lyrics are the rather more nonsensical “It’s so fly-day fly-day Chinatown”.
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- Back in academia after a decade in industry, with a new generation of students.
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- 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.
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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.
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