I learned a surprising thing about Japanese swords the other day.
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I learned a surprising thing about Japanese swords the other day.
I’m not afraid to read a book (if I can handle it) but I feel you need to know something of a field, in order to know which books are definitive and represent a consensus.
The talented Mr Fingers is at it again. This time he built a rowboat out of a super realistic sculpture of Jeff Bezos’ head.
Over at Bill Seymour’s, I made the mistake of getting into the topic of comparative programming languages. Ow. My bad!
This is exactly how I imagine imperialism and “The Great Game” worked. A bunch of people sitting around with sharpies drawing lines on maps.
I was in high school when my sweetheart, Rachel, discovered Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roy [King Ubu] and started reading big chunks of it out loud to me, as we walked to and from school.
Right now, the popularity/interest in stable audio is so high that you basically can’t get to it unless you’re a journalist who has a public relations person making calls for you.
Yoram Bauman translates the basic principles of economics.
I’ve been following the tribulations (and am looking forward to the trials) of Donald Trump. It’s fascinating, to me, the level of stupidity and bad lawyering that the republican fascist party has managed to scrape together.
I’m listening to the audiobook version of Ian Toll’s Pacific Crucible, which is about the naval war in the Pacific, WW2. [wc]