My life: Slave to colons
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larryhammerFollow-up: "Good God. My people's entire history would have been improved by the presence of ninjas."
New stuff: Ten-year old footage of Tom Lehrer performing five otherwise unrecorded songs about mathematics, at Irving Kaplansky's 80th birthday celebration. Four are from his grad student days, one for a Children's Television Workshop program that never ran. (Kaplansky, btw, was the father of Lucy Kaplansky.)
Old stuff: The history of Christopher and Cosmas, Japanese sailors who nearly circled the globe at the end of the 16th century. Thomas Cavendish captured a Manila galleon off Cabo San Lucas (the tip of Baja California) in 1587, and took them from the crew as part of his own. Cavendish then crossed the Pacific and returned to England as the first deliberate circumnavigation (following Drake's ad-hoc route). They probably died during Cavendish's 1592 raid on Brazil, during which Falklands were discovered. Clearly, there's historical graphic novel material here -- in some ways, they're more interesting than Tanaka Shosuke.
My LJ interest receives more justification: Enceladus has liquid water geysers, meaning it possibly could have life. Can I hear a w00t?
Local music pimp: Courtney Robbins is a young singer/songwriter with impressive guitar chops and a strong voice. Her first album is available on CD Baby, which has the usual streaming samples so you can listen for yourself. And then go buy, because you'll want to. Tracks of note: "Can't Sleep Tonight," "Abigail," and "Put Your Love Here."
Remember: Just because you know what you're doing doesn't mean you have a clue.
---L.
New stuff: Ten-year old footage of Tom Lehrer performing five otherwise unrecorded songs about mathematics, at Irving Kaplansky's 80th birthday celebration. Four are from his grad student days, one for a Children's Television Workshop program that never ran. (Kaplansky, btw, was the father of Lucy Kaplansky.)
Old stuff: The history of Christopher and Cosmas, Japanese sailors who nearly circled the globe at the end of the 16th century. Thomas Cavendish captured a Manila galleon off Cabo San Lucas (the tip of Baja California) in 1587, and took them from the crew as part of his own. Cavendish then crossed the Pacific and returned to England as the first deliberate circumnavigation (following Drake's ad-hoc route). They probably died during Cavendish's 1592 raid on Brazil, during which Falklands were discovered. Clearly, there's historical graphic novel material here -- in some ways, they're more interesting than Tanaka Shosuke.
My LJ interest receives more justification: Enceladus has liquid water geysers, meaning it possibly could have life. Can I hear a w00t?
Local music pimp: Courtney Robbins is a young singer/songwriter with impressive guitar chops and a strong voice. Her first album is available on CD Baby, which has the usual streaming samples so you can listen for yourself. And then go buy, because you'll want to. Tracks of note: "Can't Sleep Tonight," "Abigail," and "Put Your Love Here."
Remember: Just because you know what you're doing doesn't mean you have a clue.
---L.
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Date: 21 March 2007 03:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 21 March 2007 03:22 pm (UTC)Named after a giant of Greek mythology.
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Date: 21 March 2007 03:23 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 21 March 2007 04:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 21 March 2007 04:02 pm (UTC)By the way, I'm reading The Three Musketeers, and have learned that Aramis claims to be writing a poem where each line is a syllable long. Not just each word, but each line. It's 400 lines, and he says it only takes a minute or so to recite it. If Dumas quotes the poem, I'll be sure and let you know.
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Date: 21 March 2007 04:03 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 22 March 2007 03:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 22 March 2007 03:31 am (UTC)Er, for what?
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Date: 24 March 2007 05:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 25 March 2007 12:33 am (UTC)---L.