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Month: June 2017
Let’s Hear It For Millennials
Millennials in America are more likely to have visited a public library in the past year than any other adult generation, says this report from the Pew Research Center.
rDay Eight-Hundred-Twenty-Three
Stepped outside this afternoon to see how hot is was (about 95 degrees F.), determined to try to do some human-free photographs that would show how hot it was. Had to soon abandon the quest — it was too hot.
Dream On
Eqbal Dauqan Does Science
rDay Eight-Hundred-Twenty-Two
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
Almost no sooner than I had come upon the previously-discussed Smithsonian history upon my last library visit, this morning I ran across this one. And proceeded to read the first twenty pages (but didn’t check it out; the print was dreadfully small!).
This thing is a fascinating sort of historical account of the music that came to be the anthem for the war. And other music that was heard by combatants and civilians at the time, with comments often in their own words, serving to mark those times even more strongly in our memories.
Never will I forget hearing Filipino and South Korean rock bands, often in go-go attire, perform the Animal’s “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” as well as Los Bravos’ “Black is Black” and Dylan’s cover of “Fixin’ To Die” and many other 60s hits, in Saigon bars and officers club venues. Particularly vivid is the recall of an open-air hotel rooftop setting with this music, bar girls, black market beer, all with a backdrop of the fireworks of the war in the distance from the city at nightfall. This book brings it all back.
Slow Time
Patience and slowness are contemplated in this essay presented in Vestoj, “THE PLATFORM FOR CRITICAL THINKING ON FASHION”.
rDay Eight-Hundred-Twenty-One: PM
Leaving Charlie to fend for himself, we stroll downtown to visit old colleagues David (voted nicest guy in Tech Support) and Erik (scary-smart programming wizard). Wander about the main drag. All using an analog-era fixed-focal length “normal” lens just now brought out of retirement to shake things up a bit.
rDay Eight-Hundred-Twenty-One: AM
At about 8am, we see a very rare but rough example of an early (ca. 2000) Honda Insight electric hybrid. Next, a circa 1956 Chevy pickup, plus a Texas Range Rover (Sport model). We take a look at fields just outside of town, then we stroll past the local cannabis store.
