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From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 67-73: We do not yet know how products from Nusantaria came to arrive at the plush homes of a literate, urbanized...
What is known about Whimsey in a Bottle carver Daniel Rose comes from "Genius in a Bottle" by Susan D. Jones, or at least the website devoted to same. The book is sold out, but the extensive website provides all you would want to know...
Finished reading: The Heroes of Olympus, Book One The Lost Hero (new cover) by Rick Riordan 📚
Last week, I was packing to leave for my 72-hour staycation when my phone rang. I kept packing because I was exhausted and ready to check out from the daily grind. A few minutes later, I saw a text notification and figured I should check...
LEDE ONWe’re nearing the end of summer (often defined as ending with Labor Day here in the US). Many of you have been vacationing in inflationville, and are getting ready to head back to work. So here’s the question: how many photos did...
Quite a few pairs of pears. All small, hard and inedible. There are too many for a) the good of the tree b) the quality of the fruit and c) my tollerance to all things pear like. A cull was carried out and umpteen of the blighters have...
I was amused when I opened this new arrival to see a reproduction of the picture which is currently being used as this month’s blog header. The coincidence confirms that this is my kind of book, being a collection of paintings, drawings...
Once upon a time typesetting mathematics was very expensive. It took a skilled operator hours and hours to get multi-line mathematics setting right. Now we’ve developed software which careful mathematicians can utilize themselves to...
An I’iwi belts out a song from the branch of a tree on the Pu’u O’o Trail off Saddle Road.
Have you ever seen one of those mega cruise ships in person? The word "impressive" hardly does them justice. We had the entire crew, all the cats and kittens from each of our clowders, in Port Canaveral for a team cruise vacation....
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. II, Chapter 21, § 244 (tr. Adrian Del Caro and Christopher Janaway): When we see the many and manifold institutions of teaching and learning and the great throng of pupils...
I went to the movies with my partner to see the new “Spider-Man: Brand New Day”. Fun movie. I usually don't like 3D because it gives me a headache, so I was looking at the options on the Cineplex website to get the tickets and I saw...
I don't like slop. I don't care how it was made, even if you created it with your own hands.
I am pleased to reaffirm I'm not the drooling fanboy I hope I never will be so I'm disappointed but not surprised I'm underwhelmed by the new Lambchop, as good as it is, it hasn't saved me, I wanted it to, you can vouch, my fault for...
Edited by Claire – but if you need the pdfs and cannot get them through the usual ways, email me to send em. Robinson Crusoe: After the Island