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Fascinated by complexity, emergence, simplicity, life. Tweeting curious multiplicities, random intersections, multiple associations, Koestler's ants?
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and hurricane gilbert kept on trucking, sensitivity to small differences, and conditions, making big differences?
track of hurricane gilbert, 1988, similar start, but not turning the corner until landfall.
October 31, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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the energy in a hurricane is staggering - and yet it takes a hard-right turn in a few hours - what can do that? (pic via wikipedia)...
map showing the track of hurricane Melissa, coming in off the Atlantic and taking a hard right turn into Jamaica and Cuba - the plot is made of six-hour intervals.
October 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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educational reform
Russian teacher, after Putin's special military operation in 2022, says "in the USA, there are demonstrations supporting Russia"
October 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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lovely time to take the brain for a walk...
photo of leaves changing colors, reds and yellows, with green in the background.
October 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Ceausescu in Disneyland
Nicolae Ceausescu riding in a toy car, visiting Disneyland, 1970, surrounded by security men in suits, furry animals and Minnie Mouse.
October 4, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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loving the changes we know are coming...
photo of a leaf changing color, greens, yellows, oranges, seasonal changes, cycles we know.
September 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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looking at data-viz geographic maps - regardless of the question, dataset, the answer always seems to highlight AL,AR,MS - alarming, but not surprising
American map, for data visualization, with states like Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana colored to highlight a higher rate of almost anything.
September 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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a little bit of blue sky, for a change
photo of a tree, changing color from green to orange and red, in the autumn, blue sky in the background.
September 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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wonder where the little guy on the right is...
Screen shot from Deep Purple's Child in Time heavy performance, 1970 - small child, in suit and a tie, wondering what this is all about
August 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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"The year is 1402. Margrete has gathered Denmark, Norway and Sweden into a peace-oriented union. But a conspiracy is in the making..."
final scene from Danish film Margrete: Queen of the North.
August 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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"Sudden Mania to become Pianists created upon hearing Steinway's Pianos at the Paris Exposition"
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"This lithograph by Amédée de Noé conveys the popularity of the Steinway piano, the musicality of which had just been demonstrated by pianist Désiré Magnus at the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris."
August 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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memories, moments, photos, time travel
still from a documentary on the Kamikaze, an elderly Japanese man, reading his younger brother's will, looking at the back of his black and white photograph, from world war two.
July 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Canadian aboriginal syllabics
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picture from wikipedia "Bilingual book using Cree and English, where Cree is shown in both syllabics and the Latin script."
July 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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weight
smooth black stone, a paper weight, on an old scroll, three scrolls side by side, like old screens, full of information.
July 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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doom scrolling
Screenshot from BBC program called "Plague Fiction", showing Michael Wood looking at records, scrolls, from the Black Death.
July 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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out standing
stone statues, standing, on Rapa Nui.
July 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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a beautiful, respectful, wonderful record of another world in ten minutes - like Dune meets Baraka (love the camel train)
people sitting around a campfire, in the Sahara, under a tree, with the sun setting and camels looking on.
June 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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'interesting'
screenshot from firefox browser saying it blocked trackers that track us across sites - the use and abuse of technology, expensive cat and mouse games.
June 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Sebastião Salgado - frozen moments of flow, flight and faith
Sebastião Salgado's photos of a line of penguins, waiting to leap from the ice into cold looking ocean waters.
May 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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indexing, external memory selectors...
via wikipedia - "circa 1955: Rev Ellison, technical consultant on the Univac project working on a control panel which gives direct access to Univac. This allows him to see exactly how the indexing is progressing and to check it with the bible he is holding"
May 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World, chapter two
highlighted quote from Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World, chapter two - "For much of our history, we were so fearful of the outside world, with its unpredicable dangers, that we gladly embraced anything that prommised to soften away the terror."
April 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Jeppesen Sanderson flight computer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeppesen
A Jeppesen Sanderson flight analogue computer (picture from wikipedia).
March 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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websites that use data, at risk, so much at risk...
"Weather and climate data shown on this website and countless others are at risk. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is the U.S. agency responsible for global weather forecasting, hurricane prediction, ocean observation, and many other services vital to public safety. Its satellites, supercomputers, and research teams provide essential data that help us understand our planet and protect lives. On February 27, the new U.S. administration initiated mass firings at NOAA. These actions are unethical and deeply disruptive to the talented scientists and engineers who dedicate themselves to the public good. The firings, along with expected budget cuts, have serious implications for the availability and quality of weather forecasts produced by the United States. They must be reversed immediately. Much of the data on this website is downloaded directly from NOAA's servers. In this environment of uncertainty, access could be disrupted at any time. While I'll strive to keep all features on this website functional and switch to alternative data sources if necessary, some datasets have no substitute if they go offline.
March 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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there's a magical quality about people looking out from old black and white photos on wikipedia (and future mayors in the soda fountain) - Wheelright, Kentucky
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Black and white photo of miners leaving the mine, Kentucky.
February 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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from Dale's A Modest Enquiry Into The Nature of Witchcraft, 1697 - "but she..."
quote from Dale's A Modest Enquiry Into The Nature of Witchcraft, 1697 - "the day of her execution, I went in company of some neighbours, who took great pains to bring her to confession & repentance. But she constantly professed her self innocence of that crime"
January 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM