oschene
@oschene.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Not from around here, but a real square little fellow.
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@oschene on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@oschene on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
From Thimble Theater, 18 December 1936.
December 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
From Thimble Theater, 18 December 1936.
Kind of hoping the madness takes the shape of a really huge bronze statue, so that we can film each other pulling it down the day after.
December 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Kind of hoping the madness takes the shape of a really huge bronze statue, so that we can film each other pulling it down the day after.
One cannot improve on the traditional #origami crane. That doesn't get you out of modifying it like an infinite number of monkeys. Here is a crane with a vertically compressed thorax, a longer neck and tail and about 20% longer wings. For those long haul flights.
@origami
@origami
November 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
One cannot improve on the traditional #origami crane. That doesn't get you out of modifying it like an infinite number of monkeys. Here is a crane with a vertically compressed thorax, a longer neck and tail and about 20% longer wings. For those long haul flights.
@origami
@origami
Does the Nobel Committee award a Peace-for-Our-Time Prize?
November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Does the Nobel Committee award a Peace-for-Our-Time Prize?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@AfroIsReborn/115616404658578655
Marvelous work, but it cannot be easy to be an origami artist named Jackson.
Marvelous work, but it cannot be easy to be an origami artist named Jackson.
mastodon.social
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@AfroIsReborn/115616404658578655
Marvelous work, but it cannot be easy to be an origami artist named Jackson.
Marvelous work, but it cannot be easy to be an origami artist named Jackson.
The gireh pattern on page 226 of Form and Number looked like an iso-area fold to me. And -- surprise -- it is, though it does not collapse. It would, I think, tessellate. Because, you know, gireh.
#origami @origami
https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large
#origami @origami
https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large
November 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The gireh pattern on page 226 of Form and Number looked like an iso-area fold to me. And -- surprise -- it is, though it does not collapse. It would, I think, tessellate. Because, you know, gireh.
#origami @origami
https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large
#origami @origami
https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large
Tied up the kitchen garbage back last night and pulled it out of the wastebasket. As the garbage resettled, the bag gave a sigh of great world-weariness. (An empty whipped cream can, depressurizing.)
And though it is the most pathetic of fallacies, I hear you, kitchen garbage, I hear you.
And though it is the most pathetic of fallacies, I hear you, kitchen garbage, I hear you.
November 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Tied up the kitchen garbage back last night and pulled it out of the wastebasket. As the garbage resettled, the bag gave a sigh of great world-weariness. (An empty whipped cream can, depressurizing.)
And though it is the most pathetic of fallacies, I hear you, kitchen garbage, I hear you.
And though it is the most pathetic of fallacies, I hear you, kitchen garbage, I hear you.
Sweetarts, a sour candy, dating back to 1962, has taken to impressing each tablet with a false dichotomy. (I think this is to call attention to the sweet/tart dualism.) You see pairs like chill/classy, calm/bold and retro/fresh.
I thought this one was pretty cool. #mathart
I thought this one was pretty cool. #mathart
November 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Sweetarts, a sour candy, dating back to 1962, has taken to impressing each tablet with a false dichotomy. (I think this is to call attention to the sweet/tart dualism.) You see pairs like chill/classy, calm/bold and retro/fresh.
I thought this one was pretty cool. #mathart
I thought this one was pretty cool. #mathart
Abbey Cube
Not to disrespect the art, but #origami is too dang quiet. Needs some music. Here's five songs from Abbey Road, embedded in a Husimi-Fushimi cube. Best used with Newpipe or some other ungoogly software.
https://nebula.oschene.com/index.php/s/zPofEEM7rmAYHF4
@origami
Not to disrespect the art, but #origami is too dang quiet. Needs some music. Here's five songs from Abbey Road, embedded in a Husimi-Fushimi cube. Best used with Newpipe or some other ungoogly software.
https://nebula.oschene.com/index.php/s/zPofEEM7rmAYHF4
@origami
November 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Abbey Cube
Not to disrespect the art, but #origami is too dang quiet. Needs some music. Here's five songs from Abbey Road, embedded in a Husimi-Fushimi cube. Best used with Newpipe or some other ungoogly software.
https://nebula.oschene.com/index.php/s/zPofEEM7rmAYHF4
@origami
Not to disrespect the art, but #origami is too dang quiet. Needs some music. Here's five songs from Abbey Road, embedded in a Husimi-Fushimi cube. Best used with Newpipe or some other ungoogly software.
https://nebula.oschene.com/index.php/s/zPofEEM7rmAYHF4
@origami
A dither, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar....
The QR code may not work in the photo, but does in real life -- takes you to a video of the Flying Lizards doing Money (That's What I Want).
#ditheredqrcode
The QR code may not work in the photo, but does in real life -- takes you to a video of the Flying Lizards doing Money (That's What I Want).
#ditheredqrcode
November 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A dither, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar....
The QR code may not work in the photo, but does in real life -- takes you to a video of the Flying Lizards doing Money (That's What I Want).
#ditheredqrcode
The QR code may not work in the photo, but does in real life -- takes you to a video of the Flying Lizards doing Money (That's What I Want).
#ditheredqrcode
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Now that State Line Potato Chips are made in Warwick, Québec, I think they should be updated to Provincial Border.
November 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Now that State Line Potato Chips are made in Warwick, Québec, I think they should be updated to Provincial Border.
The last cent was struck today. Atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale.
November 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The last cent was struck today. Atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale.
Noted with pleasure: if you look up Salvador Dalí on https://noai.duckduckgo.com, the logo changes.
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Noted with pleasure: if you look up Salvador Dalí on https://noai.duckduckgo.com, the logo changes.
Reposted by oschene
File:Tiling at Zelena Hora.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
There is no vanilla but Baldwin's vanilla.
http://www.baldwinextracts.com/
http://www.baldwinextracts.com/
Baldwin Extracts
Although the family had been involved in making extracts for three generations previously, Charles H. Baldwin and his father, H. M. Baldwin, officially established the company in 1888. That's over...
www.baldwinextracts.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
There is no vanilla but Baldwin's vanilla.
http://www.baldwinextracts.com/
http://www.baldwinextracts.com/
Does anyone else get spam email with a paragraph from a random Russian book in quoted-printable encoding?
There are no photos, no links, nothing spamlike at all. There are non-printing strings of hex, eighteen digits in each email. Soviet number stations? An art thing?
There are no photos, no links, nothing spamlike at all. There are non-printing strings of hex, eighteen digits in each email. Soviet number stations? An art thing?
November 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Does anyone else get spam email with a paragraph from a random Russian book in quoted-printable encoding?
There are no photos, no links, nothing spamlike at all. There are non-printing strings of hex, eighteen digits in each email. Soviet number stations? An art thing?
There are no photos, no links, nothing spamlike at all. There are non-printing strings of hex, eighteen digits in each email. Soviet number stations? An art thing?
I reposted this before, but dang, this is a really good book. Price is not bad, either.
Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty (Ebook, large format) : Alan J. Cain : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large
Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty (Ebook, large format) : Alan J. Cain : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large
Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty (Ebook, large format) : Alan J. Cain : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This book offers a history of beauty in mathematics and of the study of beauty in mathematics. Its intention is to examine the historical development of the...
archive.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I reposted this before, but dang, this is a really good book. Price is not bad, either.
Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty (Ebook, large format) : Alan J. Cain : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large
Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty (Ebook, large format) : Alan J. Cain : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large
RE: https://zirk.us/@SmithsonianRoulette/115510019838993744
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
-- Jimmy Kennedy
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
-- Jimmy Kennedy
zirk.us
November 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
RE: https://zirk.us/@SmithsonianRoulette/115510019838993744
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
-- Jimmy Kennedy
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
-- Jimmy Kennedy
Listening to a station out of Hong Kong and there was an elections ad, reminding me that all the candidates are mature, patriotic and responsible. Gave me a premonitory shiver.
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Listening to a station out of Hong Kong and there was an elections ad, reminding me that all the candidates are mature, patriotic and responsible. Gave me a premonitory shiver.
I think Windows engineers learned percentages from Zeno of Elea.
November 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I think Windows engineers learned percentages from Zeno of Elea.
In the swamp.
November 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
In the swamp.