Today is the anniversary of the first detonation of an atomic bomb, at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, New Mexico.
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one. Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.
J. Robert Oppenheimer [...]
Althea, wigged-out after her travels
Althea went missing for about 36 hours. No idea where she went.
“Anyone trying to destroy Israel will find France blocking the way.” One is tempted to observe Israel will now be safe from attacks from the rear
Ghost of a Flea, Touchable
It had to happen. After VALGOL:
like y*know (I mean) start
if pizza =like bitchen and
b =like tubular and
c =like grodyax
[...]
I like Carrie too, I just preferred her when she was lead singer of The Who.
George and the City, Harry’s Place
On the US healthcare system:
We need to move to a system where most people pay most medical bills out of pocket, and insurance companies step in only when the costs are completely unaffordable. To get there, we need to eliminate the deductibility of health care costs. Why should health care be deductible on income taxes [...]
A Youtube user called Beamoo seems to have found my advice on using a USB microphone with Audacity on Linux helpful. That’s very gratifying.
I saw the original of Caspar David Friedrich’s painting, Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer‘, (’The wanderer above the sea of fog’), or a painting very like it, several years ago, in a travelling exhibition in Edinburgh titled, ‘The Romantic Spirit in German Art’ (which I’d misread as, ‘The Romantic Shirt in German Art”).
This particular Romantic [...]
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tokyo snow, originally uploaded by suehiro.
