
A Cracked Dome in Florence
Better a cracked dome in Florence than a cathedral in the sky - Twyla Tharp
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Train stuff for sale
These are the Bachmann HO pieces for sale in East Thetford Dec 2024.
Sold together only.
$135
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Sunday, June 9, 2019
1 Thing About Hotel Life
I hear the heavy footsteps of the person who lives above me. Boots bang on the floor.
She sings in the shower.
She sings in the shower.
Saturday, May 18, 2019
1 Piece of Advice
Don't look at your iPhone when you're walking across the Bridge Street Bridge.
You may drop it into the White River.
You may drop it on the sidewalk and crack the screen.
You may miss something happening around you.
You may drop it into the White River.
You may drop it on the sidewalk and crack the screen.
You may miss something happening around you.
4 Things About the Nahda
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| Tarek El-Ariss DARTMOUTH NEWS |
The Nahda was (is) the renaissance in Arab intellectualism that began, roughly, in the late 19th Century. For historical purposes, it encompassed the early 20th Century, but artificially limiting either its inception or duration is an iffy proposition.
So says Tarek El-Ariss, a Dartmouth professor who compiled The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda and in so doing, revamped academic and practical theory about what the Nahda is, its genesis and its place in its heyday and in the modern world.
1. The Nahda was a response to Ottoman monarchic and absolute rule in a large swathe of Europe, Asia and Africa. Ottoman rule provided governance, jobs, culture and societal structure in exchange for the freedom of its subjects. Sounds familiar.
2. We think Arab, we think Muslim. Arabs are primarily Muslims but are also Christians, Jews, other smaller sects, and secularists - secularism is perhaps a critical part of the Nahda.
3. Kahlil Gibran. yeah, that guy who is most familiar to Westerners, is part of the Nahda.
4. A key feature of the Nahda is the reconceptualism of time: the idea that there is a past, present and future, which we affect by our present thoughts and actions.
Friday, May 17, 2019
3 Things About Pamela Z
1. Pamela Z most reminded me about Martin Mull's saying, "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
2. I can only compare what she does to others, none of whom capture Pamela Z, but who might give you an idea:
The ethereality of Enya; the experimentalism, especially with her voice, of Yoko Ono; the artistry, delight and straightforwardness of Penn & Teller.
3. Imagine if the theremin, which you know from the Beach Boys' Good Vibrations, were updated to 2019 technological standards. Besides her voice, clear boxes with optical readers (hope I have that right) inside respond when Pamela Z moves her hands or fingers in intricate ways. She has an unerring sense of time.
Here is Breathing, which she performed Thursday night.
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Monday, April 29, 2019
4 Things About Cyrus Farivar
1. He was voted off Wikipedia. He created an entry about himself which is a no-no. For revealing a person can be voted off Wikipedia he deserves to be reinstated in Wikipedia.
2. He's a funny guy. Maintains his sense of humor despite being a lonely voice advising us that the law can't keep up with all the ways data about us can be collected. That data collection, by the way, is encouraged by federal grants to YOUR TOWN for surveillance technology, which is often implemented without thought about how the collected information will be used.
3. His new book is
2. He's a funny guy. Maintains his sense of humor despite being a lonely voice advising us that the law can't keep up with all the ways data about us can be collected. That data collection, by the way, is encouraged by federal grants to YOUR TOWN for surveillance technology, which is often implemented without thought about how the collected information will be used.
3. His new book is
which is about, among other things, how the legal definition of "the reasonable expectation of privacy" is diminishing as, for instance, people know and expect that they're tracked everywhere they go with their phones.
4. At Dartmouth, he told an anecdote about how he never imagined that his Flickr photos would be used as training tools for facial recognition software. That's the whole ball of wax, isn't it? We can't imagine the ways all the data collected about us can be used.
4a. He said it's a short leap for the body cameras that police wear to have facial recognition software, so that every time you interact with police (or pass an officer on the street), your face will be scanned to see if you're in any law enforcement data base. Like Tom Cruise in Minority Report. Here are 2019 examples of exactly that.
5. He pronounces his name Sir-RUSE.
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