The F.B.I. Considered as a Puffed-up Frog #aesop #origami

No one speaks of the Goops anymore. Because so many of them are in government, I suppose.

The Omphalos, an #anamorphic #origami model. With apologies to the shade of Leonardo da Vinci. https://clip.place/w/2nigxshYXb4moWM3Bhh9EX @origami

When I hear AI music, I'm often reminded of this interchange in #neuromancer: ‘Listen,’ Case said, ‘that’s an AI, you know? Artificial intelligence. The music it played you, it probably just tapped your banks and cooked up whatever it thought you’d like to –’ ‘Babylon,’ broke in the other […]

Locust borer (Megacyllene robinae) on goldenrod.

Sow's Thistle, I think.

The new Medicare and You booklet has no mention of the COVID-19 vaccine. https://www.medicare.gov/publications/10050-medicare-and-you.pdf

Horst-Wessel-Lied does not improve with time.

Day 5 - Iris Instructions used: https://origami.me/iris/ Strangely brief text instructions, but you can follow thanks to the video. I think this is also the one with the least guided folds. Step 10 "Petal Fold the top layer" felt very unguided. Also, I think […] [Original post on chaos.social]

Stella ranae Toletanae or frog-base Toledo star. #origami @origami

Curved pleats on a cylinder, before and after collapsing. #origami @origami These are chunks of a sine curve, 54.74 degrees to 125.26 degrees.

Noted with pleasure: The Wikipedia entry for The Dictionary of Old English is a modular #origami rhombicosidodecahedron, made of discarded research material. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_Old_English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13_%28film%29?wprov=sfla1 Now It Can Be Told : the neoclassical music in Apollo 13 is Jimmy Webb's "All I Know." Who coincidentally wrote, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress." (Well, after Heinlein, not before.) Not in the notes. Opie?

Listening to Neil Young's Ohio, last night, and it occurred to me, that is what's coming next. What happens then?

A close reading suggests Lefty never got to Mexico -- indeed, probably never got south of the Ohio. Still needs your prayers.

The text, like a good 3d barcode, is redundant and can last through centuries without losing meaning. Put it on stickers and put it around.

It is the lack of surprise which is surprising.

Trying out @andrewt 's dithered QR code generator: https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/ Bowled over by the amount of AI slop out there when you search for an image of Dickinson. If you didn't know the existing images, you'd never be able to find one.

A very interesting geometric model that Jeannine Mosely presented at MOVES. Sadly I can't find anything about it online. It's a hinged chain, alternating between 12 pentahedra and 12 tetrahedra, that can be folded into either a regular dodecahedron or a rhombic dodecahedron.

I note that the NYT article on the end of AOL dial-up says, "Dial-up internet speeds average about 56 kilobytes a second...." That line was clearly written by someone who never used dial-up. 56k was an aspirational upper limit, never reached in the wild.

Stella ranae From a frog base. #origami @origami

When Gordon McRae sang of "the bright golden haze on the meadow, " was he describing corn sweat? Internal evidence suggests the crop was already as high as an elephant's eye.

Not ripe -- they need to be purple-blue for that, but on their way. Beach plums, Northampton, Massachusetts.

Tanglewood is the local classical music festival, but this weekend is star wars dreck. We will not speak of it.

A Narrow Fellow on the Gravel

The spellcheck in gmail objects to memoriam (as in In Memoriam) and suggests I mean Merriam (as in Merriam-Webster). Hmm, no. Wonder where they got that.

This is a piece of bark from a London hyperbolic plane tree.

Daniel Defoe was wearing an onion on his belt, it being the fashion at the time. --- We had no such thing as printed newspapers in those days to spread rumours and reports of things, and to improve them by the invention of men, as I have lived to see practised since. -- A Journal of the Plague […]

Packard's, a bar in Northampton, Massachusetts, is a museum of the signs of businesses that are no more. And it has this relic of the business which preceded it -- in the 1960s and 70s, it was a jazz bar, Zelda Bloomdido's. Bloomdido for the Charlie Parker […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

There's this Batman episode with Chad and Jeremy in it. Catwoman shows up and steals their voices with a special box. The Dynamic Duo finally track her down, restore the stolen voices and Chad and Jeremy sing once more. Every time the phone rings and it's one of those AI scammers, I think it's […]

So, I'm putting this here, not because I think the fediverse is all that into the infant baptism controversy, but because the title seemed so now, so happening. https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_anti-paedo-rantism-or-m_morgan-abel_1747/page/n6/mode/1up

Eschatology in Queens.

Pepsi-Cola sign, Gantry State Park, Queens, New York.

折り畳み可能な双曲放物面の新旧比較。グリッド間隔とか遊びとか紙質とか色々改善してます。 #博物ふぇす

I see...some people only fly like an eagle when it's conVENient.

[Tasteless AI joke] The AI remake of The Princess Bride is not going well. The Inigo Montoya character sees people with six fingers everywhere he looks.

Слава Україні! https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/the-facade-of-the-museum-of-the-history-of-1752582702.html #origami @origami

Watching one of the those BBC documentary/drama thingummies about Jane Austen and realize that the talking heads get the wide screen and the drama part gets a 4:3 format. Because the 18th century was 4:3, when it wasn't monochrome. Or both.

#origami for the people -- and for the fish. @origami https://www.fishforfuture.org/

Give me some fin! #humpbackwhale, Stellwagen Bank, Massachusetts.

It's a dialect thing, but every time I hear a Brit saying "loo rolls" on the radio or on a podcast, part of me perks up and says, Ooh, are they talking about Lou Rawls?" No, they never are.

Reading an article on break-off phenomenon and it's clearly what Space Oddity is about. Don't think I've ever heard it discussed. https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/1957-clark.pdf

WOD: When the master of a ship borrows money upon his keel -- that is mortgages the ship -- it is known as bottomry or bottomage. Use it in a sentence today!

Neulottu tensegrity https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/18/8/1721

“My dearest sister, now be serious. I want to talk very seriously. Let me know every thing that I am to know, without delay. Will you tell me how long you have loved him?” “It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his […]

Sun through the splinters of a fallen northern tulip tree.

Glorious year for the milkweed.

My jacket's gonna be cut slim and checked Maybe a touch of seersucker with an open neck I ride a G.S. scooter with my hair cut neat I wear my wartime coat in the wind and sleet