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Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. (Invictus)

"abandoning leap seconds would break sundials"

Columbus is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio. It had a population of 905,748 at the 2020 census, making it the 14th most populous city in the United States, and a metropolitan area population of around 2.2 million. The city is the county seat of Franklin County and also extends into Delaware and Fairfield counties. Columbus was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers and was named after Christopher Columbus. It became the state capital in 1816 and grew during the nineteenth century as a transportation and industrial hub linked by the National Road, canals and railroads. Columbus is now a center for high-tech manufacturing with plants operated by Intel, Honda and LG Energy Solution and is home to Ohio State University, one of the largest universities in the country. This photograph shows Downtown Columbus and the Scioto Mile, viewed from the southwest.Photograph credit: Paul Wasneski

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After I die I promise not to perform any miracles

Did you know...

Charlotte Brontë

... that the first novel by Charlotte Brontë (pictured) was published posthumously?
... that Agostino Steffani missed the 1709 premiere of his opera Amor vien dal destino because he was in Rome mediating between the pope and the emperor?
... that John H. Beyer co-founded an architectural firm in 1968 that opposed large-scale urban redevelopment, inspired partly by the book The Death and Life of Great American Cities?
... that the Eurovision performance of "Bird of Pray" featured a backing vocalist whose song had been defeated during selection?
... that a key moment in the 2022 LastPass data breach saw an attacker compromise an engineer's Plex account?
... that cameraman Bob Broughton, who later became a Disney Legend, was first hired there by mistake?
... that more than 2,000 children's artworks were used in the music video for Meg Myers's cover of "Running Up That Hill"?
... that the mayor of El Paso, Texas, founded a tequila company that sells its product in dog-shaped bottles?
... that a five-year-old girl donated her favourite rock to Poole Museum, after which it was put on display and became the museum's most famous object?

Favorite Books:

The Time Traveler's Wife

Favorite Wikipedia articles:

I met a man who wasn't there

"Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish that man would go away." Hughes Mearns (1875-1965)

What is Texture reading?

Empress Orchid (audiobook on audible.com)

Newsweek, Wired, National Geographic, Hawaii...

Books based in Japan:
- Cloud of Sparrows
- Autumn Bridge
- Accross the Nightingale Floor

Fun new words

Mokusatsu

Looking at:

Theo van Gogh (film director)

The problem of Hell - Cool article

Strange attractors (constantly vandalized articles):

What is Texture watching?

Time altering/paradox movies:
Question reality movies:
- The Matrix
- The Thirteenth Floor (better than the Matrix in plot and concept)
- Existenz
Mind movies
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
God and the Devil

The Kizilbash (red-heads) were Turkmen tribes

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Standard diving dress - grandpa's picture (on the right)
Codd's 12 rules - of RDBMS

The following is a JOKE

This Wikipedia page is considered semi-tractor-trailer-policy. Semi-tractor-trailer-policy pages are an attempt to jack-knife any real policies and present herculean efforts in codification to questionable purpose. These long-standing unwritten unapproved unthought unrules have widespread support since no actual vote ever becomes real. They should be treated as law, unless they do not support your flame war.

It is so terribly sad that I have to explain that the above is a JOKE

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

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