Godzilla, Warrior Princess 9/22/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Sunday September 22, 2013 First day of Fall.
***From the New York Times:
Mexico, whose economic woes have pushed millions of people north, is increasingly becoming an immigrant destination. The country’s documented foreign-born population nearly doubled between 2000 and 2010, and officials now say the pace is accelerating as broad changes in the global economy create new dynamics of migration.
....
The shift with Mexico’s northern neighbor is especially stark. Americans now make up more than three-quarters of Mexico’s roughly one million documented foreigners, up from around two-thirds in 2000, leading to a historic milestone: more Americans have been added to the population of Mexico over the past few years than Mexicans have been added to the population of the United States, according to government data in both nations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/world/americas/for-migrants-new-land-of-opportunity-is-mexico.html?ref=business&_r=1&pagewanted=all&
***From Twitter:
Night Vale podcast @NightValeRadio
NFL Week 3 Highlights: We bite into the first honey crisps of fall & our mouths fill with ash. No one has seen the moon for weeks.
bat020 @bat020
ever wondered what Proto-Indo-European sounded like? here's some recent attempts to reconstruct it: http://bit.ly/15jHQK1 // via @StanCarey
Retweeted by Moonbootica
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Godzilla, Warrior Princess 9/21/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Saturday September 21, 2013 Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writers
"Ask the Astrophysicist
"Lucy Fortson has been a professor at the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota since 2010. She studies galaxy evolution and is involved with Zooniverse, a project that lets regular people help scientists with large data sets. Come to ask her everything you ever wanted to know about outer space, but were afraid to ask!"
I had one question answered without having to ask it. The term "normal matter" (as distinguished from dark matter) seemed ripe for replacement, now that our kind of matter turns out to be a very small part of the universe. Turns out the current preferred term is "baryonic matter."
At one time, galaxies outside ours were called "island universes." If there's strong evidence that our universe is actually part of what's now called a multiverse, I expect there will be another change in terminology.
Cosmology is getting strange these days.
***Bought vitamin A at the Wedge Coop.
Years ago, I realized I need large amounts of vitamin A and at least some of the B vitamins. I could get what I needed from liver -- but I can't eat liver every day.
***Mnstf meeting at Scott and Irene Raun's. Enjoyed.
Saturday September 21, 2013 Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writers
"Ask the Astrophysicist
"Lucy Fortson has been a professor at the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota since 2010. She studies galaxy evolution and is involved with Zooniverse, a project that lets regular people help scientists with large data sets. Come to ask her everything you ever wanted to know about outer space, but were afraid to ask!"
I had one question answered without having to ask it. The term "normal matter" (as distinguished from dark matter) seemed ripe for replacement, now that our kind of matter turns out to be a very small part of the universe. Turns out the current preferred term is "baryonic matter."
At one time, galaxies outside ours were called "island universes." If there's strong evidence that our universe is actually part of what's now called a multiverse, I expect there will be another change in terminology.
Cosmology is getting strange these days.
***Bought vitamin A at the Wedge Coop.
Years ago, I realized I need large amounts of vitamin A and at least some of the B vitamins. I could get what I needed from liver -- but I can't eat liver every day.
***Mnstf meeting at Scott and Irene Raun's. Enjoyed.
Friday, September 20, 2013
Godzilla, Warrior Princess 9/18/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Wednesday September 18, 2013 Citation: Padhraig Higgins. Review of David Ryan, _Blasphemers &
Blackguards: The Irish Hellfire Clubs_. H-Albion, H-Net Reviews.
September, 2013.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=39955
***From Twitter:
Tablet Magazine @tabletmag
Germany's Bauer Media Group to stop publishing pro-Nazi pulp mag 'Der Landser' http://po.st/c7NgNQ @simonwiesenthal #goodnews
Retweeted by Lillian Cohen-Moore
GuardianUS @GuardianUS
Science! That's the latest tool to help you pick women up: http://trib.al/bhTr7vg
Not entirely serious, as this excerpt from the article might suggest:
The skinner
Named for the discoverer of operant conditioning, this potentially-sinister-sounding technique involves providing a reward whenever a woman you find attractive displays positive behaviour towards you. This will cause her to associate this behaviour with reward, and engage in it more often, thus increasing her favourable actions toward you.
Typically, the reward you use should be a pleasant foodstuff such as sweets or chocolate. However, you shouldn't make your actions too obvious, or any positive association could be neutralised by suspicion or doubt. To prevent this, you should visibly provide these positive rewards to others. Ideally, do this with children, to demonstrate your willingness to engage with infants and triggering further positive associations with you via the female caring instinct. You will need to keep a large supply of rewards on your person, so a large coat with many pockets is advised.
It's well known that if there's one thing women can't resist, it's a man in a long coat offering sweets to children he doesn't know.
***From Google Plus:
http://flowingdata.com/2013/09/18/dialect-quiz-shows-where-others-talk-like-you-do/
***From Facebook:
http://www.damninteresting.com/retired/the-great-taste-of-human-flesh-without-the-guilt/
Wednesday September 18, 2013 Citation: Padhraig Higgins. Review of David Ryan, _Blasphemers &
Blackguards: The Irish Hellfire Clubs_. H-Albion, H-Net Reviews.
September, 2013.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=39955
***From Twitter:
Tablet Magazine @tabletmag
Germany's Bauer Media Group to stop publishing pro-Nazi pulp mag 'Der Landser' http://po.st/c7NgNQ @simonwiesenthal #goodnews
Retweeted by Lillian Cohen-Moore
GuardianUS @GuardianUS
Science! That's the latest tool to help you pick women up: http://trib.al/bhTr7vg
Not entirely serious, as this excerpt from the article might suggest:
The skinner
Named for the discoverer of operant conditioning, this potentially-sinister-sounding technique involves providing a reward whenever a woman you find attractive displays positive behaviour towards you. This will cause her to associate this behaviour with reward, and engage in it more often, thus increasing her favourable actions toward you.
Typically, the reward you use should be a pleasant foodstuff such as sweets or chocolate. However, you shouldn't make your actions too obvious, or any positive association could be neutralised by suspicion or doubt. To prevent this, you should visibly provide these positive rewards to others. Ideally, do this with children, to demonstrate your willingness to engage with infants and triggering further positive associations with you via the female caring instinct. You will need to keep a large supply of rewards on your person, so a large coat with many pockets is advised.
It's well known that if there's one thing women can't resist, it's a man in a long coat offering sweets to children he doesn't know.
***From Google Plus:
http://flowingdata.com/2013/09/18/dialect-quiz-shows-where-others-talk-like-you-do/
***From Facebook:
http://www.damninteresting.com/retired/the-great-taste-of-human-flesh-without-the-guilt/
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Godzilla, Warrior Princess 9/17/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Tuesday September 17, 2013 "Minnesota is the only place where you can have four seasons a week."
Fall weather today. Summer weather predicted for tomorrow.
Met with my Adult Children Anonymous sponsor/fellow traveler.
***Via Sean A. Day on Facebook:
Continuing our Four Questions With Maria Ivanova talk on synesthesia with Sean A. Day, PhD, President of the American Synesthesia Association, let’s take a special look at the differences between congenital and drug-induced synesthesia.
http://welcometomentalward.tumblr.com/post/61487342874/synesthesia-congenital-vs-drug-induced
My personal experience: I have synesthesia only when I'm not high. (Or did.)
***From Twitter:
Night Vale podcast @NightValeRadio
Ah, the first snow of summer. The first lava flow of fall. The first plague of winter. The first gentle bite in the darkness of spring.
Tuesday September 17, 2013 "Minnesota is the only place where you can have four seasons a week."
Fall weather today. Summer weather predicted for tomorrow.
Met with my Adult Children Anonymous sponsor/fellow traveler.
***Via Sean A. Day on Facebook:
Continuing our Four Questions With Maria Ivanova talk on synesthesia with Sean A. Day, PhD, President of the American Synesthesia Association, let’s take a special look at the differences between congenital and drug-induced synesthesia.
http://welcometomentalward.tumblr.com/post/61487342874/synesthesia-congenital-vs-drug-induced
My personal experience: I have synesthesia only when I'm not high. (Or did.)
***From Twitter:
Night Vale podcast @NightValeRadio
Ah, the first snow of summer. The first lava flow of fall. The first plague of winter. The first gentle bite in the darkness of spring.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Godzilla, Warrior Princess 9/16/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Monday September 16, 2013 Hometown news. (Sort of; I grew up between Kerhonkson and Accord.) From the Kingston Daily Freeman (Kingston NY):
Kerhonkson Synagogue wins listing on historic registersGodzilla, Warrior Princess 9/13/13-9/14/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Published: Sunday, September 15, 2013
....
"The Kerhonkson Synagogue’s spiritual leader, Sally Shore-Wittenberg, known to the congregation as 'Reb Sally,' said there indeed is something special about the building.
.....
"The Kerhonkson Synagogue, which is not affiliated with a denomination, just marked the Jewish High Holy Days and drew about 60 people to the Rosh Hashana service alone."
When I was growing up in the 1950s, there wouldn't have been a female rabbi. And if I recall correctly, back then it was officially an Orthodox synagogue.
***"Afshordi and his colleagues [suggest that] our three-dimensional (3D) Universe is a membrane, or brane, that floats through a ‘bulk universe’ that has four spatial dimensions.
"Ashfordi's team realized that if the bulk universe contained its own four-dimensional (4D) stars, some of them could collapse, forming 4D black holes in the same way that massive stars in our Universe do: they explode as supernovae, violently ejecting their outer layers, while their inner layers collapse into a black hole."
http://io9.com/was-our-universe-created-by-a-four-dimensional-black-ho-1320660418
Where did the parent universe come from? Perhaps from a black hole in a universe with five spatial dimensions. Which might have come from.... "It's black holes all the way down."
***From Google Plus:
"What would a sane human being be like?"
Tyler Tork replied 9/15/13
If I meet one I'll let you know.
From Facebook:
Matthew B. Tepper replied
Fred Rogers?
***Via Twitter:
"By 2010 personal transportation devices will be all the rage and electric shoes with built-in roller-skates will be gaining much of the attention. After nine years of heavy media coverage, the Segway Human Transporter will begin to gain serious market share.
"By 2015 traditional gas-powered autos will start to decline with electric automobiles and hybrids taking up most of the slack.
"By 2020 we will see an industry being built up around self-illuminating highways – highways that glow in the dark. 'Glow Roads' will dramatically change the night-time aesthetics of major cities and will be shown to improve driving safety at night and reduce the need for streetlights.
"By 2025 a first attempt at launching the space elevator will fail, setting the industry back a decade."
"The flying car era will really begin around 2015 with flying drones."
http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2008/05/2050-and-the-future-of-transportation/
An older prediction: Over cities....the aerial sentry or policeman will be found. A thousand aeroplanes flying to the opera must be kept in line and each allowed to alight upon the roof of the auditorium in its proper turn. Waldemar Kaempfert (Managing Editor of Scientific American and author of The New Art of Flying), "Aircraft and the Future," Outlook, June 28, 1913. P. 240, Christopher Cerf & Victor Navasky, The Experts Speak.
***From Twitter:
Night Vale podcast @NightValeRadio
If you weren't able to get tickets to the sold out Night Vale SF show, simply build a time machine out of parts around the home & try again.
Monday September 16, 2013 Hometown news. (Sort of; I grew up between Kerhonkson and Accord.) From the Kingston Daily Freeman (Kingston NY):
Kerhonkson Synagogue wins listing on historic registersGodzilla, Warrior Princess 9/13/13-9/14/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Published: Sunday, September 15, 2013
....
"The Kerhonkson Synagogue’s spiritual leader, Sally Shore-Wittenberg, known to the congregation as 'Reb Sally,' said there indeed is something special about the building.
.....
"The Kerhonkson Synagogue, which is not affiliated with a denomination, just marked the Jewish High Holy Days and drew about 60 people to the Rosh Hashana service alone."
When I was growing up in the 1950s, there wouldn't have been a female rabbi. And if I recall correctly, back then it was officially an Orthodox synagogue.
***"Afshordi and his colleagues [suggest that] our three-dimensional (3D) Universe is a membrane, or brane, that floats through a ‘bulk universe’ that has four spatial dimensions.
"Ashfordi's team realized that if the bulk universe contained its own four-dimensional (4D) stars, some of them could collapse, forming 4D black holes in the same way that massive stars in our Universe do: they explode as supernovae, violently ejecting their outer layers, while their inner layers collapse into a black hole."
http://io9.com/was-our-universe-created-by-a-four-dimensional-black-ho-1320660418
Where did the parent universe come from? Perhaps from a black hole in a universe with five spatial dimensions. Which might have come from.... "It's black holes all the way down."
***From Google Plus:
"What would a sane human being be like?"
Tyler Tork replied 9/15/13
If I meet one I'll let you know.
From Facebook:
Matthew B. Tepper replied
Fred Rogers?
***Via Twitter:
"By 2010 personal transportation devices will be all the rage and electric shoes with built-in roller-skates will be gaining much of the attention. After nine years of heavy media coverage, the Segway Human Transporter will begin to gain serious market share.
"By 2015 traditional gas-powered autos will start to decline with electric automobiles and hybrids taking up most of the slack.
"By 2020 we will see an industry being built up around self-illuminating highways – highways that glow in the dark. 'Glow Roads' will dramatically change the night-time aesthetics of major cities and will be shown to improve driving safety at night and reduce the need for streetlights.
"By 2025 a first attempt at launching the space elevator will fail, setting the industry back a decade."
"The flying car era will really begin around 2015 with flying drones."
http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2008/05/2050-and-the-future-of-transportation/
An older prediction: Over cities....the aerial sentry or policeman will be found. A thousand aeroplanes flying to the opera must be kept in line and each allowed to alight upon the roof of the auditorium in its proper turn. Waldemar Kaempfert (Managing Editor of Scientific American and author of The New Art of Flying), "Aircraft and the Future," Outlook, June 28, 1913. P. 240, Christopher Cerf & Victor Navasky, The Experts Speak.
***From Twitter:
Night Vale podcast @NightValeRadio
If you weren't able to get tickets to the sold out Night Vale SF show, simply build a time machine out of parts around the home & try again.
Godzilla, Warrior Princess 9/15/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Sunday September 15, 2013 Temperatures low enough that I wore a long-sleeved shirt. And for parts of the day, a sweater.
***Como Cookout at Van Cleve Park. Among the children's events was a quidditch match (not completely authentic.)
I didn't stay long. Headed for the Lake Harriet Bandshell, where the Minnesota Orchestra's musicians were giving a concert.
The musicians have been locked out for eleven months. Management thought it would be reasonable for them to take a 25 percent pay cut, and agree to a few other cost-saving measures.
The Orchestra spent a whole lot of money on its new auditorium, and ended up in poor financial shape.
A few years back, the Minneapolis library system replaced its central library with a new one -- and ended up broke. Hennepin County Libraries took them over. However, there isn't a Hennepin County Orchestra.
Music: Something by Weber, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony.
There were five people I knew in the audience, and I'd recently met one member of the orchestra. There were also a number of dogs, one of whom joined in the applause at the end. I did not know any of the dogs.
Sunday September 15, 2013 Temperatures low enough that I wore a long-sleeved shirt. And for parts of the day, a sweater.
***Como Cookout at Van Cleve Park. Among the children's events was a quidditch match (not completely authentic.)
I didn't stay long. Headed for the Lake Harriet Bandshell, where the Minnesota Orchestra's musicians were giving a concert.
The musicians have been locked out for eleven months. Management thought it would be reasonable for them to take a 25 percent pay cut, and agree to a few other cost-saving measures.
The Orchestra spent a whole lot of money on its new auditorium, and ended up in poor financial shape.
A few years back, the Minneapolis library system replaced its central library with a new one -- and ended up broke. Hennepin County Libraries took them over. However, there isn't a Hennepin County Orchestra.
Music: Something by Weber, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony.
There were five people I knew in the audience, and I'd recently met one member of the orchestra. There were also a number of dogs, one of whom joined in the applause at the end. I did not know any of the dogs.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Godzilla, Warrior Princess 9/13/13-9/14/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Friday September 13, 2013. From Joel Berson, on the American Dialect Society mailing list:
"Custom • Wedding • Repair • Classes"
"Sign on a shop in Belmont, Mass., called 'Karenna Maraj Jewelry Collection'. (The advertised services must be a sideline.)"
Saturday September 14, 2013 seawasp (seawasp) replied to your LiveJournal post...in which you said:
> What would a sane human being be like?
Their reply was:
Like ME, obviously.
***From Twitter:
Lynn(e) Schmidt @LynneSchmidt
'I promise to bail you out of jail, help you hide a body, and take care of our pets' #FutureWeddingVows
Retweeted by Lillian Cohen-Moore
***From Facebook:
Sal Towse shared Dinty W Moore's status update.
Dinty W Moore
“If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.” ~ Stephen King
Friday September 13, 2013. From Joel Berson, on the American Dialect Society mailing list:
"Custom • Wedding • Repair • Classes"
"Sign on a shop in Belmont, Mass., called 'Karenna Maraj Jewelry Collection'. (The advertised services must be a sideline.)"
Saturday September 14, 2013 seawasp (seawasp) replied to your LiveJournal post...in which you said:
> What would a sane human being be like?
Their reply was:
Like ME, obviously.
***From Twitter:
Lynn(e) Schmidt @LynneSchmidt
'I promise to bail you out of jail, help you hide a body, and take care of our pets' #FutureWeddingVows
Retweeted by Lillian Cohen-Moore
***From Facebook:
Sal Towse shared Dinty W Moore's status update.
Dinty W Moore
“If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.” ~ Stephen King
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