Why am I waking up in the middle of the night to look for my Restatement (2d) Contracts?
Geometry: Busby Berkeley style.
Now, the debtor was a very different man from the doctor, but he had already begun to travel, by his opposite segment of the circle, to the same point. Crushed at first by his imprisonment, he had soon found a dull relief in it. He was under lock and key; but the lock and key that kept him in, kept numbers of his troubles out. If he had been a man with strength of purpose to face those troubles and fight them, he might have broken the net that held him, or broken his heart; but being what he was, he languidly slipped into this smooth descent, and never more took one step upward.
— Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit.
Fore-edge and employee’s (distorted) hand.
From Psalmi Finn (1730). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized December 21, 2010.
FAUSTUS. Thanks, Mephistophilis: yet fain would I have a book
wherein I might behold all spells and incantations, that I
might raise up spirits when I please.
MEPHIST. Here they are in this book.
(Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus)xkcd: Birds and Dinosaurs
xkcd reminds us that the world is pretty awesome, actually.
In our street just this morning, woke up to buy “taho,” then I saw these guys playing something not familiar to me. I dunno how you call this game. But these mid-aged guys are fun watching at especially with those queer hook-thrower-ball-catcher they have on their hands, compared to that of a baseball’s glove.
Jai alai, or pelota. There (used to be?) a frontón in Manila where people would watch pros play this, and gamble on the result. (Mostly gamble). As my dad tells it, the players all took “stage names,” and often the names were Basque.
The end of the mission briefing sequence, from the Super Nintendo title, “Wing Commander.”
I really ought to GIF all these sequences from the DOS version. The Wing Commander series is one of my favorite game series of all time. ALL TIME.
Are there any cricket related deities?
—Anonymous
It looks like Hindu cricket fans sometimes depict Lord Ganesha as a batter…
Seriously though, if you mean the bugs I couldn’t find any. The closest I could find was their association with good luck in traditional china. Here is an article about Chinese good luck crickets.
- Lokisgift
Ganesha, batsman.
This is so cool I don’t even know.
Sometimes, I wish I could do this. For real.
It’s worth listening to it the whole time through—not just the creepy bit that you remember from the Exorcist soundtrack.
(Source: Spotify)
