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Municipal self-image
I don't know what I expected to find in the Atlanta International Airport, but it wasn't a block-long exhibit on Atlanta history with a focus on the Civil Rights Movement. The panel on the burning of Atlanta during the Civil War takes its epigraph from E. R. Carter's history of the black side of the city:
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Inkdigits
My feelings about drawing tablets (November 2, 6pm):
I'll use the ones at the library for making slides and sketches over the next few months. If I like it, maybe I'll think about getting one for home.
My feelings about drawing tablets (November 2, 8pm):
I... I...
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After today's group meeting, I finally know what my academic siblings and I are studying! We are studying the target space of a sigma model which is a low-energy limit of a quantum field theory describing type IIB strings near a du Val singularity compactified on a circle compactified on a Riemann surface ( Read more... ) -
Splash!
This all started last winter when my housemates made a Black Forest kirschtorte, and ended up with a lot of leftover kirsch. The solution, obviously, was to get a bottle of cognac and make Black Jacks, except it turns out I'm terrible at that, so I've been looking for a good cognac cocktail ever since. Last night I came across Sother Teague's ( Read more... ) -
Döppelganger
Skimming my Facebook feed this morning, I saw the words "67 years" and "Independence Day" in the same paragraph and did a double take. Even after more than a decade of Hebrew school, even though I had noted the parallels in passing many times, I never knew until today that a nation founded in the late 1940s on land ceded by the British Empire, ( Read more... ) -
Twelve Tones
I was so busy this summer that I didn't realize Vi Hart made a new video! I give it a 20 out of 30. As in it's 30 minutes long and I spent 20 of them crying. :') -
Protecting yourself from civil unrest
The Domestic Security Alliance Council is "a strategic partnership between the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the private sector" which "enhances communications and promotes the [...] exchange of information keeping the nation's critical infrastructure safe, secure and resilient." As the Occupy movement swept across the country in ( Read more... ) -
Desperate times call for extra whoop-ass
I looked at the two pounds of split peas in the strainer and I knew I had made a mistake. I'd just rinsed enough legumes to feed a family of four, and I couldn't just dry them off and put them back in the jar. I was gonna have to cook them all-right here, right now. Never mind that I didn't have a pot big enough to hold them. I was gonna have to ( Read more... )
