Kudos to whoever wrote this:
"Shackleton's expedition failed to accomplish this objective but became recognized instead as an epic feat of endurance."
("Endurance" was the name of his ship)
Fun fact!
Everyone remembers that the newton is named after Sir Isaac Newton, who discovered gravity, and that the kilogram is named after Lord Humphrey Kilogram, who climbed trees to drop apples on Newton.
But few remember Pierre de Litre, who introduced water to France.
England, 1649: the king has been executed, the monarchy has ended at last, but it's been replaced with a dictatorship. Yet suddenly we're back in the morning of the world.
It's a mindset. In the evening of the world, life will always go on as it's gone on before. If it changes, it can only get worse. In the morning of the world, everything seems possible.
Into this churn of chaos, worry, and excitement steps a 40-year-old man named Gerard Winstanley. He has a story and a plan.
Outside the surgery are some roses. I am certain that I am the only one pruning them. The fact that there are blooms all year round is therefore down to me, which must make people happy, which is a small thing I'm proud of.
(I can do this with my thumbnail. There's a knack to it)
I was reading a collection of graffiti from 1731 called "The Merry-Thought" last night— Nigel Rees before Nigel Rees— and somehow I had not expected this joke to be so old.
More about the book:
I have some thoughts about solving part 4 of the Kryptos sculpture. Is anyone knowledgeable about such things who could talk about them? Not necessarily privately, but I've posted toots about them a while ago that got no attention, and I want to talk about some ideas I've had since then.
Can you boost if you think it'll help find discussion?
#kryptos #cryptography
I have randomly found a FB page for a company that sells those beetles that strip animal bodies to skeletons for museums. They have time lapse videos. They're both gross and fascinating.
