Things I learned while looking up other things, 2020.10.11
Dear friends,
I hope yesterday was 10/10 for you.
This is the kind of absurdity that making wordlists drives you to:
When you are driven to the double obelisk, you should stop and examine the steps that brought you to that point.
Aristotle supposedly suffered from 'photic sneezing', aka 'photosneezia'.
BBC have released thousands of sound effect files. VHF receiver with aerial disconnected. (Unintelligible speech and heavy distortion), anyone? (The license is a bit wonky, so take a look before you starting building off of these.)
Someone—no one knows who—stole Maurizio Cattelan's artwork, an 18-carat solid-gold toilet titled America (2016), early on September 14 2019, the morning after the opening party for his first solo show in the UK. (Nancy Spector, the Guggenheim's curator, had offered to loan it to the White House in 2017.)
In a study of more than 6500 synaesthetes, Eagleman and his team found that the letter-colour pairings are usually random, but for 15 per cent of people who were young children in the 1970s and 1980s, they follow a telltale pattern: A is red, B is orange, C is yellow, D is green, E is blue, F is purple and then the cycle repeats through the alphabet. This just happens to be the pattern of a Fisher Price alphabet magnet set that was popular in that period. [New Scientist]
I am terribly sorry to be the one to inform you that the story of an Englishman named James Wickham bringing two small whales to the Great Salt Lake around 1890 is a hoax.
It was Groucho Marx's birthday last week. Alas, l learned too late that the term for the fake-nose-eyebrows-and-mustache glasses combo is beaglepuss.
Using a projector to replace paper patterns for sewing is my new niche obsession. This has now replaced making a table with resin and bottle caps in the category of 'projects I will research extensively and never complete'.
No subject is too mean for poetry.
Stay well, friends—
Erin
I hope yesterday was 10/10 for you.
This is the kind of absurdity that making wordlists drives you to:
When you are driven to the double obelisk, you should stop and examine the steps that brought you to that point.Aristotle supposedly suffered from 'photic sneezing', aka 'photosneezia'.
BBC have released thousands of sound effect files. VHF receiver with aerial disconnected. (Unintelligible speech and heavy distortion), anyone? (The license is a bit wonky, so take a look before you starting building off of these.)
Someone—no one knows who—stole Maurizio Cattelan's artwork, an 18-carat solid-gold toilet titled America (2016), early on September 14 2019, the morning after the opening party for his first solo show in the UK. (Nancy Spector, the Guggenheim's curator, had offered to loan it to the White House in 2017.)
In a study of more than 6500 synaesthetes, Eagleman and his team found that the letter-colour pairings are usually random, but for 15 per cent of people who were young children in the 1970s and 1980s, they follow a telltale pattern: A is red, B is orange, C is yellow, D is green, E is blue, F is purple and then the cycle repeats through the alphabet. This just happens to be the pattern of a Fisher Price alphabet magnet set that was popular in that period. [New Scientist]
I am terribly sorry to be the one to inform you that the story of an Englishman named James Wickham bringing two small whales to the Great Salt Lake around 1890 is a hoax.
It was Groucho Marx's birthday last week. Alas, l learned too late that the term for the fake-nose-eyebrows-and-mustache glasses combo is beaglepuss.
Using a projector to replace paper patterns for sewing is my new niche obsession. This has now replaced making a table with resin and bottle caps in the category of 'projects I will research extensively and never complete'.
No subject is too mean for poetry.
Stay well, friends—
Erin
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