{"id":68107,"date":"2019-10-02T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=68107"},"modified":"2019-10-06T22:37:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T03:37:36","slug":"miscellany-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/miscellany-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chainmail Bikini<\/em><\/strong> is back online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Art or garbage? It’s hard to tell sometimes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Derek Lowe recently added nitro groups<\/a> to his “Things I won’t work with<\/a>” category. You don’t need to be a chemist to enjoy his Lowe’s appreciations of azides, FOOF and other exceeding noisy or smelly substances.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

William Briggs<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cAny organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.\u201d This is, as everybody knows, Conquest\u2019s Second Law. It is a true law, as all modern experience shows. But it says nothing about the pace or rate of the flight from Reality and Tradition.<\/p>\n

A rock thrown upwards at the top of its flight is stationary. For a moment it neither goes up nor down. Then, a fraction of a second later, it begins it descent, but slowly, slowly. The speeds picks up, the rocks plummets faster and faster. It eventually crashes to the ground.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the progress of rocks, a good but imperfect metaphor for the \u201cprogress\u201d of human institutions. The imperfection comes in recalling a law Conquest didn\u2019t mention: motus in fine velocior<\/em>. Things accelerate toward the end. A falling rock has constant acceleration. Human failure is a force that feeds on itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

***<\/p>\n

100 things Mark Evanier learned about the comics industry….<\/a><\/p>\n

93. If your character wears a cape, it should be more or less the same length in every panel and it should not get shredded more than twice a year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

***<\/p>\n

Dr. Boli has completed his serial, Devil King Kun<\/em><\/strong>. From the 20th installment<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cActually,\u201d said Weyland, \u201cgood people generally don\u2019t try to conquer the world. It\u2019s not done, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if you don\u2019t conquer the world, then won\u2019t the evil people take over every time?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe generally prefer to let people choose their own government, and trust them to make the right choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell,\u201d said Miss Kun, \u201cI\u2019m willing to be good, but I\u2019m not willing to be an idiot….”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The story begins here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Saw Ginger Baker’s Jazz Confusion a couple of years ago and when a bloke in the audience shouted out for ‘Toad’ Baker asked if he’d ever had a drumstick shoved up his nostril.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The lovable Ginger Baker has been hospitalized, critically ill<\/a>. Here’s an 1970 interview<\/a> with the easy-going drummer, and a more recent look<\/a> at the gentle soul.<\/p>\n

Update: Ginger Baker has died at the age of 80<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Professor Mondo, a drummer himself, on Baker in 1990<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The other thing that struck me was that Ginger looked like a mad wizard from a fantasy novel, impossibly aged, but terrifyingly powerful. He was three years younger than I am now. I think both his mistakes as a human being and his phenomenal talent aged him in dog years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See also Shabby Road for an overview of Baker’s life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Have a Spoonful<\/a> of Cream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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