Category Archives: Thoughts

Art of the outside world. The tree, American Museum of Natural History: The Origami Holiday Tree. The planning, AMNH: The Making of the Origami Holiday Tree. Short video, NBC New York: Origami Holiday Tree opens at the American Museum of Natural History — a first look, Gaudino, November 20, 2023. Galleries of past years, OrigamiContinue reading “Fractal Alphabet L, Graphic Art”

Elsewhere on the Internet. Stories from another culture highlight the tropes in our own stories. Strange Horizons: The Ghost Did What?! Translation Exposing Providentialist Thinking. Palmer. Issue 27, November 2023. ~~~ This is blog post #4270. More relevant for the purposes of this discussion, this is post #2017 in a row. Wednesday 15 November 2023,Continue reading “Streak, State of the Blog”

Awareness of the outside world. A search on Christmas Sports yields the results that are all about TV broadcast schedules. For instance, Front Office Sports: The NBA’s Christmas Tradition Could Finally Be Challenged…By The NFL. McCarthy. December 24, 2022. Article is specific to last year, but covers background historical facts. “Since the 1980s, the NBAContinue reading “Mostly Walking, New and Old, State of the Fitness”

Awareness of the outside world. Christmas in January, but not the Julian/Gregorian calendar explanation. St. James Armenian Church: Why Do We Celebrate on January 6th?. Watertown MA, USA ~~~ Updated Now Page +++ November December 2023 New month. Status remains quo. Wishing you a delightful December. +++ It was either repeat last month, or whineContinue reading “Rolling Into Next Month, State of the Now”

Awareness of the outside world. “Another way of putting this is that, for huge swathes of the American population, essentially all of the gains in life expectancy for the population as a whole over the past generation have been driven by big gains among the relatively well off, while the poor, the working class, andContinue reading “Vest Watch”

Awareness of the outside world. Four-foot, five-inch Globetrotter? Yup. Harlem Globetrotters: Hot Shot Swanson. ~~~ Practice Lesson Onwards!Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. Women Globetrotters? Yup. Harlem Globetrotters: BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE, TWO-TIME OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST, AND WNBA GREAT, LYNETTE WOODARD, RETURNS TO THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS AS SPECIAL ADVISOR. 2022. ~~~ First effort. Mud. We thought this was impressive. Note dirt around eye. Going back for seconds in wet sand. Pinto! Onwards!Katherine