At concerts these days people wave their phone flashlights instead of cigarette lighters during the slow numbers.
- I broke the rice cooker's handle. Then I fixed it. Jrette smiled and called this macho display. I replied that I wasn't actually using my willie for the work and that breasts wouldn't get in the way.
- Me: Can I put the manual for your thermos flask in the recycling? Wife: No, I want to read it first. Me: You never allow me any kinky pleasures.
- I just joined the St. Eric Society, also known as the Stockholm Historical Society. Don't know why I haven't done so decades ago.
- Charli XCX's tour band - guitar, bass, drums - is all 20-something women. I'm glad Jrette is starting her concert-going life with this.
- The cadence of Katy Perry's stage patter is straight from the revival tent.
- Why do some journals ask for figure captions in a separate file? Makes no sense.
- Movie: Into the Woods. Disnified 80s fairytale musical. Grade: Pass.
- Wife: Dammit, I can't find my pants. Me, from breakfast table: That's the way I like it, baby.
- Ouch. The architect's sketch of what the new commuter station in Fisksätra will look like has twelve people pasted in where you can judge skin & hair colour. Ten have a Northern European complexion. This is very far from the actual ratio seen at Fisksätra commuter station.
- I was surprised to see Lolth the Demon Queen of Spiders in the digital backdrop projections at the Katy Perry gig.
- Sad farewell to neutrino physicist and genuinely nice guy Per-Olof Hulth, one of my predecessors as chair of the Swedish Skeptics.
- Reading Stephen Greenblatt's critical essays on the relationship between literature and social reality, my reaction isn't "He's right" or "He's wrong". I just find his concerns abstruse to the point of unimportance. I don't care. Just tell me something concrete about the 16th century.
- When asked what his studies of nature had revealed about God's characteristics, biologist J.B.S. Haldane once famously replied "He has an inordinate fondness for beetles". Astronomy has since taught us that God seems to enjoy hard vacuum immeasurably more even than beetles.
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The cadence of Katy Perry’s stage patter is straight from the revival tent.
Ms. Perry grew up in a fundamentalist Christianist family, so that's a natural style for her. In fact, her first album, recorded as Katy Hudson[1], was Christian music. Needless to say, she is one of the many from her generation to have left the church.
Why do some journals ask for figure captions in a separate file? Makes no sense.
Probably a holdover from the days of submission by mail. Back then, there were good reasons to require that the figure captions be on a separate page. While it's easy enough to do that in a Word or LaTeX file, editors and production people probably assume (not unreasonably so) that not everybody will make the effort, so they impose this condition to force this outcome. Of course, other journals (such as the ones I am most familiar with) simply make an explicit requirement that the figure captions be on a separate page, and assume that prospective authors will figure out how to do it. But I write for scientific journals, where that's a reasonable assumption. It may not be for other fields.
[1]Hudson is her birth surname. When she switched genres to mainstream pop, she started using her mother's family name, Perry, to avoid being mistaken for the actress Kate Hudson.
Another poltergeist scenario.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/26919486/archaeologists-unearth-one…
I suspect that the artist of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal uses a random number generator to assign his characters ages, genders, phenotypes, and sexual preferences. That would be one way to work around the problem that humans are good at working with archetypes and variations therefrom (and somehow most people's archtypical person is of the dominant age, gender, and ethnic group in their society) and bad at generating representative samples from a statistical distribution.
That would be neat!
It does sound like a fun programming project for a Saturday afternoon! Humh … you could tweak it to generate minor characters for other settings too.
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