Honestly, it was a pretty usual week. I did the usual things at home, did my usual work, went to my usual classes, and attended a usual conference held at the university. The conference was on Glass Sustainability- apparently, we’re running out of sand and have to step up recycling. Oh, and reduce our carbon footprint in manufacturing glass because of the Climate Catastrophe and our collapsing ecosystem. When I casually referred to CO2 as “plant food,” many frowns and talk of shunning. The usual.

And as usual, birthdays, including that of a childhood hero of mine; a guy who never heard of the “i before e” rule; a guy who was a bit scattered; the greatest composer you’ve never heard of- but you’d recognize nearly everything he wrote; a guy who directed one of the two best sci fi films ever made; Mister Asterisk who was not a Gaul; a guy who never let science stand in the way of his politics; a chick who fucked Fidel and produced a crashing mediocrity; a guy who was no Clive Bunker; and, speaking of a crashing mediocrity…

And the usual sort of Links, maybe with an extra dash of snark.

 

Wise Latina gets one right.

 

When you get the scarlet letter, it is there for life.

 

Shouldn’t this be at the Spurious Correlations website?

 

“But I want to piss on their graves!”

 

Give him a week, he’ll be back to it.

 

Champion of human rights.

 

I’m sure it was systematic racism under the Lumumba dynasty.

 

Old Guy Music is out of my usual mainstream- as part of this conference, a “glass concert” was presented with this guy playing a Franklin Glass Armonica and a Cristal. Very entertaining show and I had a chance to get up close and personal with the instrument afterwards.