Photogrammaton

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by Photogrammaton 1mo ago
The plaque is identical in two of the photos (one from Ireland, one from Luxembourg), and the wording is identical in those two plus a third (from Western Australia). That makes me curious.
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by Photogrammaton 3mo ago
How much time did I just spend on clicking links and reading comments? I love that I have almost no idea.
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by Photogrammaton 4mo ago
This leaves me without words, and I only listened to the first track.
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by Photogrammaton 8mo ago
Hugh Kenner is good on a surprisingly wide range of things. This is a publisher's description of a book called The Counterfeiters, first published around 1968: "Wide-ranging enough to encompass Buster Keaton, Charles Babbage, ho
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by Photogrammaton 9mo ago
I've been following Alex Wellerstein off and on for a few years now, since I discovered that he was a science adviser for a crazed nuclear-history TV series called Manh(a)ttan, so I read this post about NUKEMAP when it originally appea
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by Photogrammaton 3y ago
Some newspapers in the 1970s used the Atex publishing system. The now-defunct Dallas Times Herald, a daily, used it when I worked there, roughly 1978 to 1980. The Atex system there relied on custom terminals--that is, supplied by Atex, not
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by Photogrammaton 3y ago
Right you are. In the 90s, ESPN covered each stage with a nicely edited but short recap, about 30 minutes each as I recall. Not much, but better than nothing. The race has since moved around, and coverage of each stage has expanded--which,
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by Photogrammaton 3y ago
I wonder whether Netflix will boost American interest in the Tour de France. Something of the kind happened with Formula 1. Interest in it here (I’m in NYC) was generally so-so, whether or not one of the races occurred here. But the 2019 la
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by Photogrammaton 3y ago
This is the Tragedy of Delamination all over again. I coined the phrase half in jest, modeled on a TV-ad phrase (the tragedy of psoriasis, as I recall), after it turned out that a commercial airline flight went down near JFK Airport two mon
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by Photogrammaton 3y ago
For me, the story was a little too elaborate for its own good. (The film is based on a novel and may have tried to keep too much of its source.) But it addresses a lot of issues. And the rugged landscapes of the film, which was shot in Tasm
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by Photogrammaton 4y ago
My not very substantive response is that I like the project name. Maybe lots of text generators can come up with wordplay involving Subject ! and Subject 2, but I think you've already got one running.