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Mad Money Flash

Posted in Poem, Undogegorized by chamblee54 on March 24, 2015

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When Smokey Sang

Posted in Poem, Undogegorized by chamblee54 on March 23, 2015

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Page 123

Posted in Book Reports, Library of Congress, Undogegorized by chamblee54 on March 22, 2015

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It was a gray sunday afternoon. The sky drizzles onto the bright green baby weeds. Basketball dudes are dribbling before they shoot. If there was only a subject for a blog post, then all would be lovely.

One answer is to look in the archive. There was a post in 2008 about page 123. “Look up page 123 in the book that is nearest to you at this very minute. Look for the fifth sentence. Then post the three sentences that follow that fifth sentence on page 123.”

The book nearest to the work station is an outlet store edition of “Leaves of Grass,” by Walt Whitman. There are two problems here. The book only has 109 pages. It is also full of poems, which do not contain sentences. LOG is digitally available, easy to copy/paste, but does not qualify.

The book under LOG, and technically closer to the work station, is Quiet Days in Clichy, by Henry Miller. The last word, KLEE she, is a neighborhood in Paris. The book was purchased at a yard sale in 1978, read with little enjoyment, pulled off the shelf in 2014, and rediscovered.

Mr. Miller apparently thought about this story in French, and then transcribed it in English. It is a great story. Two men live in Paris, scrounging meals where they can, and screwing a lot of ladies. One has a name similar to Anais Nin, who was an extramarital pal of Mr. Miller in those days.

The copy of QDIC here is an Evergreen Black Cat paperback, which sold for $.75. It is the classic back pocket paperback, measuring 4″x7″x 3/8″. The bookmark is one page 79. The authorities came to visit the two men. There is a problem about screwing an underage girl. The authorities are impressed by the fact that the men write books, although not in French. The authorities leave. The men talk about the beauty of the under aged girl’s mother.

The one star reviews for QDIC are festive. Ivan Searcy I am a street photographer and have been living, 4 to 6 months a year in Paris, for the past 35 years. I was hoping that this book would reflect on the café and street life in Clichy during the 1930s, but all it did was to show that Miller is a psychopath that likes to abuse women. Even when he writes about sex, he is an amateur writer. I think that his claim to fame was that his books where ban in the US.

Stewart D. Isbell “photostew” I purchased this book for the new Kindle for iPhone app and the book is not formatted properly. There are an endless amount of pages that only have one sentence, sometimes only one word! To read this book you have to flip through a huge amount of pages. Great book, and yes, it was only .80 cents but still… pretty much useless. Captain Z You’ve reviewed the electronic formatting, but not the book. Your 1-star review is pretty much worthless. Jamie E. Skelly get over yourself Bibliophile People, PLEASE stop rating books based on their Kindle-friendliness! It’s misleading — reviews of works of art ought to address the aesthetic merit of the work, not tech issues associated with the (souless) Kindle.

Maybe we should get onto what comes after the fifth sentence. “Tahe your time and get what you can out of the old buzzard. I have nothing to do,” I added. “I’ll sit here and wait. You’re going to have dinner with me, remember that.” Pictures are from The Library of Congress. The event was “Bath Suit Fashion Parade, Seal Beach CA July 14, 1918”

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One Distinct Feature

Posted in GSU photo archive, Undogegorized by chamblee54 on March 20, 2015

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“The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step with the cry that somebody was injuring the cause by the expression of some sentiments that differed with those held by the majority of mankind. The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.” Susan B. Anthony , A defense of Elizabeth Cady Stanton against a motion to repudiate her Woman’s Bible at a meeting of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association 1896 Convention, HWS, IV (1902), p. 263 ~ @HillaryClinton Wife, mom, lawyer, women & kids advocate, FLOAR, FLOTUS, US Senator, SecState, author, dog owner, hair icon, pantsuit aficionado, glass ceiling cracker, TBD… ~ You’ve reached the end of the Top Tweets for #sixwordstory.View all Tweets.~ @BetteMidler Pensive nymph, hausfrau and Martyr. ~ The spelling mistakes and grammar tragedies are part of the fun ~ Would the Cambodian holocaust have happened if the war had ended in 1968? ~ There was a link to a post, 5 Reasons White People Don’t Have to Hate People of Color to Be Racist. You click on the link. There is an “popup ad” before you get to the post. “the EVERYDAY SELF-LOVE COURSE Free yourself from toxic self-talk and give yourself the love you deserve! Learn More” ~ Lee, Brian, J.D., thank you for speaking up. I have my bouts with social anxiety, and wondering if I fit in. This group is constantly redefining itself. This evolution is usually, though not always, for the better. Thank you for thinking and caring. ~ I sense that we are getting past the “radical” business of being “social justice warriors”, which is fine with me. If you want to pursue that course, that it your *privilege*. ~ The sub header to the article says “White fragility’ is a defensive response to real conversations about race.” Perhaps “calling out” is another alternative to real conversations about race. ~ It is too late to help Georgia. ~ Tim Curry did this song when he tried to be a rock star. He changed “knit you a sweater” to “hand up your sweater.” In concert he made a crude gesture when he sang those lyrics. ~ Thank you for this link. Dr. McWhorter is a thinker and a communicator. If nothing else, this article was well written, in contrast to the unreadable nonsense produced by the white privilege industrial complex. ~ When I clicked on the link, there was a popup ad. It told me I had read half of my free articles for this month. If I want to subscribe … The only time I read it these days is when someone posts a link on facebook or twitter. There is a lively podcast version. I used to buy the dead tree version at news stands, but that was in what now seems like another life. ~ @ChrchCurmudgeon · So Microsoft’s new browser is called Spartan? Can’t be spelled without Satan. Figures. ~ being beautiful means to be yourself ~ just another astronaut lost in space ~ time travel will be banned yesterday ~ in choosing myself i lost you ~ ignore the judgment write the truth ~ she knows hes not laughing anymore ~ meeting or passion as eyes collides ~ the rifle jammed the wolf grinned ~ promises are meant to be broken ~ practicing with nibs today with doc ~ Maintaining order rather than correcting disorder is the ultimate principle of wisdom. To cure disease after it has appeared is like digging a well when one feels thirsty, or forging weapons after the war has already begun. Nei Jing ~ @storybandit We dare you to write a 99-word poem using the following words: rubles, owlish, fudge, enchiladas. #writingdare ~ Pictures are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”. ~ selah

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A Common Farmer

Posted in Poem, Undogegorized by chamblee54 on March 17, 2015

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Pacific Trash Vortex

Posted in GSU photo archive, Undogegorized by chamblee54 on March 16, 2015






It was an ISM…internet synchronicity manifestation. There was a much praised video about a plastic bag, that winds up in the Pacific Trash Vortex. The bag has a voice (supplied by uberkraut Werner Herzog), and goes looking for it’s “maker” (silently played by an unknown actress).

The bag has a remarkable existence. First, it is used to carry tennis balls, then dog food, then to pick up the by product of dog food. This is remarkable in itself… the typical krogerbag, if it doesn’t get thrown away on arrival at home, will not be used for more than one chore. But this is a special bag.

After the secondary canine duty, the bag is thrashed. Somehow, it escapes from the municipal destination, and begins a wind propelled odyssey in search of “my maker”. After a while, it is on the beach, and the wind takes it into the ocean. It floats in the sea, has pieces bitten off my non nutrition conscious fish, and heads off for a legendary garbage nirvana.

Before long, the bag is in the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”. The GPGP is a bit north of Hawaii, and west of California. The bag movie was filmed in Wilmington, N.C. You should not think about this too long. At any rate, the bag is not happy in the GPGP, and moves on to greener pastures.

The feature linked above has a good description of the GPGP. “In t­he broad expanse of the northern Pacific Ocean, there exists the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a slowly moving, clockwise spiral of currents created by a high-pressure system of air currents. The area is an oceanic desert, filled with tiny phytoplankton but few big fish or mammals. Due to its lack of large fish and gentle breezes, fishermen and­ s­ailors rarely travel through the gyre. But the area is filled with something besides plankton: trash, millions of pounds of it, most of it plastic. It’s the largest landfill in the world, and it floats in the middle of the ocean.”

The next day, PG goes to a site called Listverse. The feature of the day is “top ten places you don’t want to visit”. Number ten on the list is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. GPGP is either the size of Texas or twice the size of the lower 48. It is a collection of debris, largely plastic, from the world. It is held in place by a gyre. This is a place where swirling ocean currents bump up against each other.

A visit to google led to a trip to wikipedia. There is an article at Wikipedia about GPGP that is an almost verbatim source for listverse. This takes recycling a bit too far. There is also a band called Pacific Trash Vortex. The link is to MySpace, which apparently is never going away.

Plastic is a petroleum by product, and has many benefits to our world. It’s durability is one of them, and also one of it’s negatives. (The fact that plastic is so cheap to make is another.) A plastic bag cast off into the environment simply does not disappear. Fish eat them, thinking it is good food, and die of starvation. (Does this affect the food chain?) While the film about the plastic bag is an exaggeration, the fact is that plastic is forever.

The poster is from Treehugger.com. This is a repost. The vintage photographs are from the “Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”.





Ultimate Pie Day

Posted in GSU photo archive, Holidays, Undogegorized by chamblee54 on March 13, 2015

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Today is 3-14. It is a monday, and 314 are the first three digits of pi (affectionately known as π ). It is a math thing, the number you multiply a diameter by to get the circumference. When your grammar school math teacher told you about π, she probably used 3.14, or 3 1/7. (PG went to school when Hewlett and Packard were still in the garage.)

You might also have heard the formula for the area of a circle, the racy π r squared . This means that you multiply π by the radius ( half the diameter, a line from the border to the center point), and then multiply the whole contraption by the radius again. The formula has a funny sound to it. Pie are not square, cornbread is square, pie are round. Like Sly Stone says, all the squares go home.

According to wikipedia, π seems to have been known as early as 1900 b.c. The pyramids of Egypt have a π based feature. The Greek letter π is the first letter of the Greek word περίμετρος (perimeter) . This was determined OTP.

The pyramid- π function is fairly simple. The total length of the four sides, at the base, will be the same as the height of the pyramid, times two, times π. PG likes to make model pyramids. They are 6″ tall, and the base sides are 9 3/8″. The combination of these four sides is 37 1/2″. If you multiply 6x2x3.14, you get 37.68″ The .18″ is because of a measuring error.

A lady named Eve Astrid Andersson has a page of her website dedicated to π. The only trivia question that PG understood was the first one…1. What is the formal definition of pi? …the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter // 3.14159 // the radius of a unit circle // the surface area of a sphere of diameter 22/7 // a delicious dessert, especially if it contains cherries.

There is the football cheer from M.I.T. ” Cosine, secant, tangent, sine 3.14159 // Integral, radical, u dv, slipstick, slide rule, MIT!”

In 1998 a movie titled π was released. It caused brain damage in 3.14% of those who saw it. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that 1998 = 666 x 3.

π has been calculated to over five million digits. The second part of this feature are a few of those numbers. There are 82 characters in each line. This feature shows π extended to 10,165 digits. This is .02% of five million. The last 3 digits are 666, in bright red. The pictures today are from ” The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”.

This is the annual repost of the π day feature. Today is the ultimate π day. It is 03-14-15. The magic moment is at 9:26:53, when the first 11 digits of π will be in a row. Some purists say that there should be a zero in front of 9, as in 9:00 am, but some people will quibble over anything. The first five digits of this magic number will be represented, and this is what is important.

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Leadership Cannot Be Stupid

Posted in Poem, Undogegorized by chamblee54 on March 13, 2015

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Oreo

Posted in History, Library of Congress, Race, Undogegorized by chamblee54 on March 13, 2015





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This feature was originally posted on the 100th anniversary of the Oreo. The cookie sandwich was first sold in New York on March 6, 1912. Over 491 billion Oreos have been sold.

About.com 20th Century History has a few details on this important anniversary.
In 1898, several baking companies merged to form the National Biscuit Company (NaBisCo), the maker of Oreo cookies. By 1902, Nabisco created Barnum’s Animal cookies and made them famous by selling them in a little box designed like a cage with a string attached (to hang on Christmas trees).
In 1912, Nabisco had a new idea for a cookie – two chocolate disks with a creme filling in between. The first Oreo cookie looked very similar to the Oreo cookie of today, with only a slight difference in the design on the chocolate disks…
So how did the Oreo get its name? The people at Nabisco aren’t quite sure. Some believe that the cookie’s name was taken from the French word for gold, “or” (the main color on early Oreo packages). Others claim the name stemmed from the shape of a hill-shaped test version; thus naming the cookie in Greek for mountain, “oreo.” Still others believe the name is a combination of taking the “re” from “cream” and placing it between the two “o”s in “chocolate” – making “o-re-o.” And still others believe that the cookie was named Oreo because it was short and easy to pronounce. (This source says 362 billion Oreos have been sold.)

In the early sixties, Oreos had a great commercial. Youtube apparently does not have a copy. The song went
“Girls are nice but oh what icing comes in oreos. Oreos, the best because it’s the grandest cookie that ever was. Little girls have pretty curls but I like oreos; Oreos, the best because it’s the grandest cookie that ever was…”
HT goes to the always entertaining site, The Field Negro. There is an unfortunate urban usage of Oreo, about people who are black outside, but white inside. Field lists ten people who qualify. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.




Effective For Birth Control

Posted in GSU photo archive, Undogegorized by chamblee54 on March 12, 2015

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I have wondered about this. I have not read the report I imagine the city has its side to this story. If you go into any institution with the intention of finding racism, you are likely to find it. ~ from you are what you wear to you are what you share ~ KimKierkegaardashian ‏@KimKierkegaard Depression is my nature, that is true, but thanks be to the power who nevertheless also gave me this consolation: great makeup & hair. ~ KimKierkegaardashian retweeted ‏@keenanharris today i told my philosophy professor about thr @KimKierkegaard account, and i dont think ive ever seen someone look more disgusted ~ That sounds good in theory. In real life it can be tough. ~ Isn’t ice cream what they used in Two Girls One Cup? ~ @JesusIsAJerk Madonna so old I remember her twerking for the squad at the last supper ~ spell check suggestions for twerking: tweaking, networking ~ If you are using a special coupon or promo code, include it here. Or, indicate if the coupon must be printed and presented in person. Is the coupon transferable? If so, encourage recipients to share the offer with friends and family to maximize the viral effect of the coupon. ~ Sometimes black and white tells the story better. ~ @JesusIsAJerk They say abstinence is 100% effective for birth control. Tell that to my mom ~ On a lighter note, I hope this policy works better than the zero visibility policy for alcohol. ~ Do we really want to tell people when family meetings are? Especially when they are not , nod wink, supposed to know where they are being held. ~ At $5.50 that was the most I paid for a show at the Music Hall. It was not that good. It was four solo musicians, rather than a band. Mr.Corea twisted dials on his synthetics box and made faces. The band played for barely an hour. They had acoustic instruments set up on stage but did not use them. ~ If you can’t say anything good, don’t say anything at all. ~ Johnny Isakson and David Perdue signed the letter. #47traitors ~ “Black Pussy does not condone or endorse any sexism, racism, ageism, violence, or any other douchebaggery that has been spoiling the party since the party started. If you are offended by the band’s name, please refer to the following video .” ~ The post is pure speculation. I could be wrong. ~ pictures are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”. ~ selah

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Murder Kroger

Posted in Library of Congress, Undogegorized by chamblee54 on March 11, 2015

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There was an interesting item in this report on the killing at Murder Kroger. Before we proceed with this story, it should be noted that this is a tragedy. A man with four children was killed. While jokes about the rebranding of Murder Kroger as Beltline Kroger have their place, the fact is that a family in Alabama is going to miss daddy.

“Richey (Joshua R. Richey, 38, of Hayden, AL) and Jason Shelton, from RG Williams Construction in Covington, were working at the store Tuesday afternoon, Shelton said, when Richey saw an unknown man inside their pickup truck. Shelton said Richey went up to the truck and hit the window of the cab, and the man inside shot through the window killing him. …

The Kroger where the shooting occurred is infamously known as the ‘“Murder Kroger” even as store officials are trying to have it rebranded in the minds of the public as “Beltline Kroger.” Shelton said the area’s old reputation had put him on guard and he recently asked his supervisor if he could borrow his handgun while working on the site. “He said, ‘(Richey) has a weapon so there should be nothing to worry about,” Shelton said. “Look what happened.” Shelton, who said he assumed the men were just trying to steal the truck, said he wasn’t sure whether Richey had his pistol on him or had left it in the truck. Hampton (Lt. Charles Hampton, Atlanta police homicide unit) could not confirm whether a handgun was found on Richey or in the truck.”

It is unlikely that a construction worker is going to take a handgun onto the jobsite. The weapon was probably in the truck. If you have a weapon in your vehicle, you want to have quick access to it. This means that a person breaking into your vehicle is likely to find it. And, when you come and slap your hand against the window, this person is likely to use the weapon to kill you.

The man who was killed at Murder Kroger might have been killed by his own gun. If he had not kept an easily accessible weapon in his vehicle, he would be alive today. While having a gun will make you more secure in some situations, it can have the opposite effect in others. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Pictures were made at “Inter city beauties, Atlantic City Pageant, 1925”

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Ufo Tofu

Posted in Poem, Undogegorized by chamblee54 on March 10, 2015

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