Medieval bike chain

About printing and the history of print and a lot of ideas from my letterpress work overflowing in probably not terribly academic ways!

(I don’t think you have to be any sort of an academic or historian to make sense of this!)

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I can't see what difference it would make, but it seems like he touches it. I'm also not sure whether the inside or the outside of the hog line is the defining boundary.

They were claiming he touched the granite not the handle after releasing the stone.

They certainly are able to in Nov/27, perhaps earlier. LU must get the province's approval to do so.

But the loan, or more especially the strings attached to it, are kinda convenient for LU admin to have on hand

LU could simply pay the loan back, and it's the most fiscally prudent thing to do as they'd save around $1.8 million/year in interest fees.

But it would be financially prudent to get out of paying interest on such a loan, wouldn't it? Especially if the money's just sitting in your bank account?

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

A reminder to university administrators and boards of governors that the administrative functioning of a university depends on voluntary academic participation. Treat your faculty like cattle, especially during contract negotiations, and you may find the administrative gears moving very slowly.

A page from the 1631 King James (STC 2296) showing detail of Exodus 20. including the famous line with the missing „not“.

This is just a reminder that, in 1631, Robert Barker in London misprinted a famous line of the Holy Bible, namely „Thou shalt commit adultery“.

The forbidden copies with the famous slip sold well, and a few survived in our catalogues. The edition was called the Wicked Bible afterwards. #bookhistory

...further flatten the learning curve which is a very nice feature as it reduces the frustration and impatience that can arise between seasoned and less-seasoned game players. Game artwork is decent, and the tool-cards are imaginative in how they help the disposal team.

Score 8.5/10

The board includes a grid that some scenarios use to limit the number-range for active yellow and red wires -- very useful info.

Gameplay is quite fun, and the cooperative elements make it easy for all players to participate. Moreover, the game's not only easy to learn but its training scenarios...

Another allows a player to ask generally who has a particular number.

The game includes 8 increasingly difficult training scenarios plus 58 more advanced scenarios, which presumably also increase in difficulty (we haven't graduated from the training scenarios yet lol).

...indicating its number or, in case it's a yellow wire, its colour. Game over if it's a red wire.

As wires get clipped, tools become available to assist the team with their guesswork. For example, one such tool allows a player to ask whether a tile is 1 of 2 numbers.

...on the guessing player's rack. If successful, both players reveal their wires; they've been successfully clipped. If unsuccessful, a detonation dial is advanced one step closer to detonation, and the player whose tile hasn't been correctly guessed places a marker in front of the tile...

Each player selects a marker that identifies one of their wire's number and places that marker on the table immediately in front of that wire.

Gameplay is a bit like "Go Fish": each player points to a particular tile on another's rack and states its number, which must match a numbered tile...

On each tile is a wire, the blue ones numbered 1-12, the yellows 1-11 plus 0.1 on each (i.e. 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, etc.), and the reds 1-11 plus 0.5. Players arrange the wires numerically on their rack, the numbers visible only to themselves.

Bomb Busters is a cooperative game where you have to defuse bombs by cutting all blue wires + avoiding clipping yellow and (especially) red wires; clipping red wires immediately detonates the bomb. Each player (up to 5 can play) has a rack of tiles in front of them.

Every year our family receives tabletop games from Santa. This year, we got 4: Bomb Busters, Origin Story, Guildlands, and Decrypto. I'll review them here, starting with Bomb Blasters, the family fave so far.

The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing. All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.

This from @ehayot.bsky.social and @mattseybold.bsky.social is the best, most comprehensive breakdown of the political/structural forces that first came for the humanities, and now is swallowing everything. Do not miss it. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Chatted today w student about essay on Chaste Maid in Cheapside. In part they're interested in the play's commodification of women as food, particularly mutton, which led us down an etymological rabbit hole to a couple early 16c uses of mutton-monger but we were stymied to get any earlier. Ideas?

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#wishbook

It was the berst of times.

The other thing about private continuing care homes is that they can evict your parent if their care becomes too expensive to provide. And, for dementia patients, the care WILL become too expensive for them to provide.

Same here! 😭

Me too!!!!!

Change one letter, ruin a candy

Knickers

I am begging everyone with my heart and soul to read a fucking book. If you haven’t done it in a long time, you can still do it. A lot of people are investing in illiteracy futures right now, and they’re playing in your face trying to get you to pay for your own ignorance.

He's a water leader, filling the sacks on the horses with water for delivery. Here's two examples from Randle Holme (I can post better pix later, if needed).