Somehow I always thought he died in the nineties!!

It gives us happiness, even for a brief moment. It fills voids.

They say: Perfect give us your shirt for a day and we give you this golden pot! He says: are you people mad! Why would I bother to have a shirt! 😀

The person confirms. He doesn't eat much because he finds chewing too much of a fuss, he doesn't have home becse building and maintaining one is too much trouble. And so on..so he's happy!

Brief: king suffers from strange dis. The get the great hermit, who says: 1 cure. He has to wear the shirt of someone 1 night on the mattress of one who is always happy. They search and search to no avail. Finally they are sent to someone who everyone says is always happy.

This is brilliant!! This reminds me of a great short story in bengali by Sukumar Ray, The King's Disease

Space-saving consumerism (buying items designed to save or create more space) is such an odd thing....why would one buy anything more to fill up precious space! But then consumerism itself is quite strange.

Full disclosure. I am myself one such consumer.

Stagnate in what sense? Politically, scientifically, socially, economically? Progress is a capitalist requirement.

Poverty? There was a time when that used to be the most pressing issue.

Looks like a medieval torture instrument.

A techy question. I will be doing some outdoor work (not on Galveston beech! Research), I was wondering if there's a way to get weather updates on Outlook calendar? Would make it easier to plan.

Any port in a storm?

A techy question. I will be doing some outdoor work (not on Galveston beech! Research), I was wondering if there's a way to get weather updates on Outlook calendar? Would make it easier to plan.

After a few weeks of working on the garde, it's nice to relax on a warm rainy day. Everything is getting green fast. (Loved writing that!)

Having grown up in non-zoned cities in india, and having lived in Houston for 4 years i don't mind the mixed mode.

Without reading your original post, I was thinking ...Italian. I am sure it was delicious!

Had a wonderful time meeting with friends and fellow historians of science in Texas, and talking about DNA, gum arabic, and alligators tails. The latter metaphorically, of course!

Occasional dozing off might happen...

Denisovans are the first hominin formed entirely out of DNA, from a tiny bone of a finger. A species created only from its molecules. This is the power or privilege of this genetic or White imagination, whichever way you want to see it.
An artist's impression of Denisovan, Nature.

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I can forsee a lot of projects on the histories of Straits.

Thank you. Now that its done back hurts a little!), I can sit here and relax, with my dog.

This is at night

I have been working at this dark corner of our patio. It received very little sun, nothing grew very well. I got a bathtub and made it into a planter. Dug up the soil and put the bricks and gravel in a pattern of the roots of the tree. All the bricks are pre-used. Let me know what you think.

When the going gets terrible, the terrible gets going.

Sorry Easter!

Miss the Eastern breaks...

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Thank you! Just trying not to write an academic piece...

The much larger and long term impact is environmental and the regimes of data and empericismthat has historically obliterated other modes of knowing and preserving of knowledge. Sorry for the long moan!