Wasting Wednesday 10.8

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‘Curiosity driven searches– If you were allowed one wish for your child, seriously consider wishing him or her optimism.”
~ Daniel Kahneman

I read for new words, ways. writer advice might be clear without being simple. Engineers seeking money ride elevators.

Aging means outliving. Ken Jacobs (1933–2025)

TBD. collected Greed will always destroy art. James Joyce in Finnegans Wake: “Three quarks for Muster Mark!” Luxory produces, well, it permits more pain.

dupont patents: https://findingaids.hagley.org/repositories/3/resources/196

Dempster — pampa, tx

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Before his second term began, President Trump was prosecuted repeatedly in state court, federal court and the Senate. After it ends, he could face trial in another venue, the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The U.S. didn’t sign the Rome Statute and therefore doesn’t belong to the ICC, but the court can find a jurisdictional hook in actions the administration has taken abroad in ICC member states. 

The strikes on Venezuelan narcoterror smuggling boats provide one possible avenue. Shortly after the U.S. Navy destroyed the first such vessel, Ken Roth, a former head of Human Rights Watch, endorsed ICC intervention. “Trump just did what the International Criminal Court has charged former Philippines Pres. Duterte with –Eugene Kontorovich/ WSJ]

LIGHT LENS LAB — Coaters

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https://lightlenslab.com/blogs/upcoming-project/film-project-vi-peel-apart-film

the “sharpening of ideas” concept … beyond talking to others.. writing from a mental state… not status approval.

https://archive.org/embed/PowellMemorandum-AttackOnAmericanFreeEnterpriseSystem

Shop for books at Powell’s, Open Books, Woodland Pattern, Poetry titles are found at The University of Arizona Poetry Center, Poetry Foundation, and the UT Poetry Center at the Perry-Castañeda Library.

pigments for gum https://www.earthpigments.com/primary-pigments/

  • Jones, LA, The Evaluation of Negative Film Speed in Terms of Print Quality, Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol 227, March 1939.
  • Jones, LA, The Evaluation of Negative Film Speeds in Terms of Print Quality (conclusion), Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol 228, April 1939.
  • Jones, LA, Nelson, CN, A Study of Various Sensitometric Criteria of Negative Film Speeds, Journal of the Optical Society of America, Vol 30, March 1940.

Efke Notebook:

[This formula is very flammable and the fumes are very toxic. BEWARE

Formula for Acetate sub:

Methanol 2250 cc
Acetic Acid 50 cc.
Stock solution 1700 cc
Acetone 7400 cc
Fomalin 25 cc

Stock Solution:

Gelatin 450 g
DW 540 cc
Acetic Acid 540 cc
3500 cc methanol
Dissolve all ingredients then add 3750 cc methanol.

This formula is very flammable and the fumes are very toxic. BEWARE. ]

No School Bus

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on my walks, no school buses this year. First time in a decade that I haven’t seen a bus somewhere in my 5 miler. Second day out, I saw one so I knew school was in session. All the kids in my area had graduated. They left for college. Or, something else.

… in other Texas school news

creationism : “Where the appeal to evidence fails so completely, the appeal to tolerance cannot succeed,” writes Kitcher. The pattern, of course, has not ended with creationism.

— NOTES FROM TEXAS TEACHER FIRINGS.. include? executive order leaglism. deb: assignments… what refs in your religion? — show course description clearly states gender topic. The teacher was fired because the retired general is afraid of sock puppets of the X social. He was as afraid of them as they are of jet trails and puppy dog tails. Wrong general for this fight.

Her syllabus clearly states: special focus on diversity in gender… [see the clip] The page was quick to be deleted, just not quicker than my screen grab.

Build a career by trolling academics. post your righteous indignation .. The blues of the collar denounce the scholar . Smurfing your way to a payday — nodding to Chuck and Church

In Texas, this is the Curriculum.

Great way to sell college. Two girls for every ROTC. Texas, what a great state for knowledge.

more at other posts: Uniform of the Day

[mccool – Building the next generation of the Warrior Class along with the Dog Patch workers.

To the point: Texas isn’t about education. Not that they don’t love another tax break.

Along comes this worthwhile general read: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-department-of-education-changing-public-schools

Earlier this year, the Trump administration enacted cuts to academic research, curtailed visas for foreign students — especially those from China — and increased taxes on elite schools. 

In May, Trump alleged top U.S. universities are cradles of anti-American movements and revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll foreign students, a move later blocked by a federal judge.

— more: https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2025/11/25/professor-texas-used-to-have-universities/

ongoing — https://dailynous.com/2026/01/16/texas-am-administrators-will-cancel-your-course-if-you-dont-tell-them-exactly-where-and-what-its-race-and-gender-parts-are/

friday: figs and chords

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[A cord is a long flexible string or rope, often made of thinner pieces woven together. A chord is “three or more musical tones played together.”

how multiple meanings can multiply intent . 

The fig tree is about choices of paths .. Sylvia Plath […I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just becaus I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one they plopped to the ground at my feet….]

and, taking a break from my fig tree thinking I returned to a question about musical chords ..arriving at :

nick drake… success after death.. finding the commercial in the commercial . The time for memory selling the past .. The acoustic over automobile speakers … mechanized memory .

https://youtu.be/fBdbRoSrWr4?si=-S9K02k4Qc3OPSir

Even successful artists carry doubts. Success is never fully sustaining. Success never reduces doubt among the most creative artists.

[ often grouped with existentialist thinkers, Camus consistently rejected the existentialist label, insisting that his philosophy of the absurd was distinct from both Kierkegaard’s leap of faith and Heidegger’s ontology of Being. Instead, Camus argued that the confrontation between humanity’s “appetite for meaning” and the universe’s “unreasonable silence” constituted the absurd, which must be lived with clarity rather than resolved by appeal to transcendence ]

— https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil360/16.%20Myth%20of%20Sisyphus.pdf

Camus, Albert, The Myth of Sisyphus, Translated by Justin O’Brien, Penguin Books, London (1955) ISBN 978-0-14-102399-1