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The family travel luck has already kicked again: I just found a Walter Wick exhibit that is literally down the street from the concert venue in Atlanta. Glad we had already arranged to stay overnight. We will plan to take it in tomorrow and not be rushed.

(These were Will's absolute favorite books when he was a kid. I think we own all of them.)

This is the first time we will be out of town on a Sunday morning since Robby took over responsibility for the church's musical accompaniment. But he has already programmed it for tomorrow's service and showed our music director's spouse (who is also an engineer) how to operate it during worship. Hopefully everything will go smoothly in our absence.

Current Mood: excited

a cut-out silhouette style image of a new series cyberman agains a green swirly background.

High stone wall leading to a courtyard space. On the right the remains of walled building proceed up a slope. Directly ahead is an entirely terraced slopw. A Mountain is beyond.

Machu Picchu

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hi Willow

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Current Mood: pensive

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don't even get her started on her ligaments

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Reading. City of Last Chances because I like Adrian Tchaikovsky's podcast with Emma Newman, but am not keen on bugs. This seemed like a bug-minimal novel of his, though I fear it may prove too grim-dark for my tastes.

Listening Trouble with Hubble - the lastest in the 13 minutes to the Moon series of podcasts about space exploration. I do not know what the trouble with Hubble was - please don't spoil me.

Watching We have exhausted Inspector Morse and so now only have Midsomer Murders as gentle crime drama fare to sustain us. Are thinking of checking out Lewis

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and goes and goes

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Okay, so. I trust Greta Gerwig, more or less. The trailer looks fun. I am 1,000% here for Kobna Holdbrook-Smith playing Frank.

But when the heck is Narnia: The Magician's Nephew supposed to be taking place? The costumes and hair are off by half a century.

what looks like a late 1940s or early 1950s british street scene, with knee length skirts, cardigans, loose uncovered hair styled in a shoulder-length bob at most, natural silhouettes, and the most formally tailored garment being a woman's blazer.

Without time travel, I'm not sure how you get to the next chronological event happening half a lifetime later during the Pevensies's evacuation. If Frank drives a motorized cab, where does Strawberry/Fledge come from?

Mostly, though, simply why? What's wrong with setting the movie in the tail end of the Victorian or early Edwardian?

In those days, if you were a boy you had to wear a stiff Eton collar every day, and schools were usually nastier than now. But meals were nicer; and as for sweets, I won’t tell you how cheap and good they were, because it would only make your mouth water in vain. And in those days there lived in London a girl called Polly Plummer.

Current Mood: pauline baynesish

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Hannelore can speak instagram sans

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A small pot on a window sill with a large window behind it showing branches of some conifer and a view of hill beyond.

Honestly waking up to that view is definitely one of the nicest things about the not-Mansion.

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Until 15 minutes ago, I had never heard the name "Lotka–Volterra equations", even though the model showed up in one of my high school science classes, and then again in an internship I did as an engineering undergrad in a department in a field in which the equations are (Wikipedia tells me) particularly important. Surprisingly for this kind of erasure of credit in science, neither Lotka nor Volterra were women.

So I'm curious how widespread this bit of science terminology is. Thus, a poll:

Poll #35160 Pop quiz: the Lotka–Volterra equations

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 109

No looking the answer up! Have you heard of "the Lotka–Volterra equations" (or "the Lotka–Volterra model") by name?

Yes, and if I ever somehow forget what they are, I can refer to the handy tattoo I got of them on an easily examined part of my body.
0 (0.0%)

Yes, I know the equations off the top of my head.
2 (1.8%)

Yes, I know what they are and are for, even if I don't immediately recall how the specific equations go.
6 (5.5%)

Maaaaaaaybe? I think so but would have to look it up to be sure.
5 (4.6%)

No, never heard of them.
77 (70.6%)

I cheated and looked them up, and I absolutely knew about those, but I had never knew they had a name.
16 (14.7%)

I cheated and looked them up, and I recognize the equations mathematically, but I never knew they had a name or that they had that practical application.
2 (1.8%)

I cheated and looked them up, and I thought I knew what they were, but I was wrong, I was confusing them with something else.
0 (0.0%)

Other, I will explain in the comments
1 (0.9%)

Colin Baker sitting on a garden bench. This is when he was cast as the doctor and his hair is shorter than it was in the show. He is wearing pale jeans and a black shirt with a blue and white striped jacket over it.

A hobbit hole set into a low green mound. A chimney is visible. It has a yellow door and two windwos. There is a bird nesting box with a green roof and a perch to one side. A table set with food is in the front garden. There is a mailbox beyond the gate.

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D'Angelo is cool actually

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Reading: Almost through Clouds of Witness - I'd forgotten how much of this is written as courtroom drama.

Listening: A Gastropod episode on bison (not to be confused with European Buffalo).

Watching: Last night I was vaguely frazzled so insisted upon low brain-power TV. Hence Bake Off and Garden Rescue.