Spreading through the blogosphere:
Old disease names and their modern definitions (via Incoming Signals)
I used to be fond of the odd old medical book and old medical book syndrome or archaic hyperchondria. And some of these conditions sound vaguely possible: Domestic Illness, Humour Flux and Canine Madness... Well - I'm certain I exhibit some symptoms of the latter, anyway.
Friday, April 30, 2004
glands
Your Glands Wear Out!... Who knew?
Gallery of Nostrums (via the eyes have it via things)
Comments: glands
Ah yes - reminds me of the character in "Love In A Cold Climate" who was always exercising his glands. An Inveterate Hyperchondriac who enjoyed bad health but lived to a ripe old age.
Posted by Nora at April 30, 2004 04:52 PM
I wonder whether the coupon is void?
Very tempted to send in for a free demonstration
Posted by boynton at May 1, 2004 12:49 AM
Gallery of Nostrums (via the eyes have it via things)
Comments: glands
Ah yes - reminds me of the character in "Love In A Cold Climate" who was always exercising his glands. An Inveterate Hyperchondriac who enjoyed bad health but lived to a ripe old age.
Posted by Nora at April 30, 2004 04:52 PM
I wonder whether the coupon is void?
Very tempted to send in for a free demonstration
Posted by boynton at May 1, 2004 12:49 AM
just ask lizzie
Fresh from reading a Today in Literature story on Hitchcock, De Quincey and the aesthetics of murder, I was taken to The Lizzie Borden Verse Box Magnetic Poetry (WE ALL KNOW WHAT CAN HAPPEN when you repress your emotions (just ask Lizzie). via Quiddity
Thursday, April 29, 2004
winter
thought I'd better throw in a found picture, found searching for winter, as you do in mid autumn, in melbourne.
Two men at a council of adult education winter school. They pose with an "invisible" man, named "Ernie", between them.
Still I think I'd probably take the winter course over the summer one, ernie or not.
Images from the Museum Victoria Collection Biggest Family Album
more of the found at Found (via life in the present and exclamation mark)
Comments: winter
I think we've all worked with an "Ernie" at one point or another....
Posted by Scott Wickstein at April 29, 2004 05:52 PM
...or gone out with the odd ernie, even... ;)
Posted by boynton at April 29, 2004 06:07 PM
Ohh, can't say I have done that, personally.
Posted by Scott Wickstein at April 29, 2004 09:12 P
Two men at a council of adult education winter school. They pose with an "invisible" man, named "Ernie", between them.
Still I think I'd probably take the winter course over the summer one, ernie or not.
Images from the Museum Victoria Collection Biggest Family Album
more of the found at Found (via life in the present and exclamation mark)
Comments: winter
I think we've all worked with an "Ernie" at one point or another....
Posted by Scott Wickstein at April 29, 2004 05:52 PM
...or gone out with the odd ernie, even... ;)
Posted by boynton at April 29, 2004 06:07 PM
Ohh, can't say I have done that, personally.
Posted by Scott Wickstein at April 29, 2004 09:12 P
biopics
The Age Moving Pictures
In answer to my own lazy dumb comment on artist biopics I googled around hoping to find a quickTop 100 tortured artist flicks list to no avail.
Within the amazone there are a couple of good personal lists :
Worthwhile artist & writer biopics & documentaries and Artists on Film
And this from the vincent subcategory
The films listed below are only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the dozens of different films focusing on Vincent van Gogh.
(wonder whether the rest of the gogh berg is listed out there floating somewhere in the invisible web)
Comments: biopics
Floating and visible, m'dear boynts old chappess. (Or would that be chappelle - for the crying in of?)
http://gallery.cybertarp.com/albums/userpics/18429/feral07.JPG
Posted by Sedgwick at April 29, 2004 04:10 PM
Ah - Of course!
Vinnie and Pablo probably starred together in that one?
Can just imagine a Valhalla full of Vincents.
Many thanks.
(and Happy with either pess or pelle,
possibly the latter is better
as I do like to have a good cry
but never pell-i.)
Posted by boynton at April 29, 2004 04:34 PM
Silly me. I had forgotten all about "Frida." Although I guess reviews were mixed. However, "Before Night Falls" was excellent. Thanks for the lists!
Posted by Anne at April 30, 2004 10:12 AM
Hollywood's depictions of artists certainly bear out the "caricatures, falling-outs and fights" theory. Add a dollop of romantic genius, some angst, provide a vicarious glimpse into a weird, bohemian world - and it's a wrap.
In answer to my own lazy dumb comment on artist biopics I googled around hoping to find a quickTop 100 tortured artist flicks list to no avail.
Within the amazone there are a couple of good personal lists :
Worthwhile artist & writer biopics & documentaries and Artists on Film
And this from the vincent subcategory
The films listed below are only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the dozens of different films focusing on Vincent van Gogh.
(wonder whether the rest of the gogh berg is listed out there floating somewhere in the invisible web)
Comments: biopics
Floating and visible, m'dear boynts old chappess. (Or would that be chappelle - for the crying in of?)
http://gallery.cybertarp.com/albums/userpics/18429/feral07.JPG
Posted by Sedgwick at April 29, 2004 04:10 PM
Ah - Of course!
Vinnie and Pablo probably starred together in that one?
Can just imagine a Valhalla full of Vincents.
Many thanks.
(and Happy with either pess or pelle,
possibly the latter is better
as I do like to have a good cry
but never pell-i.)
Posted by boynton at April 29, 2004 04:34 PM
Silly me. I had forgotten all about "Frida." Although I guess reviews were mixed. However, "Before Night Falls" was excellent. Thanks for the lists!
Posted by Anne at April 30, 2004 10:12 AM
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
nick drake
Stranger to the World The Inner Life of Nick Drake
Nick Drake Time has Told Me
These files constitute the entire contents of the limited vinyl triple album .
(via J walk)
Comments: nick drake
Personally I can imagine few things more boring than a Nick Drake film.
Posted by James Russell at April 28, 2004 03:45 PM
I thought I had missed one already on SBS last year?
anyway - I was hoping a cinephile would weigh in with a few examples of good films about artists, James. Are there any?
(I was too rushed to do a proper post on this)
I suspect there might even be a film which makes an artist bigger than they were - ie the film might eclipse them?
Posted by boynton at April 28, 2004 04:04 PM
To a small extent, I get rather confuse as what or who largely imitates whom...
Posted by Jozef at April 28, 2004 09:19 PM
You're right, most movies about rock stars are bad-costume festivals. I did like "Time of No Reply" which was the Nick Drake documentary out about a year or so ago. Can't think of many artist biopics I've liked, except "Carrington," but I'm a Bloomsbury enthusiast.
Posted by Anne at April 29, 2004 04:19 AM
(hits "post," chokes, shrieks "nooooooo!" alarming neighbors)
Sorry, the documentary was called "A Skin Too Few." What was I thinking?
Posted by Anne at April 29, 2004 04:21 AM
I can sometimes agree. My life seems a mass of tangled wires that connect somehow...somewhere...
Posted by Mel at April 29, 2004 08:25 AM
Yes I guess it can all get a bit recursive
(See 'Girl with the Pirl E') sometimes, Jozef.
(I must have been pretty confused myself lumping biopic and doco and artist into one query...)
Anne - that was the one I missed. Must catch up with it. And I agree about Carrington.
Also Watkins' Edvard Munch was pretty good.
My life is like that too, Mel. (Although perhaps less exciting)
Posted by boynton at April 29, 2004 02:18 PM
If a film about an artist has been any good, it's probably been a documentary rather than a fictionalised biopic. I can't think of any of the latter off the top of my head that I'm particularly keen on.
Wouldn't refer to myself as a cinephile either. I'm someone who enjoys watching films, which is in my opinion different from a cinephile. (If you're really interested I have a whole essay on the subject that I can show you...)
Posted by James Russell at April 29, 2004 07:49 PM
Sorry about the terminology, James.
(I had thought the c word was less offensive than the f b word, but I guess both are quite wrong)
Yes I would be interested in the essay (linked?)
Still think 'Edvard Munch' was ok. But that's off the top of my swirling head too...
Posted by boynton at April 29, 2004 08:29 PM
Oh don't worry, it's probably only me that finds the c word offensive :) I don't have the essay linked anywhere, but will whack it into a zip file and mail it along to you...
Posted by James Russell at April 30, 2004 12:09 AM
Ooh, and I've just discovered SBS are showing that Edvard Munch film in two parts (the 8th and the 15th) next month...
Posted by James Russell at April 30, 2004 01:12 AM
Drake's sister would be lying if she said she hadn't entertained the notion of a film at some point. There have been several approaches. But in the end, as the guardian of Drake's legacy, the actress Gabrielle Drake finds it hard to see what would be served by such an exercise: 'He's a wonderful romantic hero. But any films about the lives of artists end up making them smaller, not bigger. It's hard to think of someone capturing those almost uncapturable nuances. Also, any film, in the end, is trying to be an explanation of the artist
Nick Drake Time has Told Me
These files constitute the entire contents of the limited vinyl triple album .
(via J walk)
Comments: nick drake
Personally I can imagine few things more boring than a Nick Drake film.
Posted by James Russell at April 28, 2004 03:45 PM
I thought I had missed one already on SBS last year?
anyway - I was hoping a cinephile would weigh in with a few examples of good films about artists, James. Are there any?
(I was too rushed to do a proper post on this)
I suspect there might even be a film which makes an artist bigger than they were - ie the film might eclipse them?
Posted by boynton at April 28, 2004 04:04 PM
To a small extent, I get rather confuse as what or who largely imitates whom...
Posted by Jozef at April 28, 2004 09:19 PM
You're right, most movies about rock stars are bad-costume festivals. I did like "Time of No Reply" which was the Nick Drake documentary out about a year or so ago. Can't think of many artist biopics I've liked, except "Carrington," but I'm a Bloomsbury enthusiast.
Posted by Anne at April 29, 2004 04:19 AM
(hits "post," chokes, shrieks "nooooooo!" alarming neighbors)
Sorry, the documentary was called "A Skin Too Few." What was I thinking?
Posted by Anne at April 29, 2004 04:21 AM
I can sometimes agree. My life seems a mass of tangled wires that connect somehow...somewhere...
Posted by Mel at April 29, 2004 08:25 AM
Yes I guess it can all get a bit recursive
(See 'Girl with the Pirl E') sometimes, Jozef.
(I must have been pretty confused myself lumping biopic and doco and artist into one query...)
Anne - that was the one I missed. Must catch up with it. And I agree about Carrington.
Also Watkins' Edvard Munch was pretty good.
My life is like that too, Mel. (Although perhaps less exciting)
Posted by boynton at April 29, 2004 02:18 PM
If a film about an artist has been any good, it's probably been a documentary rather than a fictionalised biopic. I can't think of any of the latter off the top of my head that I'm particularly keen on.
Wouldn't refer to myself as a cinephile either. I'm someone who enjoys watching films, which is in my opinion different from a cinephile. (If you're really interested I have a whole essay on the subject that I can show you...)
Posted by James Russell at April 29, 2004 07:49 PM
Sorry about the terminology, James.
(I had thought the c word was less offensive than the f b word, but I guess both are quite wrong)
Yes I would be interested in the essay (linked?)
Still think 'Edvard Munch' was ok. But that's off the top of my swirling head too...
Posted by boynton at April 29, 2004 08:29 PM
Oh don't worry, it's probably only me that finds the c word offensive :) I don't have the essay linked anywhere, but will whack it into a zip file and mail it along to you...
Posted by James Russell at April 30, 2004 12:09 AM
Ooh, and I've just discovered SBS are showing that Edvard Munch film in two parts (the 8th and the 15th) next month...
Posted by James Russell at April 30, 2004 01:12 AM
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
twink and a link
One day I bought an old toy piano at a flea market. I liked it so much that I began collecting and writing little tunes on them. Soon I invited friends to play along, and thus was born a project by the name of twink.
Twink Toy piano music (via Hot soup Girl)
Experiment 111 Ballistics by Phillip Glofcheskie presented by Bitkraft Digital Theatrics
(via the presurfer)
Twink Toy piano music (via Hot soup Girl)
Experiment 111 Ballistics by Phillip Glofcheskie presented by Bitkraft Digital Theatrics
(via the presurfer)
shoes
sign in a shop window said "Huge Shoe Sale"
which boynton read as good news for giants.
Oddly this googled up page on giant feet leaves you guessing. But the blankness is rather ominous. Just how sinister can a kinesthetic opportunitiy in the classroom get?
My ecological footprint remains too big (via J walk)
But to shake hands with youth once more maybe I should just throw off the shoes and dance barefoot.
(ANR via This Public Address)
Alas. Too cold.
which boynton read as good news for giants.
Oddly this googled up page on giant feet leaves you guessing. But the blankness is rather ominous. Just how sinister can a kinesthetic opportunitiy in the classroom get?
My ecological footprint remains too big (via J walk)
But to shake hands with youth once more maybe I should just throw off the shoes and dance barefoot.
(ANR via This Public Address)
Alas. Too cold.
Monday, April 26, 2004
maze
Actually I might try running the K 488 sonata in the background as I attempt this maze again. Maybe my neurons will fire up enough to negotiate the second obstacle.
(via fishbucket)
Comments: maze
Nope - that was a bit hard for me. It seems to be a be of a metaphor for life - keep moving, don't get sidetracked, not very forgiving... Well, maybe I am a bit depressed at the moment...
Posted by phlip at April 28, 2004 02:56 PM
Sorry to hear, Philip.
Best not to take these things too personally I guess, or my reading of the maze means my life is hoplessly stuck at the second hurdle and I have to give up.
Maybe try the cannon in the "ballistics" link - very forgiving and therapeutic I found. ;)
Posted by boynton at April 28, 2004 03:06 PM
(via fishbucket)
Comments: maze
Nope - that was a bit hard for me. It seems to be a be of a metaphor for life - keep moving, don't get sidetracked, not very forgiving... Well, maybe I am a bit depressed at the moment...
Posted by phlip at April 28, 2004 02:56 PM
Sorry to hear, Philip.
Best not to take these things too personally I guess, or my reading of the maze means my life is hoplessly stuck at the second hurdle and I have to give up.
Maybe try the cannon in the "ballistics" link - very forgiving and therapeutic I found. ;)
Posted by boynton at April 28, 2004 03:06 PM
mozart 4 rats
New research on the Mozart effect in rats:
Rats that heard a Mozart sonata expressed higher levels of several genes involved in stimulating and changing the connections between brain cells
(via Follow Me Here)
I know a couple of rats who might benefit from exposure to a little K488
although the jury may still be out.
And some rats are always going to prefer Beethoven...
Monty Python's Flying Circus - Series 2 Episode 21
Rats that heard a Mozart sonata expressed higher levels of several genes involved in stimulating and changing the connections between brain cells
(via Follow Me Here)
I know a couple of rats who might benefit from exposure to a little K488
although the jury may still be out.
And some rats are always going to prefer Beethoven...
Caption on screen: '613.4 SECONDS LATER' Beethoven's front door is opened by Mrs Beethoven.)
Mrs Beethoven: Yes?
Colin Mozart: Colin Mozart.
Mrs Beethoven: Oh, thank goodness you've come. We're having a terrible time with them bleeding rats. I think they live in his stupid piano already.
(They go into the house. We hear the first two bars of Beethoven's Fifth counter pointed by loud squealing.)
Monty Python's Flying Circus - Series 2 Episode 21
hamster
Which Pet would you be? (via diversionz)
(I suspect it's pretty easy to be a hampster in a two question quiz, one choice of which involves chocolate.)
But if like me, you would be a hampster, would you be able to produce midi melodies by manipulating the musical elements of rhythm and note-choice?
The latter is one of the many links in an excellent Snarkout post Musique mechanique on the evolution of synthesised music, with Mozart, Moog and metronomes spotted alongside the hamster-midis.
(I suspect it's pretty easy to be a hampster in a two question quiz, one choice of which involves chocolate.)
But if like me, you would be a hampster, would you be able to produce midi melodies by manipulating the musical elements of rhythm and note-choice?
The latter is one of the many links in an excellent Snarkout post Musique mechanique on the evolution of synthesised music, with Mozart, Moog and metronomes spotted alongside the hamster-midis.
Sunday, April 25, 2004
hokey shakespeare
Shakespeare's Coined Words Now Common Currency
sorting the true from the faux.
(via Arts and Letters Daily)
A Shakespearean Glossary
The Hokey Pokey
by William Shakespeare
O proud left foot, that ventures quick within
(via darren barefoot)
Comments: hokey shakespeare
Here: http://tmp.i.am/2002/07/30.html is a related Shakespeare posting that includes the Bernard Levin paragraph that I saw/heard in __The Story of English__.
Posted by Doug L. at April 27, 2004 05:03 PM
Thanks Doug. The Levin is great.
This is the short and the long of it
Exceedingly well read
Thereby hangs a tale
http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/meanings/shakespeare.html
Posted by boynton at April 27, 2004 11:23 PM
sorting the true from the faux.
(via Arts and Letters Daily)
A Shakespearean Glossary
The Hokey Pokey
by William Shakespeare
O proud left foot, that ventures quick within
(via darren barefoot)
Comments: hokey shakespeare
Here: http://tmp.i.am/2002/07/30.html is a related Shakespeare posting that includes the Bernard Levin paragraph that I saw/heard in __The Story of English__.
Posted by Doug L. at April 27, 2004 05:03 PM
Thanks Doug. The Levin is great.
This is the short and the long of it
Exceedingly well read
Thereby hangs a tale
http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/meanings/shakespeare.html
Posted by boynton at April 27, 2004 11:23 PM
Friday, April 23, 2004
rainy day links
It's raining here in the city of Chromatic Dissolution for the first time in weeks. And it's cold. So here is a kind of rainy day umbrella posting of sights sans commentary or tangential reference to my dog.
Designing a Bird from memory
Born Magazine (via dumbfoundry)
Cards by Anne Taintor (via exclamation mark)
Old Bachelor and Stork Bingo at Cornell University Library Games we Play
(via life in the present)
Comments: rainy day links
I like the Born Magazine link very much!
Posted by michelle at April 25, 2004 07:40 AM
It's great isn't it...
btw I liked your pic of the Toothpick Tower
'A Tantalizing Game' indeed.
Posted by boynton at April 25, 2004 11:58 PM
Designing a Bird from memory
Born Magazine (via dumbfoundry)
Cards by Anne Taintor (via exclamation mark)
Old Bachelor and Stork Bingo at Cornell University Library Games we Play
(via life in the present)
Comments: rainy day links
I like the Born Magazine link very much!
Posted by michelle at April 25, 2004 07:40 AM
It's great isn't it...
btw I liked your pic of the Toothpick Tower
'A Tantalizing Game' indeed.
Posted by boynton at April 25, 2004 11:58 PM
hospital
The Hospital
Stay a while stay forever...
"The following montages intend to illustrate and translate the bizarre relation of the original purpose of the building and how it is today"
(I could easily stay a while, especially round "Becking")
(via diversionz)
Comments: hospital
Nice and creepy.
Posted by MG at April 23, 2004 03:20 AM
Yes, that Becking is.. out of tune, if my ears don't deceive me...
Posted by Scott at April 23, 2004 03:23 AM
...and full of surprises.
Out of tune? Sounded pretty good to me.
My ears must be less sharp.
I love the way it adjusts/absorbs as you creak along the tones.
Posted by boynton at April 23, 2004 02:45 PM
Stay a while stay forever...
"The following montages intend to illustrate and translate the bizarre relation of the original purpose of the building and how it is today"
(I could easily stay a while, especially round "Becking")
(via diversionz)
Comments: hospital
Nice and creepy.
Posted by MG at April 23, 2004 03:20 AM
Yes, that Becking is.. out of tune, if my ears don't deceive me...
Posted by Scott at April 23, 2004 03:23 AM
...and full of surprises.
Out of tune? Sounded pretty good to me.
My ears must be less sharp.
I love the way it adjusts/absorbs as you creak along the tones.
Posted by boynton at April 23, 2004 02:45 PM
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
outer circle
The last link got me googling for nicknames for Melbourne (although if you have to google it, it's probably not a nickname?)
One of the pages returned was this List of closed Melbourne railway stations which was an intersting diversion.
Paisley sounds like a place for a psychadelic trip, but where were Barker and Shenley and Roystead - the latter names I have noticed while riding my bike on the old outer circle rail trail, which seems to be the fate of old rail lines.
A history of the Outer Circle Railway Anniversary Trail
see also Trains in The Distance, a personal reminiscence on railways, Melbourne and Model.
At last I will recreate the Outer Circle Line. In this way I will create the real Melbourne — the marvellous Melbourne that never quite came into existence — on that lawn in the future
Comments: outer circle
Though it's not closed, my favorite station what doesn't readily fall trippingly from the tongue is Anstey, the hidden jewel in the Upfield line.
(Actually Jewell is found 2 stops up and but it's far less sparkly than dear old Anstey.)
Posted by Sedgwick at April 21, 2004 03:52 PM
I liked "Chatam" in my commuting-from-the outer-east days. Descriptive of commuters, and even Onomatopoeic of train.
Elsewhere, 'Dennis' is pretty hard to beat.
(But I would have like to have been able to embark at Barker)
Posted by boynton at April 21, 2004 04:04 PM
Mind you, the City Circle Bicycle route that follows several kilometres of the old rail line is a lovely bike trip. So, at least some aspect of the line lives on.
Posted by phlip at April 23, 2004 10:08 AM
Yes - that link (from Roystead)has whetted the appetite. Must explore some more.
Posted by boynton at April 23, 2004 02:48 PM
i catch the train from chatham just about every weekday.now we can see the Outer Circle (or the deepdene/east kew part)should have not been given the boot.
Posted by chris at May 27, 2004 05:36 PM
One of the pages returned was this List of closed Melbourne railway stations which was an intersting diversion.
Paisley sounds like a place for a psychadelic trip, but where were Barker and Shenley and Roystead - the latter names I have noticed while riding my bike on the old outer circle rail trail, which seems to be the fate of old rail lines.
A history of the Outer Circle Railway Anniversary Trail
see also Trains in The Distance, a personal reminiscence on railways, Melbourne and Model.
At last I will recreate the Outer Circle Line. In this way I will create the real Melbourne — the marvellous Melbourne that never quite came into existence — on that lawn in the future
Comments: outer circle
Though it's not closed, my favorite station what doesn't readily fall trippingly from the tongue is Anstey, the hidden jewel in the Upfield line.
(Actually Jewell is found 2 stops up and but it's far less sparkly than dear old Anstey.)
Posted by Sedgwick at April 21, 2004 03:52 PM
I liked "Chatam" in my commuting-from-the outer-east days. Descriptive of commuters, and even Onomatopoeic of train.
Elsewhere, 'Dennis' is pretty hard to beat.
(But I would have like to have been able to embark at Barker)
Posted by boynton at April 21, 2004 04:04 PM
Mind you, the City Circle Bicycle route that follows several kilometres of the old rail line is a lovely bike trip. So, at least some aspect of the line lives on.
Posted by phlip at April 23, 2004 10:08 AM
Yes - that link (from Roystead)has whetted the appetite. Must explore some more.
Posted by boynton at April 23, 2004 02:48 PM
i catch the train from chatham just about every weekday.now we can see the Outer Circle (or the deepdene/east kew part)should have not been given the boot.
Posted by chris at May 27, 2004 05:36 PM
smelbourne
Good to know that the City of Chromatic Dissolution gets a guernsey in this list of City nicknames although I must confess to never having heard Melbourne referred to by this particular moniker. (Still don't think you can improve on one of the early names for the Settlement, Bareberp, or even marvellous Smelbourne a name that enjoyed currency in the boomtown 1880's)
(via the Presurfer)
Comments: smelbourne
these last two posts of yours are quite spookily connected to my current research quest -- searching for the rail timetable from Albury-melbourne for 1898 - 1899 (which I haven't managed to locate online, but have found some references elsewhere) & have open in front of me a book called Outcasts of Melbourne (trying to find some late 19th century references to aboriginal inhabitants of Melbourne, but strangely enough, not one word in this work), but chapter 8 is titled "Worst Smelbourne"....
Posted by wen at April 22, 2004 12:43 PM
I was dismayed to find that such info as timetables, maps, etc are not easily obtained on the web. (or the visible web, at least)
There are wonderful Railways sites and discussion boards, but I thought I'd be able to find a map or two somewhere.
Guess I still believe naively that all information can be googled somehow.
Love those spooky coincidental moments.
Posted by boynton at April 22, 2004 01:52 PM
I call it Squizzy.
Posted by Melby Batman at April 22, 2004 05:25 PM
or batmania, for those stricken by cricket?
btw - don't take a squiz at that site if you take your quizzes seriouzly,mb. The links may give one a competitive edge, or propel one into triviamania.
Posted by boynton at April 22, 2004 06:32 PM
I'm sorry to inform you, but even if you find those timetables, you have already missed that train, and you will not make it to Melbourne by 1899. Perhaps you meant timeTRAVELs instead?
I, too, like the name Bareberp. Sounds like the aftermath of a beer party at a naturists' convention. I may just have to add that, next time I update the City Nicknames list.
Posted by Doug L. at April 24, 2004 04:00 PM
Yes I like the sound of it too - the pick of the crop of early names from the time of first settlement:
"Melbourne was briefly named 'Batmania' after one of its founders, John Batman. Other proposed names included Bearbrass, Bareport, Bareheep, Barehurp and Bareberp."
http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/trivia_archive.php
In the interests of your list though, Doug, I have to confess that it is not widely known, and certainly not a nickname. Alas.
Sydneysiders would probably be the best placed to
furnish names for Melbourne, but they would be of the put-down variety. It's that Sydney/Melbourne rivalry thing.
The last nickname I remember hearing was "Bleak City"
Posted by boynton at April 25, 2004 06:29 PM
(via the Presurfer)
Comments: smelbourne
these last two posts of yours are quite spookily connected to my current research quest -- searching for the rail timetable from Albury-melbourne for 1898 - 1899 (which I haven't managed to locate online, but have found some references elsewhere) & have open in front of me a book called Outcasts of Melbourne (trying to find some late 19th century references to aboriginal inhabitants of Melbourne, but strangely enough, not one word in this work), but chapter 8 is titled "Worst Smelbourne"....
Posted by wen at April 22, 2004 12:43 PM
I was dismayed to find that such info as timetables, maps, etc are not easily obtained on the web. (or the visible web, at least)
There are wonderful Railways sites and discussion boards, but I thought I'd be able to find a map or two somewhere.
Guess I still believe naively that all information can be googled somehow.
Love those spooky coincidental moments.
Posted by boynton at April 22, 2004 01:52 PM
I call it Squizzy.
Posted by Melby Batman at April 22, 2004 05:25 PM
or batmania, for those stricken by cricket?
btw - don't take a squiz at that site if you take your quizzes seriouzly,mb. The links may give one a competitive edge, or propel one into triviamania.
Posted by boynton at April 22, 2004 06:32 PM
I'm sorry to inform you, but even if you find those timetables, you have already missed that train, and you will not make it to Melbourne by 1899. Perhaps you meant timeTRAVELs instead?
I, too, like the name Bareberp. Sounds like the aftermath of a beer party at a naturists' convention. I may just have to add that, next time I update the City Nicknames list.
Posted by Doug L. at April 24, 2004 04:00 PM
Yes I like the sound of it too - the pick of the crop of early names from the time of first settlement:
"Melbourne was briefly named 'Batmania' after one of its founders, John Batman. Other proposed names included Bearbrass, Bareport, Bareheep, Barehurp and Bareberp."
http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/trivia_archive.php
In the interests of your list though, Doug, I have to confess that it is not widely known, and certainly not a nickname. Alas.
Sydneysiders would probably be the best placed to
furnish names for Melbourne, but they would be of the put-down variety. It's that Sydney/Melbourne rivalry thing.
The last nickname I remember hearing was "Bleak City"
Posted by boynton at April 25, 2004 06:29 PM
past life
I don't know how you feel about it, but you were male in your last earthly incarnation.
You were born somewhere in the territory of modern Phillippines around the year 700.
Your profession was that of a builder of houses, temples and cathedrals.
Your brief psychological profile in your past life:
Ruthless character, carefully weighing his decisions in critical situations, with excellent self-control and strong will. Such people are generally liked, but not always loved.
Do you remember now
(No... Run it past me again...)
Who were you in your last life? at the Big View
(via Okir)
Comments: past life
well, there must have been a bit of competition in the Philippine building industry then, because i got exactly the same.
Posted by dj at April 22, 2004 03:59 PM
I wonder if we are twins, or whether there aren't actually 365 (x however many years) worth of lives
going.
I could run another birthday test to determine this but alas, September is "currently in development"
http://www.pantone.com/birthdaycolor/bdaycolor.htm
Posted by boynton at April 22, 2004 04:08 PM
Well, I was previously from Ontario, but I did like travel (even in THAT life), so perhaps I came to see some of your constructions. Hope they were good - because they had to last 1100 years until I arrived.
Posted by phlip at April 23, 2004 10:13 AM
You were born somewhere in the territory of modern Phillippines around the year 700.
Your profession was that of a builder of houses, temples and cathedrals.
Your brief psychological profile in your past life:
Ruthless character, carefully weighing his decisions in critical situations, with excellent self-control and strong will. Such people are generally liked, but not always loved.
Do you remember now
(No... Run it past me again...)
Who were you in your last life? at the Big View
(via Okir)
Comments: past life
well, there must have been a bit of competition in the Philippine building industry then, because i got exactly the same.
Posted by dj at April 22, 2004 03:59 PM
I wonder if we are twins, or whether there aren't actually 365 (x however many years) worth of lives
going.
I could run another birthday test to determine this but alas, September is "currently in development"
http://www.pantone.com/birthdaycolor/bdaycolor.htm
Posted by boynton at April 22, 2004 04:08 PM
Well, I was previously from Ontario, but I did like travel (even in THAT life), so perhaps I came to see some of your constructions. Hope they were good - because they had to last 1100 years until I arrived.
Posted by phlip at April 23, 2004 10:13 AM
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
dances with wolves
Plummie by Geoffrey T. Hellman a 1960 New Yorker article on P.G.Wodehouse.
“I always write in the morning, and then take the hound for a three-mile walk after lunch"...
(via Portage)
I was just contemplating taking the wolf (aka blue heeler) for a three-miler but fear she would need more mileage than that to exorcise her daily demons. Earlier I had read on diversionz of the trend to dance with your dog.
Flo's got the freestyle waves and spins working independently.
But unlike Jill and Drizzle, boynton won't be doing the boot scootin boogie with this ACD.
Not sure if I could entirely trust my boot.
“I always write in the morning, and then take the hound for a three-mile walk after lunch"...
(via Portage)
I was just contemplating taking the wolf (aka blue heeler) for a three-miler but fear she would need more mileage than that to exorcise her daily demons. Earlier I had read on diversionz of the trend to dance with your dog.
Flo's got the freestyle waves and spins working independently.
But unlike Jill and Drizzle, boynton won't be doing the boot scootin boogie with this ACD.
Not sure if I could entirely trust my boot.
p23s5
page 23, sentence 5: an autopsy
The "page 23, sentence 5" meme (hereafter referred to as p23s5) caught my attention due to its pandemic spread through the blog community, and its relative virulence among my own little, largely meme resistant affinity group ...
(via anil's daily links)
There's the meme and then there's the meme-tracking mutation which is also spreading. I'm still puzzled as to what it is about this one that incites investigation. My personal case history might include a note about a past association with Kaleidoscope, where each week Kevan would create six tasks for the players, some of which bore a resemblance to the nature of p23s5. Many of these could have spread, I'm not sure if they ever did. Which is also puzzling.
Is it the appeal of the random, the mysterious hold of chance? The instructions read like a recipe, extracted and uncited, the imperative rendered meaningless. But apparently lifted from somewhere to float about in the air, beguilingly, waiting to catch bloggers unaware. And then the elusive somewhere itself seems to promise meaning...
Maybe I was hoping to find a hidden game in the meme, a kaleidoscopic system somehere in the epidemiology.
In the meantime the Incoming Signals strain continues.
Comments: p23s5
Mm, I did wonder if any of the Kaleidoscope tasks would outlive the game, but they were all pretty untraceable, and the good ones probably demanded too much thought and effort. Successful LiveJournal memes and quizzes and stupid-web-toys just require a tiny shred of effort to generate a clump of "personalised" information, which can then be posted as original content (which is where the appeal and compulsion lies, I think).
Posted by Kevan at April 21, 2004 12:22 AM
True.
This one was more clever and effective than most because the tiny shred of customization involved books, random and personal, and gave a bonus 'literary' edge to the content.
The randomness works best. To try to compose a good sentence from a careful selection is a different exercise. (Goodbye Fondue)
However there is also something of 'the call of the collage' in it too, which is why we have wanted to take it further I guess.
Kaleidoscope may have got us doing the two exercises and comparing them. Or searching for a
pXsX code in 5 random books that would deliver the best sentence?!
Complex, fun and missed.
Posted by boynton at April 21, 2004 11:52 AM
The "page 23, sentence 5" meme (hereafter referred to as p23s5) caught my attention due to its pandemic spread through the blog community, and its relative virulence among my own little, largely meme resistant affinity group ...
(via anil's daily links)
There's the meme and then there's the meme-tracking mutation which is also spreading. I'm still puzzled as to what it is about this one that incites investigation. My personal case history might include a note about a past association with Kaleidoscope, where each week Kevan would create six tasks for the players, some of which bore a resemblance to the nature of p23s5. Many of these could have spread, I'm not sure if they ever did. Which is also puzzling.
Is it the appeal of the random, the mysterious hold of chance? The instructions read like a recipe, extracted and uncited, the imperative rendered meaningless. But apparently lifted from somewhere to float about in the air, beguilingly, waiting to catch bloggers unaware. And then the elusive somewhere itself seems to promise meaning...
Maybe I was hoping to find a hidden game in the meme, a kaleidoscopic system somehere in the epidemiology.
In the meantime the Incoming Signals strain continues.
Comments: p23s5
Mm, I did wonder if any of the Kaleidoscope tasks would outlive the game, but they were all pretty untraceable, and the good ones probably demanded too much thought and effort. Successful LiveJournal memes and quizzes and stupid-web-toys just require a tiny shred of effort to generate a clump of "personalised" information, which can then be posted as original content (which is where the appeal and compulsion lies, I think).
Posted by Kevan at April 21, 2004 12:22 AM
True.
This one was more clever and effective than most because the tiny shred of customization involved books, random and personal, and gave a bonus 'literary' edge to the content.
The randomness works best. To try to compose a good sentence from a careful selection is a different exercise. (Goodbye Fondue)
However there is also something of 'the call of the collage' in it too, which is why we have wanted to take it further I guess.
Kaleidoscope may have got us doing the two exercises and comparing them. Or searching for a
pXsX code in 5 random books that would deliver the best sentence?!
Complex, fun and missed.
Posted by boynton at April 21, 2004 11:52 AM
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)