Friday Ephemera (802)
The machine uprising, day 11. || How to catch a human. || Fully automated to save time and effort. || “I love me,” says she. || When you have a CT scanner and a whole bunch of animals. || I think there may be something under the house. || Incoming. || Suboptimal scenario. || Big thing bring green. || Moral support, I’m guessing. || It takes a lot of spray. || I believe some physics occurred. || Rise of the Vegetarians, 1972. || New Orleans jollity, 1962. || The Chinese earthquake-detecting seismoscope. || On the making of Jaws. Oddly, the trained shark idea didn’t pan out. || Determined to make things worse, a possible series. || The progressive retail experience, parts 695, 696, 697, and 698. || Question asked. || But could be thinner. || And finally, for those who missed it in the comments.
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It’s only a matter of time before ACGAS presents us with a black trans paraplegic stripper and small animal vet.
And yet a BBC production of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency would likely represent the cast faithfully according to the books, the time and the place, with no qualms at all about whether every possible skin color and ethnicity was included. I would further suspect the BBC would not change the gender or the sexuality of any of the beloved characters in that series, given how some cultures in the region feel about such things.
“I wonder how many there were a century earlier:”
I read George Bernard Shaw’s letters decades ago, and one standout was his advice to a fan about vegetarian restaurants in London.
Think about that. You have regular British cuisine, and then you have British vegetarian cuisine. And it was about as tasty as you’d imagine.
Better late than never?
My first trip to Yosemite was in 1964 … I was 10 and utterly enchanted. I remember a talk by a park ranger on how fire suppression had been stunting the redwoods (which grow very slowly) and how they were learning that control burns clear out trash pines and undergrowth, not touching the redwoods, and resulted in lush meadows with fertile soil.
Seems the nomadic tribe that had Yosemite as part of their wanderings actually would set the valley on fire every so often just for those reasons — lush meadows = more game.
The rabid Greens in CA have caused death and destruction with prioritizing certain exotic plants and animals. That’s the dirty secret of the Palisades fire (and the 2018 Camp Fire).