(L) Our Favorite Student Artwork From Japan’s Graduating Class of 2023
I particularly love the work by Yuka Wada and Miyuki Sana.
(M) Chris Lott 2023-01-26 09:17:46
https://social.coop/@grammargirl@zirk.us/109756421379906702
@grammargirl Not to mention that some #podcasts have intentionally limited runs for other reasons too. I love the progress in podcasting over the years and am glad to see tools that help teachers engage their students in it. My reservations about #Anchor are about #Spotify owning it. I'm not so sanguine about its effects on the ecosystem.
(L) How the New York ‘Daily News’ Photographed Ruth Snyder’s Execution by the Electric Chair
In January 1928, Tom Howard of the “Daily News” smuggled a camera into Sing Sing, where he snapped a picture of Ruth Snyder’s final moments
(L) Close-up Photographer of the Year (2022)
https://www.cupoty.com/winners-04
The Top 100 winners gallery of Close-up Photographer of the Year 04 (2022)
(L) Bring back personal blogging
https://ift.tt/QelBfjk
Twitter is creaking. Social media seems less fun than ever. Maybe it’s time to get a little more personal.
Remember Voyager
You’re barely beyond the grasp of our small sun refusing to let go. Wave goodbye to our last, demoted planet. Next stop: Alpha Centauri proximity, year 19600 AD. In the time it took humans to evolve from neanderthal to digital lemming you’ll cross the lawn to say hello to our next-door neighbor. If there’s life there that resembles your gold-etched humans, they’ll be more human than I. Here I carry a practical supercomputer in my pocket that can connect to Dial-a-Prayer across 13,000 miles, guided by a cranial electric storm, while mapping the walk where I tripped over a lost, tilted grave. You cross 13,000 miles in a fraction of a second, steered by a computer less powerful than a Pac Man watch. Who knows what seed you carry. I fell to Earth before you left our atmosphere. Blink three times if you miss me.
(M) Chris Lott 2023-01-24 19:57:28
[CW: ref to violence and self-harm]
2xl: 2016-01-18 → https://fncll.org/2xl-2016-01-18/
2xl: 2016-01-18
It takes 11 lbs of force to strangle a human being.
A bit more weight than a bag of sugar or a gallon-and-a-half of milk.
Or 20 average paperback romance novels.
Or 22 hard drives with 9 million songs or 6 million books or god knows how many ones and zeroes that can be forced to squeak and bleat into the unending silence.
The Gripmaster Pro ™ requires 11 lbs of force per finger, “appropriate only for individuals requiring extreme and extraordinary grasping power.”
The NYPD modifies their service firearms to a 12-pound trigger pull.
In 2012, NYPD police officers wounded 9 bystanders outside the Empire State Building; there were no superheroes in sight.
Your choice: the Beretta Model 455 SXS Express Rifle with walnut hand-checkered grip and fore-end, side-lock action, case-hardened finish and double triggers or the Ithaca Model 37 Deerslayer II pump shotgun.
Take home that 11-lb turkey…143 minutes in the oven and 11 greasy-forks picking at the carcass.
An old rule of thumb: when a baby reaches 11 lbs they’ll start to sleep more soundly at night.
Khloé Kardashian reveals how she lost 11 lbs in a month!
I’ve lost at least 11 lbs on at least 11 diets including low-carb, low-fat, low-calorie and the cabbage soup plan.
But the 11lb bullfrog is just a myth, the Internet tells me (but the Internet tells me a lot of things).
A newly-hatched Sauropod, a dinosaur known for its immense size, weighed around 11 pounds, about as much as a housecat.
Maybe you’re more comfortable thinking of this as 5 kilograms or 3/4 of a stone.
I can curl an 11-lb dumbbell 192 times in a row…and counting.
Reported time of application to unconsciousness due to strangulation range from 7 seconds to a minute.
He nailed a rope to a beam on his patio.
She tried to drive away.
The most important things weigh nothing at all.