“You know, my father was a bat master! I guess that makes me Bat Master’s Son.”
(more…)Month: November 2020
Cyber Monday
Maritime History
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time – Dava Sobel | |
The Endurance : Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition – Caroline Alexander | |
The Bounty: The True Story of the mutiny on the Bounty – Caroline Alexander | |
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette – Hampton Sides | |
The Pirate Wars – Peter Earle | |
The Civil War at Sea – Craig L. Symonds | |
In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine – Rachel Lance | |
War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II – Nathan Miller | |
Hellcats of the Sea: Operation Barney and the Mission to the Sea of Japan – Charles A. Lockwood & Hans C. Adamson | |
The Vikings: A History – Robert Ferguson | |
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania – Erik Larson |
Suicide Squad (1935)
MST3K Short 0102 – Radar Men from the Moon 1
Dylan Thomas
Better Oblivion Community Center – “Dylan Thomas”:
(more…)Happy Holidays
Christmas is an awfulness that compares favorably with the great London plague and fire of 1665-66. No one escapes the feelings of mortal dejection, inadequacy, frustration, loneliness, guilt and pity. No one escapes feeling used by society, by religion, by friends and relatives, by the utterly artificial responsibilities of extending false greetings, sending banal cards, … Continue reading “Happy Holidays”
Superposition and Entanglement
Understanding Quantum Mechanics #2 – Superposition and Entanglement:
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