Notices by simsa02 (simsa02@mastodon.social), page 7

@tinydoctor
I wonder if current ages' prudery is even worse than the Victorian Era's. Back then, the equation of nudity and pornography at least had a touch of excitement and furtive lust wheras today it primarily breathes the stench of moral superiority.

I baked a vegan marble cake for my oldest niece. (Not that I am a vegan, but she is.) Finished it with a dark chocolate icing on top. I now let it cool down and put it into a parcel and send it to her via postal mail delivery tomorrow.

Can't wait to see the first claims from the Cheap Left and the Stupid Right that the Prigozhin "march" on Moscow is in fact a covert Western and U.S. operation to destabilize Russia and overthrow Putin. Like the Euro Maidan protests.

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@es0mhi

I'm no longer on gnusocial.net. It took me a bit to figure out where to go next but as I wanted to stay on a gnusocial platform, I finally settled for gnusocial.jp.

My new address is @simsa03 Hope to see you there soon.

This mastodon account falls back into its usual archive and backup-function.

@woodbark
FYI
Shannon Mattern, "Tree Thinking" https://placesjournal.org/article/tree-thinking/

(And perhaps for Andrej & Oona)

Shannon Mattern, "Tree Thinking" https://placesjournal.org/article/tree-thinking/

New blog post : "The Mechanics of Terror" https://wordpress.com/post/simsa01.wordpress.com/2057

(In fact a 7 months old note that I wrote regarding a quote by Masha Gessen. Perhaps the start of a collection of ideas and notes on complicity, not from the totalitarian but from the family dynamics aspect.)

A glimpse into my "Museum of Outdated & Neglected Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias". Most of them are from thrift shops or rescued from the garbage. Plus I finally bought a 1-year subscription to Encyclopedia Britannica. More dictionaries are already on my wishlist :-) One has to go a great length to avoid this peculiar blend of encyclopaedic monoculture & lexicographic amateurism called Wikipedia.

My "Museum of Outdated & Neglected Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias" has one huge advantage: it's EMP-proofed. While under natural or military EMP your online encyclopaedias will (probably) go dark -- and stay that way as nobody has thought about EMP resistent backups of Wikipedia et al. -- my "Museum" will stay alive & afloat. :-)

The "Museum of Outdated & Neglected Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias" got a new "exhibit" :-)) -- the German "Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe" ("historical basic notions"), one of the major German encyclopaedias in the history of concepts & ideas. I was looking for it for quite some time, in thrift shops & online, but haven't been lucky. Now the family pooled resources & gave me the student edition as a present. Wonderful.

The "Museum of Outdated & Neglected Dictionaries & Encyclopedias" got a new acquisition :-) : The famous German language Fischer World History (1965-1983, 36 vols), in a licensed edition by a different publisher from the year 2000. The 36 vols edition indeed covers most of the world areas, except Oceania, Australia, New Zealand. Nice! And a real bargain too.

Yay! Got all 23 vols of a famous German art history in a second-hand bookshop. Not directly an exhibit in my "Museum of Outdated & Neglected Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias" proper -- it's not a dictionary or encyclopaedia in the strict sense -- but a treasure nonetheless.

The "Museum of Outdated & Negelcted Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias" got another new "exhibit":

W. Marciszewski (ed.), Dictionary of Logic as Applied in the Study of Language: Concepts, Methods, Theories (1981)

In 68 articles & a magnificient index it covers the field in not-too-technical entries. I'm happy to be ablte to finally include it in the collection of reference works. (It's usually very expensive, even in thrift shops, but I found an offer that was pretty affordable.)

Another new exhibit in the "Museum of Outdated & Neglected Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias":

Rev. F. Kittel, A Kannada-English Dictionary (1894, 12th repr. 2006)

I found it in a public book shelf. :-)

Hurray! The new exhibit of the "Museum of Outdated & Neglected Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias" has arrived: "McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology" (11th ed., 2012, 20 vols). (I had been looking for it for quite some time, got it second-hand)

As my flat gets too small to house the "Museum of Outdated & Neglected Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias" I started putting book shelves on transport rolls so that I can push them aside when needed.

It took me a while, but now ... The Encyclopaedia Britannica (32 vols, 2005) made it as latest acquisiton of the "Museum of Outdated & Neglected Dictioanries & Encyclopaedias". Near perfect condition! The price has been ridiculously low, which is sad and great at once.

Today the "Museum of Outdated & Neglected Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias" received its latest purchase: The "Dictionary of the Middle Ages" (10 vols., 1980-1999, in German), a splendid encyclopaedia on the Christian, Byzantine, Jewish, Arabic, Irish and Scandinavian Middle Ages. Yay!!

A few weeks back the "Museum of Outdated & Neglected Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias" welcomed its newest arrival, the "Enzyklopädie Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie" (4 vols, 1980-1996, in German). It's an encyclopaedia that treats its topics from a constructivist point of view. A wonderful set of books, I'm happy to finally have it here.

@es0mhi @simsa04
It's improbable that another "anchor for identification" can be found quickly to open a path for change. Cf. this recent thread of mine: https://gnusocial.net/conversation/6475754#notice-11007325

Sorry for all the barrage of stuff :-)
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