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Manufacturer: Grenadier
Line: AD&D "Solid Gold" line
Set: 2012 Dwellers Below
Figure: 2012B Intellect Devourer
Release date: 1980
Base markings: none
Sculptor: Andrew Chernak
Painter: Spooktalker
Date painted: 2009
Notes:
Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect.
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1 a: male b: having qualities appropriate to or usually associated with a man
2: of, relating to, or constituting the gender that ordinarily includes most words or grammatical forms referring to males
power. strength. intellect. a protector. a brother. a father. a husband. a companion. a partner. worker. discipline. maturity. bold. respected. sensitive. a leader. passionate. luring. tempting. seductive. privileged.
"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing." - Freud
"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why." - Albert Einstein
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In mythology and the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story who exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and defy conventional behavior. Such a character may be a god, goddess, spirit, human or anthropomorphisation.
Mythology
Tricksters, as archetypal characters, appear in the myths of many different cultures. Lewis Hyde describes the trickster as a "boundary-crosser".[1] The trickster crosses and often breaks both physical and societal rules: Tricksters "violate principles of social and natural order, playfully disrupting normal life and then re-establishing it on a new basis."[2]
Often, this bending and breaking of rules takes the form of tricks and thievery. Tricksters can be cunning or foolish or both. The trickster openly questions, disrupts and mocks authority.[citation needed]
Many cultures have tales of the trickster, a crafty being who uses tricks to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief. In some Greek myths Hermes plays the trickster. He is the patron of thieves and the inventor of lying, a gift he passed on to Autolycus, who in turn passed it on to Odysseus.[1] In Slavic folktales, the trickster and the culture hero are often combined.[citation needed]
Loki cuts the hair of the goddess Sif.
Frequently the trickster figure exhibits gender and form variability. In Norse mythology the mischief-maker is Loki, who is also a shapeshifter. Loki also exhibits sex variability, in one case even becoming pregnant. According to "The Song of Hyndla" in The Poetic Edda, Loki becomes a mare who later gives birth to Odin's eight-legged horse Sleipnir.[citation needed]
In African-American folklore, a personified rabbit, known as Brer Rabbit, is the main trickster figure.[3] In West Africa (and thence into the Caribbean via the slave trade), the spider (see Anansi) is often the trickster.[4] In southern African folklore, the entity known as Kaggen often takes the role of a trickster, usually taking the form of a praying mantis.[5][6]
Comparison with clown
The trickster is a term used for a non-performing "trick maker"; they may have many motives behind their intention but those motives are not largely in public view. They are internal to the character or person.
The clown, on the other hand, is a persona of a performer who intentionally displays their actions in public for an audience.
Native American tradition
While the trickster crosses various cultural traditions, there are significant differences between tricksters from different parts of the world:
Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The trickster in most native traditions is essential to creation, to birth.[7]
Native American tricksters should not be confused with the European fictional picaro. One of the most important distinctions is that "we can see in the Native American trickster an openness to life's multiplicity and paradoxes largely missing in the modern Euro-American moral tradition".[8] In some stories, the Native American trickster is foolish; other times wise. He can be a hero in one tale and a villain in the next.
In many Native American and First Nations mythologies, the Coyote spirit (Southwestern United States) or Raven spirit (Pacific Northwest) stole fire from the gods (stars, moon, and/or sun). Both are usually seen as jokesters and pranksters. In Native American creation stories, when Coyote teaches humans how to catch salmon, he makes the first fish weir out of logs and branches.[1]
Wakdjunga in Winnebago mythology is an example of the trickster archetype.
Wisakedjak (Wìsakedjàk in Algonquin, Wīsahkēcāhk(w) in Cree and Wiisagejaak in Oji-Cree) is a trickster figure in Algonquin and Chipewyan Storytelling.
Coyote
Main article: Coyote (mythology)
Coyote often has the role of trickster as well as a clown in traditional stories.
The Coyote mythos is one of the most popular among western Native American cultures, especially among indigenous peoples of California and the Great Basin.
According to Crow (and other Plains) tradition, Old Man Coyote impersonates the Creator: "Old Man Coyote took up a handful of mud and out of it made people".[9] He also bestowed names on buffalo, deer, elk, antelopes, and bear. According to A. Hultkranz, the impersonation of Coyote as Creator is a result of a taboo, a mythic substitute to the religious notion of the Great Spirit whose name was too dangerous and/or sacred to use apart from at special ceremonies.[citation needed]
In Chelan myths, Coyote belongs to the animal people but he is at the same time "a power just like the Creator, the head of all the creatures." while still being a subject of the Creator who can punish him or remove his powers.[10] In the Pacific Northwest tradition, Coyote is mostly mentioned as a messenger, or minor power.
As the culture hero, Coyote appears in various mythic traditions, but generally with the same magical powers of transformation, resurrection, and "medicine". He is engaged in changing the ways of rivers, creating new landscapes and getting sacred things for people. Of mention is the tradition of Coyote fighting against monsters. According to Wasco tradition, Coyote was the hero to fight and kill Thunderbird, the killer of people, but he could do that not because of his personal power, but due to the help of the Spirit Chief. In some stories, Multnomah Falls came to be by Coyote's efforts; in others, it is done by Raven.
More often than not Coyote is a trickster, but always different. In some stories, he is a noble trickster: "Coyote takes water from the Frog people... because it is not right that one people have all the water." In others, he is malicious: "Coyote determined to bring harm to Duck. He took Duck's wife and children, whom he treated badly."[11] Coyote serves as a personification of humanity's traits, both good and bad. This is accomplished by making the character admirable and laughable, he is a character who is never quite satisfied with the way things are. The stories show how Coyote's actions may be alluring, but they also show the consequences of his poor decisions, and how people should think about the fate of Coyote before replicating his actions.[12]
Oral stories
Main article: List of fictional tricksters § Tricksters in folktale and mythology
Trickster subplot in The Relapse: Tom Fashion, pretending to be Lord Foppington, parleys with Sir Tunbelly Clumsey in a 19th-century illustration by William Powell Frith.
Abenaki mythology: Azeban
Afro-Cuban mythology: Eleggua, Eshu
Akan mythology: Kwaku Ananse
American folklore of African origin: Brer Rabbit (compare Compère Lapin in the French-speaking Caribbean), Aunt Nancy (a corruption of Anansi, also spelt 'Anansee', among other spellings)
Arabian mythology: Juha, Sinbad
Ashanti folklore: Anansi
Australian Aboriginal mythology: Bamapana, Crow
Aztec mythology: Huehuecoyotl
Babylonian mythology: Lilith
Bantu mythology: Hare (Tsuro or Kalulu)
Basque mythology: San Martin Txiki
Belgian mythology: Lange Wapper
Brazilian folklore: Saci, Curupira
Bulgarian/Macedonian folklore: Hitar Petar (Itar Pejo), Kuma Lisa
Caribbean folklore: Anansi
Celtic mythology: Fairy, Puck, puca
Chinese mythology: Huli jing (Fox spirit), Nezha, Red Boy, Sun Wukong (Monkey King)
Chukchi mythology: Kutkh
Costa Rican folklore and literature: Tío Conejo (Uncle Rabbit)
Cree mythology: Wisakedjak
Crow mythology: Awakkule, Mannegishi
Dutch folklore: Reynaert de Vos, Tijl Uilenspiegel
Egyptian mythology: Set, Isis
English folklore: Robin Hood, Puck, Brownies
Fijian mythology: Daucina
French folklore: Renart the Fox
German folklore: Reineke Fuchs, the Pied Piper, Till Eulenspiegel
Greek mythology: Eris, Prometheus, Hermes, Odysseus, Sisyphus
Haitian folklore: Anansi, Ti Malice
Hawaiian mythology: Kaulu, Kupua
Hindu mythology: Baby Krishna (stealing butter), Narada, Mohini, Hanuman (shapeshifting and teasing sages).
Hopi and Zuni mythology: Kokopelli
Igbo folklore: Ekwensu
Igbo mythology: Mbeku
Inuit mythology: Amaguq
Irish folklore: Leprechauns, Briccriu
Islamic mythology: Iblis, Khidr, Nasreddin
Italian folklore: Giufà (Sicily), Pulcinella (Naples), Harlequin (Bergamo).
Japanese mythology: Kitsune, Susanoo, Kappa, Bake-danuki, Hare of Inaba
Jewish folklore: Hershele Ostropoler (Ashkenazi), Joha (Sephardic)
Kazakh folklore: Aldar kose
Kiowa folklore: Saynday
Korean folklore: Kumiho, Dokkaebi, Seokga
Lakota mythology: Iktomi, Heyoka
Latin American and Spanish folklore: Pedro Urdemales (Pedro Malasartes in Portuguese)
Levantine mythology: Yaw
Malay folklore: Sang Kancil (The Mousedeer)
Māori mythology: Māui
Mayan mythology: Maya Hero Twins, Kisin
Micronesian mythology: Olifat
Miwok mythology: Coyote
Nigerian mythology: Agadzagadza
Norse mythology: Loki
Norwegian mythology: Espen Askeladd
Northwest Caucasian mythology: Sosruko
Ohlone mythology: Coyote
Ojibwe mythology: Nanabozho
Philippine mythology: Nuno sa Punso, Tikbalang, Pilandok
Polynesian mythology: Maui
Pomo mythology: Coyote
Pueblos dancing: Koshares
Romanian mythology: Păcală
Russian folklore: Ivan the Fool
San Folklore: ǀKaggen
Slavic mythology: Veles
Spanish mythology: Don Juan, The Trickster of Seville
Sumerian religion: Enki
Tibetan folklore: Akhu Tönpa,
Thai folklore: Sri Thanonchai
Tumbuka mythology: Kalulu
Ukrainian folklore: Lys Mykyta, Oleksa Dovbush, Lysychka-sestrychka, Cossack Mamay
Ute mythology: Cin-an-ev
Vietnamese folklore: Trạng Quỳnh, Bang Bạnh – Xã Xệ – Lý Toét, Thằng Bờm, Cuội, Bác Ba Phi
Vodou: Papa Legba, Ti Malice, Baron Samedi
Welsh mythology: Gwydion, Taliesin, Morgan Le Fay, Twm Siôn Cati[13]
West African mythology: Anansi, Tortoise
Yoruba religion: Eshu
Literature and popular culture
In modern literature, the trickster survives as a character archetype, not necessarily supernatural or divine, sometimes no more than a stock character.
Often, the trickster is distinct in a story by their acting as a sort of catalyst; their antics are the cause of other characters' discomfiture, but they are left untouched. Shakespeare's Puck is an example of this. Another once-famous example was the character Froggy the Gremlin on the early USA children's television show "Andy's Gang". A cigar-puffing puppet, Froggy induced the adult humans around him to engage in ridiculous and self-destructive hi-jinks.[14]
For example, many European fairy tales have a king who wants to find the best groom for his daughter by ordering several trials. No brave and valiant prince or knight manages to win them, until a poor and simple peasant comes. With the help of his wits and cleverness, instead of fighting, they evade or fool monsters, villains and dangers in unorthodox ways. Against expectations, the most unlikely candidate passes the trials and receives the reward.[citation needed]
More modern and obvious examples of the trickster archetype include Bugs Bunny, the Cheshire Cat from Lewis Caroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Jerry from Tom and Jerry.[15]
When writing the screenplay for The Curse of the Black Pearl, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio envisioned Jack Sparrow as a trickster, and Hector Barbossa as his corrupt foil, though the characters can be viewed as both light and dark tricksters.[16]
Online and multimedia
In online environments, there has been a link between the trickster and Internet trolling. Some have said that a trickster is a type of online community character.[17][18] Gabriel Moshenska argues that Mesopotamian copper merchant Ea-nāṣir is depicted as a trickster in online culture through an imagining of deliberately unfair trade practices that enrich him and leave his customers at a disadvantage, and especially because it appears that he "collected" their complaint letters as trophies.[19]
Anthropologist James Cuffe has called the Chinese internet character Grass Mud Horse (cǎonímǎ 草泥马) a trickster candidate because of its duplicity in meaning.[20] Cuffe argues the Grass Mud Horse serves to highlight the creative potential of the trickster archetype in communicating experiential understanding through symbolic narrative. The Grass Mud Horse relies on the interpretative capacity of storytelling in order to skirt internet censorship while simultaneously commenting on the experience of censorship in China. In this sense Cuffe proposes the Grass Mud Horse trickster as 'a heuristic cultural function to aid the perceiver to re-evaluate their own experiential understanding against that of their communities. By framing itself against and in spite of limits the trickster offers new coordinates by which one can reassess and judges one's own experiences.'[20]
See also
Grotesque body
Juan Bobo
Malandro
Miwok Coyote and Silver Fox
Structuralist approach to myth
References
Hyde, Lewis. Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
Mattick, Paul (February 15, 1998). "Hotfoots of the Gods". The New York Times.
Baker, Houston A. (1972). Long Black Song: Essays in Black American Literature. University Press of Virginia. pp. 10–14. ISBN 9780813904030.
Haase, Donald (2008). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 31. ISBN 978-0-313-33441-2.
Bleek (1875) A brief account of Bushman folklore and other texts
Lewis-Williams, David (1997). "The mantis, the eland and the meerkats". African Studies. 56 (2): 195–216. doi:10.1080/00020189708707875.
Byrd Gibbens, Professor of English at University of Arkansas at Little Rock; quoted epigraph in Napalm and Silly Putty by George Carlin, 2001
Ballinger (1991), p. 21.
"Gold Fever California on the Eve- California Indians", Oakland Museum of California
Edmonds, Margot; Ella E. Clark (2003). Voices of the Winds: Native American Legends. Castle Books. p. 5. ISBN 0785817166.
Edmonds, Margot; Clark, Ella E. (Ella Elizabeth); Braun, Molly (2003). Voices of the winds : native American legends. Internet Archive. Edison, NJ : Castle Books. ISBN 978-0-7858-1716-1.
D.F. (2013). "Old Man Coyote". Wild West. 25 (6) – via EBSCOhost.
Carradice, Phil (16 June 2011). "Twm Sion Cati – the Welsh Robin Hood". BBC. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
Smith, R. L. "Remembering Andy Devine".
"Trickster Archetype: Definition, 10 Examples, and How-to Write". 2 March 2023.
Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Stuart Beattie, Jay Wolpert (2003). Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Audio Commentary (DVD). Buena Vista.
Campbell, J., G. Fletcher & A. Greenhill (2002). "Tribalism, Conflict and Shape-shifting Identities in Online Communities." In the Proceedings of the 13th Australasia Conference on Information Systems, Melbourne Australia, 7–9 December 2002.
Campbell, J., G. Fletcher and A. Greenhill (2009). "Conflict and Identity Shape Shifting in an Online Financial Community", Information Systems Journal (19:5), pp. 461–478. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2575.2008.00301.x.
Moshenska, Gabriel (15 January 2026). "The Legend of Ea-Naṣir: How a Babylonian Businessman Became an Internet Meme". Journal of Contemporary Archaeology. 12 (1): 52–76. doi:10.1558/jca.30204. ISSN 2051-3437. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
Cuffe, James B. (2019-11-28). China at a Threshold: Exploring Social Change in Techno-Social Systems (1 ed.). Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2020. | Series: Contemporary liminality: Routledge. pp. 83 [71–86]. doi:10.4324/9781315183220. ISBN 978-1-315-18322-0. S2CID 213224963.
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Bassil-Morozow, Helena (2011). The Trickster in Contemporary Film. Routledge.
Ballinger, Franchot; Vizenor, Gerald (1985). "Sacred Reversals: Trickster in Gerald Vizenor's 'Earthdivers: Tribal Narratives on Mixed Descent'". American Indian Quarterly. 9 (1, The Literary Achievements of Gerald Vizenor): 55–59. doi:10.2307/1184653. JSTOR 1184653.
Ballinger, Franchot (1991). "Ambigere: The Euro-American Picaro and the Native American Trickster". MELUS. 17 (1, Native American Fiction: Myth and Criticism): 21–38. doi:10.2307/467321. JSTOR 467321.
Boyer, L. Bryce; Boyer, Ruth M. (1983). "The Sacred Clown of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apaches: Additional Data". Western Folklore. 42 (1): 46–54. doi:10.2307/1499465. JSTOR 1499465.
Datlow, Ellen and Terri Windling. 2009. The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales. Firebird.
California on the Eve – California Indians Miwok creation story
Joseph Durwin Coulrophobia & The Trickster
Koepping, Klaus-Peter (1985). "Absurdity and Hidden Truth: Cunning Intelligence and Grotesque Body Images as Manifestations of the Trickster". History of Religions. 24 (3): 191–214. doi:10.1086/462997. JSTOR 1062254. S2CID 162313598.
Lori Landay Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture 1998 University of Pennsylvania Press
Jones, Christa C., editor. Djeha, the North African Trickster. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2023. 196 pages. ISBN 1496847059.
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I've always had a thing for glasses - even though my sight is actually fine - so I thought I would try out a cute librarian meets flamenco dancer look, matching the glasses and hair with my baby blue Dotti party dress that swayed around my hips and barely covered my bum as I had a dance in the living room!
Without the intellect needed to complete the Rubix Cube I quickly learnt the art of how to take it apart and put it back together again in the correct order.
I found this today while cleaning up. It's an original from the seventies and it was all mixed up. Looks like taking Rubix Cubes apart is just like riding a bike...it was easy to complete!
If you are a regular follower of the blog (or a close friend or family member) you have heard about Luli. Luli is my sometimes-crazy-always-funny colleague. He is the coordinator for the sheep-breeders association--its mostly he and I that work together for the organizational development of the association. Luli studied agriculture in college (or "faculty" as they say here in Macedonia) and is studying human resource management for his masters degree...but in the meantime he is getting a special certification in mechanized animal husbandry farming something. For the last few months, on days we have meetings in Skopje Luli usually tacks on a meeting with one of his many professors and I get a little exposure to Macedonian University life.
Now I hate to generalize as much as the next PCV, but from my experience and observation it seems that University Professors here see themselves as God's gift to academia and the students suffer for it. I received an outstanding education at a small liberal arts college, the University of Portland (Go Pilots!). I benefited from close relationships with many professors--I cannot imagine having an experience where I didn't feel a close connection with my professors. My situation in graduate school was also similar; although Western Michigan is a huge school with over 30,000 students, my graduate department was small and I knew my professors very well.
Well in Macedonia it seems quite a bit different. I have heard many students talk about how the professors like to make students wait for hours for a quick chat about a paper, demand students write their papers emphasizing techniques or theories they like rather than allowing their students to explore the divergent theories, and I have been with Luli more than five times when his professors make appointments and then don't show up (not to mention the fact that some students purchase their grades!).
Today Luli had to meet with one of his professors and I went with him to wait inside the building because it was so darned hot outside. I was shocked to see the professors office hour was at 12:00 on Monday only. Yikes! Luli managed to squeeze in first but I think I counted about 27 students waiting to meet with the Great Professor. It was really eye-opening. I took this picture right as we were leaving the hall, (Luli is right in the center) there were about 10 students behind me and many more on either side of us. I must say I feel very fortunate to have had the educational opportunities I have had (thanks mom and dad) with professors who are more concerned about their students learning than how much they are revered.
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Another photo of my wife Adriana with our daughter Isabella. Isabella has been an angel since she was born, and although we're suffering from a lack of sleep everytime she wakes me up I can't wait to look at her face and hold her in my arms. I've always wanted to have a child and she's a dream come true for our entire family.
"He alone knows to whom He will reveal Himself under which form. By what path and in what manner He attracts any particular man to Himself with great force is incomprehensible to the human intellect. The Path differs indeed for different pilgrims."
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Allow the pure energy combined with a clear passion to rush into your life & fill up your being, without letting the intellect examine it too closely and hinder your progress as the ideas keep pouring in.
After all, our life is nothing but an empty glass in which we pour our stories into. And how clear and smooth we want our drink to be, is something for us to decide!
Had a good one today, Big up to the MCI Squad. Also wanna thank the cat blowin' the horn for at least an hour. It added to the unbelievably frigid temperatures and overcast. 1 gallon of H20 and many swigs of quarta' water, other than that absolutely no nourishment so the sun spots and knockin' knees were in full effect.
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Gaurav Tekriwal is the founder President of The Vedic Maths Forum India and a passionate advocate of making Vedic Maths a part of the global dialogue on mathematics. An educator and motivator, Gaurav has been imparting Vedic Mathematics skills over the past five years. He inspires and informs people, helping them to realize their true potential by introducing them to India’s ancient Indian system of Mathematics. Gaurav’s sharp intellect, research, innovative concepts and belief in ‘Vedic Maths isn’t a Miracle- YOU ARE!’ makes him a sought after speaker in the academic circuit.He is also actively associated with the Young Indians, an organization under the Confederation of Indian Industry. Gaurav has spoken at TED@Bangalore and at TEDx Youth London.
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Lecture at ARTIUM, Vitoria- Gasteiz
25 January 2011
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Over the past six years Alfredo Cramerotti has written about the aesthetic merger of contemporary art and the news media. Drawing from his book Aesthetic Journalism: How to inform without informing (2009, Intellect), Cramerotti provocatively advances the idea that art and journalism are not separate forms of communication, but rather two sides of a unique activity , the production and distribution of images and information. As aesthetic regimes, both journalism and artistic makes claims for the truth, albeit of a different kind. One is a coded system that speaks for the truth (or so it claims), the other a set of activities that questions itself at every step (or so it claims), thus making truth. Whereas journalism provides a view on the world ‘out there,’ as it ‘really’ is, art often presents a view on the view, truth posited as acts of (self)reflection. Cramerotti will examine both as a types of truth production, as systems of information that defines truth in terms of the visible: producing not only what can be seen, but also what can be imagined, and thus imaged. As such, we start to get closer to the core of reality itself when we make our reality not a given, irreversible fact, but a possibility among many others.
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The talk generated a principal question: is it possible to work with aesthetics and informatics, to be both reflective and precise? To both employ documentary techniques and journalistic methods while remaining self-reflecting and critical on those means? Ultimately, the artist’s work is not about delivering information but questioning it, reversing the tradition of both fields (art and journalism), to highlight both the aesthetic workings and trappings of reportage and the informational turn within current aesthetic production.
Watch this video on Vimeo. Video created by Alfredo Cramerotti.
Gaurav Tekriwal is the founder President of The Vedic Maths Forum India and a passionate advocate of making Vedic Maths a part of the global dialogue on mathematics. An educator and motivator, Gaurav has been imparting Vedic Mathematics skills over the past five years. He inspires and informs people, helping them to realize their true potential by introducing them to India’s ancient Indian system of Mathematics. Gaurav’s sharp intellect, research, innovative concepts and belief in ‘Vedic Maths isn’t a Miracle- YOU ARE!’ makes him a sought after speaker in the academic circuit.He is also actively associated with the Young Indians, an organization under the Confederation of Indian Industry. Gaurav has spoken at TED@Bangalore and at TEDx Youth London.
Lord of Beginnings, Lord and Remover of Obstacles, patron of arts and sciences, and God of intellect and wisdom…
There it is right there; resolute in the palm of your hand, resolutely motionless...
A gift from my son after he returned from India. He asked if there was anything I wanted from his travels throughout Asia and East Europe. I said "Bring me back a Ganesh - something not to big, not too small; something that will fit in the palm of my hand.." ..and voila!
Lord Ganesh: Lord of Beginnings, Lord and Remover of Obstacles, patron of arts and sciences, and God of intellect and wisdom...
Thanks Geoff!
27-MAR-2014
Manufacturer: Grenadier
Line: AD&D "Solid Gold" line
Set: 2012 Dwellers Below
Figure: 2012B Intellect Devourer
Release date: 1980
Base markings: none
Sculptor: Andrew Chernak
Painter: Spooktalker
Date painted: 2009
Notes:
Penelope aged 5 only child of Sir Brooke Boothby of Ashbourne Hall and wife Susannah daughter of Robert Bristoe
"She was in form and intellect most exquisite, the unfortunate parents ventured their all on this frail bark, and the wreck was total"
The inscription is in 4 different languages - English, latin, French and Italian, all of which Penelope spoke.
Her death badly affected her father, and her parents separated. - her mother left to live with her parents, and was later buried under her maiden name..
Her father wrote poems and commissioned this monument and a painting en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fuseli_Henry_The_Apotheosis_Of...
Sir Joshua Reynolds was a family friend and visited them at Ashbourne Hall. His painting "The Girl in the Mop ap" is of Penelope when aged four. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Penelope_Boothby_by_Joshua_Rey...
Monument by Thomas Banks
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Brooke_Boothby,_6th_Baronet - Church of St Oswald, Ashbourne Derbyshire
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My dear friend, Rajeev Motwani, passed away yesterday at his home. He had an unparalleled zest for life, a broad range of interests, and an incredibly sharp intellect.
May his wife Asha and his kids and his family have the strength to bear this monumental loss.
My relationship with Rajeev was not a professional one, just a personal one. I would often ask him about his work, and internally have a deep sense of envy of anyone who was his student.
He told me that this semester he was teaching a class on Computer Algorithms, and I told him that I’d taken a class with a similar name over two decades ago using a textbook by “Hopcroft and Ullman” and he said that book has now become “Hopcroft, Motwani and Ullman”
I was fascinated by the lucid way he explained solutions to many problems we encounter in the software world.
Over a beer at the Tied House last summer he also told me about his PhD thesis on building a machine to figure out if a problem is solvable or not…he made things appear so simple. I remember the fun discussion we had about whether his machine would be able to determine if Fermat's last theorem was solvable.
Who knew that he was a winner of the Godel Prize in theoretical computer science!
Brimstone's scheming intellect makes him a deadly foe. Brimstone is always ready to step in for Magmar and take command. Brandishing The Torcher, his flame throwing weapon, he laughs wickedly as he charges fearlessly into battle.
Steel City Hobbies sponsors the 2008 Snowbird Nationals again this year, but with a twist. Owner of SCH, Michael Rooney, has been producing the video portion of the Snowbirds for the last four years. Last year as well as this year have been production shoots for a documentary on R/C Car Carpet racing called "Carpet Racers". The film is slated to be release sometime mid to late 2008. For more information with pictures and captions, check out www.steelcityhobbies.com.