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While creating this photo, I felt a connection towards the music I was listening to which was Logic so I implemented his name on the side of the building on the right and this is the product
Explore Aug 1, 2012 #170
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“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” by Mahatma Gandhi
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“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.” by Mahatma Gandhi
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“In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.” by Vincent van Gogh
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“Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.” by Deepak Chopra
Today is the National Day of Reason, so I'm celebrating by sharing these logic cookies that I made last night. They include a variety of symbols from the fields of symbolic logic, set theory, boolean algebra, algebraic logic, and other fields. (and I had to throw in Gottfried Leibniz's integral symbol and Leonhard Euler's summation Sigma!)
Today is the National Day of Reason, so I'm celebrating by sharing these logic cookies that I made last night. They include a variety of symbols from the fields of symbolic logic, set theory, boolean algebra, algebraic logic, and other fields. (and I had to throw in Gottfried Leibniz's integral symbol and Leonhard Euler's summation Sigma!)
Studio shoot with CopperClock Bellydance: mischievous fusion dancers Letty Limbach and Sarah Kate Moore.
Exoskeleton Cabaret, '57 Biscayne, Seattle, WA. December 2011.
Costumes, hair, and makeup by Letty Limbach.
Photography by Libby Bulloff.
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I stepped up on the platform
The man gave me the news
He said, you must be joking son
Where did you get those shoes?
Where did you get those shoes?
Well, Ive seen em on the tv, the movie show
They say the times are changing but I just dont know
These things are gone forever
Over a long time ago, oh yeah
Steely Dan Pretzel Logic
(one of the best recordings evah!)
Window shopping in L5P with The BillyLlama
Lo Stadio dei Marmi al Foro Italico fu progettato come logico proseguimento dell’Accademia fascista maschile di educazione fisica (oggi Palazzo CONI, detto anche Palazzo H per la sua caratteristica forma se visto dall'alto) per l’allenamento quotidiano degli allievi dell’Accademia.
Le gradinate perimetrali in marmo bianco di Carrara furono ottenute sopraelevando il terreno di 5,50 m. I due corpi di fabbrica affiancati che delimitano l’accesso al campo sono destinati ai servizi e ai magazzini per gli attrezzi.
Infine, sulle gradinate furono poste le 60 statue (in realtà 64) offerte dalle province d’Italia e rappresentanti le diverse attività sportive: ad esempio, la statua dedicata al tiro del giavellotto fu donata dalla provincia di Perugia, mentre quella dedicata al pallone col bracciale (o pallone a muro) si deve alla provincia di Forlì.
Gli artisti prescelti per la progettazione dello stadio avrebbero anche dovuto sovrintendere, dietro compenso di 10.000 lire, alle successive fasi della lavorazione.
Il progetto prevedeva che, per le caratteristiche sue proprie, fosse possibile utilizzarlo solo per manifestazioni ginnico-sportive e non per il calcio, per il quale fu appunto costruito lo stadio olimpico di Roma. Fu inaugurato insieme all’Accademia di Educazione Fisica nel 1932. La sua capienza è di circa 5.280 posti.
Today is the National Day of Reason, so I'm celebrating by sharing these logic cookies that I made last night. They include a variety of symbols from the fields of symbolic logic, set theory, boolean algebra, algebraic logic, and other fields. (and I had to throw in Gottfried Leibniz's integral symbol and Leonhard Euler's summation Sigma!)
I don't know how I ever lost this. From last October, it should have gone up with poor little melatonin.
Salesgirl at a candy stall, seen in the Romantic Christmas Market at St. Emmeram Castle, Regensburg, Bavaria
After the traumatic events in Berlin two days ago I was quite wary about uploading two more cheerful photos of this Regensburg Christmas market. I asked myself if I should refrain from posting them out of reverence for the victims. But what would have been the good of it? Neither would the twelve dead victims be brought back to life nor would the world suddenly become a better place.
I am sad about those who died or got harmed in the Christmas market in front of the Memorial Church and I ache for their relatives and friends. But don’t let our lives be dominated by terror.
Some background information:
St. Emmeram Abbey was founded around 739 as a Benedictine monastery in the town of Regensburg. For more than 200 years the bishops of Regensburg were also the abbots of the monastery. In 975, Saint Wolfgang, then bishop of Regensburg, voluntarily gave up the position of abbot and severed the connection, making the abbots of St. Emmeram's independent of the bishopric. It was also him who ordered the construction of a library at St Emmeram.
Over time, the library became well supplied with works by early Christian writers such as Saint Augustine, as well as by ancient writers such as Virgil and Seneca. In addition to works that had an overt religious or inspirational purpose, the library held a large collection of manuscripts used in the monastery school, focusing on subjects such as logic, arithmetic, rhetoric, grammar, and even astronomy and music. By the early eleventh century, the library at St. Emmeram had acquired a reputation for its great collection and the scriptorium of St. Emmeram's also had become a significant centre of book production and illumination, the home of works such as the sacramentary of Emperor Henry II (produced between 1002 and 1014) and the Uta Codex (shortly after 1002).
In 1295, the counter-king Adolf of Nassau made St. Emmeram an imperial abbey and therefore an independent sovereign power subject directly to the emperor. After a decline in its significance during the 16th century the abbey enjoyed a resurgence in the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1731, the abbots were raised to the status of Princes of the Empire. Between 1731 and 1733, the abbey church was magnificently refurbished in the Baroque style by the Asam brothers.
In 1803, St. Emmeram, along with the Imperial City of Regensburg, the Bishopric of Regensburg and the two other Imperial Abbeys Niedermuenster and Obermuenster, lost its previous politically independent status to the newly formed Principality of Regensburg. But after the Treaty of Paris in 1810, the entire Principality of Regensburg was transferred to Bavaria.
In 1812 the monastic buildings were granted to the Princes of Thurn und Taxis, who had St. Emmeram's Abbey converted as their new residence. The family of Thurn und Taxis is a noble house that belongs to Germany’s high aristocracy. In 1490, they founded the pan-European postal service and occupied the postal monopoly until the foundation of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806. By occupying the postal monopoly, the family became one of the wealthiest and most powerful in Germany. The noble house of Thurn und Taxis rendered great service to the postal system by speeding it up significantly: Before their time as postal monopolists, single horsemen and their horses had to deliver the mail all the way from the addressor to the addressee. But it was the idea of the house of Thurn und Taxis to establish coaching inns throughout Europe, where both exhausted horsemen and horses could be changed.
St. Emmeram Castle itself is larger than Buckingham Palace. During Advent season its magnificent park, imposing architecture and picturesque courtyard create a unique romantic atmosphere, which attracts thousands of tourists and local people each year and allows them to be taken back into the times of knights, princesses and horses and carriages. The castles’s courtyard is gently lit by torches, lanterns and candles. At its centre of this magical make believe village a mighty, beautifully decorated Christmas tree is positioned. Princess Gloria of Thurn und Taxis and her family like to mix with the guests at this event, which is held on their own doorstep.
The palace as well as the princely treasury and the royal stables are open to the public. Guided tours through the palatial rooms can be booked.
Regensburg with its population of about 140.000 inhabitants is located at the confluence of the rivers Danube and Regen at the northernmost bend in the Danube. It is the capital of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate. Since 2006, Regensburg's large medieval center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A Merry Christmas 2016 and a Happy New Year 2017 to all of you! Have a great festive season together with your families and friends!
My logic is that we'll be praying for this weather in July. Personally, I'll take winter weather over 85+ degrees any day.
Steely Dan / Pretzel Logic
Side one:
- "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" - 4:32
- "Night by Night" - 3:40
- "Any Major Dude Will Tell You" - 3:05
- "Barrytown" - 3:17
- "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" (Duke Ellington, Bubber Miley) - 2:45
Side two:
- "Parker's Band"- 2:36
- "Through with Buzz" - 1:30
- "Pretzel Logic" - 4:32
- "With a Gun" - 2:15
- "Charlie Freak" - 2:41
- "Monkey in Your Soul" - 2:31
(All songs written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, except where noted.)
Donald Fagen – keyboards, saxophone, lead vocals, background vocals
Walter Becker – bass, guitar, background vocals
Jeff Baxter – lead guitar, pedal steel guitar
Denny Dias – guitar
Jim Hodder – backing vocals
Recorded: October 1973 to January 1974 at The Village Recorder Studio in West Los Angeles
sleeve design: The cover photo featuring a New York pretzel vendor was taken by Raeanne Rubenstein, a photographer of musicians and Hollywood celebrities. She shot the photo on the west side of Fifth Avenue and 79th Street, just above the 79th Street Transverse (the road through Central Park), at the park entrance called "Miners' Gate"
Label: ABC Records /
ex Vinyl-Collection MTP
And thus I bring you my favourite family car of all time, bar none, all things considered, king of the hill, lord of the manor, master of all it surveys, the Range Rover P38! :D
Why do I love this car so much when the original was a classic that changed the world of motoring? Because it combined an updated version of that original winning design with some of the perks and premiums of the 1990's. The Classic Range Rover is indeed a fantastic machine, and one of those rare instances where sense and logic perforated into the ranks of British Leyland. But by the time I was born in the early 90's the car was very much looking its age, a tired 60's design mixed with what was starting to become a comparatively under-equipped interior. The only way the Range Rover was going to survive the 90's was to shape up, and thus in 1990, Rover Group (the descendant of British Leyland) put together a plan to design a new car under the chassis codenumber P38A (or just P38 for short). Four years of development and £300 million later, the car was launched to a whirlwind of critical acclaim.
Launched in 1994, the Range Rover P38 was the last Land Rover machine to be designed by Rover, and included the very best in cutting-edge technology to mix the go-anywhere do-anything raunchiness of the Classic, with the luxury and majesty of an upmarket saloon car. The first major difference between the old and new was the option of engines. For those who didn't intend to take these cars to the mountains and go driving off cliffs, then there was the humble BMW 2.5L V8, but for those who wished to conquer Everest and still have enough time in the day to lacerate the rest of the Himalayas, there was the original 4.5 & 4.6L Rover V8 from the original. Another later addition to this fray of power units was what was later dubbed the 'Overfinch', which was powered by a 5.7L General Motors V8, for if you wanted that extra edge. Jeremy Clarkson once demonstrated the power of the Overfinch by having a drag race with a Ford Focus, whilst pulling a trailer upon which was another Ford Focus, to which the Range Rover won by an absolute mile!
However, what people were interested the most was on the inside. The interior of the Range Rover P38 was very much similar to that of the original, with 5 seats, good space in the boot, and various other trim options depending on your preference. However, the new Range Rover came with a more personal touch, this being dubbed the 'Autobiography' service. For a little extra, Land Rover would happily fill out your preference for any optional extras or personalising of your machine. Leather on the seats, wood veneer, paintwork, these were just some of the features that you could select, not to mention the number of gadgets you could insist on as well, including reclining seats, on-board engine management systems, SATNAV, remote control locking that also resets the seats to their original position, etc. The car is also incredibly safe too, a 6-foot, 3 ton block of steel hurtling through the countryside, and the high driving position meant that you could feel a sense of security and comfort as you looked down on lesser mortals in their normal cars.
So, to summarize, the Range Rover P38 is the best car in the world bar none because it is big, safe, comfortable, very well equipped, extremely reliable, powerful, beautifully designed and all around the best thing anyone could possibly drive...
...if they could afford it!
The problem with the P38 is that it is a very, very, very expensive car to both buy and run. At £40,000 it wasn't an easy car to get your hands on when new in 1994, especially after a massive recession, and if you went for the Long-Wheelbase 'Vogue' or SE (Special Equipment) versions, you'd be forking out more towards £50,000, and if you went for an 'Autobiography' job or an Overfinch if you were really edgy, you'd have to be an eccentric millionaire!
Next was actually running it. These days when you come across Range Rover P38's you'll find that most people have the 2.5L BMW engine because of the fact that it was less expensive in terms of fuel consumption. The Rover V8 and Overfinch versions on the other hand, you'd be very lucky to get yourself 9 Miles to the Gallon out of them! You'd be spending more time at Petrol Stations than anywhere else!
And then there's the image when owning a Range Rover. Today modern Range Rovers are very mundane cars in comparison to what they were back in 1994. If you owned a brand new P38 back in 1994, everyone would notice, and everyone would hate you! They'd hate you on a cellular level, on an atomic level even! If you were a person on the street, you'd think 'Egotist', if you were an environmentally minded person, you'd think 'Planet homicidal murderer', if you were any other motorist, you'd think 'Wideboy'. The fact that you had the audacity to go out and buy a gas guzzling luxury SUV which chewed up petrol at 9MPG, had an interior lined with 4 cows and half the New Forest, and was generally a bigger car than theirs in more ways than one, they would absolutely loathe you!
However, the seeds with the P38 were sown and the Range Rover found itself into the hands of a newer, wider ranging audience, this audience being the celebrities and superstars of the 1990's TV and Music scene. No person with a regular salary could possibly risk the Range Rover, but the new money lapped them up like warm milk. With this new demographic in mind, Land Rover very much changed their attitude on the Range Rover, moving it from being a practical ground-covering all terrain vehicle to an item of 'bling-bling'. In 2002 the P38 was replaced by the newer L322, and it was clear from the start that this new Range Rover was built not to climb mountains, but to climb over legions of fans as they huddled around the celebrities of Hollywood and Dubai. Chances are a modern L322 Range Rover and the later L405 have never seen a muddy puddle, and chances are they never will, but their comfortable lives in the spotlights of celebrities can all be owed to the endearing design of the original P38 that dominated the 1990's, and brought that original British Leyland dream of an international conquering car to reality...
...24 years late mind you but ho hum...