"Your Word document is on version 27 with track changes on. It is 160 MB and 600+ pages long. Why DO YOU THINK you are having trouble editing it?"
Today's Georgiana rabbit-hole - In Feb 1874, the Christian Spiritualist declined to publish her letter #22 on Spirit Photographs "for reasons we have explained to the writer in a private letter" after publishing the previous 21. She never published in that mag again. WHY???
I imagine the futureproof marketing would be along the lines of "Come see the Several (at least seven, probably) Apostles! Prizes if you guess which unsatisfactory apostles first succumbed to the sea. Looking at you, the two James'. And Thaddaeus, that's a difficult name!
GBP 70 for a 50-page e-book??? Nah.😆
Fair point. Lazy language on my part. They did deliberately select eras and regimes to focus on. What's interesting is which eras and why.
It's just so silly. A random pastiche of things they could get AI to animate.
Been thinking a bit lately about that time in 1839 when the East India Company were chasing regime change in Afghanistan.
Today's AI research fail. I asked an AI for a list of all Georgiana's letters to two spiritualist mags btw 1859 and 1884. AI came back and said it couldn't give me a list because the mags were not available online. These mags are online, OCR, searchable by Google and regularly trawled by AI. 🤷♀️
Oh, Ingres! And Vesuvius in the background. The backstory is amazing.
This week's rabbit holes for my book on Georgiana Houghton:
* William Henry Fox Talbot's correspondence with Isambard Kingdom Brunel
* The Barbary Wars (1803-1815)
* When did Teneriffe join the global telegraph network
* How long did it take to travel from the Canary Islands to London in 1884
Muji has nice basics in your size. I buy a lot of work clothes from OldLinenMill on Etsy. Good quality, but they're a little expensive. Great if your summers are hot and humid.
Go to Alderley Edge. The one time I was there and could go it was closed due to foot and mouth.
Can we encourage original (non-AI) art on BlueSky? Here is my latest watercolour - four lumpen figures.
Not terrible. It loudly says "hill".
That looks really cool. Subscribed.
Just watched Queer with Daniel Craig. Without context, it's a beautiful film. With context (I wrote my honours dissertation on William Burroughs and read most everything he ever wrote), it's still a beautiful film.
Fiction or non-fiction?
Fiction: I'm a private detective or a police officer (two main characters who switch PoV) - last two books
Non-Fiction: I'm a palaeontologist/palaeoanthropologist - last five books (I'm on a run)
This week's rabbit holes for my book on Georgiana Houghton:
* British merchants in the Canary Islands and Honduras;
* 19thC palaeoarchaeology; &
* Cremation in Britain: how it became legal and popular.
Special shout-out to @profaliceroberts.bsky.social for Ancestors. Loved it. Also very helpful.
Hope the rest of your evening is brighter. And thank you for the weedy sea dragon that someone gave me for Christmas!
The sun was shining on the gyre
The falcon shone with all his might
Things fell apart, he tried to make
Anarchy billowing bright
And blood-dimmed tide was odd because
Innocence drowns at night
If you like puzzles with your stories, all three of the Talos Principle games.
Why is every successive Conjuring film worse than the one before?
Even as an articulate person who roughly identifies as English, I'm not sure it is possible to put into words the incandescent rage that lies beneath "I'm feeling a bit upset about this.".
19. I never had an AOL account.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
(Australian here) Oh no, please don't, even in fun. If they survive winter they will die horribly from skin cancer.
Things I have researched today in service to my book:
1. Ancient Ligurian tribes.
2. How did Napoleon die.
3. When did Stamford Raffles become the governor of Singapore (he didn't).
Name three legendary movies that you have never seen. I'll go first:
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Fight Club
3. Back to the Future (all of them)
