Data Review

A Floor-Level Potter's Wheel

A Bespectacled Potter

Encounters

Encounters, Werner Schramm, 1922

Paradise Lost Game Beta Tester Now Online

The Paradise Lost Board Game online will soon be available worldwide in several languages. A beta tester playroom, aka “sandbox,” will be open for a short time to get feedback as the designers adjust the game. Students will enjoy this tool since they have grown up with the internet and online gaming. When the final version is launched, there will be two or three versions. One will have a limited number of cards and be free to everyone to “taste” the game. Others will be premium and monetized. The monetized version will feature a plethora of exciting illustrations from artist Terrance Lindall, an abundance of quotes from Milton’s epic, and references to scholarly works on the subject. The game will be available on STEAM, the world’s largest online gaming platform. Universities and libraries can buy a lifetime subscription to make the game available to everybody.

The Beta tester will be available through the holidays only. 

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To make a tax deductible donation to the project on Paypal: donatewah@gmail.com or send check to Yuko Nii Foundation, 135 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Paradise Lost III.222-272

And now without redemption all mankind
Must have bin lost, adjudg'd to Death and Hell
By doom severe, had not the Son of God,
In whom the fulness dwells of love divine,           
His dearest mediation thus renewd.

Father, thy word is past, man shall find grace;
And shall grace not find means, that finds her way,
The speediest of thy winged messengers,
To visit all thy creatures, and to all                         230
Comes unprevented, unimplor'd, unsought,
Happie for man, so coming; he her aide
Can never seek, once dead in sins and lost;
Attonement for himself or offering meet,
Indebted and undon, hath none to bring:                
Behold mee then, mee for him, life for life
I offer, on mee let thine anger fall;
Account mee man; I for his sake will leave
Thy bosom, and this glorie next to thee
Freely put off, and for him lastly dye                     240
Well pleas'd, on me let Death wreck all his rage;
Under his gloomie power I shall not long
Lie vanquisht; thou hast givn me to possess
Life in my self for ever, by thee I live,
Though now to Death I yield, and am his due        
All that of me can die, yet that debt paid,
Thou wilt not leave me in the loathsom grave
His prey, nor suffer my unspotted Soule
For ever with corruption there to dwell;
But I shall rise Victorious, and subdue                     250
My Vanquisher, spoild of his vanted spoile;
Death his deaths wound shall then receive, and stoop
Inglorious, of his mortal sting disarm'd.
I through the ample Air in Triumph high
Shall lead Hell Captive maugre Hell, and show        
The powers of darkness bound. Thou at the sight
Pleas'd, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,
While by thee rais'd I ruin all my Foes,
Death last, and with his Carcass glut the Grave:
Then with the multitude of my redeemd                    260
Shall enter Heaven long absent, and returne,
Father, to see thy face, wherein no cloud
Of anger shall remain, but peace assur'd,
And reconcilement; wrauth shall be no more
Thenceforth, but in thy presence Joy entire.            

His words here ended, but his meek aspect
Silent yet spake, and breath'd immortal love
To mortal men, above which only shon
Filial obedience: as a sacrifice
Glad to be offer'd, he attends the will                270
Of his great Father. Admiration seis'd
All Heav'n, what this might mean…

"Cause and effect" or "sequence"?

via GIPHY

Bestiary of Philosophical Conceptions: #423 "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" -- Sigmund Freud

Tarmac Drama: Examining the Instrument Probe of a Convair F-102 Delta Dagger Test Aircraft

Tarmac Drama: X-Plane Festival of Form

Symmetries by Richard Kostelanetz

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Pi

Little White Owl

Little owl, little owl

Soar in my dreams

Little owl, little owl

The color of cream

Where have you been?

What have you seen?

Do my words convey meaning?

How do I seem?

I once met a girl

With hair like gold

In the fire of moonlight

Silver beams flowed

Deep in her sunsets

Deep in her skies

There was sad madness

That reflects in your eyes

Little owl, little owl

The spirit of sight

Little owl, little owl

The bringer of light

The Symphony of Industrial Horns

Arseny Avraamov conducting.

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Ruk

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Saturn IB Launch Pedestal

  

 

The biggest problem in designing the pedestal was to minimize vertical and horizontal vibrations. The requirements eventually set forth by Huntsville allowed only the slightest sag under very heavy loads, yet the designers were limited in the weight they could use to achieve the desired stiffness. Since the Saturn V was a near-capacity load for the crawler, the pedestal could weigh little more than the stage it replaced. KSC engineers set that figure at 225 metric tons. The effects of the Saturn's exhaust had to be considered. Although flame temperatures would approach 2700 K, it was uncertain how much of this would impinge on the pedestal. Wind loads were still another factor. During operations at the pad, the service structure would deflect much of the wind and an arm connected to the top of the rocket would damp vibrations. Neither protection, however, would be available in the final hours of the countdown. Wind-tunnel tests established a maximum permissible wind speed of 32 knots for launch. Designers considered connecting the pedestal to the launcher tower for added strength until studies showed that the pedestal would actually be stiffer than the tower.

-- Interviews with George Walter, 9 Nov. 1976, with Walter and William Tolson 12 Jan. 1977