Film and Literature Studies

Adam Mars-Jones: Splummeshing

February 8th, 2023

Namwali Serpell’s highly accomplished, highly deceptive novel The Furrows starts with the trauma of childhood grief. Its subtitle – ‘An Elegy’ – invokes the literary genre that most strongly addresses a single emotion. This theme is inhabited and then abruptly undermined. The initial drama, of the 12-year-old narrator unable to save her younger brother, Wayne, from drowning, drives the book forward for a fair number of pages before this master narrative is driven onto the rocks. Realism is h...

The Cs of Ukrainian names

April 12th, 2022

Today’s post will be very sparse, since names starting with the letter CH aren’t very common in languages using the Cyrillic alphabet. Slavic languages using the Roman alphabet also don’t have too many names starting with C, Cz, Ch, or Č. If you know any other Ukrainian names starting with CH, please let me know, and I’ll add them! Female names: Cheslava is the Ukrainian form of the Polish name Czesława (honour and glory). One of the diminutive forms is Chesya. Male names: Chip...

Did the universe's creator hide a message in the cosmos?

December 20th, 2020

Did the creator of the universe leave a hidden message in the cosmos for intelligent life? If so, scientists have yet to find it. A search for a message on "the most cosmic of all billboards, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)," has failed, a new study finds. The CMB is the oldest light in the universe, visible across all of space. Its microwaves have been traveling since the first atoms formed out of a haze of protons and electrons that filled the universe soon after ...

I2C (thing) by earthquake - Everything2.com

September 7th, 2020

I2C (thing) See all of I2C, no other writeups in this node. by earthquake (13.8 y) CC Rep: 13 ( +13 / -0 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Wed Oct 04 2000 at 17:25:07 The I2C bus, or Inter-Integrated Circuit Bus, was developed by Philips around 1980, as a way to connect the various ICs ("chips") inside a television set. Before I2C and similar busses, individual ICs in the TV would have to have dedicated control signals from the TV's microprocessor or microcontroller. One IC would control the...

Johnny Appleseed (idea) by sabby - Everything2.com

July 25th, 2020

Notice that the given name of Johnny Appleseed was Johnny Chapman. J C Jesus Christ ? -zasJohnny Appleseed (idea)See all of Johnny Appleseed, there are 3 more in this node. by sabby (5.2 mon)CCRep: 86 ( +93 / -7 ) (Rep Graph) (+)Fri Feb 02 2001 at 8:57:54(idea)3 C!s · C?by sabby (5.2 mon)Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman was born September 26, 1774 in Leominster, Massachusetts and died of pneumonia ("the winter plague") near Fort Wayne, Indiana on March 18, 1845. His epitaph was "He lived for ot...

CITIZEN = NIETZSCHE - minus an H

March 21st, 2019

This is a stunning insight. Does KANE maybe mean "Enoch"? Or if we move the H - Enokh? "Nake"(d)? Kean? Acne? Alaska and Nebraska? California and Nebraska? California And the NorthEast? NorthEast Atlantic City No electricity vs alternating current North Eastern Alternating Current K E (?) Alternative News KANE as KANT ? "Her Son; Wellesley" (Side bar for ZTORY) Better yet: N I E T Z S C H E A N Minus the Eye and CHARLES FOSTER KANE As: ? CHARANI STROKER FEEL ARIAN CHARLIE FOSTER KAN...