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  • alfar (42)in #writing • 9 years ago
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    Sumerian Word of the Day - Ud

    Ud is the Sumerian word for "sun". When the Babylonians arrived, this became Utu. There are a number of different types of sign in Sumerian - they used logograms (a symbol…
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  • alfar (42)in #writing • 9 years ago
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    How did cuneiform arise?

    Now, the general belief is that the Sumerian writing system evolved from the above characters. The idea is that they turned them into crude outlines, which became simpler over…
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    • alfar (42)in #writing • 9 years ago
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      Sumerian of the Day

      http The writing implement used in writing cuneiform was a reed that was cut at a slight angle so as to produce more of an arrow rather than a circle. The Sumerian word for…
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      • alfar (42)in #steemit-ideas • 9 years ago
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        Assorted Steemit ideas from a geek of many chromosomes

        The first of these, I've plugged elsewhere but will put here as an actual posted idea for discussion - the multi-queue. The idea is very simple. You have a proto-story queue…
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      • alfar (42)in #recipe • 9 years ago
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        Cursive Writing, Recipe Books and a Challenge

        I include for your delight and/or memory exhaustion (it's a big file) and/or patience exhaustion (it's very hard to read) a scanned page from Caroline Duncan's handwritten recipe…
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        • alfar (42)in #universe • 9 years ago
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          Is the Universe natural, artificial or simulated?

          This post is inspired by the following culprits: http http These two links are also important. So, onto the problem. Based on calculations published in New…
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          • alfar (42)in #writing • 9 years ago
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            On the topic of fan fiction

            My previous post, way back in the mists of time, was a short specimin of fan fiction. Admittedly, not the best that is out there, but that is neither here nor there. Attempting…
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            • alfar (42)in #story • 9 years ago
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              Fan Fiction: Sapphire & Steel/Tomorrow People (original) crossover

              This was originally written for a Tomorrow People fan fiction website. When that was closed, I copied it over to FanFiction.net, where it resides in obscurity today. As, indeed…
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              • alfar (42)in #children • 9 years ago
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                Terrifying TV (for a child of the 70s or 80s)

                This was the golden age for psychiatry, with children in their millions getting terrorised by perfectly reputable TV stations. I revisited my old haunts, to see if they were as…
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                • alfar (42)in #learning • 9 years ago
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                  Learning a foreign language

                  Y'know, I learned French and German at school. I can even remember bits of it. Boring. I actually passed a French exam five years after my last French lesson - not by trying to…
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                • alfar (42)in #security • 9 years ago
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                  Thoughts on Encryption and Encoding

                  Here are the basic ideas that we all know and love/hate (according to whether you belong to any three letter agency). A function can be symmetric (ie: applying it again reverses…
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                • alfar (42)in #geek • 9 years ago
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                  The Updated Great Bearded Geek Study

                  Derived from the better-known Eric Conspiracy , this does not attempt to prove the Eric-ness of the world, but rather to determine whether bearded Geeks (homo sapiens…
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                  • alfar (42)in #test • 9 years ago
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                    The Great Bearded Geek Study

                    Derived from the better-known Eric Conspiracy , this does not attempt to prove the Eric-ness of the world, but rather to determine whether bearded Geeks (homo sapiens…
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                    • alfar (42)in #aircraft • 9 years ago
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                      Aircraft Fetishism II - The Sopwith Camel

                      The Sopwith Camel, featured in so many of Snoopy's dreams in Peanuts, flying for real. Documentary on Thomas Sopwith On his hundredth birthday, a Sopwith Camel did a…
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                      • alfar (42)in #aircraft • 9 years ago
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                        Aircraft Fetish - The DH98 DeHavilland Mosquito

                        I will run a brief extract from my series on aircraft that have achieved Fetish Gold Standard for extreme... well, almost everything. These are the aircraft you love to love or…
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                        • alfar (42)in #television • 9 years ago
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                          Game shows

                          Game shows. What on Earth could anyone find to write about gameshows? The skill and cunning of guessing what 100 people said might be found on a beach? Ok, below I've compiled…
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                          • alfar (42)in #artist • 9 years ago
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                            A tribute to the Comedienne Sue Perkins

                            Who, as well as annoyingly being unavailable, lives with her spouse and pet brain tumour. No word on whether the spouse has been taught to do any tricks. One of her amazing…
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                            • alfar (42)in #autism • 9 years ago
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                              What is an Aspie?

                              Let's start you off on a short quiz. Is an Aspie: A fan of the Monty Asp Flying Circus tv series? A jovial asparagus? A person owning 76 metric tonnes of books, 144 science…
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                            • alfar (42)in #food • 9 years ago
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                              Liquid/powdered food, are they actually any good?

                              That's not a rhetorical question. They have similar nutrients to regular food, but we've known for a long time that nutrients weren't simply absorbed. So, really, the first thing…
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                              • alfar (42)in #software • 9 years ago
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                                My experiences with Open Source as a developer and advocate

                                This story starts back in the 1990s, when I was a regular contributor to Freshmeat and Slashdot. I first got my fingers burned when I received hate-mail from a couple of…
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