reblogarythm | What I saw on the web on 2021.7.19

Bob of the Prancing Pony
by Saxo Runesinger et al
https://forums.signumuniversity.org/index.php?threads/bob-of-the-prancing-pony.2320/
discussing the crucial question: is Bob a hobbit?
via googlery after EtLotR
Bob
by The Encyclopedia of Arda
https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/b/bob.html
footnote 1 rightly points out that there's insufficient textual evidence to conclude that Bob is or isn't a hobbit
via googlery after previous link
John Dillermand
by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A51mJjFyG_w
cuz what else would make more sense in a Danish kids' show?
via rss
Math-related pictures: 5
by Vladimir Troitsky
https://www.math.ualberta.ca/~vtroitsky/mathpict/index5.html
can you find the error? Or does -1 = 1?
via googlery after news story
If it ain't workin', change the darn thing.
by David Suzuki talking to Bill Moyers
https://miriamthewalrus.tumblr.com/post/657143326458494976/universalequalityisinevitable-david-suzuki-in
excellent suggestiom
via rss
Three Dice Trick
by Ben Sparks talking to Brady Haran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27qhUZbHKao
an extremely simple trick that may be hard to spot
via rss
The Seven Deadly Sin(e)s
by Ben Orlin
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2021/07/19/the-seven-deadly-sines/
ah, the haversine!
via rss
Phone/Plan shopping
by siderea
https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1710476.html
her priorities are a decent match for mine, so her readers' answers are good guides for me to keep in mind if/when
via rss
Summer elections aren't great for the incumbent
by Éric Grenier
https://www.thewrit.ca/p/election-timing
insert standard correlation/causation mantra here, but a curious pattern nonetheless
via rss
Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming
by Charlie Stross
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2021/07/crib-sheet-dead-lies-dreaming.html
all the background stuff on Charlie's latest book
via rss
Honshirabe
by Cornelius Boots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkGN1w7AlPk
that's a big shakuhachi. Or is it a hochuku?
via reddit
U of T assesses, upgrades classroom ventilation as it plans for in-person learning this fall
by Rahul Kalvapalle
https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-assesses-upgrades-classroom-ventilation-it-plans-person-learning-fall
hopefully other post-secondaries will meet the same standard
via IPEdmonton
Rosco Wright luthier
by Rosco Wright
https://www.rosscowright.com/
a couple of clever luthiery ideas here
via FB