🐭 the tamouse pages

the rumblings and ramblings of a well-traveled tech-mouse

Where have I been?

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From kottke.org: “Jonathan Mehring’s short documentary https://www.documentary.org/project/walls-cannot-keep-us-flying follows two young Palestinians who have found freedom in skateboarding while surrounded by walls & barbed wire and facing harassment from Israeli authorities and their own families & communities.”

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It takes too long to get the point of writing something, that I’ve forgotten what I want to write.

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a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has been going around lately, from an interview on 60 Minutes with Mike Wallace from 1966. The Black community is still waiting, here in 2020. Too damn long.

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The 2020 Blacks in History commemorative stamp series is “Voices of the Harlem Renaissance” and it is gorgeous!

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You know that saying, that if you live in a place, you don’t know the attractions. But when friends come to visit, what do you do? I wrote this a few years ago but never got around to publishing it, so here’s my list. A few places to eat, things to see, etc., in Minneapolis/St. Paul:

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From Laughing Squid comes a report of an invention of a Rube Goldberg-type machine with “invisible glass”. Coolest thing I’ve seen today.

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Link to article on Leonard Peltier, native american political prisoner.

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Very cool video on reddit.com of a leaping sugar glider:

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USAToday wrote a feature showing the year 2019 in review in images. Some very amazing stories.

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Suitable Nativity Scene given the current climate for how we treat immigrants in the U.S. in 2019.

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The APOD image “Electric Night” captures my imagination in so many ways.

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