Odd Stuff (Part 1)

Or learning TeX. Putting math online in the old days used to be a nightmare, now there are many ways to do it, but the easiest and most open is just using TeX markup and hoping the browser can render it or intended audience can simply read it.

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Take that, Yves Klein!

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Anyone willing to take part in this unusual competition must submit their theory about the non-existence of Bielefeld by September 4. Entries can come in various forms – pictures, videos or text – but the submitted “pearls of wisdom must be incontrovertible”.

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Pennsyltucky Wave

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Note that the HMS Terror was one of the “rockets red glare” ships that bombarded Fort McHenry.

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Though her words are simple and few
Listen, listen, she’s calling to you
"Feed the birds, bitcoins a bag
Bitcoins, bitcoins, bitcoins a bag

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I was in the midst of an existential crisis a few weeks ago going into an endless mental spiral about my moralitymortality and such.

I’m glad I didn’t read this then.

ETA fixed a funny typo

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With the possible exception of Keith Richards.

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oh, mortality :skull:

there are always more rock legends

we don’t know who the young ones are because we’re old

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Yes, that. Stupid auto correct.

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there’s one in the article too

the artists were driven by an aspiration to transcend their own finitude, to create something of lasting value, something enduring that would live beyond those who created it. That striving for immorality expressed itself in so many ways — in the deafening volume and garish sensory overload of rock concerts, in the death-defying excess of the parties and the drugs,

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eh, it works either way, really

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^ Oh, read the thread comments! :rofl:

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Are you sure that’s a typo? It seems to be a pretty accurate description of the 60s & 70s rock gods of my misspent youth.

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I saw the movie “Us”. I know how this ends.

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Maybe they’re looking for the ultimate laser tag environment for the last company picnic of the year?

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