Odd Stuff (Part 2)

I think probably part of the reason I like her so much is her rather macabre sense of humor. It’s how my family deals with death, so it feels natural to me.

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her sense of humor was what kept me going on that video. it was the details of the lived experiences of the crew of the essex that made me stop for a while.

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30 Thousand Paintings and Hardly One to Buy…

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Uh, Thomas Kinkade is nowhere on this list. For a while, it seemed like his paintings were everywhere

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Did he paint all of them? I thought they were print reproductions and he had a cadre of people who painted over the print? (I’m repeating what someone once told me about his “galleries” and the “paintings” sold there.)

Ah. I see this in the wiki:

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It’s true that most of what are seen now are mass-produced reproductions of his work, but Kinkade supposedly painted over one thousand originals.

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Ah, wow. I didn’t know that. That’s quite a bit! (TBF, I really didn’t know anything about him except from that one conversation. :grinning:)

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One could argue the same about Picasso!

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Look, it’s the Road to Nowhere!

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It’s open to interpretation.

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Here’s a programming gremlin that caught our eye this week: a share price exceeded the 32-bit unsigned integer limit of a stock exchange’s code.
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It’s just the one swan, actually.

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Do what you like with your Non-Fungible Tokens, kids, but I’ve been down the digital format detour too many times already and it always leads to a cul-de-sac. One day you’ll discover – just as with my Shockwaves, AVE comics, Minidiscs, VHS tapes and all – that NFT ultimately stands for “Not Fucking There”.

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Seen today on Wirecutter:

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James May What GIF by DriveTribe

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Two more years.

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