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=== Cretaceous Office Supplies === | === Cretaceous Office Supplies === | ||
[[File:Cretaceous_Office_Supplies.jpg|thumb|link=Cretaceous Office Supplies|[[Cretaceous Office Supplies]] is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which provides office supplies and associated support services to the Cretaceous period (the longest geological period of the entire Phanerozoic).]] | |||
Office supply needs were simpler then. | Office supply needs were simpler then.]] | ||
Oceans were dominated by enormous reams of Legal standard paper. | Oceans were dominated by enormous reams of Legal standard paper. | ||
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* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/concellation/permalink/309680863412718/?comment_id=310365336677604 Comment] @ Facebook | * [https://www.facebook.com/groups/concellation/permalink/309680863412718/?comment_id=310365336677604 Comment] @ Facebook | ||
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I'm just me, but my brother Geoff is a professional archaeologist, and our dad, Arthur, took his degree in plains Indian anthropology (dad is why I have a sweet spot, probably atavistic, for all things Sapir-Whorf). | |||
FWIW, I get a kick from your "arsenic bronze tools" comment. | |||
* [https://twitter.com/karl_jones/status/1324859337160986625 Twitter post] | |||
== In the News == | == In the News == | ||
Revision as of 16:42, 6 November 2020
Online diary of Karl Jones for Friday November 6, 2020.
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Cretaceous Office Supplies
Office supply needs were simpler then.]]
Oceans were dominated by enormous reams of Legal standard paper.
The more familiar "Letter" standard of our day evolved later, in response to evolutionary pressure towards leaner, "just-in-time" organisms.
Recursion is strong medicine
Recursion is strong medicine.
A measured dose heals.
Unrestrained recursion deforms; it deranges; it kills.
Sand-traversing caravans travel single file
Every sand-traversing caravan travels single file, as informed by the physics of sand.
- Comment @ Facebook
I'm just me, but my brother Geoff is a professional archaeologist, and our dad, Arthur, took his degree in plains Indian anthropology (dad is why I have a sweet spot, probably atavistic, for all things Sapir-Whorf).
FWIW, I get a kick from your "arsenic bronze tools" comment.