E-books that might be of interest to others

[Té Rowan]

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69324 — "Pride and Prejudice" by jane Austen.
This is an 1894 publishing with many illustrations.

[Té Rowan]

https://archive.org/details/fate-is-the-hunter
A typed-up copy of Ernest K. Gann's memoir. It won't fully replace my lost copy, but it's way better than nothing at all.

[Té Rowan]

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69513 — "The Aneroid Barometer" by G. W. Plympton. Published in 1890.

I think it was Niels Bohr who wrote in response to an exam question a short essay on the many ways in which one could ue a barometer to measure how tall a building is, ending it with something like this: "And finally the expected, boring way, namely to read the atmospheric pressure at the base and again at the top of the building and calculate the height from the difference between the readings."

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

I believe one of the earlier, less boring ways, was to find the building manager. "Sir, I will give you this fine barometer if you will let me look over the blueprints of this building." The statistical error in the height measurement would be a LOT less than you'd get the simple, expected, boring way.

I had fun with that sort of thing, once. There was this math teacher who gave out boring, simple problems. So I would use every branch of math I knew to transform the problem into something more interesting, then would solve that. (By grad school, I knew quite a few branches of math.)

Rutherford scattering was another of my betes noir. I solved that one in a test, in the "wrong way", unlike everybody else. (Same result, though.) Had my revenge years later as a TA at another school, when somebody else solved it my way. So I graded him high, and wrote, "They marked me down for this solution. It's so good to see it again that you can have all the points they took from me, as well as your own."

[Té Rowan]

Heh! Good yin.

[Té Rowan]

https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Archive-Studio-Sound/80s/Studio-Sound-1983-04.pdf
It's a magazine issue, actually, but maybe someone will be interested in the recording terminology glossary contained therein.

[Té Rowan]

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69512 — "The Calculus of Logic" by George Boole.
Boolean logic, the primer.

[Té Rowan]

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70052 — "Ancient Calendars and Constellations" by Emmeline Mary Plunket,

Eight papers on the named subject.

[Té Rowan]

https://archive.org/details/processedworld — Magazine for unhappy office workers.

[Té Rowan]

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70210 — "A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different From Their Present" by Richard Chenevix Trench.

You have no doubt heard of topic drift… but what about meaning drift?

[Té Rowan]

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70448 — "Tokology – A Book for Every Woman" by Alice B. Stockham. Pub. 1893.

A book about pregnancy, childbirth and related matters.

[Té Rowan]

https://archive.org/details/glossaryoffrench00lerouoft — "A Glossary of French Slang" by Olivier Leroy. Published 1924.

[Té Rowan]

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70528 — "English Printers' Ornaments" by Henry R. Plomer. Pub. 1924.

If nothing else, it could be a source of ornaments for the fanfic on your computer.

[Té Rowan]

Yeah, might be.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Radford+Architectural+Company%22

Whatever one can say about some of the houses in these books, cookie-cutter isn't it.

[Té Rowan]

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66239 — "Peer Gynt" by Henrik Ibsen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMO-E4dSuoE — "Solveig's Song" from "Peer Gynt" sung by Sissel Kyrkjebø.