Erin McKean

@emckean.bsky.social

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Wording at Wordnik until the words stop.

Sticker with black text on a yellow background reading “I find it kinda bussin’ I find it kinda cap That the dreams in which I’m dying Are the ones that kinda slap”
Picture of the Pope singing into a microphone, there is a man with a red skullcap behind him waiting impatiently for his turn
Four of the five Marx Brothers in 1931 (top to bottom: Chico, Harpo, Groucho and Zeppo)
Black and white photo of David Lynch in sunglasses with the text “What a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd”
A black metal box on a post. On the front is a decal that says little free ossuary: take a bone, leave a bone surrounded by cartoon bones
Screenshot of skeet saying “the argument that open source projects should only use open source for everything is weak”
Sticker for the Em Dash Defense League. Has the Latin motto Exspecta Illum at the top and “Wait for it—“ at the bottom
Bright yellow bumper sticker on a Subaru crosstrek reading How am I driving? How does an engine even work? How can a loving god cause such agony?
A well-loved paperback copy of The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper against a plaid background, very festive yet foreboding
110. Computer Programming as a Liberal Art I: Programming Arts (HyperCard) (=ComSci 110, GS Hum 298). PQ: Math 102, or 106, or placement into 131 or equivalent; or consent of instructor. ComSci 110-111 fulfills the Common Core requirement in the mathematical sciences. This course aims to keep pace with how computing technology is penetrating the humanistic disciplines. Students learn to program on an Apple Macintosh in the HyperTalk language, within the multimedia application HyperCard, and to apply the skills of programming more generally as a liberal art. As an introduction to programming, the course presents techniques of problem solving, program coding, algorithm construction, and debugging using the object-like programming environment of HyperCard. D. Crabb, W. Sterner. Winter. 111. Computer Programming as a Liberal Art II: Programs as Arguments (HyperCard) (ComSci 111, GS Hum 299). PQ: ComSci 110 or consent of instructor. ComSci 110-111 fulfills the Common Core requirement in the mathematical sciences. This is a continuation of ComSci 110, enlarging upon programming arts by identifying characteristic forms of computer programs, such as machines, models, simulations, and games as genres of argumentation. Students study such forms as recurrent scientific strategies that are making important contributions to new patterns of thinking in the humanities and in the social, biological, and physical sciences. More complete programming experience in HyperCard's object-like techniques is fostered through case studies in the different programming genres. Topics include Turing Machines as general computing models and an interpretation of hypertextual discourse as a "computer game." D. Crabb, W. Sterner. Spring.
A small dull bronze illegible Roman coin with irregular edges rests on top of a roughly opened brown no 10 envelope sealed with a trompe l’oeil sealing wax sticker with the letters SPQR
Empty ornament box with price sticker from “Brendles” marked down to $1.69 from $1.95
Text of eBay review: Absolute schlock. LOVE IT! Dirty old pieces of metal with smudged markings that were passed around among heathens who did not know what soap was... Oh man, imagine all the germs that rode on these things once!! So cool... I think I will put them in my mouth. It's ok. I have a natural immune system. Survived COVID19 without any vaccinations. My blood is pure and too hot for Roman germs. Pussy germs.
screenshot of an eBay purchase receipt for "Random Roman Bronze Coins" for US $4.16 showing a pile of several dozen small coins
Screenshot with a list of zipper colors: Turquoise Zippers Orange Zippers Yellow Zippers Wine - Dark Zippers
Fred and Wilma Flintstone painted on the window of a dry cleaners with a stone tablet reading WE BRING OUR CLOTHES HERE
A broken microwave display reading “Eno” instead of “End”
A Florida Adopt-A-Highway sign in St Augustine, Florida. The adopting organization is the Saint Augustine Libertarians.
A Little Lulu comic panel showing Alvin, a small, red-haired boy in a blue and white paneled beanie. He is frowning and holding a small toy hippo, and saying “Hmm … a hippopossimus.”
It was what I thought of as banana laws - the law of a society in the process of breaking down. Once properly tightened up, it would have meant that I could stop and arrest a man in the street simply because I didn't like the look on his face, or the way his pockets bulged. It would have synchronized nicely with the plastic ID cards that every citizen would be required to carry by then, and before long we would have turned the country into a birdcage. I asked myself whether this was the type of law I would ever want to enforce. If it ever passed onto the statute book we would effectively be released from any serious accountability to the public. Populations don't like it; I remembered what had happened, in a film I had seen, to the police in Budapest in 1956 when the public had got hold of them during the brief insurrection under Imre Nagy.