List Mania: Obsolete Names

Here are women's names you rarely hear anymore (except perhaps on Downton Abbey):

Mildred (my grandfather's sister's name)
Marian
Edith
Violet
Mabel
Cora
Phyllis
Connie (my late aunt's name)
Gertrude (as a child, I had a neighbor by this name)
Elaida (my grandmother had a friend by this name)
Ethel
Daisy (as a kid, I knew an old lady by this name)
Edna
Vera
Harriet
Gwendolen
Mavis
Kitty (as a kid, I had a sometime teacher by this name)
Lucy (a childhood friend had a babysitter by this name)

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Cosmigraphics
Basil Twist
the ortolan
Riot Games
Airbnb
Xiaomi
Autómata
Meshell Ndegeocello
the Friedrichsbad baths
Ladyfag
The Slanted Door
Taghrooda

The T&T List: Zen Books that Never Were

Zen and the Art of Dishwashing
Zen and the Art of Coffee Drinking
Zen and the Art of Shoe Tying
Zen and the Art of Telephone Dialing
Zen and the Art of Stair Climbing
Zen and the Art of Tooth Brushing
Zen and the Art of Showering
Zen and the Art of Peeing
Zen and the Art of Shirt Buttoning
Zen and the Art of Floor Sweeping
Zen and the Art of Dusting
Zen and the Art of Vacuuming
Zen and the Art of Weeding
Zen and the Art of Lawn Mowing
Zen and the Art of Stamp Licking
Zen and the Art of Hair Combing
Zen and the Art of Recycling
Zen and the Art of Window Washing
Zen and the Art of Parallel Parking
Zen and the Art of Bill Paying
Zen and the Art of Pot Stirring
Zen and the Art of Nail Hammering
Zen and the Art of Email Checking
Zen and the Art of Door Locking
Zen and the Art of Pillow Fluffing
Zen and the Art of Cork Screwing
Zen and the Art of Can Opening
Zen and the Art of Water Boiling

~~~

"After enlightenment, the laundry." --Zen Proverb

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Svante Paabo
alewife herrings
botnets
Social Sweepster
Donogoo
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Haut Marais
Vinod Khosla
Withings
Sundar Pichai
the B-mode pattern
Wankhede Stadium
Venetian Ceruse

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synchrotron imaging
Code.org
Alibaba
MERS
the Schroth method
Benjamin Millepied
Creativity Inc.
Sylvan Esso
Poveglia
Trinamool Congress
Skullcandy
WinBot 730

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Manu Prakash
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Digital Public Library of America
Ljubljana
DreamDry
Peru Harri
Cliveden House
Morbid Anatomy Museum
Zohydro
Land of Nod
Lytro Illum
Max Tegmark

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Club Juventus
Chad Kellogg
Senator Kefauver
Cnidarians
Romundina
Timber Kings
Alain de Botton
Mulberry Bags
Kim Yu-na
Ivanpah
Keurig Vue V700

Brain Dump

I'm thinking about different ways to describe the Big Bang....

Horrendous Space Kablooie?
Amazin' Cosmic Combust?
Flabbergasting Universal Whamo?
Dynamite Monster Blastathon?
Awesome Celestial Outburst?
Wondrous Transcendental Burp?

There must be others.

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Iñaki Osa Goikoetxea
Coffee Intelligence
chlorogenic acid
FutureCeuticals
Seymour Stein
St Vincent
Grown Backwards
Andrei Tolstov
Hodinkee
"A Closer Winter Tunnel, February-March"
the Oe
Weihnachtsmarkt

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Perlan II
Jacques Monod
the sinoatrial node
Abdellatif Kechiche
Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital
Santo Spirito
Boomerang Nebula
Jingpo Lacus
Hayabusa-2
Horace Higginbotham
Apache MyFaces
Maenohama Station

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White-Juday Warp Field Interferometer
Maya Deren
Olaf Swantee
DTaP Shot
Sunset at Montmajour
Muzaffarnagar
Deprexis
Milo O'Shea
numerosity
Center for Brains, Minds and Machines
Ouya
Do the Mutation

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Inagua Airport
Perry Mason
Plum jerkum
On High in Blue Tomorrows
Gretsch Duo Jet
The New York Jedi
Djimon Hounsou
Benedict Cumberbatch
edamame bean
Hakalau Forest
foraminifera
Utricularia tricolor

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Legion
Marney Dunman Perry Jr.
First Church of Elvis, Scientist
Blanket Jackson
Google Flu Trends
Blakiston's fish owl
paradors
Pc Anthony Wallyn
Vyjack
Huawei
National Day of Unplugging
People, Hell and Angels

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graph search
Mallory Hagan
Jusepe de Ribera
"Where Are We Now?"
norovirus
The Equation of Time
Makemake
OKCupid
BrookeBrooke Greenberg
Meerkats 3D
Saltsjobaden
Ultra-Low NOx burners

Messy desk, messy mind? No.

Ten years ago today (give or take a day or two), I posted this:

"If you're a 'knowledge worker' feeling guilty about all the clutter on your desk, you can stop now. Psychologists say the 'mess' actually constitutes a useful 'mental map' of what's going on in that busy little head of yours. At least that's what this article claims:

In praise of clutter"

The article is still online and still interesting.

My cubicle at work isn't overly cluttered, but it does contain a few idiosyncratic items (besides my laptop and big-screen monitor):

• A wind up robot toy
• An old-fashioned green-glass insulator from a telephone pole, used as a paperweight
• A tiny Lucite house with an attached roach clip that holds up a spiky seed pod
• A stack of cards with quirky statements on them (such as "Anonymous: Nobody knows my name" and "Cake Walk") that an artist gave me
• Three very small framed artworks: an abstract; a picture of dark clouds (or possibly flying saucers?) hovering over a landscape; a stylized picture of a male figure being inundated with electronic zig-zags
• A mousepad that looks like a Persian carpet, which I inherited from a former employee
• A vintage 1913 postcard that says "Greetings from Newark"

So that's my mental map... just so you don't get lost.

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The Talking Book Program
33-1/3
Duvall Hecht
Caedmon
Behringer
Audie Awards
J.P. Harrington
Münster
DAISY
Book at Bedtime
FairPlay
standard attack

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White-Juday Warp Field Interferometer
fairywren mothers
Xenoceratops foremostensis
"The Word"
Oliver Luckett
The Corn Islands
Rap Genius
North American Quilling Guild
Orhan Pamuk
Massif
Thunderbird Mountain
Sounds That Can't Be Made

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Boot-Sep
Pete Williams
the C57BL/6NTac mouse
Nagorno-Karabakh
nanomembranes
Hamamatsu City
Sauconys
Popigai Astroblem
White-Juday Warp Field Interferometer
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Tune Drop
geomorphology

~~~

Meanwhile....

Create a jellyfish aquarium

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Peach Fusion
Thawed Fortunes
Gale Crater
meshworm
Jan Oort
makizushi
harvestmen
Robot & Frank
Winnie Winkle
Quay brothers
Project Morpheus
App.net

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Boot-Sep
USS Queenfish
Aman Ali
The Gaslight Anthem
Turquoise Coast
Looper
Jawbone Jambox
Haymarket
"Insane Lullaby"
Seleucians
Ryoji Ikeda
Utricularia tricolor