Wasteland Wrap-up #13

An analemma, cannibalistic schoolgirls, 9th century mathematics, and Hello! Kitty visiting the atomic bomb dome...

Somehow we’re into October already, careening towards the semester midpoint (in two weeks), and a nail-biter of a national election (four weeks). Woof!

Lyndon enjoys some pleasant fall weather — and the panoramic view of Hoboken (left and foreground), Downtown Jersey City (far right towers), and lower Manhattan (middle and left towers in distance, including the Freedom Tower) — at Riverview-Fisk Park, Jersey City Heights.

ICYMI: This week on Doomsday Machines I posted an excerpt from an interview I did with the father-son professor duo of Philip Schrag and Zachary Schrag, about their intertwined fears and hopes of the nuclear age: “Two generations of nuclear hopes and nuclear fears.”

I’ve not yet posted the audio of this interview (or the previous one) — I haven’t totally had the time to get the hang of the audio editing software, and it takes a lot longer to make audio that is listenable than it does to get a transcript (which is generated mostly automatically by Riverside.fm), select the bits that seem most interesting to me (and ideally, others), and then do the light editing required to make those readable. But I will figure it out.

I am surely overthinking it, and should just output the raw audio, but I’m always tempted to make it a little snappier and podcast-y. Which is probably a bad impulse, since I don’t have the experience or time to make it as snappy as I’d like to. Riverside’s automatic tools are pretty good but sometimes it mistakes key words for “ums” and deletes them, so I have to undelete them, so it takes some multiple of the total amount of audio for me to listen to the whole thing and make changes to it. Hm. Anyway, I’ll get it figured out!