Comments on Lift Up Your Hearts!

Comment on The Ghost Wing

Joyful — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:28:43 -0400

I can see from the first photo how the rest of the wing could blend in with the sky. But it certainly makes for a fun picture!

Comment on Politics Is Not Always Serious

SursumCorda — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:02:11 -0400

Sadly, he lost the election. I may have to serve pizza for dinner soon in his honor.

Comment on Sign Language in the Museo Galileo

SursumCorda — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:21:29 -0400

Purely my speculation, based in part on what I gathered from Janet's experience with Japanese Sign Language, I suspect that one factor the various languages have in common is reliance on expression, motion, and spatial relationships. That may help in a sense similar to the way knowing one Romance language makes it easier to get along in another Romance language.

Comment on Sign Language in the Museo Galileo

Kathy Lewis — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:28:59 -0400

There is at least a fair amount of overlap between different sign languages. My Brazilian friend Rosemary in Gambia had learned Brazilian sign language beforehand, and transitioned fairly easily into Gambian sign language.

Comment on When Billboards Are a Pleasure

SursumCorda — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:35:39 -0400

Here's one more we saw:
QUALITY, XENIAL, YUM, ZEBRA

Comment on Gemini Rocks Photo Identification

SursumCorda — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:52:45 -0400

That's okay, Grace. To each his own, in politics and writing! But if you ever want to replace me as a proofreader, I'm sure Claude (Anthropic's AI) or Gemini (Google's) will be glad to help out. :)

Comment on Gemini Rocks Photo Identification

Grace K — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:35:57 -0400

My paranoia about AI makes it impossible for me to even understand what you said, let alone comment. Sorry about that.

Comment on Heat, Part 2

SursumCorda — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:09:29 -0400

We carry on that tradition! Twice recently we've been to movies in Connecticut, when even the Maggie P. was miserably hot, just to get a break. I learned from Eric Schultz's book, Innovation on Tap that movie theaters were among the first places to adopt A/C, for just that reason: people flocked to the movies just to escape the heat.

Comment on Heat, Part 2

Kathy Lewis — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:07:44 -0400

When I was a child, we only went to movies in summer. Movie theaters were air-conditioned, so it gave us a few hours of cool.

Yes to gelaterias.

Comment on Commercial Pilot!

Grace K — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:18:39 -0400

As you know, I'm thrilled for him. Still hoping he and Cassidy can meet one of these days.

Comment on Heat

SursumCorda — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:20:15 -0400

You're absolutely right. Yet another way they knew how to create beautiful buildings back then!

Comment on Heat

Kathy Lewis — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:11:34 -0400

Old Gothic churches are another way to escape the heat in many European cities.

Comment on Commercial Pilot!

Kathy Lewis — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:23:48 -0400

Congratulations!

Comment on Everyone's Gone to the Moon

Kathy Lewis — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:02:40 -0400

I never heard this song.

Comment on I Looked Out My Office Window, and I Found...

SursumCorda — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:36:35 -0400

Immediately after I posted this, at least three of them were back in broad daylight, eating ravenously.