Alma matters
Maybe I should have cared about the University Boat Race. But sport is just the same damn thing after another, so I was content to snub my own university and spend a day in the Other Place. I can't say whether this was a pretext to see 
j4 or whether seeing j4 was a pretext to visit Cambridge.
Before meeting Janet, I went to the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, which is housed in a 17th-century schoolroom. The main gallery has space for only a single case per subject, which can be dizzying: here are the astrolabes, and next to them, the pocket calculators! Here are the navigational instruments, and here the phrenology heads! But these bite-sized displays were at the right level for me, I confess.
The current exhibition at the University Library is 'Sacred Scripts', part of which shows off the missionary translation collection of the British and Foreign Bible Society. There are Bibles in Cree and Tswana, and a Massachusetts psalter (Uk-kuttoohomaongash David). In this context, the geometric signs of the Cree syllabary reminded me of The Gospel By Signal (thanks, again, toalfaguru).
j4 or whether seeing j4 was a pretext to visit Cambridge.Before meeting Janet, I went to the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, which is housed in a 17th-century schoolroom. The main gallery has space for only a single case per subject, which can be dizzying: here are the astrolabes, and next to them, the pocket calculators! Here are the navigational instruments, and here the phrenology heads! But these bite-sized displays were at the right level for me, I confess.
The current exhibition at the University Library is 'Sacred Scripts', part of which shows off the missionary translation collection of the British and Foreign Bible Society. There are Bibles in Cree and Tswana, and a Massachusetts psalter (Uk-kuttoohomaongash David). In this context, the geometric signs of the Cree syllabary reminded me of The Gospel By Signal (thanks, again, to
alfaguru).