{"id":494,"date":"2007-03-12T12:42:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T12:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2014-03-07T17:14:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T22:14:35","slug":"stepping-in-the-same-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"Stepping in the same river"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent the weekend walking around Boston and Cambridge, revisiting old haunts and enjoying the leading edge of what will eventually turn into Spring. Among the locales I visited were Harvard’s Agassiz Museum (nowadays it’s called “Natural History”) and Peabody Museum of Anthropology, both of which I frequented at several points in my young and not-so-young life. Many of my favorites were still in place, and I could trace the distant origins of later fascinations. The stuffed animals were pretty startling because I remembered expressions and postures very exactly. Even the basic smells of the place are pretty much the same as they were when I first knew them about !! 60 !! years ago… Amongst the ornithological specimens I found illustrations for <\/p>\n

Auk! that’s no puffin I know
Can’t pronounce “guillemot”
\"...can't<\/a>
That’s a murre
\"...that's<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Hark back to mid-2006 for other “That’s amore” variants<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Another bit of resonance was the ceiling-hung skeleton of a Right Whale which I can remember being especially impressed by as a child:<\/p>\n

\"business<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…which was (doubtless) the source of the image I used to retail to classes of students as an analogy for the search process: you take in a LOT of information and sort through it as a baleen whale sieves krill, keeping the tasty bits…<\/p>\n

Another image, from a later date, is provided by the Pirarucu<\/p>\n

\"Pirarucu\"<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…the namesake of the Collaborative Information Management tool I was working on<\/a> in Summer 2002 –a scheme that was Ahead of Its Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent the weekend walking around Boston and Cambridge, revisiting old haunts and enjoying the leading edge of what will eventually turn into Spring. Among the locales I visited were Harvard’s Agassiz Museum (nowadays it’s called “Natural History”) and Peabody Museum of Anthropology, both of which I frequented at several points in my young and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entanglement","category-pome","category-rumination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}