A lot of people online report growing up as gifted and promising and then not being able to perform as adults.
You don't hear as much about people who grow up as gifted and promising, then performing above and beyond as adults, but not receiving any rewards worth mentioning because they chose a field with no money or honours in it. 🙄
Financial Times: "AI borrowing slows as investors grow wary of debt binge.
The amount of new debt that tech companies raised to help fund costly artificial intelligence developments fell sharply last month as investors reassessed the industry’s risks following months of rampant borrowing."
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I'm so old that until yesterday I still thought Mexico City was the biggest city on the planet.
It's currently #15 on the list. Jakarta and Dhaka are both more than twice as big.
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Un jeu à venir pour le dispositif et pour l’EMC de 5e http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhh898p5Vr8 https://pierrickauger.wordpress.com/2026/10/10/un-jeu-a-venir-pour-le-dispositif-et-pour-lemc-de-5e/
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to bingata techniques.
what about puting lacquer on metallic implements, we have this in ryukyu to prevent rust, do they have it in japan. he only can think of one example when it was used on copper roof tiles. no other example.
viet-namian lacquer is found in okinawa, but not in the pieces analyzed this time.
end of comm, we're going to the exhibition, but i won't live-toot that.
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the 「recipes」and techniques are different from the ones found in japan (meiji university analyses lacquer from all over japan).
end of comm.
questions :
where does the shuri fragments came from ? from archaeological excavations in shuri, but he doesn't know the exact location, but it's probably not the main building (seiden).
they can analyse even very small fragments. microgrammes.
the composition of the shuri pieces, especially the fact that they include calcium could be compared
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…only a few millimetres long.
lot of different compositions in the fragments : made of different molecules, with different provenances in asia, even if the colour is broadly the same.
→ some of the lacquer were imported to be used in Shuri castle, didn't only use local lacquer.
#RyukyuLT not only the different components but also the type of lacquer molecule and the origin of the lacquer sap.
pieces that have been made in ryukyu are found all over asia.
they also analyze the techniques such as gold inclusion, how many layers of paint, and datation, in addition with the 「recipe 」(components)
datation of the lacquer is better than datation of the wood since wood can be reused, or only used long time after cut.
analyses from shuri castle. fragments of lacquer, …
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difficult, that's why it's an art.
artificial lacquer are easy to use and always end up with a smooth and nice surface. natural lacquer is more difficult.
the colours differ according to provenance from light red to almost black.
natural lacquer is very hard so difficult to analyze. also the colour changes with time due to reaction with light.
meiji university has a lab specialized for lacquer analyses. they 「unharden」it, separate it in different components and are able to know
#RyukyuLT so if you analyze them you know provenance.
urushiol only becomes hard outside of the tree, a part of the molecule wants to oxide and another part doesn't want to, the part that doesn't want to oxide is stronger when in the tree, but outside, it looses its hydrogen parts and starts to want to glue to the other urushiol molecule, the part who wants to oxide also glues to other urushiol and everything gets compact. in a very messy way, so that controlling the hardening is very …
I'm thinking about what to bring to my new part-time #home in Hallstahammar, adding to my list. Just now: bread tin, extension cord.
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the next comm is by Takayuki Honda of Meiji University. the research group about lacquer is a joint group urasoe museum-meiji university. the meiji university comms are always very sciency while the museum ones are generally focusing on archaeology and art.
honda will present analyses in link with shuri castle.
lacquer is used in china, japan and all south-west asia, with different types of trees according to the area, with different molecules of lacquer,urushiol,laccol and thitsiol
Listened to a whole album yesterday, for the first time in years. The new release by Teenage Fanclub.
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…museum are not exposed, that's the 21st century, take photographs and 3d scans and put them online for every researcher in the world to study them.
the ryukyuan red lacquer is very red, that's a very characteristic feature that could be compared with other countries.
the one plank they have, there is a hand writing note saying it's from kume island Yacchi no gama but noone knows how it arrived at the museum.
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#RyukyuLT just lacquer. most are edo period, from various parts of japan. they can say what they want but lacquer is far cooler without shell or gold inclusion… also let's stop at red and black, no need of other colours, thanks.
they have many pieces whose origin is unknown that they hope to identify.
conclusion : possibility of study → comparison art pieces and archaeological pieces, in the patterns. especially floral and leave patterns.
end of comm,
questions. most of the pieces of the
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