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Richard Roman's Blog – May 2013 Archive (2)
Cricket and its exquisite sadness
Cricket and its exquisite sadness
What is it about this unobtrusive game and the wistful yearnings it never quite fulfils?
A few fans drink in the joy and sorrow of the game unfolding before them. Photograph: Rebecca Naden/PA Archive/Press Association Ima
Somewhere within it, cricket has a deep, maybe unending, payload of sadness. It's there in its history, in its psychology and perhaps more than that, it's part of what the game actually is.
By sadness, I don't… Continue
What is it about this unobtrusive game and the wistful yearnings it never quite fulfils?
A few fans drink in the joy and sorrow of the game unfolding before them. Photograph: Rebecca Naden/PA Archive/Press Association Ima
Somewhere within it, cricket has a deep, maybe unending, payload of sadness. It's there in its history, in its psychology and perhaps more than that, it's part of what the game actually is.
By sadness, I don't… Continue
Added by Richard Roman on May 26, 2013 at 13:32 — 2 Comments
3D printing: the new, bottom-up industrial revolution
I don't know much about this but it appears to be a staggering development. 20 years ago we had no Google or Facebook or Twitter, indeed no World Wide Web to speak of. I wonder if this new idea will have a similar effect
Remarkably, 3D printing allows actual objects to be designed and created (or “printed”) surprisingly quickly with a computer connected to a printer-like device, using special material (often plastic, but increasingly almost anything) as “ink” and “paper”. With the… Continue
Remarkably, 3D printing allows actual objects to be designed and created (or “printed”) surprisingly quickly with a computer connected to a printer-like device, using special material (often plastic, but increasingly almost anything) as “ink” and “paper”. With the… Continue
Added by Richard Roman on May 8, 2013 at 16:36 — 11 Comments
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