Palermo Monte Pellegrino, Targa Florio anno 1950, il pilota Tazio Nuvolari a bordo della Sport 1100 cc
#palermo #panormus #sicilia #sicily #italy #europe #world #picoftheday #picture #image #immagine #photo #photography #fotografia #storia #story #aspassoneltempo #aspassonella #storia #tazionuvolari #targaflorio

Calling all those who signed up to The Storybook Sock Box - The Secret Garden - it's time for the big reveal!

Introducing 'The Secret Garden' - a 100g skein of hand dyed 100% British Bluefaced Leicester 4 ply high twist sock yarn along with a contrasting 25g mini skein perfect for heels, toes and cuffs.

Included in the box is a copy of the book, a card, a bookmark and decorative soap in a gift box.

Boxes are already on their way. Happy knitting!

Se state guardando su Netflix la serie TV "Il Gattopardo", tratta dal romanzo di Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, la storia, ambientata nella Palermo del 1860, si intreccia con l'insurrezione garibaldina, lo sbarco dei mille in Sicilia, sotto la guida di Giuseppe Garibaldi, la battaglia contro l'oppressione borbonica, iniziata il 27 maggio.

In questo articolo del mio blog, delle foto storiche, scattate in quei giorni da alcuni fotografi francesi: Alexandre Ferrier, Gustave Le Gray, Eugène Sevaistre.

https://www.panormus.blog/culture.php?id=insurrezione-di-palermo-1860

#palermo #panormus #sicilia #sicily #italy #europe #world #picoftheday #picture #image #immagine #photo #photography #fotografia #storia #story

Ungowwa enjoys her daily naps on her bench platform or nestled in the leaves along the bottom fence line of her habitat. Even for her age, Ungowwa showcases her energetic and curious nature through enrichment, socializing with her neighbors, and running along the fence line.

This one time in maybe 2018 I pissed off a few uni colleagues. At a "senate" meeting (it deserves quotation marks at my school) some people with #psychometrics training & experience, including me, explained that a specific kind of #assessment was invalid--as in zero validity for intended purpose--so we should not use it. It literally provides no information about what it says, so we might as well roll dice or draw #random words from a hat.

The administration argued vehemently for keeping the assessment. They claimed it was valid (we showed them it wasn't). They claimed that a "caring" or "astute" instructor could glean valuable information (we showed them that this wasn't possible). They appealed to the other professors, implying that not using this assessment meant they didn't care about their students, and that voting to eliminate this assessment meant they (the eggheaded intellectuals) were being dunked on by the eggheaded intellectuals.

The measure failed and we still use the assessment. After the meeting I and someone else were bemoaning the result. I said something like "What happened in there was Trumpian." A colleague walking by overheard and angrily asked, "What do you mean by that?!"

I said, "The faculty heard from the experts telling them something they didn't like and they chose to go with the people who had no expertise telling them what they wanted to hear."

(I am sometimes not diplomatic; this makes a good story, but I really wish I had found a better way to say that.)

The person audibly huffed, actually turned on their heel, and walked away. They haven't spoken to me since.

From: blenderdumbass . org

The challenge for Dani's Race is deliberately not to be a movie. As in the game should not have cuts, nor there ever should be a moment when the player loses control over the character. Yet through all those limitations I want to continue a story I started in an actua...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/story_without_cutscenes_in_dani_s_race

Yes,

I post almost daily over on Pixelfed .

@midtsveen@pixelfed.social

An improviser's "found" music can be a shock or can help the player rediscover a story. Here's one such tale of found music. #improvisation #PianoImprov #emotions #story #storytelling

“Found” Music In The Musician’...

An improviser's "found" music can be a shock or can help the player rediscover a story. Here's one such tale of found music.
#improvisation #PianoImprov #emotions #story #storytelling

https://muz4now.com/2025/found-music-in-the-musicians-dustbin/

my friend just told me this wild story:

She was at a yoga retreat and gave a woman a ride to the market on Saltspring.

The woman asked if she could sing her performance pieces (in French, which wasn’t familiar to them) and get my friend to correct her pronunciation.

…what followed was a mind-blowing a capella set by John Coltrane’s daughter Michelle, in the back seat of the car.

She was going to perform in Paris with her trio the following week!

No more TV! Remote's cooked by ye olde corrosion of ye batteries.
No my options are TV OFF, TV ON = Standby because the last thing I did was put TV in Standby.
Tried undoing Standby but, nada.
The remote has passed, it's dead, deceased. It has shuffled off this mortal coil …

Monty Python: No it hasn't … It's having a rest, it's pining for the Fjords.

A #randomphoto from my collection of beautiful places lost in time. Would you like to hear its story? Did something catch your eye? Ask me a question in the comments!

Follow if you love #Urbex and #AbandonedPlaces photography

Passeggiata a Palermo, dipinto di Franz Ludwig Catel del 1846

#palermo #panormus #sicilia #sicily #italy #europe #world #picoftheday #picture #image #immagine #photo #photography #fotografia #storia #story #cultura #culture #arte #art #aspassoneltempo #aspassonellastoria #memorie #travel #panorama #dipinto