http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/magazine/dickens-world.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=print

Also, Takery sent me this earlier today.

Publication Date: February 5, 2012.

Yelling as Sublime
-Steve Wright

On Completing Gilles Deleuze’s Logic of Sense
-Ari Berenbaum

A Study in New Pioneering: a Study in the Empirical Identification of New Frontiers
-Andrew Wasson

Pink Paper
-Tammy T. Stone

My Kracken McKraken
-Richard Grzela

Also, file under people doing real things:

(1) Lucas Blalock’s show xyz at Ramiken Crucible in NYC runs until December 23.  It is truly awesome.  Make sure you check it out.

(2) Long-time DR contributor known to some as “the Bruise” has created a mobile app called “Form Fiction.”

(3) Listing this third as to avoid any claim of bias, the exceedingly cool acrylic abstract work of Elizabeth Herbert-Wasson.

(4) Released earlier this fall, Ben Rubin’s rich, imaginative, and profound When Comes What Darkly Thieves.

(5) Interview with John Crouch about Cape & Chalice in QRD.  Also note Wizzerds / Club 7″ split release last spring.

I know that there are a lot of other people doing real things.

There have been several erroneous reports that Dairy River is a dairy.  Consider these rumors dispelled.

Also, we’ve been receiving many great submissions, so a hearty thank you is extended to everyone who has shared your work with us!  We’re currently sifting through the entries and we’ll get the acceptance letters out ASAP.

A number of widely-encompassing and relatively fine-grained classification systems actually already exist.  For a long time we have celebrated the Dewey decimal system as serving this purpose.  I came across yet another, even more particulate, classification system the other day: the Trademark Acceptable Identification of Goods & Services Manual.  Basically, if you register a trademark with the Patent Office, you have to denote the applicable goods and services and you can only pick from this list.  This list, however, contains more than 30,000 entries, so there is much to choose from.

The first good on the list is “chives” with subcategories of fresh, raw, or unprocessed.  I’d like to work through the list and spotlight each good.  Like, what are chives, what characteristics make the best chives, who has taken it to the next level with chives obsession, and so on.  I think it would be a fruitful project.  I’ve got my hands full with the Handbook and what not, but if anyone wants to the be the editor of Dairy River: Goods & Services step up: dairyriver@gmail.com.

With the Handbook, I e-mailed Cooper Lighting about the origins of the OV25 model back when it was a Westinghouse, we’ll see if they get back to me.  I don’t see why they wouldn’t, it’s free publicity.  Conflicted about whether to move on from Streetlights or not.  I think I’m going to see it through to another level of completion before moving on.

Moving forward, making progress.  I’ve been stalled somewhat by the cold weather, because I want to get outside to take some streetlight glamor shots but traipsing around all day in the cold is not going to happen.   I also am intrigued by the idea of finding out the designer of the cobrahead streetlight, ala Pizza Hut roof.

So, bottom line is that I don’t want to move from the streetlight module just yet.

DR and the Handbook is always looking for collaborators, so if you have a special knowledge base and/or want to help out, e-mail us!

I also liked Jakle’s explanation of luminaire, which appears to be used in practice with some ambiguity:

In a broad sense, the term luminaire can refer to both the street lamp as light source and to its support and enclosure.  My focus is on the lamp surround.  In this narrower use of the word, the luminaire directs the light as it supports and protects the lamp, connecting the lamp to its energy source.  Luminaire design and positioning represented the very essence of streetlight application.

City Lights at 97.  The book seems light (ha, no pun intended) on more recent luminaires, like the Cobraheads.

Got me to wondering about the history of Cobrahead design — in more detail than just that GE and Westinghouse introduced similar models about the same time in the 50s.  Is another Quest in order?  Perhaps there was some sort of Chrysler-Empire State building like arms race between the two companies.

Coming soon, a New Pioneer field trip to try and originate some of our own photos for the Handbook.  I’m not crazy about using third party photos.  Been waiting for the weather to turn, perhaps toward the end of the month?

UPDATED

Score at 5 minutes to play in the first half

Color of the punters shoes

Whether anyone refers to THE ohio state university

Time the first field goal is kicked

Time the last field goal is kicked

Ratios of vowels to consonants in the first td scorers name

How many commercials show a train in some form

Number of minutes, real time, between end of 2q and kickoff at 3q

Number of times the ball is purposely kicked

Number of different guitars played during halftime show

Color of liquid dumped on coach

Fake field goal or Safety

Who has possession at 2 to play in the 3rd

Most prominent color in commentator ties

Total number of personal fouls

# of TD celebrations involving coordinated dance moves

We’ll update with our expert predictions just prior to gametime.