JohnBKevinJADES data: https://jades.idies.jhu.edu/public/Thoughts on approximately 5/12 of Don QuixoteThe Time Life "Mysteries of the Unknown" Series (1987-1991) and its impact on a generation of young nerdshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysteries_of_the_Unknownhttps://www.reddit.com/r/IcebergCharts/comments/r487u4/distant_astronomical_objects_iceberg/https://www.slideshare.net/DirkTheDaring11/timelife-mysteries-of-the-unknown-the-ufo-phenomenonhttps://archive.org/details/DreamsAndDreaming_201809/page/n33/mode/2uphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lal0aWAys0kThomas Edison didn't think telephones needed to ring. He figured the caller could just start yelling "hello" at you even before you answered the phoneDesideratahttps://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.htmlhttps://www.readwritethink.org/sites/default/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson372/PoloniusExcerpt.pdfIs pinball meant to be fun? Can you lose a quarter at an arcade faster in a game cabinet or in a pinball machine?https://arcadeblogger.com/2018/07/06/arcade-holy-grail-the-pinball-circus/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAtVBb8rOokhttps://archive.org/details/TILTTheBattleToSavePinballDisc2ExtrasDog ownership.A living creature that just wanders around the house.Picking up warm soft weird thing.Cracking open a cold one.Computers flush with science data.The deepest images humans have ever taken.Finding distances to individual galaxies.Listicles you can peruse.Picking a galaxy and naming it after yourself.Bug Mars 2.The Glass Universe.Hiring women and calling them computers.A guy with a lot of free time and a gold nose.Some public domain books being more readable than others.Pun localization.North American otaku tilting at windmills with their katanas.How people pronounce quixotic and how they ought to pronounce quixotic.Whether we respect English majors on this show.Naming a character something weird and hoping nobody argues about the pronunciation hundreds of years from now.Butthead as Don Quixote and Beavis as Sancho Panza.The Great Cornholio tilting at windmills.The era of translations that don't realize Don Quixote is a parody.Part II of Don Quixote responding to Don Quixote fan fiction.Don Coyote.Sending Mario Maker back to Miguel Cervantes to see what he would make.The kinds of books your parents would have on their shelf, back when that was the only thing available to read.The 80s resurgence of New Age thought.Mystic Places.The Shin Megami Tensei section in the library.Where to find the books that teach you magic in the public library.The canonical map of reported UFO sightings worldwide.Books for the kind of person who thinks Aleister Crowley is cool.The Spaceships of Ezekiel.The JWST iceberg.The Distant Astronomical Objects iceberg.A tin can and a string with a battery attached.Hello, fellow phone owner.A phone call asking you to log into a web site and read a message.Funny ways to answer the phone.E.B. Games, where you can get F-Zero for Zero.The size of fortune cookies in the 1920s.Nice things to do and be.Desiderata vs. Deteriorata.Advice giving poems.Skin cancer is mid.Casey Kasem quitting Transformers after they wrote an episode featuring Abdul, king of Carbombya.Avoiding loud and aggressive persons.Pinball getting harder and more complex over the course of a century.Baffleball.Pinball features to make things easier for beginners.The quickest way to lose money on an arcade game.Tilt-sensing plum bobs.A weird kinetic sculpture that exists just for your entertainment.The Black Hole for Personal Reasons.A boring and easy pinball cabinet that you can play for an hour when you want to get sick of pinball.Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball.Multidisc!Pinball tables by George Gomez.Pinball: not actually fun, but they did their best.Free play skee-ball.Pacific Pinball Museum and Musee Mecanique.Twitter forgiveness.
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