Mildly interesting

[taiwan_girl]

@kluurs But that is not the general Robert E Lee, correct? Is that his son? Seems like pictures were not around when General Lee was that age.

[LuFins Dad]

@kluurs said in Mildly interesting:

This is Mrs. Robert E. Lee. The child is their son, Robert E Lee Jr.

That’s not at all unusual for the time. It was actually common practice among higher ranked families in Europe and the US for boys to wear dressing gowns until they were 6-8 years old. The whole thing was called breeching, when the boy would graduate to pants.

[Mik]

[Copper]

[jon-nyc]

@Copper

Interesting.

Something else mildly interesting, I met her and her husband when they were selling some homegrown software to a client I had in the early 90s.

[jon-nyc]

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[Horace]

Marsupial pouches are like the redneck ingenuity of evolution.

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[jon-nyc]

[George K]

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

I was waiting for them to attack each other…

[George K]

[Copper]

We have a couple of Great Blue Herons on the golf course.

If you walk close to one and startle it sitting at the edge of a pond, it will really get your attention when those wings unfold.

[Axtremus]

History of PDF:

https://www.se-radio.net/2022/10/episode-532-peter-wyatt-and-duff-johnson-on-30-years-of-pdf/

Radio interview of two PDF veteran technologists on how PDF has evolved in the last 30 years. You can download the audio for offline listening, I believe.

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

The brain pathologist, Edward Charles Spitzka, who did the autopsy on Garfield's assassin (Charles Guiteau) found that Guiteau's brain was structurally abnormal, perhaps predisposing him to insanity.

The man who examined the brain of McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was Edward Anthony Spitzka, the son of the other Spitzka.

[kluurs]

[Klaus]

@kluurs Is that photo real? Why would somebody make a very expensive photo of two dirty kids in 1904? At that time, taking a photo was an event for which people dressed specifically.

[kluurs]

@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:

@kluurs Is that photo real? Why would somebody make a very expensive photo of two dirty kids in 1904? At that time, taking a photo was an event for which people dressed specifically.

Retraction - No, apparently not. It is shown as Al Capone and his brother on a few sites which is why I thought it legit - but up on further sleuthing it appears to be a photograph of Vivian Maier's who wasn't born till 1926. Thus, you're right, not Al Capone.