Friday, August 15, 2025

Good morning - today's Wolmania takes a few brief moments to draw your attention and appreciation to human creativity and innovation.

Item 1: a link

Dan Hollick is writing a book called Making Software, which starts with a meticulously illustrated chapter about how digital displays work. If you, like me, have always taken your phone screen for granted, it might be worth perusing this chapter, which starts with CRT screens and ends with micro LED technology. Neat stuff.

Item 2: a list

Homicide: Life on the Street Characters, Ranked:

1. Ed Danvers ( Željko Ivanek)
2. Megan Russert (Isabella Hofmann)
3. Tim Bayliss (Kyle Secor)
4. Frank Pembleton (Andre Braugher)
5. John Munch (Richard Belzer)
6. Michael Giardello (Giancarlo Esposito)
7. Al Giardello (Yaphet Kotto)
8. Laura Ballard (Callie Thorne)
9. Julianna Cox (Michelle Forbes)
10. Kay Howard (Melissa Leo)
11. Terri Stivers (Toni Lewis)
12. Steve Crosetti (Jon Polito)
13. Rene Sheppard (Michael Michele)
14. Paul Falsone (Joon Seda)
15. J. H. Brodie (Max Perlich)
16. Stuart Gharty (Peter Gerety)
17. Meldrick Lewis (Clark Johnson)
18. Stanley Bolander (Ned Beatty)
19. Beau Felton (Daniel Baldwin)
20. Mike Kellerman (Reed Diamond)

Item 3: a media recommendation

Item 4: word of the week

Corybantic

My first impression of Professor Scanlon was of elbow pads and uncuffed corduroy, attacking the chalkboard with his stylus in a corybantic display of brilliance. My second impression was that I had walked into the wrong classroom and that was actually just a grad student on a corybantic array of recreational drugs.

Item 5: a photograph

See ya!

Well, how was that? Did you enjoy yourself? In any case, I'll be taking next week off so expect another issue on August 29 or so.