Comments on: True Stuff: The Steam Trombone

By: petergarner

petergarner — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:20:41 +0000

Go to the NYT archive page and search for “steam trombone” and you’ll be rewarded with three articles. One is the original news story to which your post is a reaction. The third is a follow up on the resulting court case.

By: paul v.

paul v. — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:39:15 +0000

The link to your slide deck didn’t work for me…little help, perhaps?

By: Kent Walter

Kent Walter — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:46:26 +0000

This reminded me immediately, for reasons that will not be obvious from the title alone, of one of my favorite pieces by Mark Twain: “A Touching Story of George Washington’s Boyhood”.
The only place I could find it online was http://etext.virginia.edu/washington/twain/boyhood/index.html
Please forgive the horrible layout and pictures and try to imagine the text as I read it growing up, in an old, yellowing, and appropriately typeset book of Twain’s writing.

By: Dan B.

Dan B. — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:14:07 +0000

Fun fact: this article is approximately 260,963 times funnier when read in the voice of Al Swearingen.

By: Allen K.

Allen K. — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:08:54 +0000

Looking through your talk, I thought “The stuff from that bad boy’s book can’t be real!”

But yes!

By: Drhoz

Drhoz — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:41:22 +0000

The Shorpy Historical Photo Archive should intrigue as well then – http://www.shorpy.com/