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(via Who was Lurch?)

Who was Lurch?

Lurch was a fictional character created by American cartoonist Charles Addams as a butler to the Addams Family. In the original television series, Lurch was played by Ted Cassidy.

He is a 6 ft. 9 in. tall, shambling, gloomy butler. In the original Addams Family television series, Lurch has a deep and resonant voice ["You Rang"]. Although fully capable of normal speech, Lurch often communicates via simple inarticulate moans, which, much like the dialogue of Cousin Itt, his employers have no trouble understanding.

Like any butler, Lurch tries to help around the house, but occasionally his great size and strength cause trouble. He clearly takes pride in his work and is willing to do even the most arduous task.

Did you know Lurch was from Florida, was an ocean lifeguard, and went to Stetson University?

See More including video and history [Brownie Bytes] https://browniebytes.net/2025/06/04/who-was-lurch/

#TVShows #AddamsFamily #Sitcom #comedy #humor #fun #Florida

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(via Alligators in the sewer myth is true: City workers find out in jaw-dropping video)

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Schools Out for Summer SFSC

Wrapping up teaching for the semester at multiple campuses of South Florida State College.

The Foucault Pendulum at the Avon Park campus consists of a 235 lb. hollow brass "bob" suspended by a 32-foot cable. There are 48 wooden #obelisks surrounding the pendulum which, due to the college's latitude of 27.32 deg North, takes 2 days, 4 hours and 19 minutes to knock down all 48 obelisks. This equates to about 165 deg of rotation every 24 hours.

My question is, who on campus is responsible for putting the obelisks back up so the pendulum can knock them down again?

See you in the Fall (August)!

Thanks to Alice Cooper for the music. Play it at the end of every semester...

#college #schoolsoutforsummer #teaching #education #pendulum #time #timeflies

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The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish

Last year I wrote about some very interesting research being done by Paul J. Heald at the University of Illinois, based on software that crawled Amazon for a random selection of books. At the time, his results were only preliminary, but they were nevertheless startling: There were as many books available from the 1910s as there were from the 2000s. The number of books from the 1850s was double the number available from the 1950s. Why? Copyright protections (which cover titles published in 1923 and after) had squashed the market for books from the middle of the 20th century, keeping those titles off shelves and out of the hands of the reading public.

Read more. [Image: Paul J. Heald]

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“Maturity begins when we’re content to feel we’re right about something, without feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong.”

— Sydney J. Harris

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Tokyo’s Kadokawa Culture Museum Houses an Arresting Kengo Kuma-Designed Bookshelf Theater

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Hong Kong independent bookstore Bleak House Books to close

"The backdrop to these developments is, of course, politics," wrote owner Albert Wan on his family's decision to leave the city.

One of Hong Kong’s last independent English-language bookstores is to close in October. Founded in 2017 by Albert Wan and Jenny Smith, Bleak House Books in San Po Kong will close to the public on October 15.

Wan wrote in a blog post that he and his family had decided to leave Hong Kong, describing it as a painful and sad decision: “The backdrop to these developments is, of course, politics. To be sure, what my wife Jenny, my kids, and I do in our daily lives is not overtly political. Jenny is a university professor, I sell books, and the kids are primary school students. But as George Orwell once remarked, ‘[i]n our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues.'”

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We may not be able to go very far in real life these days, but we always have books. 🗺 — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2UncXHH

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It’s not nice to fool #BrownieBytes. #marketing that works for the wrong reasons

https://browniebytes.net/2020/01/25/spinach-wraps/

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Stephan Nilson is an Incredible Crazy

Hope to work with this guy again some day.  Stephan Nilson just moved on to bigger and better in California.  Wish him huge luck!  

He’s a great cameraman, steadicam operator, and editor.  He handles motion graphics too. It helps that he has a background in illustration and storytelling.  Plus his technical knowledge is rock solid and always up-to-date.

I hired Stephan several years ago and he’s been my go-to guy for almost all of our video production.  Now he’s off to a startup that has lots of promise.  Go get em Stephan!

As the “Front man for the crazies,” I couldn’t have been more fortunate to have Stephan as the lead crazy.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephannilson/