Typecast

Except Not How You Expect It
Cast your minds back to yesterday, or even the day before it (Conrad is a bit fuzzy on the details) and you will remember that we mentioned Fred Gwynne, the South Canadian actor, who is best known for playing the part of Herman Munster in "The Munsters".  Art?

Er - Fred?  I think you need stitches.

     Fred got the part in part because of his height, as he was 6' 5", which gave him an imposing stage presence yet which meant he couldn't fit in the bath or stand up straight on buses.
     Anyway, he was so successful in the role that casting directors automatically saw him as Herman, which is where the "Typecast" of today comes from.  I imagine - and cross fingers frantically - that he got endless and extensive residual payments from "The Munsters", as recompense.
     However! and hopefully you didn't see that word coming, this has nothing to do with what I really wanted to talk about, which is Typewriter Art.  Art?

Behold Mister Cook

     Our champion here uses typewriters to create artworks, by moving the paper from port to starboard, and up and down, and five typewriters of different sorts, and of course multiple keys.  He's an architectural student, which probably explains a lot*.  Let us see what kind of art he can create.  Art!
                      
                                                          Doctor Doctor
     Mister Cook takes up to 30 hours to create one of his collages, and for those who are unfamiliar with typewriters, this means one has to take account of how the paper has absorbed ink and been rendered damp and unco-operative, not to mention how it has been physically hammered by the keys.

THanks!

     All I have to do now is find a typewriter portrait of Fred Gwynne.  Simples!

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle As Per Real Life
I'm not sure if I can explicate HUP in language that you, the Gentle Reader, can understand, but here goes anyway.  
     Okay, at the quantum level (think: "magic") when you approach a value to measure it, you influence the measurement and change the overall reading.  
     Thus we have The Loneliest Train Station In The Pond.  Art?

Redcar British Steel Station

     The steel plant that this station serviced closed down an age ago, which mean it got hardly any traffic last year: 43 visitors.
     THIS YEAR HOWEVER!!  It had 360 visitors, partly as a consequence of being, you know, The Least Visited Station Ever, which means good old nosy Hom. Sap. just have to come and inspect it, at which point we enter an infinitely-recursive spiral and destroy reality.

Conrad - Still Hates Shakespeare
And once again I have to apologise for using that quote from "MacBeth" about thumbs.
     Really, the fuss people make about the "Bard of Avon"; if someone found his laundry list the critics would swoon about the "symbolism of Ye Panntes" and how "Deep the metaphor of "Dirtie Breeches" is" and so on.  I feel another Bah! coming on
          

     Don't worry, this will all make sense on Facebook.

Also, Let Me Just AddA case of woe, as in the acronym What On Earth, hence W.o.e. which is considerably more polite than other common acronyms out there that begin with "What -" and then proceed to offend the eyes and ear*.

Imagine a whole lot of exclamation marks here

     Why this came up in my Twitter feed is a matter of some speculation.  Your Humble Scribe does not dabble in financial matters of any sort, nor has he ever done so, nor do I subscribe to any financial websites of any sort. I do not know what a "Securities account" is, nor whom IBKR may be, and do not care to be associated with whatever they are pimping.  The whole thing is a mystery I do not care to solve.
     Bah!
    
The Haul As Of Yesteryon
Conrad dared to venture forth yesteryon at lunchtime in the Dark Tower, in search of beer, which he happened to find, and I also just happened to fall into The Works, which by an amazing coincidence also just happened to sell books, and what do you know?  I bought some.

          That's about £50 worth of books for £18.  Of course, they may turn out to be rubbish, BUT! the important thing is that they were cheap***.

Modern Life Is Rubbish
So they say.  Blur, wasn't it?  Of course, that was before you could use an app on your phone to get a weekly bus e-ticket, or Netflix, or doughnut peaches.
      


     This is from that list the Beeb put up about how science-fiction predicted the future.  Apparently credit cards came up as a concept in a science-fiction story from 1881, which is a date I'll bet you didn't expect.  Of course, since we are talking about Hom. Sap. here, there exists the potential to abuse the system, which some gonks did by using credit cards to gamble online.  Multiple credit cards, too, meaning debts in the tens of thousands for them.
     Conrad is unsure if there will be a corollary: 10 things that science-fiction got spectacularly wrong, such as <adopts angry stance> FLYING CARS FOR EVERYONE.  You lied, Jetsons, you lied!
Why Oh Why Oh Wyandot
Another fascinating glimpse into the mind of Conrad!  This particular word popped up in my brain at 07:06 this morning, as I was watching the 83 bus go past us.
     Here an aside.  Yes, the 84 does go off in a big loop whereas the 83 is more direct, but the 84 avoids all the traffic that the 83 hits, so it all balances out and they end up one behind the other.
     Where were we?
     O yes, Native American tribes who hail from around Lake Ontario.  Art?

These are the Wyandot

     There you go.  They spoke Iroquoian, which I only know because Wiki says so.
     The question is, of course - why on earth (another W.o.e. for you) did this word crop up in my mind?  I have not been reading about Native American tribes from the region of Lake Ontario, nor watching television programmes about same, nor do I know any Wyandots.  Baffling, hmmm?  Answers, if you have any, in the Comments, please.

Finally -
Conrad addresses a burning issue of the day -

Blimey.  One feels for all the Kiwis.

     Look at the state of that country!

*  Sorry, architectural students.  But you know you had it coming.
**  Maybe "ears".
***  I apply the same logic to remaindered food purchases.