Day to Day 4 Flashcards
treppenwitz
When the perfect comeback pops into your head to long after someone says something to you.
“We’ve all experienced this moment before - someone says something to you and you are so overwhelmed by the comment that it leaves you speechless and you can’t come up with a snappy comeback on the spot. But once you’ve walked away from the situation the perfect response suddenly pops into your head.”
This phenomenon is referred to as Treppenwitz in German, which literally means staircase joke, because, what do you know, the witty retort usually hits you in the stairwell on your way out. Of course by then it’s already too late to use it.
MD - fake etmology - Treppen - staircase (something you tripon); witz - witty joke - show someone tripping on a staircase and thinking of a witty joke after someone has told them off.
meta
When something is done in a way that is self-referencing or self-reflective.
MD - metacognition, stepping outside of the brain. You go beyond your subjective world and evaluate the brain. The brain thinks and you’re thinking about how it thinks to make the brain’s thinking more effective.
MD Chimpanzees - “Laughter serves the same purpose: it puts other behavior into context. One chimp pushes another firmly to the ground and puts his teeth in her neck, leaving her no escape, but since both utter a constant stream of hoarse laughs, they stay totally relaxed. They know that this is just for fun. Since play signals help interpret other behavior, they are known as meta-communication: they communicate about communication.21 Similarly, if I approach a colleague and slap him on the shoulder with a laugh, he will perceive it quite differently than he would if I did so without a sound or without any expression on my face. My laugh delivers a meta-signal about the hand that hit him. Laughing reframes what we say or do and takes the sting out of potentially offensive remarks, which is why we use it all the time, even when nothing particularly amusing is going on.”
- Mama’s last hug
Since play signals help interpret other behavior, they are known as meta-communication: they communicate about communication. Similarly, if I approach a colleague and slap him on the shoulder with a laugh, he will perceive it quite differently than he would if I did so without a sound or without any expression on my face.
slap on the back could be an angry threatening gesture or an affectionate friendly gesture, laughter communicates
Hegelian dialectic
the Hegelian process of change in which a concept (thesis) is contradicted by its opposite (antithesis) and together they come up with a new concept (synthesis). thesis, antithesis, and derived from them both synthesis.
the Hegelian process of change in which a concept or its realization passes over into and is preserved and fulfilled by its opposite.
This is something that could only have happened to me in this incredibly narrow window of time when this kind of Hegelian dialectic of ring tones and no ringtones; thesis anti-thesis collides and created something new in its wake.
MD Middle English dialetik, from Anglo-French dialetiqe, from Latin dialectica, from Greek dialektikē, from feminine of dialektikos of conversation, from dialektos — see DIALECT
MD - think of a hegoal, “only men can play soccer” - thesis, “only woman can play soccer” - antithesis, both men and woman can play soccer synthesis.
mansplain
to explain something to a woman in a condescending way that assumes she has no knowledge about the topic.
self-referential
making reference to oneself.
example from NY Times Television Review ‘Seinfeld’ Goes Out in Self-Referential Style:
‘ ‘‘They just stood there, did nothing?’’ asks the prosecutor. Of course they did nothing. That’s what ‘‘Seinfeld’’ was famously about. It was also about the kind of clever linguistic tricks on display here.’
bellicose
warlike
MD - belly - think of a sumo with a big belly, the bigger the belly the more war like. fight somebody your own size.
Kehinde
Kehinde (Short for Omokehinde) is a given name of Yoruba origin meaning “the second-born of the twins” or the one who comes after Taiwo.[1][2] Though Taiwo is the firstborn, it is believed that Kehinde is the elder twin, sending Taiwo into the world first to determine if it is time to be born.[3]
MD - Kehinde Wiley and Kehinde Lijadu
MD - 1. Kehinde is the famous twin which “means the second-born of the twins is the most talented,” I am the second born yonger brother. 2. younger according to birth, but actually believed to be the older twin because Kehinde sends Taiwo into the world first to determine
Taiwo
Taiwo (variant forms: Taiye, Taye, Taiyewo)[1] is a name of Yoruba origin meaning “the first twin to taste the world.” or the one who comes before Kehinde.[2] Although Taiwo is the firstborn twin, in Yoruba belief Taiwo is considered the younger twin, having been sent into the world by Kehinde to determine if it is the right time to be born. The names are associated with the Yoruba belief in Ibeji, sacred twins.
Taiwo Wiley and Taiwo Lijadu
MD - 1. T for twin and taste “the first twin to taste the world.”
crostini vs. bruscheta
The difference between bruschettas and crostini is the bread used. Crostini uses small finely textured bread, whereas brushcetta uses larger rustic italian or sourdough type.
In Italy you might find yourself offered an antipasto of four or five different crostini, no more than a couple of mouthfuls each, accompanied by some olives, but only one or two of the larger bruschetta would be plenty.
crostini
Meaning “little toasts” in Italian, crostini are small, thin slices of toasted bread, which are usually brushed with olive oil.
Crostini are sliced and toasted from a smaller, round, finer-textured bread, more like a white bread baguette.
MD - crostini, think of a crusty texture - toasts - and ini meaning little. crostini are little toasts usually brushed with olive oil
bruscheta
From the Italian bruscare meaning “to roast over coals,” this traditional garlic bread is made by rubbing slices of toasted bread with garlic cloves, then drizzling the bread with extra-virgin olive oil. The bread is salted and peppered, then heated and served warm.
Bruschetta, from the Italian word “bruscare” meaning “to roast over coals” is made by toasting whole, wide slices of a rustic Italian or sourdough type bread.
MD - 1. bruscheta from italian bruscare. think of a scary bruce making a bread salad but initially “roasting the bread over coals.”
- “Bruce getta garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper” Bruschetta is made by rubbing garlic and olive oil
recapitulation theory
The theory of recapitulation, also called the biogenetic law or embryological parallelism—often expressed using Ernst Haeckel’s phrase (1880) “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny”—is a historical hypothesis that the development of the embryo of an animal, from fertilization to gestation or hatching (ontogeny), goes through stages resembling or representing successive adult stages in the evolution of the animal’s remote ancestors (phylogeny). It was formulated in the 1820s by Étienne Serres based on the work of Johann Friedrich Meckel, after whom it is also known as Meckel–Serres law.
Since embryos also evolve in different ways, the shortcomings of the theory had been recognized by the early 20th century, and it had been relegated to “biological mythology”[1] by the mid-20th century.[2]
Analogies to recapitulation theory have been formulated in other fields, including cognitive development[3] and music criticism.[4]
youtube - if you take many organisms from distant releative groups if you look at the various stages of developing embryos, you find it very hard to distinuish. At the very beginning every developmental stages are very similar. ex. chicken, human, frog look at pyholgeny and ontology. as we move away from the common ancestor on the phylogenetic tree, similarities decrease and as we move back to the common ancestor similarities between organisms increases.
MD - ontology left side chicken, human, frog looking different but going back they look very much the same
right side phylogeny - tree showing chicken, human, frog and if you travel back, you find a common ancestor.
ontogeny
development from zygote to mature organism.
the development of an individual organism or anatomical or behavioral feature from the earliest stage to maturity. Compare with phylogenesis.
youtube - chicken, human, frog look at pyholgeny and ontology
MD - a zygote saying onto the next thing. develops an arm, then develops a hand then turns into a full grown human?
phylogeny
the evolutionary relationships between organisms.
the evolutionary development and diversification of a species or group of organisms, or of a particular feature of an organism. Compare with ontogenesis.
MD - think of all the phylums in a phylogenetic tree leading back to a common ancestor. Phylogeny studies the evolutionary relationships between organisms. arrow pointing up representing evolution and arrows going back on the tree show relationships.
youtube - chicken, human, frog look at pyholgeny and ontology. At the very beginning, everything looks the same. but in development they diverge. this connects to evolution because everything developed from one common ancestor. at the very beginning every organism looks the same, but they develop into things that are very different. one develops into a bird, one into an amphibian and one into a mammal. as
recapitulate (biology)
repeat (an evolutionary or other process) during development and growth.
MD - evolutionary process takes a long time so to repeat it during development would be to summarize it. show the porpoises and noses. show the dolphin in embryology.
gestation
the process of carrying or being carried in the womb between conception and birth.
History and Etymology for gestation
Latin gestation-, gestatio, from gestare to bear, frequentative of gerere to bear
MD - instead of just do it nike the act of berth and concetpion
Just STAY It (stay in the womb. the process of carrying or being carried in the womb between conception and birth.
recapitulate
to retell or restate briefly : SUMMARIZE
etymology: Capitulation originally meant the organizing of material under headings. So recapitulation usually involves the gathering of the main ideas in a brief summary. But a recapitulation may be a complete restatement as well. In many pieces of classical music, the recapitulation, or recap, is the long final section of a movement, where the earlier music is restated in the main key.
MD - gathering of main ideas - paragraphs and then you make headings that are capitalized so you can retell or restate briefly.
“The same species can produce 2 fish with completely different appearances and life styles.”
lines underneath
self-reflective
meditation or serious thought about one’s character, actions, and motives.
- MD - reflect is to shine an image back at someone or something. so you are doing the refecting, becoming the mirror through meditation and serious thought about your character, actions, and motives.
grove
a planting of fruit or nut trees
“We had this little, tiny ranch house. My father managed all these avocado groves and we were surrounded by avocado groves. We played in them and we jumped from boulder to boulder and made forts in the trees. So it was a nice place to grow up.”
md - GROve - we grow fruits or nuts. Date grove, walnut grove,
nuclear family
a family group that consists only of parents and children
And it was a very nuclear family, because the four of us were just there. I had a few friends, but you couldn’t walk to their houses or anything. There were no sidewalks; we were acres away from anybody else. But it was nice being outdoors all the time and being so close to my parents. So I liked it. And my sister, too.
MD - Think of the nucleus of a cell, it’s the main part. all the other organelles would be the extended family.
acres
a unit in the U.S. and England equal to 43,560 square feet (4047 square meters)
And it was a very nuclear family, because the four of us were just there. I had a few friends, but you couldn’t walk to their houses or anything. There were no sidewalks; we were acres away from anybody else. But it was nice being outdoors all the time and being so close to my parents. So I liked it. And my sister, too.
MD - about the size of a football field 57,600 square feet.
ranch vs. orchard
ranch -
1: a large farm for raising horses, beef cattle, or sheep
2: a farm or area devoted to a particular specialty
orchard -
1. a place where people grow fruit trees
Her father was wealthy, and after the war he had some money to invest and he—there was some tax break for land if you developed avocados. Lord knows why; it was kind of a luxury food. So he bought 9,000 acres in this valley, and then sold off 6,000, and then developed 3,000 into different ranches—avocado ranches, they’re called; they’re really orchards—and sold them to a lot of people he knew in Los Angeles. I guess they benefitted from the same tax breaks. So my dad and my uncle, his son and my mother’s brother, ran the business for him and they learned how to—my dad went to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for a year to learn agriculture, and learned how to install irrigation pipeline and fertilize avocados, and became an avocado farmer. So that’s why we ended up there.
MD - orchard sounds like yard - think of fruit and nut trees being in someone’s yard. ranch - picture someone putting ranch sauce on their steak or fried chicken, or turning a sheep white with ranch sauce or, a cowboy drinking ranch on a horse.
La Cañada Flintridge
La Cañada Flintridge, commonly known simply as La Cañada, is a city in Los Angeles County, California. Located in the Crescenta Valley, in the western edge of Southern California’s San Gabriel Valley,
Then when we moved, that was also my grandfather who wanted to start—he wanted to move down from La Cañada Flintridge to La Jolla.
Italian Renaissance
a period in Italian history that covered the 15th and 16th centuries, developed a culture that spread across Europe and marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity. (Proponents of a “long Renaissance” argue that it began in the 14th century and lasted until the 17th century[citation needed].) The French word renaissance (rinascimento in Italian) means “rebirth” and defines the period as one of cultural revival and renewed interest in classical antiquity after the centuries which Renaissance humanists labeled the “Dark Ages”.
I became good friends with during high school and kept in touch with after, did a week on the Italian Renaissance, as a unit that he developed himself. I think he had slides. We had a slide test at the end and I got them all right, and I was glad that I could recognize all these styles from the Renaissance—or not all these styles, but the few styles he taught about. Then I think my mother sort of said, “Well, if you like that, maybe you should major in art history.” So she kind of planted the seed, and then that’s what I did.
MD - from re- + nasci to be born. Born again. rebirth, the cultural revival - renewed interest in classical antiquity.
mid-century American (particular concentration in art history)
is an American design movement in interior, product, graphic design, architecture, and urban development that was popular from roughly 1945 to 1969,[1][2] during the United States’s post–World War II period. The MCM design aesthetic is modern in style and construction, aligned with the Modernism movement of the period. It is typically characterized by clean, simple lines, honest use of materials, and it generally does not include decorative embellishments.
That was actually kind of fun because at the Getty, towards the end of my tenure there, we had the first Pacific Standard Time initiative, and it was all about mid-century California artists. So it was sort of like coming home to these [artists]. I don’t know if you know the artist Larry Bell, but one of the things we had to do at Oxy was go interview a contemporary artist, and I went and interviewed Larry Bell in his studio in Venice in the seventies. Then he’s in this Pacific Standard Time—or not he, his art—and it’s like, a Larry Bell box. So it’s like going back to my childhood. So that was fun.
Larry Bell
Larry Bell is an American contemporary artist and sculptor. He is best known for his glass boxes and large-scaled illusionistic sculptures
That was actually kind of fun because at the Getty, towards the end of my tenure there, we had the first Pacific Standard Time initiative, and it was all about mid-century California artists. So it was sort of like coming home to these [artists]. I don’t know if you know the artist Larry Bell, but one of the things we had to do at Oxy was go interview a contemporary artist, and I went and interviewed Larry Bell in his studio in Venice in the seventies. Then he’s in this Pacific Standard Time—or not he, his art—and it’s like, a Larry Bell box. So it’s like going back to my childhood. So that was fun.
MD - larry bell box picture. Taco bell happy meal using Larry Bell’s glass box as a a container
purview
the range or limit of authority, competence, responsibility, concern, or intention
Well, I think at Oxy the majority of the professors in art history were women. There was the Asian person, the African art person—who was not African— they were both women. The film person was a woman. I think there was only one man. He taught Renaissance and Medieval and ancient. He had a big purview. So yeah, there were plenty of women. Didn’t feel like it was a field that belonged only to men.
etymology - The case is within the court’s purview.
That question is outside my purview.
The moral dilemmas of the early settlers are beyond the purview of this book.
MD - show a tower with tooth-shaped parapet with gaps (crenels) and raised sections called merlons, helped to shelter the defenders during an enemy attack.. per view, each view has a different 1. range someone looking out of a gap 2. or limit someone looking at the raised part. 3. authority - I’m in charge of the apple trees, pick them! 4. competence - I’m a stone expert! This one needs repair 5. responsibility - I will repair it 6. concern - it doesn’t concern me 7. It’s not our intention to stop you.
tail (fact check sally, I think she means door gunner here)
A door gunner is a crewman tasked with firing and maintaining manually directed armament aboard a military helicopter.
Initially, the door gunner’s MG weapons were mounted on swiveling mounts (on a pintle mount) in order to retain and steady the door armament weapon. As the war progressed, using bungee cords to suspend/retain the MG became a common practice, as the newfound maneuverability of these “bungeed” weapons allowed for increased firing angles. However some door gunners simply continued to hand-wield the weapon for a maximum level of maneuverability of fire. This practice was commonly termed as using a Free 60.
I remember when I got to the Getty and I became good friends with the grounds superintendent, who was from San Fernando, because all these years, I’ve been associating with people who’d been in college and were opposed to the war and certainly didn’t want to serve there.a Mexican American guy. He had enlisted. I said, “What? What do you mean?” Because in his family, that was a good thing to do: go fight. He went to Vietnam, was a tail— shot people from helicopters and was a war hero. This just didn’t compute because all these years, I’ve been associating with people who’d been in college and were opposed to the war and certainly didn’t want to serve there.
san fernando
San Fernando is a city in the San Fernando Valley, in the northwestern region of Los Angeles County, California in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The neighboring communities are Mission Hills, Pacoima and Sylmar.
I remember when I got to the Getty and I became good friends with the grounds superintendent, who was from San Fernando, because all these years, I’ve been associating with people who’d been in college and were opposed to the war and certainly didn’t want to serve there.a Mexican American guy. He had enlisted. I said, “What? What do you mean?” Because in his family, that was a good thing to do: go fight. He went to Vietnam, was a tail— shot people from helicopters and was a war hero. This just didn’t compute because all these years, I’ve been associating with people who’d been in college and were opposed to the war and certainly didn’t want to serve there.
MD - like san francisco’s direction to LA, northwest. Use map
socioeconomic status
Socioeconomic status is the social standing or class of an individual or group. It is often measured as a combination of education, income and occupation.
“Sally: I remember when I got to the Getty and I became good friends with the grounds superintendent, who was from San Fernando, because all these years, I’ve been associating with people who’d been in college and were opposed to the war and certainly didn’t want to serve there.a Mexican American guy. He had enlisted. I said, “What? What do you mean?” Because in his family, that was a good thing to do: go fight. He went to Vietnam, was a tail— shot people from helicopters and was a war hero. This just didn’t compute because all these years, I’ve been associating with people who’d been in college and were opposed to the war and certainly didn’t want to serve there.
Tewes: Do you think that was a socioeconomic divide?
Class- soci (how society views you) economic (based on your occupation, the money you make, and education)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
city and port on Lake Michigan in eastern Wisconsin
“Sheboygan. Yeah, I lived in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. It’s on Lake Michigan, about an hour north of Milwaukee and three hours north of Chicago.”
Sheboy whearing a cheese hat (Wisconsan) receiving a gogan on at the port on lake michagan.
onion pocket
Onion pocket is a type of roll that is made with challah dough and stuffed it with onions and then baked.
Jared describing an onion pocket at Zuckerman’s.
MD - picture of challah dough rolled out and onions on top.
McClure Tunnel
The McClure Tunnel is a tunnel in Santa Monica, California, that connects Pacific Coast Highway (State Route 1) to its junction with the western terminus of the Santa Monica Freeway (Interstate 10).[2][3] The tunnel passes through the Santa Monica ocean bluffs,[3] underneath the Colorado Avenue–Ocean Avenue intersection and close to the Santa Monica Pier and southern end of Palisades Park.
So I think it was apocryphal, but there was some story about how the traffic was backed up from the Villa, which is north of Sunset, all the way to the McClure Tunnel, which is in Santa Monica. It’s about five miles. I can’t imagine that’s true, but something like that. There were traffic snarls as a result of it opening.
MD - pic of the McClure tunnel
chocolate-covered ice cream baseballs
Elite Confectionery in El Paso, Texas
Pancho Villa in an ice cream store in downtown El Paso, Texas. Elite Confectionery 201 N. Mesa St. Pancho Villa would visit the Elite Confectionery daily during his exile in El Paso to order his favorite chocolate-covered ice cream “baseballs” for 10 cents. Peanut brittle was another Elite Confectionery specialty. Villa, his friends recalled, could eat a pound of peanut brittle. He would usually order nothing but strawberry soda to go with his treats. Villa completely abstained from alcohol consumption and strictly enforced a drinking ban on his troops. In May 1911, the celebrated El Paso photographer, Otis Aultman, took the well-known photograph of Pancho Villa and Pascual Orozco sitting stiffly next to each other at the Elite Confectionery. This was the last photograph taken of the two leaders together. The present Buckler building, which housed the Elite Confectionery, was constructed in 1910.
unprovoked (shark attack)
incidents where an attack on a live human occurs in the shark’s natural habitat with no human provocation of the shark.
MD - jaws - unprovoked, show woman swimming from shark’s pint of view - she’s in the shark’s natural habitat - the open ocean minding her business not trying to interact with the shark
provoked (shark attack)
occur when a human initiates interaction with a shark in some way. These include instances when divers are bitten after harassing or trying to touch sharks, attacks on spearfishers, attacks on people attempting to feed sharks, bites occurring while unhooking or removing a shark from a fishing net, and so forth.
MD - show someone pulling a shark out of a net getting bit on the arm. and someone says he had it coming!
average worldwide unprovoked for 2019
64
The 2019 worldwide total of 64 confirmed unprovoked cases were lower than the most recent five-year (2014-2018) average of 82 incidents annually. There were five fatal attacks this year, two of which were confirmed to be unprovoked. This number is in line with the annual global average of four fatalities per year.
porpoise
- any of a family (Phocoenidae) of small gregarious toothed whales especially : a blunt-snouted usually dark gray whale (Phocoena phocoena) of the North Atlantic and North Pacific that typically ranges from 5 to 6 feet (1.5 to 1.8 meters) in length
2: DOLPHIN sense 1a(1) —not used technically
NOTE: While not closely related, porpoises and dolphins share a physical resemblance that often leads to misidentification. Porpoises typically have flat, spade-shaped teeth, triangular dorsal fins, and shortened beaks with relatively small mouths while dolphins have cone-shaped teeth, curved dorsal fins, and elongated beaks with larger mouths.
“Sightings of porpoises do not indicate the absence of sharks — both often eat the same food items.”
- Florida Museum
MD - porcus ‘pig’ + piscis ‘fish’, rendering earlier porcus marinus ‘sea hog’. 1. Think of the charming pig (small gregarious and think of Jules dark gray 2.
“Vincent: Ah, so by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal. Is that true?
Jules: Well, we’d have to be talkin’ about one charming mother**ing pig. I mean, he’d have to be ten times more charming than that Arnold on Green Acres, you know what I’m saying?
Vincent: [laughing] That’s good.”
Think of
MD - 1. small, gregarious, toothed whale - Picture the pigs swimming to a boat in the Bahamas 2. dark grey - jules: Well, we’d have to be talkin’ about one charming mother**ing pig. 3. North Atlantic and North Pacific - chubby pig insulation because they are in the north
mandarin
are a type of orange and the overarching category that Tangerines, Clementines, and Satsumas fall into. Mandarin orange is native to southeast Asia. It was grown in large quantities in China and Japan and migrated worldwide in the 19th century. They are generally smaller and sweeter than oranges, a little flatter in shape, and they and have a thinner, looser skin that makes them easier to peel.
MD - visual in folder - the group of closely related Chinese dialects. The dialects in this case are tangerines, clementines, and satsumas. map of china and show mandarin as the overarching category within that is satsumas
tangerine
Tangerine. A lot of mandarin fruit were exported from North Africa – from the City of Tangiers, and the fruit from Tangiers earned the name in the USA as Tangerine. (All tangerines are mandarins, but not all mandarins are tangerines). Tangerines have seeds, not as sweet as satsuma, and tougher skin to peel, compared to easy peelers.
satsumas
are a specific type of mandarin orange, originating in Japan more than 700 years ago. They are a lighter orange, sweet, juicy, and seedless. They are also the easiest variety to peel. The most tender, easily damaged type of mandarin, Satsuma mandarin oranges are harder to find fresh in stores.
MD - sumo (1. japan), sumo wrestler wearing a lighter orange cloth to make his skin look tanner (2. peel is a lighter orange). Sumo is eating pancakes to bulk up with lots of syrup (3. sweet) and orange juice (4. juicy), it is a myth that Sumo wrestlers are castrated so that they are not distracted from competition (5. seedless). They are easy to undress just remove the loin cloth (6. easiest to peel) the flesh of sumo wrestlers is so tender that they are easily damaged.
