[Kzyxtalk] Verschlimmbesserung.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Verschlimmbesserung.

The recording of last night's (2020-11-13) Memo of the Air: Good Night 
Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg is right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0410

Furthermore, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a fresh 
batch of dozens of links to not necessarily radio-useful but nonetheless 
worthwhile educational items I set aside for you while gathering the 
show together. Such as:

They play Swan Lake, that this Alzheimer's-suffering nonresponsive 
wheelchair-bound ballerina used to dance to, and it switches something 
on inside her. Her hands float up, her head tilts, while the video 
editor shows you, in split-screen, film of /this very woman sixty or 
seventy years ago on stage, young, in her power, dancing, up on her 
toes, her arms out and head tilted the same way to the same passage./ 
Past the weeping, it reminds me of an old science-fiction story from the 
1940s about a great dancer in the future who is old and damaged and 
scientists give her a powerful, flexible robotic body to move into. 
Wouldn't that be nice. Or like in /Altered Carbon/, where the hospital 
people are all indolent and slow because why even bother to fix up a 
totaled body when you can just take them out of it and put them in a 
fresh one like changing into new pants. Or a new shirt, actually; they 
call bodies sleeves. The ongoing person of you lives in a 
pocketwatch-size thing stuck in the back of the body's neck. If you're 
not rich, though, and your child's body is wrecked, you have to save up 
and rent a body for her, to spend time with her on a special holiday, 
otherwise her watch is in storage. And, again, if you're not rich, you 
don't get much of a choice about what body you get, just whatever's 
available, that some other poor person will rent out because they're 
poor too, just like real life now, in a way, except for the replacement 
business.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2020/11/prima-ballerina-with-alzheimers.html

Speedflying. Too low. AAAAGH! Look out! And he spins upside-down... This 
is more nut-retracting than watching drones crazily careen around. If a 
drone clips a rock it's just a broken drone, not a smashed and dead body.
https://theawesomer.com/new-zealand-speedflying/561481/

And an article about falling down the steps. Much more interesting than 
you'd think. It's the same statuesque woman with the thing stuck in the 
side of her nose who did the earlier article about Edwardian electrical 
hazards.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/11/dangerous-victorian-staircases.html

-- 
Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org,
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com