Sylum Snippet
It’s actually Quiet Day.
Boy could I use that. I think we all could just have a few moments of blessed quiet.
Sylum: AI Image – Nathan Algren
This is for Kathie – this was the first try with the longer hair – as you can see wasn’t the greatest.
Here’s the newer version made with the better tools
Now can see how the newer tools I’m able to use – works slightly better.
Though it still took at least three tries to get the hair longer!!
Add had to add a moving version
Now can see how the newer tools I’m able to use – works slightly better.
Though it still took at least three tries to get the hair longer!!
Sylum Inspiration: Beatrice D’Padua
Integridad: Archivist Librarian
Beatrice wasn’t born into an influential family. When her family noticed she wasn’t getting suitors, they sent her to work for the Royal Family. Where she ended up one of the Ladies working for Isabella.
It was during a ball to honor the military that she met Benedick. It was the first time she had ever fell in love.
She’s still not sure exactly what happened during their courtship, but they look back and laugh at the miscommunications.
After they were married, Benedick’s friend sat them down to tell them about Vampires. She agreed that Benedick should be Turned.
He Turned her soon after.
Sylum Song of the Month
For this month’s song this is actually inspiring the Star Wars Afternoon Fic + Sylum.
Multi Tasking 🙂
Coffee House Friday
Allergies/Sinuses.
Both horrible this time of year and the next few months.
Any old fashion home remedies?
Sylum Book Club
What are you reading?
I’ve gone through a few books – Audible + Long Commute
The House of Wolves – James Patterson & Mike Lupica: Not the greatest it screams make me into a Netflix mini series. It’s about Jenny Wolf who inherits from her father the NFL team the Wolves and the Newspaper in San Francisco. You can tell the sections James Patterson wrote easily. Despite the writing not the best, I did find myself want to know what happened, was caught up in the family drama. This is a throwaway type of book.
In between big series (which I will post about once finish the full thing) I like to read autobiographies or smaller books to get a good pallet cleanser.
If You Ask Me (But You Won’t) – Betty White. LOVED THIS. I have her first autobiography that I still need to read. Just enjoyed this so much, made me laugh and smile. Highly recommend.
Sylum Inspiration: Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Integridad: Scientist
As a child Ramón y Cajal was transferred many times from one school to another because of behavior that was declared poor, rebellious, and showing an anti-authoritarian attitude. An extreme example of his precociousness and rebelliousness is his imprisonment at the age of eleven for destroying his neighbor’s yard gate with a homemade cannon.
He was an avid painter, artist, and gymnast, but his father neither appreciated nor encouraged these abilities, even though the artistic talents would contribute to his success later in life. In order to tame the unruly character of his son, his father apprenticed him to a shoemaker and barber. “To try and give his son much-needed discipline and stability, Don Justo apprenticed him out to a barber”. He was well known for his pugnacious attitude as he worked.
Over the summer of 1868, Ramón y Cajal’s father, hoping to interest his son in a medical career, took him to graveyards to find human remains for anatomical study. Sketching bones was a turning point for him and subsequently, he did pursue studies in medicine.
Ramón y Cajal attended the medical school of the University of Zaragoza, where his father was an anatomy teacher. He graduated in 1873. After a competitive examination, he served as a medical officer in the Spanish Army. He took part in an expedition to Cuba in 1874-75, where he contracted malaria and tuberculosis. In order to cure these conditions, he attended the Panticosa spa-town in the Pyrenees.
After returning to Spain he married Silveria Fañanás García in 1879, with whom he had four daughters and three sons. In 1877, he received his doctorate in medicine in Madrid and was awarded the position of anatomy professor of the University of Valencia in 1883. He later held professorships in both Barcelona (1887) and Madrid (1892). He was also the director of the Zaragoza Museum (1879), director of the Instituto Nacional de Higiene – translated as National Institute of Hygiene – (1899), and founder of the Laboratorio de Investigaciones Biológicas – translated as the Laboratory of Biological Investigations – (1922), later renamed to the Instituto Cajal, or Cajal Institute.
On his political and religious views, it was first said that he “was a liberal in politics, an evolutionist in philosophy, an agnostic in religion”.Nonetheless, he later regretted having left religion, and ultimately, he became convinced of a belief in God as a creator, as stated during his first lecture before the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences. He joined a Masonic lodge in 1877.
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He met Diego when he was lecturing at one of the Universities. The two struck up a friendship, and when Diego informed him about Vampires he took the opportunity, knowing all he wanted was time to study.
