Bacon Essays 22 (Cunning)

 Bacon Essays 22 (Cunning)

Bonus:

Brutal/Cunning/Brutal

Summary: Being patient is a big part of being cunning. Be wise and friendly, and you can convince people just as well as being slimy.

Commentary: 

WE TAKE cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom. 

The 40K memes are starting early.

for many are perfect in men's humors, that are not greatly capable of the real part of business; which is the constitution of one that hath studied men, more than books. 

Don't just sit here reading old books. Actually go talk to people.

 you entertain and amuse the party, with whom you deal, with some other discourse; that he be not too much awake to make objections.

 Negotiate your opponent into a food coma.

the turning of the cat in the pan

Bacon uses the weirdest idioms. 

 

 

Bacon Essays 21 (Delays)

 Bacon Essays 21 (Delays)

Bonus: 

One of these puppets has strong feelings about delays.

Summary: Don't rush things, but remember they'll take longer than you think.

Commentary:  

 For occasion (as it is in the common verse) turneth a bald noddle

A common verse indeed. 

 

Bacon Essays 20 (Counsel)

Bacon Essays 20 (Counsel)

Bonus: 

What happens if you don't take advice.

Summary: There's nothing wrong with asking for and taking advice.

Commentary:

God himself is not without, but hath made it one of the great names of his blessed Son: The Counsellor.

God created Jesus to give him advice (and also die so he could forgive humanity). The insurance fraud just gets weirder and more complicated. 

Principis est virtus maxima nosse suos.

"The greatest virtue of a ruler is to know his own people." Actually really good advice.

Bacon's Essays 19 (Empire)

Bacon's Essays 19 (Empire)

Bonus: 

I think this is the last movie I watched as a cam rip in college.

Summary: Being king is a lot of responsibility, and mostly sucks.

Commentary: 

 the mind of man, is more cheered and refreshed by profiting in small things, than by standing at a stay, in great. 

I hate when you finish a big thing, but you did all the parts you cared about earlier and it winds up being disappointing. 

 

Bacon's Essays Has A Glossary of "archaic words" At The End

 This Is A Filler Post

It does include some cool ones like:

    Arietation: battering-ram

     Chop: bandy words (Also archaic!) 

     Globe: complete body

     Turquet: Turkish dwarf 

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Saw this at the local orchestra with a live organ, which was pretty cool. My wife and I like to go to the live music/film concert performances. I especially like the silent ones, since you often get the orchestra doing sound effects (like doors slamming) as well as the soundtrack. With just the organ, they didn't for this one. I kind of wish they'd used sound besides the organ for the actual opera parts.

The movie itself is kind of odd. Very over the top, in the way that a lot of silent films are. The Phantom toes the line between creepy-awkward and funny-awkward. I've seen a lot of pictures of Lon Chaney in the makeup before, but it's a lot more impressive in the actual film.

 Like a lot of old films, the print you get today is a kind of mishmash. Some bits has sound, some don't. Some bits are in color, some aren't. Title cards don't match. Not to the extent of something like Metropolis, but still interesting to see. 

It's public domain, so here you go:

 

 

Bacon's Essays 18 (Travel)

 Bacon's Essays 18 (Travel)

Bonus: 

This feels a lot more than 2 years old.

Summary: Go places, see cultural stuff, keep a diary.

Commentary:  I was just recommending Herodotus to someone at work today. I wonder how Bacon would feel about cameras.