sleepytime gal

“One night, in Clair’s Restaurant, I approached Stormé and asked her if she would be willing to provide a $5 donation [towards a Christmas fund for people living with AIDS].  I told her what we were trying to do, and when I had finished, she turned to me and asked, “Are you going to be here for a few hours, baby?”  I told her I would be, and several hours later Stormé walked back into the restaurant with over $2,000. I was speechless and unable to find the words to thank her appropriately, but Stormé simply said, “I’ll meet you here tomorrow with more.” She was true to her word.”

- HIV/AIDS activist Patrick Merry remembering the incredible generosity of drag king and bouncer Stormé DeLarverie

“Progress? by George Meyfarth III and Philip F. Meyfarth Each face is a composite of super-ellipse quadrants with exponents ranging from slightly less than 2 to about 400. The variations in location, size, and shape of the features are controlled by a Gaussian random number generator. The trend toward squareness and conformity in the lower right corner results from predetermined changes in the statistical properties. The mouth expression is correlated with eye position to suggest apprehension in those who see that they themselves are not far from total mechanization. Programmed in FORTRAN and plotted on-line on an IBM 1627 driven by an IBM 1130.”

Bartholomeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum (French translation), Ahun 1480