IOWA MENTIONED 🥹

In my home state yesterday (6/28/17) in Stuart, Iowa

#thenatureofrefuge river eggs and tea, the mornings on the mississippi are divine, everybody out there have the best day! #sanctuary #refuge #eggs #mississippi #wind #crowscalling #water #sun #simple #women #stories #travel #thankyou (at Lansing, Iowa) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn1ONJHFDe4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=122kpthc43t4o

From St. Nicholas, 1895.

The James-Younger gang derails a Rock Island Railroad train outside of Adair, Iowa. They steal $3000.

Ha ha ha help me

Just three more days till #LCCDG at #AICmtg17! Come and hear Beth Stone of @uilibraries discuss her long-distance collaboration with Janet Lee of @nyhistory to treat a unique collection of dolls in the Iowa Women’s Archive. Conservators helping conservators become #unexpectedlyexpert! #BPG2017 this Thursday June 1 at 2:30 in Regency A-B.

Marvin (Mobile Anthropomorphic Robot VINtage high tech robot) by David Gossman (1983), Iowa Precision Machine Ltd, Milford, Iowa. With its retro, "The Day the Earth Stood Still" styling, Marvin is a 4’2” tall anthropomorphic personal robot. It has 15 degrees-of-freedom in total, including a pair of six-axis arms, a mobile base, and it can also turn its head. Controlled by an on-board Motorola 68000 processor with a standard disk drive, it navigates using ultrasonic ranging. It also has a speech synthesizer with a 500-word vocabulary. “"Marvin was originally designed and developed to be an educational tool, a training aid, primarily at post-secondary institutions, to facilitate the training of individuals in programming robots for industry and for students on the engineering side of the card," he said, Marvin's insides are much like the insides of industrial robots, but he sells for around $6,000 instead of $30,000 to $150,000 as industrial robots do, explained Gossman. That makes robotics courses affordable for post-secondary schools, he said, Marvin contains a computer eight times more powerful than a common personal computer, He can be programmed with the help of a computer terminal that plugs into his back and a computer language the firm developed just for him. Marvin has a large vocabulary, although Gossman admits his speech is sometimes hard to understand the first time it's heard. More understandable speech synthesizers could have been used but they had a limited vocabulary, he explained, Marvin's two arms have six movable joints and can lift objects weighing up to five pounds. He has wheels instead of feet and a sonar system that lets him find his way around objects by bouncing sound off them, Gossman came up with the idea of manufacturing Marvin about two years ago when he saw that schools could use a sophisticated, yet cheap, tool to teach robotics. Gossman said he decided to make Marvin have a human shape only because it "tends to attract attention" and not because there is any real need for him to look human-like, … "I really don't know whether robotics is the wave of the future, Wave of the future may be a bit strong," said Gossman” – by Judy Daubenmler, The Daily Reporter – Sep 20, 1984

why is tony carrying around a box of “the sands of iowa jima”

[Side note, I am pretty sure that he wrote this song about the night he met Joan IN IOWA CITY OF ALL PLACES 😭😭😭]

(Margaret Bourke-White. 1947)

Xmas gift for my grandparents. They’re from Iowa but have lived in Washington state for over 50 years. Despite this fact, their hearts are still in Iowa. I’m not sure if I like the color of the heart against the green fabric (I love filling with split stitch, though), and I’m not thrilled that I had to use six strands for the border in order to cover the red pattern-transfer pencil marks. Despite that, I think it’s working out pretty nicely. Especially for my first self-designed project. 😉

(All photos from Pinterest, because I am too lazy to comb through my own, and these are better anyway)

favourite freaks and geeks character?