Timely wisdom from Bert Leston Taylor (1866-1921)

Canopus

When quacks with pills political would dope us,
When politics absorbs the livelong day,
I like to think about that star Canopus,
So far, so far away.

Greatest of visioned suns, they say who list 'em;
To weigh it science almost must despair.
Its shell would hold our whole dinged solar system,
Nor even know 'twas there.

When temporary chairmen utter speeches,
And frenzied henchmen howl their battle hymns,
My thoughts float out across the cosmic reaches
To where Canopus swims.

When men are calling names and making faces,
And all the world's ajangle and ajar,
I meditate on interstellar spaces
And smoke a mild seegar.

For after one has had about a week of
The argument of friends as well as foes,
A star that has no parallax to speak of
Conduces to repose.

#Poetry #Canopus #BertLestonTaylor #FrenziedHenchman #Politics

#Help #Fedipower!!!

Is there actually anything that doesn't work on #Mint/#LMDE6-32 that already worked on #WinXP?

I want to rip #sVHS tapes using a #Canopus connected to the #Firewire/IEEE1394 port.

But neither #Shotcut nor #Kdenlive offers this feature. 😭

#anyideas???

#Hilfe #Fedipower!!!

Sollte tatsächlich irgendwas unter Mint/#LMDE6-32 nicht gehen, was bereits unter #WinXP ging?

Ich möchte #sVHS-Cassetten mittels eines #Canopus am #Firewire/IEEE1394-Port auslesen.

Doch weder #Shotcut noch #Kdenlive bieten dieses feature. 😭

#werweisswas???

Treasures resurface from Egypt’s sunken city of Canopus, the ancient port lost to the sea

During the past quarter-century, three gigantic ancient monuments have been brought back from beneath the Mediterranean off Abu Qir, Egypt. Their recovery has reawakened global attention to the submerged city of Canopus—once the thriving Nile Delta port that sank beneath the waves more than a millennium ago...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/08/treasures-from-egypts-sunken-city-of-canopus/

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#archaeology #Canopus #ancientegypt

🏅 Javier Molina se impuso a Álex Cano en la final del Torneo Canopus Robledo 2025.
Un evento con tenis histórico y homenaje a José Vega.
📖 Lee la noticia: https://www.lawebdeltenis.net/torneo-canopus-robledo-2025

#Tenis #Canopus #Robledo

#Remnants of 2,000-year-old #sunken #city lifted out of the sea off #Alexandria

Cranes hoisted #statues from depths of submerged site that authorities say may be extension of ancient #city of #Canopus

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/21/egypt-retrieves-parts-of-2000-year-old-sunken-city-canopus-off-coast-of-alexandria