wait, I just happen to own the Cordwainer Smith concordance, let me look in that.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 02:21 (four years ago) link
which quotes this from J. J. Pierce’s intro in The Best of:
At the time Smith wrote the story in 1945, there was an abandoned shop in his neighborhood called the Little Cranch—what “cranch” meant, he had no idea—but he used the word anyway.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 02:31 (four years ago) link
then adding that “cranch” is a variant of “craunch” which I see in other sources seems to be an ancestor of “crunch.” /themoreyouknow
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 02:35 (four years ago) link
And here I thought all along it had something to do with Lucas Cranach.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 02:36 (four years ago) link
Cranch, won’t pick it up
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 02:39 (four years ago) link
didn’t RAH famously come up with that?
― Øystein, Monday, 30 December 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link
oh right the original was “dilated.” Still...
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 12:17 (four years ago) link
i thought iris as a verb was used early in the movie industry to describe the wipe
― Bojo Rabid (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 December 2019 12:27 (four years ago) link
torus
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 December 2019 12:41 (four years ago) link
“strato-“ as a prefix
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 December 2019 12:44 (four years ago) link
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_shot
"iris out" and "iris in" are usually noun phrases -- "the film ends with an iris out" -- that encourage the belief in "iris" can act as a verb with "in" or "out" as its adverb: "let's end the film by irising out"
― mark s, Monday, 30 December 2019 13:07 (four years ago) link
Thanks for, um, irising in, Mark.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 13:24 (four years ago) link
offworld
― Manitobiloba (Kim), Monday, 30 December 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
The f-stop aperture of cameras was known as an iris decades before sci-fi got hold of the term.https://tubularinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/f-stop-scale.gif
― The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool (Sanpaku), Monday, 30 December 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
"as a verb"
― mark s, Monday, 30 December 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
https://img.apmcdn.org/fab975fb18fd043b3007cd9d7eb8a357e712cf50/uncropped/27c825-20110402-bob-dylan-1975.jpgIris, oh, Iris, you’re a mystical child
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
the element in a camera is anyway transferred from the anatomical region that surrounds the pupil in the eye, so-called (since 1525 via SOED) bcz it is rainbow coloured, iris being the greek goddess of the rainbow -- and "irised" did actually pre-exist (acc.SOED, i've never spotted it) as a poetic verb meaning "exhibited the characteristics of a rainbow"
so there's a quadruple meaning transference, which is fun: from name-of-a-god to colour quality to mechanism (purposive-muscular) to mechanism (purposive-mechanical) to mechanism (similar mechanism different purpose)
― mark s, Monday, 30 December 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
El show de Iris Chacon to thread!
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
lidar
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 December 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
there's a lot of lidar talk in 1491! which, okay, does read a bit like science fiction in places
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 December 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link