Postscript

An unfinished abstract painting

Nicholas Teague
From the Diaries of John Henry
3 min readJan 27, 2019

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King George IV, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, on display at The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad (2) — Grateful Dead, Ladies and Gentlemen, at Fillmore East April 1971
Richard Feynman, playing the Bongo Drums, via Caltech archives
Excerpt from Startup Playbook by Sam Altman (link)
Catch-22— Joseph Heller
Preservation Hall Jazz Band — Keep Your Head Up, with Kyle Roussel organ solo
Just a Closer Walk With Thee — Billie and De De and Their Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Steve Martin — Atheists Don’t Have No Songs
Xerox 914 plain paper copier (1960), on display at The Printing Museum
Apple Macintosh 512K, on display at The Printing Museum
Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction— Eleanor Rieffel, Wolfgang Polak, William Gropp, and Ewing Lusk
Flip Flop and Fly — Joe Turner and His Blues Kings
Attention is All You Need — Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan Gomez, and Lukasz Kaiser (arXiv)
Ben Franklin, on display at The Printing Museum
via ‘Max is Drawing’ (facebook)
The Beatles — All You Need is Love
Good Lovin’ (1) — Grateful Dead, Ladies and Gentlemen, at Fillmore East April 1971
GAN Generated Artwork via Obvious

Have enjoyed writing in this medium. Thanks to all who came along for the journey. Cheers!

- Nick

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Books that were referenced here or otherwise inspired this post:

The Feynman Lectures on Physics — Richard Feynman

The Feynman Lectures on Physics

Catch-22 — Joseph Heller

Catch-22

On the Shortness of Life — Seneca

On the Shortness of Life

Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction — Eleanor Rieffel, Wolfgang Polak, William Gropp, and Ewing Lusk

Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! — Richard Feynman

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!

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Albums that were referenced here or otherwise inspired this post:

Long Strange Trip — Grateful Dead

Long Strange Trip

Fresh Mode — Ugly Duckling

Fresh Mode

New Orleans — Preservation Hall Jazz Band

New Orleans

Rock & Roll — Joe Turner

Rock & Roll

Love — The Beatles

Love

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Nicholas Teague
From the Diaries of John Henry

Writing for fun and because it helps me organize my thoughts. I also write software to prepare data for machine learning at automunge.com. Consistently unique.