The visual I get from the book’s title is one I could have done without… it’s one of those phrases which is kid-safe but not adult-safe.

Phil Manzanera, the guitarist for Roxy Music, and his group, “801″, released a song called, “Mummy Was An Asteroid, Daddy Was A Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil” about 15-20 years ago, which has one of my favorite guitar solos. So, someone was inspired by someone else, and credit where it is due.

Sorry I missed your crediting Quiet Sun.

As Emily Littella (Gilda Radner) used to say, “Oh. Never mind.” :-)

-Craw

Craw, I credited that title at the bottom of the post — it’s a song by Quiet Sun, which features Eno and Charles Hayward (pre-This Heat) in addition to Manzanera, and I think it’s Bill MacCormick’s song. Great album.

Many years ago at the Beaches branch of the Toronto Public Library I read a children’s book called “Cybernetics A to Z”. Each page had a letter of the alphabet and a concept from cybernetics, the name of which started with that letter. For example “M is for Maxwell’s Demon”, followed by a short paragraph explaining the concept and a picture showing two chambers with a small opening between them and a goblin/gremlin type creature guarding the way.

I’ve since been back and asked a librarian but it isn’t in their system. I’ve searched the web and found nothing like it, though there is a book of the same title, also published in Russia, it doesn’t appear to be a children’s picture book.

Was I dreaming? Has anyone else seen this book?

I certainly remember feeling like the calculator to my parent’s abacus; the reverse feeling about my children is enough to make me realize it’s over. :)