The catalog of the library of son of Christopher Columbus was just found!

This is really cool! Hernando Colón was a huge collector, he bought all sorts of books, not just Plato and high-brow stuff, so this will be quite an insight into books of the time. Obviously a lot of those books no longer exist, it will be interesting to see how many still do.

But the cool part is that it is HUGE - over 2,000 pages! And Hernando hired people to read all the books and write summaries! It's a descriptive catalog! And the photos in the catalog are gorgeous!

The book is in the process of being translated, and when done, it will be released publicly so anyone can read it. Should be quite interesting.

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716600905/christopher-columbus-son-had-an-enormous-library-its-catalog-was-just-found

A word of warning about Avengers: Endgame - NOT A SPOILER as I haven't seen it yet

nor have I read anything about it aside from watching trailers.

The movie is THREE HOURS AND TWENTY MINUTES LONG.

So be aware. Unless you have an industrial-sized bladder, I'd recommend NOT going out to dinner immediately before the movie and being very mindful on the refreshments. But above all, I'd recommend the smartphone app, available for both Android and iPhone, called RunPee. They have suggestions for most movies on when good points are in the movie to run out of the movie and take a pee break. However, anticipating they are about to get royally slammed, they've taken their web site down in order to focus on keeping their back end infrastructure up to support the apps.

If you don't have a smartphone but do have a Google tablet or iPad, you're good. If you don't have a smartphone or tablet, borrow one from a friend. If you can't borrow one from a friend and are planning on seeing the movie, use your best judgement.

I did hear that there's no footage in the end credits, so at least you can make a run for the loo once the credits start rolling.

https://runpee.com/