8 31

Memetics make things a little easier not a huge accomplishment but still a useful tool.

3 pm good news PK eating and drinking again.

Earworm of the day: You make me feel like dancing.

time for some redecorating

Fits my mood at the moment.

Destruction in Louisiana

I once rode on that part of I-10. There isn't any place in California like it, miles-long bridges over water, like something out of a primeval forest. I expected to see giant cockroaches or maybe a dinosaur, it was that strange to me. What an enormous force it took to tear that road apart like that. This is so incomprehensible.

Do some brands of gasoline go farther?

Costco and Chevron said to go farther than Arco. I haven't heard this urban legend since 1968. I call it a legend because I never noticed any difference in mileage from one brand to another. Maybe this is one for Mythbusters.

Chick Filet

Chicken restaurant, fast food with drive thru. Serves breakfast until 10:30. Good chicken sandwiches with plain chicken filet and pickle. They will give you mustard, ketchup, mayo on request. On Foothill about 1/2 mile west of I-15 and somewhere south of Ontario Mills.

They also sell cows that say "eat chicken".

thought for the day

First impressions are often wrong impressions.

another flower

Michael row the boat ashore, alleluia.

then and now

What is the difference between the 20th century and the 21st century?

In the 20th century you changed your flashlight batteries and wound your watch. In the 21st century you change your watch batteries and wind your flashlight.

slow blah monday

8 29 Today is a slow motion day. Maybe not so bad. A misty haze like fog on the mind.

10 pm I took a trip down memory lane with this blog tonight. Since 2 03, it doesn't seen that long.

the smart blonde

A blonde walks into a bank in New York city and asks for the loan officer She says she's going to Europe on business for two weeks and needs to borrow $5,000. The bank officer says the bank will need some kind of security for the loan. So the blonde hands over the keys to a new Rolls Royce. The car is parked on the street in front of the bank, she has the title and everything checks out. The bank agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan. The bank's president and its officers all enjoy a good laugh at the blonde for using a $250,000 rolls as collateral against a $5,000 loan. An employee of the bank then proceeds to drive the rolls into the bank's underground garage and parks it there Two weeks later, the blonde returns, repays the $5,000 and the interest, which comes to $15.41. The loan officer says, "miss, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a multimillionaire. What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow $5,000?" The blonde replies....."where else in New York city can I park my car for two weeks for only $15.41 and expect it to be there when I return?"

Can I send more than 1 picture...

in a single message by adding pages? By George I think I've got it.

more shrew stuff

A shrew lives about a year with a heart rate for an "excited" shrew of about 1200 beats per minute. But they didn't say what a calm shrew's heart rate is. Maybe that's because there's no such thing as a calm shrew. LOL.

Narrator: "Shrews hate each other as much as humans."

Does this mean humans hate each other as much as shrews hate other shrews? If you want to do a science show, be precise.

B movie monsters Animal Planet

Shrew 1200 heart beats per minute. Lives 1 year. Human 60 heart beats per minute. Lives 70 years. They claim shrews and humans live about the same number of heart beats. 1200 / 60 = 20. So a human should live 20 times longer than a shrew, not 70. Somebody goofed.

memetics stuff

100 200 210 220 300 310 320

3 digit codes. The old has its uses.

10 20 21 22 30 31 32

BASIC 2 digit codes.

1 2 2.1 2.2 3 3.1 3.2.

Or decimal.

let the sun shine in

What is a meme?

The smallest known unit of thought. Example "water", remove any letter, and the meme is no longer "water".

Compound memes label elements A B C etc. A=cold B=water. Change to A=warm B=water. Meme AB element A change element B no change.

looking east at distant clouds 

light green filter on Picasa 

Experiments with distant clouds in the east

yellow filter on Picasa. 

Discovery flying from Edwards to Florida. I watched for it from outside, but didn't see it, but I did see another jet flying to Vegas. Image from NASA TV. 

desert flower

scattered clouds

scattered clouds

I took this picture last Saturday or Sunday.

hello test 

Why the ACLU hates crosses.

I just now figured it out. They're vampires. LOL.

8.5 El Greco morning

8-14 the storm in the afternoon

What is this plant?

discussion

Hello Moon

Good morning

Monday

Monday Monday. What can I say? It is Monday all day today, but survivable.

If Hillary Clinton is elected, it will mean another 4 to 8 years of leaving the room or changing the station every time the president comes on.

somehow this is romantic

Whatever that's supposed to mean. LOL

Turbulent sky

8.3.05

image test

"It could work!" - Young Frankenstein

The beginning of August.

8.1.05. The new dawn.