Saturday 9: Take My Breath Away (1996)
Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.
1) When were you last breathless?
A. I have asthma, and recently we've had bad air quality from multiple fires (poor Gatlinburg). So I have had to haul out my inhaler a couple of times. That is the literal kind of breathless. But the other kind of breathless, as in, something emotional? Probably the evening one of my close friends told me she had a terminal illness.
2) This is the love theme from Top Gun, and the romance was between a pilot and his instructor. Have you ever had a crush on a teacher?
A. No. I liked my teachers, but I didn't have crushes on them. However, in the 4th grade, for some reason other girls thought Mr. Kinzie was a dreamboat and they would sigh over him during lunch. He was okay, but he was old.
3) The pilots in Top Gun all had cool nicknames -- including Maverick, Goose, Merlin, Cougar and Stinger. Give yourself a cool pilot name.
A. I think I'll go with Gandalf. Yes? No?
4) The actress who played the instructor, Kelly McGillis, owns Kelly's Caribbean Bar/Grill and Brewery in Key West. It's known for its cheese and beer dip appetizer, served with warm pretzels. What's one of your favorite between meal snacks?
A. Chips. Cheese ball with crackers. Something chocolate.
5) The group who recorded this week's song is called Berlin, but they're really from Southern California. Have you ever been to Berlin? How about Southern California?
A. I have been to California. Berlin's beyond my means.
I've also been through Oklahoma, and I always wear blue jeans.
I found true love in Memphis, and I lost my heart in New Orleans.
My life is now a circus, and you all know what I mean.
But I still get up in the morning, 'cause the eggs don't cook themselves
and I keep my heart wide open, instead of stuck up on some shelf.
When you see me in the city, tell me it's time to love myself.
Okay, somehow I started writing a country song there. Sorry.
6) Lead singer Terri Nunn has a weekly radio show, Unbound on KCSN. How often do you listen to the radio? Do you tune in for music, comedy, news or talk?
A. I listen to music when I shower, so I listen to it almost every day. Depending on the time of day, I might also hear the news or the DJs being silly.
7) In 1986, when this song was popular, PeeWee's Playhouse premiered. While ostensibly for children, PeeWee Herman's show had many, many adult viewers. Do you watch still watch any kid's shows?
A. No. Can't say that I do. I would, maybe, if I could find them on the satellite.
8) Robert Pattinson, the actor who played Edward the vampire in the Twilight series, was born in 1986. Have you read the Twilight books? Seen the movies?
A. No and no. The last vampire series I became intimately involved with was Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
9) Random question: In an alternate universe, which of these professions would you like to find yourself in -- United States senator, Ivy League professor, or imminent psychiatrist?
A. I will be an Ivy League Professor. I teach Creative Writing, and have published 20 books of fiction, two books on writing, and one book on keeping a journal for self-discovery. My students love me and my creative writing classes always have waiting lists. Since I've been teaching for 25 years, I have a long list of alumnae who keep in touch with me, sending me Christmas cards every year and copies of their books.
Apparently my imagination is simply going crazy as I answer these questions.
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Saturday, December 03, 2016
Friday, December 02, 2016
Remembering Lakeside
Last night the local PBS had a documentary on Lakeside Amusement Park in Salem, VA.
I visited the amusement park many times as a child and a teenager. I think the last time I went, I was 19. Then this area had a major flood in 1985 and the amusement park went underwater. It never recovered and now the land houses a retail area.
The park opened in 1920 with a large football-sized segregated swimming pool. In time, it changed hands and ride attractions were added, such as a roller coaster (there were two; I only knew the last one, The Shooting Star).
These were the times when my mother could drop us off with my 14-year-old uncle (I would have been nine) and let us roam free. The uncle (her brother) would of course ditch me, my brother, and my other young uncle as soon as he could, leaving us to fend for ourselves amongst the rides and the pavilion.
I suppose it was here that I learned to love cotton candy and the huckster games that one finds at carnivals.
I recall riding The Shooting Star only twice. I was never a fan of the rides that made me sick. I was more of a Merry-Go-Round or bumper cars type of kid.
I did like the skyline, though, which circumvented the park. The long trip around the complex was relaxing, if not a little scary, and it was as if you could see the world from up there. That was a big deal when you were a kid.
After I received my driver's license, I would go to Lakeside with friends (even when I wasn't supposed). We loved to sneak into concerts and there I heard Juice Newton, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn (I think) and many other country and pop stars. We were under age but security apparently was not that good, because we never had any trouble getting into the shows. They were held in a pavilion area.
The documentary should be available for purchase at the local PBS station at some point. They were hawking it last night during the show, so I assume it will be available to the general public.
I visited the amusement park many times as a child and a teenager. I think the last time I went, I was 19. Then this area had a major flood in 1985 and the amusement park went underwater. It never recovered and now the land houses a retail area.
The park opened in 1920 with a large football-sized segregated swimming pool. In time, it changed hands and ride attractions were added, such as a roller coaster (there were two; I only knew the last one, The Shooting Star).
These were the times when my mother could drop us off with my 14-year-old uncle (I would have been nine) and let us roam free. The uncle (her brother) would of course ditch me, my brother, and my other young uncle as soon as he could, leaving us to fend for ourselves amongst the rides and the pavilion.
I suppose it was here that I learned to love cotton candy and the huckster games that one finds at carnivals.
I recall riding The Shooting Star only twice. I was never a fan of the rides that made me sick. I was more of a Merry-Go-Round or bumper cars type of kid.
I did like the skyline, though, which circumvented the park. The long trip around the complex was relaxing, if not a little scary, and it was as if you could see the world from up there. That was a big deal when you were a kid.
After I received my driver's license, I would go to Lakeside with friends (even when I wasn't supposed). We loved to sneak into concerts and there I heard Juice Newton, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn (I think) and many other country and pop stars. We were under age but security apparently was not that good, because we never had any trouble getting into the shows. They were held in a pavilion area.
The documentary should be available for purchase at the local PBS station at some point. They were hawking it last night during the show, so I assume it will be available to the general public.
Thursday, December 01, 2016
Thursday Thirteen
Things to do by yourself to make the holiday time a little less crazy.
1. Make a terrarium, create a garden, or care for a plant.
2. Cook something spectacular.
3. Spend time at a museum or library.
4. Meditate.
5. Make lists of things you want to do or feel, or create a vision board for your life.
6. Read.
7. Go for a walk in the woods or visit somewhere new in your city.
8. Watch a movie.
9. Go for a long drive.
10. Listen to music. Dance like no one is watching.
11. Clear out some clutter.
12. Paint, draw, sketch, color.
13. Write in your journal, send a handwritten note to a friend, blog, or work on a writing project.
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1. Make a terrarium, create a garden, or care for a plant.2. Cook something spectacular.
3. Spend time at a museum or library.
4. Meditate.
5. Make lists of things you want to do or feel, or create a vision board for your life.6. Read.
7. Go for a walk in the woods or visit somewhere new in your city.
8. Watch a movie.
9. Go for a long drive.
10. Listen to music. Dance like no one is watching.
11. Clear out some clutter.
13. Write in your journal, send a handwritten note to a friend, blog, or work on a writing project.
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Thursday Thirteen is played by lots of people; there is a list here if you want to read other Thursday Thirteens and/or play along. I've been playing for a while and this is my 476th time to do a list of 13 on a Thursday.
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
My Grandmother's Living Room
Last night I dreamed of my grandmother's house in Salem.
Small for a family of six, the three-bedroom, full-basement structure probably encompassed about 1200 feet, if that. My grandfather had it built when a small subdivision sprang up along The Roanoke River.
The basement flooded at least three times.
The living room housed a couch, my grandfather's recliner chair, a rocking chair, a television, a dry sink, and an upright piano. The room never seemed crowded to me, but looking back on it, it must have been. I don't think the room was bigger than 12 x 14, if that.
The foyer held a bookcase and another smaller moveable shelve set that held the telephone. The bookcase held a cherished set of World Book Encyclopedias.
My grandmother rocked the piano sometimes, when she thought no one was listening. When we were outside playing on our bikes, maybe, or on the swings. But I would come to the door and hear her. She had no formal lessons that I am aware of; she played by ear and with passion. She sang, too, though the songs she sang when she was at the piano were not the lullabies she whispered in her grandchildrens' ears when she tried to calm them or help them sleep.
They were songs from the 1940s, from her childhood. And I don't remember any of them, I'm afraid.
A few months before my grandmother died, she was in the hospital. She kept hearing music. She would ask if we heard it when we visited and wanted to know when the City of Salem began piping music all over the land. I always told her I heard the music, and sometimes asked her if she could sing along with it.
Once or twice she did, singing old songs I didn't know, floundering with the words and then stopping. It was better to listen than sing then, she said.
My grandmother's house had a divider between the kitchen and living room. It served as a place for us grandchildren to run around on rainy days. We chased each other in circles until she couldn't stand it anymore and sent us to the basement. Down there we played with balls or read comic books in a half-light, while she, at least, had a little quiet upstairs.
I don't know why I dreamed of my grandmother's living room last night. I haven't seen it since about 1987. She moved into another home with my aunt after that, and the old house was sold. It still stands, though I think it is one of the few left along that part of The Roanoke River Greenway.
I wish I had a picture.
Small for a family of six, the three-bedroom, full-basement structure probably encompassed about 1200 feet, if that. My grandfather had it built when a small subdivision sprang up along The Roanoke River.
The basement flooded at least three times.
The living room housed a couch, my grandfather's recliner chair, a rocking chair, a television, a dry sink, and an upright piano. The room never seemed crowded to me, but looking back on it, it must have been. I don't think the room was bigger than 12 x 14, if that.
The foyer held a bookcase and another smaller moveable shelve set that held the telephone. The bookcase held a cherished set of World Book Encyclopedias.
My grandmother rocked the piano sometimes, when she thought no one was listening. When we were outside playing on our bikes, maybe, or on the swings. But I would come to the door and hear her. She had no formal lessons that I am aware of; she played by ear and with passion. She sang, too, though the songs she sang when she was at the piano were not the lullabies she whispered in her grandchildrens' ears when she tried to calm them or help them sleep.
They were songs from the 1940s, from her childhood. And I don't remember any of them, I'm afraid.
A few months before my grandmother died, she was in the hospital. She kept hearing music. She would ask if we heard it when we visited and wanted to know when the City of Salem began piping music all over the land. I always told her I heard the music, and sometimes asked her if she could sing along with it.
Once or twice she did, singing old songs I didn't know, floundering with the words and then stopping. It was better to listen than sing then, she said.
My grandmother's house had a divider between the kitchen and living room. It served as a place for us grandchildren to run around on rainy days. We chased each other in circles until she couldn't stand it anymore and sent us to the basement. Down there we played with balls or read comic books in a half-light, while she, at least, had a little quiet upstairs.
I don't know why I dreamed of my grandmother's living room last night. I haven't seen it since about 1987. She moved into another home with my aunt after that, and the old house was sold. It still stands, though I think it is one of the few left along that part of The Roanoke River Greenway.
I wish I had a picture.
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Is That You, Raj?
Down is up
sideways is reverse
changing lines crisscross,
run parallel, arrange themselves
perpendicular, move to form
irregular quadrilaterals.
Maybe I am in Sheldon's 2D universe,
a holographic theory,
I see only the sides of obtuse triangles
and I don't even like math.
sideways is reverse
changing lines crisscross,
run parallel, arrange themselves
perpendicular, move to form
irregular quadrilaterals.
Maybe I am in Sheldon's 2D universe,
a holographic theory,
I see only the sides of obtuse triangles
and I don't even like math.
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Sunday Stealing: Silver Thanksgiving
From Sunday Stealing
The Silver Thanksgiving Questions
1. How many Thanksgivings do you attend?
A. Generally just one, although there have been years where my husband and I have had a mini-Thanksgiving and then attended a big feast at my in-laws, due to work schedules (my husband is a firefighter and my brother-in-law is a police investigator).
2. Where do you attend Thanksgiving(s)?
A. This year it was at my house. In the past, I have attended Thanksgiving at my mother-in-law's house, my parents' house, and my grandmother's house.
3. What is your favorite dish?
A. I like good stuffing with gravy on it.
4. What is your least favorite dish at Thanksgiving?
A. Anything with coconut in it.
5. What, if any, are your Thanksgiving traditions?
A. They are changing as we age. I think the main tradition is we eat at 6 p.m.
6. Name your FAV thing about Thanksgiving.
A. I don't really have one. To be honest, I'd just as soon skip the holiday.
7. Do you make anything for Thanksgiving? If yes, share what and why.
A. This year I cooked the turkey, made candied yams, stuffing, cooked kale, rolls, and baked a pie. In past years I have mostly been responsible for the turkey, but this year I did everything.
8. Out of everything you eat at Thanksgiving, what can YOU cook the best?
A. All of it.
9. What do you drink with your Thanksgiving feast?
A. Water. I only drink water. Although I confess around 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving day, I would not have turned down a big drink of liquor.
10. Has there ever been a feud during your Thanksgiving?
A. When I was young, my parents fought every holiday.
11. Do you have appetizers before your Thanksgiving meal?
A. No.
12. How many people attend your Thanksgiving(s)? If yes, who?
A. This year there was only three of us: me, my husband, and my mother-in-law. In years past, we have had large gatherings with me, my husband, my MIL and FIL, my SIL and her husband, her two boys. At my parents house, prior to 2000 when my mother died, we had my husband and me, my parents, my brother, my SIL and their three kids.
13. Have you ever missed a Thanksgiving?
A. No.
14. What kind of pie/cake/dessert do you eat for dessert?
A. This year we had apple pie.
15. Do you ever play games at Thanksgiving?
A. No.
16. Name 3 things you are thankful for.
A. Blue Skies, music, and tomorrows.
17. Is there anyone who has normally attended Thanksgiving, that will not be there this year? Who?
A. My nephews were absent this year.
18. Name the funniest person at your Thanksgiving this year and tell us more.
A. Usually that was one of the boys.
19. Which person eats the MOST?
A. I don't keep track.
20. Which person eats the LEAST?
A. I don't keep track, sorry.
21. Do any animals attend Thanksgiving dinner?
A. Just the dead turkey on the platter.
22. If so, do they get Thanksgiving scraps?
A. No.
23. Who carves the turkey?
A. I do.
24. Have you ever had to make Thanksgiving all on YOUR OWN?
A. I did this year, yes.
25. Do you get along with the people you have thanksgiving with?
A. I try.
26. Is your Thanksgiving formal, or do you just do whatever?
A. We are winging it, so to speak, as circumstances change. It is what happens as children and parents age.
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The Silver Thanksgiving Questions
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| This is a turkey butt. |
A. Generally just one, although there have been years where my husband and I have had a mini-Thanksgiving and then attended a big feast at my in-laws, due to work schedules (my husband is a firefighter and my brother-in-law is a police investigator).
2. Where do you attend Thanksgiving(s)?
A. This year it was at my house. In the past, I have attended Thanksgiving at my mother-in-law's house, my parents' house, and my grandmother's house.
3. What is your favorite dish?
A. I like good stuffing with gravy on it.
4. What is your least favorite dish at Thanksgiving?
A. Anything with coconut in it.
5. What, if any, are your Thanksgiving traditions?
A. They are changing as we age. I think the main tradition is we eat at 6 p.m.
6. Name your FAV thing about Thanksgiving.
A. I don't really have one. To be honest, I'd just as soon skip the holiday.
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| Run turkeys, run! |
A. This year I cooked the turkey, made candied yams, stuffing, cooked kale, rolls, and baked a pie. In past years I have mostly been responsible for the turkey, but this year I did everything.
8. Out of everything you eat at Thanksgiving, what can YOU cook the best?
A. All of it.
9. What do you drink with your Thanksgiving feast?
A. Water. I only drink water. Although I confess around 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving day, I would not have turned down a big drink of liquor.
10. Has there ever been a feud during your Thanksgiving?
A. When I was young, my parents fought every holiday.
11. Do you have appetizers before your Thanksgiving meal?
A. No.
12. How many people attend your Thanksgiving(s)? If yes, who?
A. This year there was only three of us: me, my husband, and my mother-in-law. In years past, we have had large gatherings with me, my husband, my MIL and FIL, my SIL and her husband, her two boys. At my parents house, prior to 2000 when my mother died, we had my husband and me, my parents, my brother, my SIL and their three kids.
13. Have you ever missed a Thanksgiving?
A. No.
14. What kind of pie/cake/dessert do you eat for dessert?
A. This year we had apple pie.
15. Do you ever play games at Thanksgiving?
A. No.
16. Name 3 things you are thankful for.
A. Blue Skies, music, and tomorrows.
17. Is there anyone who has normally attended Thanksgiving, that will not be there this year? Who?
A. My nephews were absent this year.
18. Name the funniest person at your Thanksgiving this year and tell us more.
A. Usually that was one of the boys.
19. Which person eats the MOST?
A. I don't keep track.
20. Which person eats the LEAST?
A. I don't keep track, sorry.
21. Do any animals attend Thanksgiving dinner?
A. Just the dead turkey on the platter.
22. If so, do they get Thanksgiving scraps?
A. No.
23. Who carves the turkey?
A. I do.
24. Have you ever had to make Thanksgiving all on YOUR OWN?
A. I did this year, yes.
25. Do you get along with the people you have thanksgiving with?
A. I try.
26. Is your Thanksgiving formal, or do you just do whatever?
A. We are winging it, so to speak, as circumstances change. It is what happens as children and parents age.
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Saturday, November 26, 2016
Saturday: Baby's in Black
Saturday 9: Baby's in Black (1964)
Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.
1) Black is this week's signature color because Friday, November 25, was "Black Friday," when retailers cut their prices and consumers flock to the stores. Did you score any "Black Friday" bargains?
A. Nothing worth talking about. I didn't go out, but I did a little online shopping.
2) Feasting and football are also popular Thanksgiving weekend pastimes. Do your Thursday-Sunday plans include pigging out or watching a game?
A. Just the pigging out part.
3) At Thanksgiving dinners, Crazy Sam's homemade gravy is always a hit. (Probably because she's so generous with the cognac, which gives the gravy a nutty taste.) What was particularly delicious at your Thanksgiving table?
A. I made candied yams, which I had never made before. They turned out ok.
4) Among the biggest the Black Friday advertisers are Target, Kohl's, Macy's and Best Buy. If you could have a $100 gift card to any one of those stores, which would you choose?
A. Target, right now, because they are being boycotted by the conservatives.
5) This week's song, "Baby's in Black," is about a girl who wears black because she's in mourning. Do you find that the color you're wearing reflects your mood?
A. Sometimes, yes.
6) The woman who inspired this song, Astrid Kirchherr, has been friends with Paul McCartney since he and his bandmates (John Lennon, George Harrison, Stu Sutcliffe and Pete Best) met her in Hamburg back in 1960. Tell us what you believe are the components of a strong, lasting friendship.
A. Trust and loyalty. Intelligence, common interests, and proximity. Plus pheromones. Or something like that. I am not sure what you call it when you look into another person's eyes and know the moment you meet that you're going to be close friends some day, even if the friendship doesn't blossom until years after the first time you met. That has to be something like pheromones. Or maybe just old souls connecting.
7) In the early days of the Beatles, Paul McCartney and John Lennon began writing a play but abandoned it. Do you have a novel, painting, play, song or poem that you're going to finish "someday?"
A. Only about 100 of them.
8) When he was 16, George Harrison dreamed of moving to Canada, Australia or Malta. In just a few years, he would visit all those places with Beatles and eventually decided there was no place like home and stayed in England. Have you ever thought about moving to another country? If so, where?
A. I wouldn't mind living in Southern France, except I don't speak French.
9) Random question: Finish this sentence -- If you want me to give you "yes" for an answer, the best time to approach me is _____________________.
A. Around 11 a.m., depending on the question.
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Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.
1) Black is this week's signature color because Friday, November 25, was "Black Friday," when retailers cut their prices and consumers flock to the stores. Did you score any "Black Friday" bargains?
A. Nothing worth talking about. I didn't go out, but I did a little online shopping.
2) Feasting and football are also popular Thanksgiving weekend pastimes. Do your Thursday-Sunday plans include pigging out or watching a game?
A. Just the pigging out part.
3) At Thanksgiving dinners, Crazy Sam's homemade gravy is always a hit. (Probably because she's so generous with the cognac, which gives the gravy a nutty taste.) What was particularly delicious at your Thanksgiving table?
A. I made candied yams, which I had never made before. They turned out ok.
4) Among the biggest the Black Friday advertisers are Target, Kohl's, Macy's and Best Buy. If you could have a $100 gift card to any one of those stores, which would you choose?
A. Target, right now, because they are being boycotted by the conservatives.
5) This week's song, "Baby's in Black," is about a girl who wears black because she's in mourning. Do you find that the color you're wearing reflects your mood?
A. Sometimes, yes.
6) The woman who inspired this song, Astrid Kirchherr, has been friends with Paul McCartney since he and his bandmates (John Lennon, George Harrison, Stu Sutcliffe and Pete Best) met her in Hamburg back in 1960. Tell us what you believe are the components of a strong, lasting friendship.
A. Trust and loyalty. Intelligence, common interests, and proximity. Plus pheromones. Or something like that. I am not sure what you call it when you look into another person's eyes and know the moment you meet that you're going to be close friends some day, even if the friendship doesn't blossom until years after the first time you met. That has to be something like pheromones. Or maybe just old souls connecting.
7) In the early days of the Beatles, Paul McCartney and John Lennon began writing a play but abandoned it. Do you have a novel, painting, play, song or poem that you're going to finish "someday?"
A. Only about 100 of them.
8) When he was 16, George Harrison dreamed of moving to Canada, Australia or Malta. In just a few years, he would visit all those places with Beatles and eventually decided there was no place like home and stayed in England. Have you ever thought about moving to another country? If so, where?
A. I wouldn't mind living in Southern France, except I don't speak French.
9) Random question: Finish this sentence -- If you want me to give you "yes" for an answer, the best time to approach me is _____________________.
A. Around 11 a.m., depending on the question.
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Thursday, November 24, 2016
Thursday Thirteen #475
Things you may or may not want to know, or things that can't be known, or whatever.
1. The date/time/cause of your death before you die.
2. Number of times you've narrowly avoided death (i.e., the person who missed dying in a car wreck because of a stop light, or a slow driver).
3. How a stranger perceives you at first glance.
4. Number of times you've eaten food that has been spat in, dropped on the floor, etc., (intentionally or unintentionally).
5. Number of times you've swallowed a bug in your sleep, or how many times a bug has crawled on you while sleeping.
6. The things you can't know about because you can't sense them, called a noumenon. This is a posited object or event that exists without sense-perception. Immanuel Kant said that the noumenal world may exist, but it is completely unknowable through human sensation. In Kantian philosophy, the unknowable noumenon is often linked to the unknowable "thing-in-itself," although how to characterize the nature of the relationship is a question yet open to controversy.
7. Whether or not someone is wearing boxers or briefs (or thongs or old lady panties or no underwear).
8. If a computer program would ever stop running, given that the computer itself never broke down or never stopped running.
9. There are still numbers that can’t be computed. For example, there is above and beyond one “boundlessness.” For example, what number of positive, entire numbers are there? They are endless. (Think pi.)
10. In arithmetic, there are accurate things that can’t be confirmed accurately – and we don’t (yet) understand what they are.
11. Truth is not knowable. One can describe truth as one sees it, but can also continue to change the framework of the truth so that is a stronger or weaker truth. However, if one can describe truth in one way that is a "stronger truth" than the first description, then there still must be yet another "stronger truth" out there, so there are infinite unreachable truths.
12. There are true things about the universe that we can never know, since we cannot know truth.
13. Are there people who are uninteresting? Think about this: if one makes a list of the most uninteresting people, the oldest, by default, becomes interesting because that fact in itself is interesting. So then the next oldest person because the most interesting, and so and so forth. So everybody is interesting. If you find someone uninteresting, you've only yourself to blame.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Thursday Thirteen is played by lots of people; there is a list here if you want to read other Thursday Thirteens and/or play along. I've been playing for a while and this is my 475th time to do a list of 13 on a Thursday.
1. The date/time/cause of your death before you die.
2. Number of times you've narrowly avoided death (i.e., the person who missed dying in a car wreck because of a stop light, or a slow driver).
3. How a stranger perceives you at first glance.
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| Did I drop it or not? |
5. Number of times you've swallowed a bug in your sleep, or how many times a bug has crawled on you while sleeping.
6. The things you can't know about because you can't sense them, called a noumenon. This is a posited object or event that exists without sense-perception. Immanuel Kant said that the noumenal world may exist, but it is completely unknowable through human sensation. In Kantian philosophy, the unknowable noumenon is often linked to the unknowable "thing-in-itself," although how to characterize the nature of the relationship is a question yet open to controversy.
7. Whether or not someone is wearing boxers or briefs (or thongs or old lady panties or no underwear).
8. If a computer program would ever stop running, given that the computer itself never broke down or never stopped running.
9. There are still numbers that can’t be computed. For example, there is above and beyond one “boundlessness.” For example, what number of positive, entire numbers are there? They are endless. (Think pi.)
10. In arithmetic, there are accurate things that can’t be confirmed accurately – and we don’t (yet) understand what they are.
11. Truth is not knowable. One can describe truth as one sees it, but can also continue to change the framework of the truth so that is a stronger or weaker truth. However, if one can describe truth in one way that is a "stronger truth" than the first description, then there still must be yet another "stronger truth" out there, so there are infinite unreachable truths.
12. There are true things about the universe that we can never know, since we cannot know truth.
13. Are there people who are uninteresting? Think about this: if one makes a list of the most uninteresting people, the oldest, by default, becomes interesting because that fact in itself is interesting. So then the next oldest person because the most interesting, and so and so forth. So everybody is interesting. If you find someone uninteresting, you've only yourself to blame.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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| Run turkeys, run! |
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Thursday Thirteen is played by lots of people; there is a list here if you want to read other Thursday Thirteens and/or play along. I've been playing for a while and this is my 475th time to do a list of 13 on a Thursday.
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Moonset in Daylight
The super moon last week tended to set later each day, and by the 16th it was setting around 7:30 a.m. By then there was so much daylight that the moon herself was difficult to see.
I took pictures anyway. In the last few pictures, you have to look closely to see the moon settling below the horizon. I promise she is there, right in the middle of the photo. But she blends in with the sky so well that her outline is barely visible.
I took pictures anyway. In the last few pictures, you have to look closely to see the moon settling below the horizon. I promise she is there, right in the middle of the photo. But she blends in with the sky so well that her outline is barely visible.
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
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