FOLIO OLIO: MONDAY #1941

Dearest Friends,
Let me give you a little something to listen to as you scroll through my today's offering. I like this song very, very much.

Congratulations to Courtney Love on being as accurate about Malaysia flight 370 as major news outlets have been.

How many things can you find wrong with this photo?

Did you spot that the naked guy in the wheelchair has mismatched shoes? Or that the drummer is a zombie?

Very clever marketing...

Well, it's official. The weather has been diagnosed with bi-polar disorder.
Seriously, a climate scientist speaking of imminent peril used the phrase: "The polar bear is us." To me, that's just a plain as anyone could put it.

Collision of two worlds?

Tip of ballpoint pen.

I love people who amuse others...

Someone is leaving coded messages and items such as a plastic leaf with paint dots inside envelopes between the pages of books at Western University. “It’s completely baffling!” says assistant professor Mike Moffatt. "All the letters are in black, except for the leaf symbol which is green. The letter appears to be color laser printed. The physical leaf is made of plastic and has two paint splotches on it - one red, one cyan. I'm not sure what the objects are supposed to be."

This is the exact pose the model took in my nude drawing class that froze me like a deer in headlights...

Read this:

Nikon D4S boasts 409,600 ISO

With an ISO rating so high you may need a Neutral Density filter with the lens cap still on, the new Nikon D4S can take photographs of yesterday. From their promotional material: "up to ISO 25,600 (expandable to a mind-boggling ISO 409,600 equivalent at Hi4)" I don't know when I'd need this?

What is ISO?

ISO is the acronym for Intense Sunlight Orientation and it measures just how little sunlight, or light, the camera needs to take a photo. The higher the ISO the less light needed. So with an ISO of 409,600 means that it can be 409,600 times darker than high noon in Greenwich during the Vernal equinox and still take a photo of a bunny.

This four-cell battery dissolves in water after three weeks. Made from non-toxic concentrations of metals and saline electrolyte, researchers hope to use it to power medical devices inside the human body. Another interesting application: Powering devices used to monitor oceans after an oil spill.

Saudi Oil Minister discussing the probability that a new energy source will be found and billions of gallons of oil will be left in the ground: “The Stone Age didn’t end because they ran out of stones.”

OOMVO...

Do you believe that the government will do a much better job of spending the money that you earned than you would?

This is what I imagine each IRS auditor looks like when they detect a mistake costing me more money...

So why do we put up with it? All told I pay about 50%...I think that's enough, don't you?

I'm not a kid, but I don't have time for full clips when I click on a one minute video and have to sit through a 30 second commercial.

I had no idea.

I can't eat corn on the cob...

My mustache is so long that if I turn the ear one way it drags the hairs into my mouth; and the other way and the hairs wrap around the ear, sickening the other diners.

Hubble's Ultra-Deep Field…

They picked out a tiny black spot in the night sky. How tiny? If you held your thumbnail out at arm’s length to cover a spot, then moved it twenty times that length.

Each dot of light a galaxy of billions of stars and at least that many planets.

Evolution is like teaching your dog a new trick...

That insect is so well camouflaged that it leads many to believe that it requires a devine creator. But it didn't happen all at once. I taught my dog to fetch a ball, bring it back to me, stand on his hind legs and gently place the ball in my hand. I did this by giving him tiny bits of steak scraps if he even looked at the thrown ball. When he mastered that I only gave him steak if he touched the ball. This continued until he performed the trick flawlessly every time.
Well, theat insect just didn't "Turn" into a leaf color. The first mutations that had ANY green were eaten less often and, thus, could reproduce more. And then, it doesn't take much imagination to see how it got greener until it reached a form that any more mutations would just make it more vulnerable.

If you think Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it, then you don't know what free speech is.

Robo-Cop?

Can you imagine what Jesus’ birth certificate would have looked like? Yeah, try explaining that shit to a census taker.

Have you ever had sex with a woman with one tooth?

Have you ever stuck your dick in a bag of uncooked rice? Why the fuck not?

Have you ever drank a beer while taking a shower?.....at the gym?

Dwarfs and midgets have very little in common.

Stephen Hawking can’t stand being in a wheelchair.

I like this...

Somebody is thinking too much again...

If you go on a once in a lifetime vacation, can you go again?

Don’t you hate it when people answer their own questions? I do.

There are many concerns. One is that people may have to either take a much slower elevator or stop at rest floors to acclimate to the altitude. Another is that the sheer weight of the elevator cable would be prohibitive.