THURSDAY #2284

One Of My Very Own...

Our Secretary of State is calling ISIS, Daesh. He must read my blog.

This is such a clever way to solve the problem...

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When, then, is a good time? When you’re feeling…what…festive?

One more mood swing and my wife will have the whole set...

But, of course, I don't know if that's actually true, but it seemed like something interesting to think about. 

Oh, look, somebody has been reading the bible again...

 How cute.

PHOTOGRAPHY:

Sometimes all you need is a billion dollars.

Delta E.

A decibel is simply a unit of sound loudness that humans can hear the difference. For instance, you can play two tones that are so close in loudness that no one can hear the difference. Then as you turn up one of the tones just enough that people can detect that one is louder than the other. That is one decibel.

There is something very similar with color. It's called Delta E and works just like the decibel measure, but with changes in color...

 Everyone should be able to detect that all of the colors in the wall above are different.

Well, how about these three blues?

And remember, that lady artist who can see a hundred times more colors than you and I had to be tested and she was tested with the Delta E test. 
They have a machine that will determine how many delta Es there are in dyes for textiles and such. When dying sheets by the millions then sometime later you dye the pillow cases, you want these items to match as close to perfect as possible. But they can never be perfect — just perfect enough that the human eye can't tell the difference.

Just an inch of snow can cause people to park like this...

Which is very embarrassing when it melts off and you return to the parking lot.

A ranger from the Kenya Wildlife Service walks past 15 tons of elephant tusks which were set on fire, during an anti-poaching ceremony at Nairobi National Park in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, March 3, 2015.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta set fire to the elephant ivory during World Wildlife Day to discourage poaching, saying that 25 years after the historic banning of the ivory trade, new demand from emerging markets is threatening Africa's elephants and rhinos.

Now my two cents worth:

Is there a chance that putting all those tons of ivory on the market could lower the price enough that it wouldn't be worth it to the poachers? Just wondering. 

Aoshima Island is one of about a dozen "cat islands" around Japan, small places where there are significantly more feline residents than people.

 Do you remember the experiments with the rats who lived in a perfect environment with plenty of food but turned murderous anyway? I wonder why these cats don't do that.

These crabs arrange themselves in an orderly queue, the biggest at the front, the smallest at the back; they're lining up with one aim: to exchange properties. But none of the crabs can make a move because the chain is not yet complete. They're all waiting for the right-sized crab to come along.

I learned something else. This is all going on in very shallow water and the crabs can only live mere minutes in the sunlight. 

Chuck Taylor in 1921.

Don't know who he is? He is wearing Chuck Taylor Converse All-Stars.

Imagine that you’re on a television game show and the host presents you with three closed doors. Behind one of them, sits a sparkling, brand-new Lincoln Continental; behind the other two, are smelly old goats. The host implores you to pick a door, and you select door #1. Then, the host, who is well-aware of what’s going on behind the scenes, opens door #3, revealing one of the goats.

 “Now,” he says, turning toward you, “do you want to keep door #1, or do you want to switch to door #2?”

Statistically, which choice gets you the car: keeping your original door, or switching? If you, like most people, posit that your odds are 50-50, you’re wrong.

I'm going to give you a few minutes to think about that.

 People who are better at their job than you are at yours...

And it wouldn't surprise me if you were both smoking.

Men's clothing that you have maybe overlooked...

 Being a denim guy, I actually like this next one...

And this is sort of like a pair of pants/backpack combination and may actually be a good idea...

Have I got a deal for you! I told you once about a one foot extension cord that you can put into any outlet. It comes with a small remote control that will turn on and off anything plugged into it. Well, this next device is similar, only you can activate it with your phone...

How many nuclear weapons have there been?

1945 on far left; present on far right. Blue = USA; Red = USSR/Russia. France, England, Israel, etc, are the thin lines at the very bottom.
(I just noticed that I cut off the scale...but needless to say at the peak, it was a lot)

I'm thinking this could be true...

I thought it was bullshit at first, but the solar winds would be so weak that far out, the gas could just hang around forever.

 Here's why switching doors gives you a 2/3 chance of winning...

 Well, I guess that's one way to do it...

This is the kind of stuff I think about...

Remember, kids, it’s not alcoholism until you graduate.

 To deter urinating in alleys, this city used hydrophobic paint that will do exactly what the sign suggests...

It has been suggested that I install a Random Page Button to my blog. A very nice guy even sent me the instructions, but I'm afraid I will screw it up. I can get someone to help me install it, but first I would like to know if anybody else feels the need. He was most concerned about weekends.
So, what do you think?

An old man, a retired dentist, made a large block of concrete as a memorial to his dead dog. But years later upon closer inspection, it was detected that the concrete was filled with human teeth...

It was determined that the dentist had saved every tooth that he pulled for all those years and had mixed it with the concrete to "save money on the concrete."

That would have to have been one cheap son of a bitch.

I have a Folio Olio visitor who sent me some of his skillful drawings. I offer this as just one way to make drawings say something. There is no need for a human being to get in competition with a camera. You can use your skill to show your humanity...

Not one, not two, but THREE people have suggested to me that my faith in science is dangerous. They all had a different slant, but basically (kind off) it boiled down to faith in science is no difference than faith in...say...religion or anything else. 
I'm working on a reply, but would really like to know what you guys think.

How delightful...

 Does it bother anybody else that this first woman is wearing shoes?

This guy has several of these...

It sort of tells a bit of a story doesn't it.

This guy is dying. His bucket list was but one item...

But when you get right down to it, we are all dying and we need to get to work on our own bucket list before the death thing is given an official due date.

You are only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

One Of My Very Own...