FOOD FOR THOUGHT
A commenter said I have TDS or
Totally Debunking Stupidity. Thanks, Mike, I need more words of encouragement.
I've felt that way for a long time. But I also add what else I could be doing with the time. For instance, if I can watch a great movie at the same time I work on my blog then that isn't really work. But if I have to focus on, say, driving to the hardware store to buy hinges then it is work.
And that is how I define Cerca Trova.
Sinning was my minor in college.
I've been told I was quite good at it.
I have hired young men who I taught in elementary school to work on my mural crew. I loved one of them like a son. He called me Mr. Henry. Other men on the crew asked me why I made him call me that and I told them that he would call me by my first name when he considers himself my equal. He never did.
That young man is now an artist in NYC and I'm very proud of him.
I had an in-law who stole his employees' social security money. Instead of sending it to the government he just pocketed it. He owed $85K when caught and somehow talked them down to $15K.
In most things the people going to jail are the people making the money from the crime - think prostitution and drugs. They seldom arrest the john or the addict, they go after the prostitute and the drug dealer. So, I think they should go after the business people who hire the illegals and not primarily the illegals themselves.
The phrase "don't take this the wrong way" has a 0% success rate.
I accidentally pressed "no" on the "Are you 21 or over" popup on a porn site and it immediately gave me a second popup that said, "Are you sure you are not 21".
GET LEARNT
$2.70 Supermarket Wine Wins Gold Medal at International Wine Contest
The judges of the prestigious Gilbert et Gaillard international wine competition were duped into awarding this year’s gold medal to a €2.50 ($2.70) supermarket wine they deemed “exceptional”. Ever wonder how the average person chooses wine at a supermarket? Well, it turns out that having one or more medals plastered on the bottle can increase sales by up to 15 percent, so it’s no wonder that wineries take wine-tasting competitions very seriously. But does winning such medals actually reflect the quality of the wine, or are these contests simple money-making events that charge winemakers hefty sums for participation and the chance to increase sales? Eric Boschman, once named Belgium’s best sommelier, and the team at On n’est pas des pigeons, a Belgian consumer magazine and television program, decided to find out by taking the worst supermarket wine they could find and registering it in a prestigious wine competition.
The photo is an entry in the 2023 Milky Way Photographer of the Year competition.
Photographer Mihail Minkov explains: I’ve always wondered what the night sky would look like if we could see the two Milky Way arches from the winter and summer side by side. This is practically impossible since they are part of a whole and are visible at different times of the day. However, this 360-degree time-blended panorama shows us what they would look like. The two arches of the Milky Way represent one object in the starry sky, with part of it visible in winter and part of it in summer. Therefore, they are called the winter and summer arches. The winter arch includes objects that we can observe from October to March, primarily associated with the constellation Orion. On the other hand, the summer arch features the Milky Way core, visible from March to September, which is the most characteristic and luminous part of the night sky, representing the center of our galaxy.
Have you ever thought about what archaeologists 1,000 years from now will think when they dig up artifacts of our lives?
If civilization, or even mankind itself, can hold out that long, they may be quite confused. Imagine that they dug up a museum and dated the structure to the 21st century. The museum holds artifacts dating to, say, 1,000 BCE, but will future archaeologists know that? It's happened already that archaeologists find collections of artifacts that are much older than their location would indicate. But one ancient collection stands out because it was a real museum with even more ancient artifacts properly labeled and dated. And it was run by a woman. Ennigaldi-Nanna was a priestess and a princess of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. She was also an archaeologist and a museum curator, establishing her museum of artifacts around 530 BCE in Ur (modern Iraq). Her displays dated back as far as 2,000 BCE! The museum was discovered in 1925 and has yielded a treasure trove of ancient information. Ennigaldi, who was way ahead of her time, labeled her finds in three languages, including Sumerian, which modern language experts can translate. After the collapse of the Sumerian kingdom, the museum was lost and the practice of labeling artifacts fell out of use for another couple of thousand years. Read about Ennigaldi-Nanna's unique museum at Messy Nessy Chic.
Andrew Martinez attended UC Berkeley during the early 1990s. While there he became known as the "naked guy" because he refused to wear clothes — ever.
Like well-meaning parents, both the University and the city were tolerant of Martinez's "militant nudism"—his own preferred term for what he was up to—at first. For a semester, he was allowed to attend classes naked, and although he was arrested for jogging in the nude one night near the dorms, the charges were dropped after the prosecutor reasoned that nudity without lewd behavior didn't break any laws. It was only after some female students lodged complaints about the Naked Guy's state of undress that the University adopted a rule explicitly forbidding nudity on campus. Martinez was finally expelled after turning up at a disciplinary hearing—naked. The city followed suit seven months later, adopting an anti-nudity ordinance in July 1993. Martinez was the first person arrested under the new law. He showed up at City Hall to protest its passage—naked—and was sentenced to two years probation.
What became of Martinez: he made it back into the news on May 21, 2006. A headline in the San Francisco Chronicle that day read "Champion of nudity found dead in a jail cell." Years after leaving Berkeley, Martinez had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. According to the article, he had struggled with mental illness for at least a decade, "bouncing among halfway houses, psychiatric institutions, occasional homelessness and jail, but never getting comprehensive treatment." In the end, he pulled a plastic bag over his head and suffocated himself. He was 33.
Mihailo Toloto – The 82-Year-Old Monk Who Died Without Ever Seeing a Real Woman
Mihailo Toloto was a Greek monk who spent his entire 82 years on Mount Athos without ever looking at an actual woman. Born in 1856, Mihailo Toloto faced adversity from the moment he came into the world. His mother died just four hours after his birth, and with no father to claim him as their own, he was abandoned on the steps of a monastery located on Mount Athos, the center of Orthodox monasticism. The monk there took him in and the monastery became his permanent home. Raised and educated within the walled monastery, Mihailo became a monk and reportedly never ventured off the mountain until his death, in 1938. And since women are not permitted to set foot on Mount Athos, Miahilo Toloto died without ever seeing a woman.
A rare condition called déjà vécu has been causing an 80-year-old man to perceive every event in his life as a previous experience, similar to the time loop described in the movie Groundhog Day. Can you imagine watching TV and seeing the same thing over and over again, or trying to read a new book only to find yourself looking at the same pages you read the day before? How about driving and seeing the same cars behind you every day, or walking past the same people as you’re strolling down the street? It sounds like an eerie experience worthy of shows like The Twilight Zone or Black Mirror, but it’s actually the life of people suffering from an extremely rare condition known as déjà vécu. Believed to be a complication of Alzheimer’s disease, déjà vécu is the persistent impression that any new encounters are just repetitions of previous experiences.
Japanese luxury ice cream brand Cellato recently set a new Guinness record for the world’s most expensive ice cream with a decadent treat priced at a whopping 880,000 yen ($6,700) per portion. On April 25, a Guinness World Records representative certified Byakuya, Cellato’s new protein-rich ice cream, as the most expensive in the world. It consists of a velvety base made with milk, two types of cheese, egg yolks, and sake leek, and is topped with Parmigiano cheese, white truffle, truffle oil, and gold leaf. The ‘highest grade’ gelato has a faint sweetness, complex taste, and a luxurious, smooth texture. It comes packaged in a stylish black box. It includes a hand-made metal spoon created by Takeuchi craftsmen in Fushimi, Kyoto, using techniques and materials used in the construction of temples and shrines. One 130ml Byakuya ice cream is currently available on the Cellato website for 880,000 yen ($6,700).
Mountain Climber Criticized for Refusing to Pay Sherpa Who Found Her Unconscious on Everest
A Chinese mountain climber recently sparked controversy after reportedly refusing to pay the $10,000 resue fee of the sherpa who found her unconscious on Mount Everest. On May 18, while making the climb up Mount Everest, Chinese mountain climber Fan Jiangtao stumbled upon an unconscious woman in her 50s. An experienced mountain climber herself, the woman had reportedly reached the summit and was on her way back to base camp when she started experiencing health problems. Fan and the sherpa decided to abandon their goal of conquering Everest to take Luo back to the base camp safely. During their descent, they met Xie Ruxiang, a Hunan Provincial Mountain Climbing Association member, who also abandoned his climb to help. His sherpa, however, was reluctant to join them, but they needed the extra hands so Xie promised him a fee of $10,000, to which the man agreed. No one asked the person being rescued, though…
Thai Businessman Drinks Crocodile Blood Twice a Day to Stay in Shape
A businessman from southern Thailand recently went viral for claiming that the secret to his good health is to drink crocodile blood mixed with alcohol twice a day. Rojakorn Nanon, a 52-year-old man from Thailand’s Trang province, starts his day with a glass of crocodile mixed with a Thai spirit called lao khao and has another such cocktail before bedtime. The businessman claims that he used to be physically weak and exhausted all the time, but ever since he started drinking crocodile blood, things took a massive turn for the better, and now he swears by the stuff. He believes the blood does wonders for several organs, for the blood, and for the nervous system.
Japanese company Suidobashi Heavy Industries recently unveiled a miniature version of the Phalanx CIWS automatic gun system which fires thousands of plastic BB pellets instead of metal bullets. Featuring a radar-guided 20 mm Vulcan cannon mounted on a swiveling base, the Phalanx CIWS is one of the U.S. Navy’s most reliable weapon systems, finding itself in use on almost every class of surface combat ship. It’s also the inspiration for what many are calling the coolest BB gun ever made. Kogoro Kurata, the creative genius behind Suidobashi Heavy Industries, the Japanese company that brought us the awesome KURATAS mecha (boardable robot) over a decade ago, recently unveiled the Phalanx BB gun on his Twitter page.
I once offered my daughter's hand in marriage to the salesman for a lower interest rate for my new truck.
I was just invited to an event that doesn't start until eight...AT NIGHT! I'm sorry but not all of us are on cocaine.
HUMAN ACTIVITY
Look carefully...
Disguise
Shark
Legend has it that when you are overwhelmed and on the verge of a total nervous collapse, a small child will appear to tell you that you cut their sandwich wrong.
Don't be part of the problem, be the whole problem.
OBJECTS OF INTEREST
So, what are those huge floating airports supposed to do when an enemy releases warehouses full of suicide drones at it at one time? And remember, they don't have to sink it, just make it inoperative.
Indeed.
Hey, let's pave roadways with these...
I still don't understand their lack of guard rails for the whole canal.
When the neighbors are fighting...
Fountain
Hole In Paper
"Unpeeled"?
Taiwanese Restaurant Serves Ramen Dish Topped With a Scary Deep-Sea Creature
A Taipei-based restaurant has been getting a lot of attention for its newest addition to the menu- a ramen dish topped with a steamed 14-legged isopod that looks like something out of an Alien movie. The Ramen Boy restaurant recently took to Facebook to announce its latest dish, a bowl of ramen featuring a generous helping of giant isopod (Bathynomus giganteus), which it describes as a “dream ingredient”. Called “Giant isopod with creamy chicken broth ramen”, the dish consists of a large bowl of ramen and a large isopod steamed in its own shell. To prepare the deep-sea crustacean, the cooks remove the stomach viscera, keeping the creamy glands for consumption, and steam it. The white meat is said to taste like lobster and crab, while the yellow glands are “unexpectedly sweet”.
Potatoes
I bet those are delicious.
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5 comments:
Excellent blog today, thank you. Shame about the advanced TDS though.
^^A4^^ That's me. Learned it from my grandpa.
^^D9^^ I think this will prevent erosion from the stream of water going down the hill. The pots will need to be replaced over time.
Mike is just a common troll.
Dear Marlinmo,
Mike is my friend. He means well.
RH
Dear Typewriter Guy,
That was great! Thank you for sharing.
RH
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