Want to hear my latest excuse? I brought home the traveler’s crud from New England. I feel awful, thank you. On another, marginally more cheerful note, I also am in the process of phone migration. I have gone from a flip phone, as depicted in the above A&J from 2008, to a modern cell phone. Yes, really. It’s a Galaxy s5, because I know there are those among you who actually would want to know. No, it’s not the latest, but as near as I can tell it does everything but laundry. I figure it’s good enough for me until I get used to it. That is all I am going to say about my cell phone. Or my very bad cold. I hope you have a great weekend! I plan to have a better one.
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http://www.chron.com/entertainment/comics-games/comic/Rose-is-Rose/149954/2016-09-02.php
For Jackie and her helpers, who do this daily.
What? Blank. You’d love this show Mark. You could wander and see all the amazing boats here. If I can get someone to baby sit Dickens I can run and take photos. So much history here. 300 oats, all wood. Amazing.
Good morning Villagers…..
Old Bear and Smigz…present and accounted for 🙂
…and it’s Caturday
GR 😉 hah, you knew she’d get me out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn-3W2WL08o
Caturday’s grin…
http://cheezburger.com/8971579648
A Sat. TIP BlogSpot, perhaps sacrilegious to some. Also, may be the first portrayal I’ve seen where she looks a light-skinned woman from the Near East.
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
Peace,
On the road again this morning. Going to Plains, Ga and maybe we’ll see Mr. Jimmi Catah.
Titled simply ‘Madonna.’ Maybe this is what Eliza Dolittle looked like to Zoltan Kafarthy. [New words for speelczech.]
Peace,
“Hungarian painter: Daughter of Hungarian painter, Miklós Barabás (1810–1898) and wife of Hungarian graphic designer and journalist, Hugó Szegedy-Maszák (1831–1916).” You can tell by her self portrait that she didn’t use self as model, but added a stereotypical [and common] Semitic nose. Maybe didn’t use a model at all. Good painting.
Peace,
For 60 years I’ve been saying ‘Kafarthy,’ which is what I thought I heard Rex Harrison say on the LP and in the movie, but it’s Kaparthy, which is actually more accurately Hungarian. Sorry to have led you astray.
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/04/nyregion/theater-my-fair-lady-in-elmsford.html
Peace,
Even though I am a tech geek in terms of computers, I am still using the dumb phone (flip phone) that I bought in November 2007 for several reasons:
1. Security. Who wants to hack or track a dumb phone? (Yes, I turned off the location function, assuming that the technology actually allows that.)
2. Conservation of materials and money. Why throw away or recycle a tool that works perfectly? Because I was deeply influenced by the Earth movement in the late sixties and early seventies, I have always favored the old maxim of “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.”
3. Fear of becoming a Webphone zombie. I spend more than enough time on computers. I don’t want to join the faceless hordes of shuffling braindeads who shamble along, neck permanently bowed, unseeable eyes fixated on a small screen that increases their addiction every minute.
I have an iPhone because that’s what they use in Husband’s office so when my old flip phone died that’s what he brought home for me. It was easier to get used to than I had feared, and now I love it. Anyhow, since my kids text more than call I have to be able to keep up with them. 🙂
Ah yes, the dreaded Con Crud! I am watching several of my friends recover from varying degrees of con crud now that they are home from Dragon*Con. I am lucky in that all the years I attended D*C I never got the crud. It ain’t fun.
Crud, in whatever version, sucks. I’m going back to bed.
Rick, late last night on way home from a date with my lovely wife, I spotted the silhouette of a “zombie” up ahead in a crosswalk wearing dark clothing and staring into his phone as he crossed the road. My wife didn’t see him (jumped when she finally did), nor did the driver behind me (was flashing high beams at me), until I had slowed the car to a crawl. He was a living argument for flip phones.
BTW, a flip phone is what my family and I carry. I concur with your arguments; I use a computer at work and my laptop at home. When we’re out of the house it’s time for a technology break.
Wish so many of you were with me, especially JJ who would love this show. Wonder if he’s been? I don’t think my post went through but this is his audience. He’d do better here in the authors exhibit with Lin Pardee or the boat designers, authors and marine artists.
Three deer walked along shore at dawn as I woke up and gulls, seals and sea lions honking. Dickenson is back in bed, they let him in.
I need to put on second shoe. I have on jeans and nautical tee with anchors. Have teeth brushed but not hair. I don’t do makeup much anymore.
My smartphone got doused in beer by my dinner partner who then discovered it is on spontaneous combustion list. Backup phone probably is too.
Husband had to have cell for work, but I resisted for a long time. Then a parent’s increasing frailty and illness made a cell phone advisable. I switched to a smartphone a few years ago and find it very handy. I’m always looking things up, and it’s replaced the encyclopedia and desktop pc for that. Have the Samsung Note 5—love the stylus—it’s large screen is easier for me to see, too.
Plaudits for my adopted town:
http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/opinion/letters/4112068-letter-editor-grateful-new-yorker-welcomed-Bemidji
Have not got in touch w/ this couple yet, but probably will. Not sure if our tastes in pizza match. Loads of chains, and one local that advertises, but the oldest in town is locally owned [by the guy and his wife who got the Olympic Bronze in curling some years back; not a franchise], doesn’t have to advertise, and is always busy. What they may come to miss most is NYC’s food scene, but the Cities’ isn’t bad, and it’s cheaper. Chances are they’re not G&S buffs. We’ll see.
Peace,
How some people avoided living in the real world 50 years ago: Insanity
How some people avoid living in the real world today: The InterWebNet
Nice letter, emb. Made me feel good even though I live thousands of miles away. There are good people everywhere.
Did I break the Village??!!
No, Nancy, we are still here… Some of us are sick, but not broken!
Oh good. Y’all need to get well soon.
Just emailed the item below to 3 blind-copy groups, & thought some Villagers might be interested. I’m not taking attendance.
The article below, in the 7 March ’06 issue of Science is a bit technical, but worth looking at for its social and perhaps theological implications [says emb, realizing that some think there aren’t such things].
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/07/science/07evolve.html?_r=1
The theory behind judging that a gene or other genetic unit is presently undergoing selection is that, since it may be relatively new on the scene, it will have picked up few mutations in its non-essential DNA, or silent mutations in its important DNA. Older, equally useful genes will have more non-consequential mutations. You may remember that nucleic acid triplets code for particular amino acids in the proteins that [via messenger RNA] genes make. There are 64 possible triplets [codons] but only 20 protein-forming amino acids. Therefore, a particular amino acid may be coded for by more than one codon. For instance, six different codons code for the amino acid leucine, whereas only one codes for tryptophan.
Suppose an important protein that is widespread in light-skinned Caucasians must have leucine at a particular position in its amino acid chain. And suppose we find that only two of the possible six codons occur there in a large sample of Caucasians from many locales. That suggests that the gene is relatively new, maybe 15,000 years or fewer, not having undergone many silent mutations yet.* [continued below / second URL]
Anyway, that’s what the article is about. Two things TCWITS and TCMITS [The Common Man/Woman In The Street] should know are: 1. we humans, like all other critters and plants, wild and domestic, are still undergoing natural selection [whether we/they are undergoing artificial selection or not]; and 2. scientists are now able to study such aspects of genetics and evolution. “The more you know, the better off you are.” [Loren Petry, my general botany prof at Cornell U. Yeah, I know there may be exceptions.]
For an online review of much of this, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code .
*This also provides info of a perhaps trivial nature. E.g., one of the cute women I know is blue-eyed. So am I. Blue iris color is recessive and its locus is not on the X or Y chromosome, so everyone has two genes [alleles] at that locus. AA and Aa give you some other eye color [additional loci govern the details]. aa yields blue eyes. There is little or no “silent” variation at the locus, suggesting that the gene arose somewhere in Europe in the last couple of thousand years. So she and I share a common ancestor relatively recently.** [If eye color is the most important thing you consider in seeking a mate, don’t see an ophthalmologist, see a marriage counselor, a psychiatrist, or your pastor.]
**Since we’re both Caucasians, 1-4% of our genome is Neanderthal. She doesn’t look it.
Peace,
Dickens is licking my feet for therapy. I am lying in bed on top of blankets. It is 8.30 and I am l
Thinking I will go to sleep after I take some pain meds.
Stupid phone.
Had a great time today. Just sat in boat, drank wine, are cheese, apple, crackers and fresh cherry scones. Visited with friends. I love being on water, can sit and enjoy sounds, birds. Tired, actually lots of people looked at Stella,
Dickens got petted all day and held on laps.