This comic strip ran here a couple of years ago, but I thought I’d show it again, because it seems every other day now, the Mars rover Curiosity is sending back images of what seem to be crabs, women, the golden arches of McDonald’s. Well, at least that last one is feasible. I came across an effort to explain this the other day. It seems our brains are wired to perceive patterns in an effort to interpret our immediate environment. That should make sense to us. Every day I create a weird pen doodle, and you think, “It’s a homely man with a big nose!”
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Predictive typing. That would explain why today I wrote that Dickens kept licking me all night to make sure I was alive and the phone put in sexy and sweet.
Dickens is my ten pounds Adventure Dog who was very concerned about that TIA, not my date. In fact I have never written ANYONE that I was sexy and sweet, so why would it predict that?
Mark I will email you later, I am tired. Being very old school, I went and had my hair styled and my nails done, just in case I had to go to hospital. And no, I don’t have blue hair, it’s natural ash blonde, and no, I don’t have a weekly do. I show up when I hit town.
Mark in TT
That is the segment Should show up on RS on line viewing soon.
Bed early tonight
Rick in S/O
3 different translators no luck
beschwendekeitsbegrenzung. ???
Old Bear, methinks a typo crept in. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung
If I ever got stopped by a traffic cop and tried to plead that I didn’t know what the Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung was, I’d probably quickly find myself out of the car, walking a straight line and touching my nose with my eyes closed.
That would be an advantage for Arlo…he’d never have a problem finding his nose with his eyes closed.
Debbe 😉 I hope the drama has ended.
Because I know you like him and that you see a lot of sunrises…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_dBwJDUlS4
Many rather strange posts showing up the last hour or two. I think you guys are getting punchy. But you are always amusing, entertaining, and helpful, sort of.
Dear Domaucan, VERY glad the roll-over was no worse, and most thankful that you escaped bad injury. Should I ask about the car, or doesn’t it matter so much. Totalled?
Dear Jackie, you are so courageous, I don’t know how you do it. I am most thankful that you are okay after the latest misfortune! What was it exactly that flew into your eye? It said “plaque” (I ALWAYS have trouble spelling that word.) Try to take it easy and recover as carefully as possible. I guess the word “careful” isn’t in your vocabulary.
Charlotte dearest, I got severe atherosclerosis at the early age of 50 thanks to my lifelong lupus. I began having TIA or what some call mini-strokes. So far I have sustained no permanent damage to brain, vision or facial paralysis.
Who could tell with me?
Seriously, I had 99.9 % blockage of one carotid artery and about 60% on other side. They roto-rooted out the blocked one a decade or so ago, replacing it to work. The other one they watch. This isn’t as easy as a stint for the heart.
What I had was a piece of plaque break loose from an artery and travel through my left eye. I have had a number of these but not driving. You temporarily lose sight and sort of lose coordination, brain funstion, it is a stroke that if you are lucky does no damage, your vision and brain returns to functioning.
I was afraid for others but not for me. I looked at my hand on gear shift and it was an out of body experience, sort of how it must be for pilots flying and blacking out from lack of oxygen.
Good morning Villagers….
And it is a good morning when you hear positive results from accidents like Dom’s and Jackie’s TIA attack. I believe in Angels, and God’s guiding hand, both were you two. The Good Lord has much more in store for you both….bless you both.
There you are Miss Charlotte….you been doing OK?
Ya’ll have a blessed day…..
GR 😉 choosing to ignore the drama.
Been taking the back roads home, gravel roads….but the scenery, the country smell, the breeze and listening to Chrissie on cassette gets me in the mode to come through my door.
Played this more than once yesterday….absolutely beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_hdaluEq8U&list=RDg_hdaluEq8U#t=55
And thanks for posting Mr. Harrison’s ‘Here Comes the Sun’….made me smile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_hdaluEq8U&list=RDg_hdaluEq8U#t=55
let’s try this, when i went back to the link, no sound…..
Well, it would help if I turn up the volume 🙂
Oh well, so I got to hear it a couple of times this morning…..
later
Old Bear:
It means “speed limit.”
Here’s a link that has it: http://dictionary.reverso.net/german-english/Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung.
And the long grind continues.
As of this morning, I have lost 39.5 pounds. I weighed in at 173.
I don’t know if I will ever reach 170 or my higher goal of 165, but I will keep trying.
Good work on the weight Rick! Be careful that you don’t “back-slide” as we call it in the South. I’d lost 40 pounds post transplant, but regained almost 15 pounds from “stress eating.” The biggest problem was that I was drinking several sweetened soft-drinks a day (4-5!) but I was also constantly snacking.
I’ve forced myself to only one coke a day, and I’ve substituted fresh veggie snacks. I’ve started reversing the upward trend and have reduced about 5 pounds of the recent gain. Once I get some of the stressors under control it should be a little easier to manage the continued weight loss. I need to drop about 6o pounds from my pre-transplant weight in January to get to a healthy point. That would be 100 pounds from my all-time high weight of 325 pounds a few years ago, just before my first kidney transplant failed completely. My excuse then was the prednisone that I took as anti-rejection medication…
Hang in there Rick, you can make.
“Tempolimit, sign of invasive English, cc’d. from one of the above links:
“Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung f ?(genitive Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung, plural Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen)
1.speed limit
Synonyms[edit] Tempolimit”
Wonder if Germans worry about that as much as l’Academie Francaise does? [Sorry / that missing cedilla. (Speelczech accepts cedilla.) ].
Peace, emb
No expert, but I’d surmise that the most widespread example of invasive English might be “OK”. Probably few places in the world where that would not be understood.
Good morning all, my sleep patterns are messed up. I seem able to sleep in hotels but not my own bedroom. Dickens worries so about me and starts trying to get me up. That is annoying and endearing at the same time. He works do hard, all ten pounds of him.
Yes Debbe, the Guardian angels have been hard at work for 71 years. There must be more than one assigned I decided long ago.
My life has been inexplicably saved so many times.
On one such occasion I remarked to a devote Christian friend that I hoped I didn’t have to go to Africa because I’d be lousy at it. She replied that I was already a missionary here, that every day of my life was a witness to the Lord. I try to remember those words.
I am not the saint my dogs and friends would have me be.
Hang in Rick and David, we didn’t put this weight on overnight so we shouldn’t expect to lose it that way. Keep drinking water and substitute healthier food choices on all we put in our bodies.
You know what Kenny Chesney sings, “Our bodies are temples or so they say, I treat mine like an old honky tonk, greasy cheeseburgers and cheap cigarettes” OR close enough to the words. Persevere.
Nancy Kirk, for Bruce Campbell go to NetFlix and watch Burn Notice. It is a neat little show. And Ghost already mentioned Brisco County, Jr, which I also liked. 🙂
As to the “warrior princess”, I think the second picture is someone doing a very good Zena cosplay. On the first one, I got nothing.
Oh, my sister and I call the autocorrect program on out phones Otto Korreckt, and we dislike him very much. :-p
GR6, a close second would be “hello.” Every place I travel people instinctively answer their cellphone calls with hello.
Otto Korreckt, the Spelling Nazi. I like it. 🙂
OW: Actually, “Hello” could be first, since several languages (ex; Spanish, Portuguese, German) have very similar words for the greeting.
A few years ago there was a pink Breast Cancer Awareness t-shirt that caused a bit of controversy…the one that read “Save the Boobies”. I had to run an errand during the noon hour and ended up in line behind a young lady with a t-shirt with a small logo of The Hard Rock Cafe on it and the message, “Rack On.”
A bit more subtle, I think. And btw, hers were definitely worth saving. 😉
GR6, hope you offered to support her cause.
GR6, what the shirt logo made me think of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x6SYcGLJ_Y