I had occasion to buy a new coffee maker recently. My philosophy is, “Go mid-range.” If you purchase one of those no-nonsense, on-off, under-20-bucks models, you eventually will come home in the afternoon to the smell of scorched coffee, probably sooner than later. And the really expensive, high-end coffee pots? Don’t even get me started. I return to the programmable, 12-cup Mr. Coffee, or comparable brand. It can’t be beaten, except I do notice the LED displays get harder and harder to read. Yes, we’re getting started slowly here after a little vacation. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need another cup of coffee.
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Good Morning Villagers……….
I’m back :0 (that’s a shout out) Been very…really sick this past week. Need to get my strength built back up too, broths are tolerant finally.
…hope all went well with chemo yesterday Jackie.
Dad’s stirring…..will be playing manicurist too today, His and mine, Don’t want to scratch him plus cant type with these long nails. Glad there’s spell check
…back later
=^..^’
debbe
Real quick…can some one put this in layman’s terms…
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/03/05/stephen-hawking-says-knows-what-happened-before-dawn-time.html
….Mr. Hawking was a very intelligent man I admired his….determination, maybe not so many of his ‘thoeries
Debbe, I will try, though poorly, I suspect: Mr. Hawking was first relying on the fact that time is a thing just as gravity is. We do know that, because, as Einstein showed, time can be “squished” or “stretched out” depending on how fast one is going: relativity.
But before the big bang, which which many think seems to have set time in operation as we know it, he suspects time was working somehow differently—but that is only his suspicion.
The metaphors he used were that we now have time “horizontally.” But back then time was “vertical”—or, as Mr. Hawking put it, it was “imaginary time.” But those metaphors are just metaphors for everyone except Mr. Hawking. Metaphors don’t prove anything.
Now I will have fun and link this back to Mr. vs. Mrs. Coffee! Arlo Day thinks that he knows his house’s coffee, but Janis Day knows that she knows. How does that link? Um—gimme a minute—
—um–more time, please? Make it no cream or sugar—horizontal please—
Well, Arlo is a Day. Janis is a Day.
That makes two Days of time.
I hope this is fun yet!
Debbe,
Hope you are getting better. As to “layman’s terms.” Everybody is some other expert’s layperson. I, and probably c x-p, and 90+ % of scientists in general are Hawking’s laypersons. So are those two guys on the video. I cannot do any better than they.
However, I’m also an uncertain lay theolog. In that capacity, I think it likely that Elohim did it, and that there was some sort of duration in the transcendent realm where Elohim is/are. That’s where Elaine has just greeted Hawking, who WALKED in a bit ago. Obviously, I’m not worried about his salvation either, and expect Elohim is glad to see Steve: “Welcome home sailor, and well done!”
Peace,
Now I’ve got more time: Gene is a Day too! That’s three Days.
On coffee pots: I would love to have a french press but since Husband leaves for work at 5:30am and that’s not a time that my clock recognizes I fix the pot at night and set the timer so he has a cup ready to take with him in the morning. As for me, some days I can drink coffee, and some days I can’t stand the taste and make tea. For that little weirdism I’d like to thank many years of being on Prednisone. We have thought about buying a Keurig, but since we buy a coffee/chicory blend and they don’t have that yet we dropped that idea.
emb, is Mary Lou a Day? I really do not know. But that would give us four. It may help Debbe.
And has Gene adopted Meg, making her also a Day?
TruckerRon, thank you! We may have five days now.
Mr. Hawking is not yet up to the Beatles, though who had “Eight Days a Week.” Days is capitalized, foreshadowing Arlo and Janis. I suspect they verticalized the eighth day, like Hawking.
Jimmy! Please confirm!
TrapperJean, look for these: https://www.communitycoffee.com/products/single-serve/coffee-and-chicory-coffee-pods-12-count
Emb…thanks for the well wishes and post…
Now to you DJJG7….thanks for your post in the hopes that it may “help Debbe” 🙂 I specially thank you for the hearty laugh it gave me….so, just how much caffeine have you had today 🙂 You by chance a Reddit poster….should be…….
AND HAPPY PI DAY
Hey! “One Day At A Time”! Goes back to the ’70s, right?
Debbe, you’re welcome.
Coffee? Honest, I don’t touch the stuff. No, nor Reddit. But I love Jimmy Johnson’s cartoons and admire his admirers—
Pi day indeed! 🙂
good ones!! 🙂 thanks everybody!
Yes Happy Pi Day
https://www.google.com/search?q=Pi+piano&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b
Philosophers have been debating what happened before time began for millennia –
some say it happened before and it will happen again.
Time is only so everything does not happen at once. Maybe it is, but since we have time
we do not notice it?
Article in last Monday’s “New Yorker” [12 March] re a major household and agricultural pest, the Brown Marmorated Stinkbug, introduced from the Far East [an old term, that]. I’ve not seen any in N. MN, and hope not to, but they do occur in the state. Did a search, “Brown Marmorated Stinkbug MN”, but cannot put 2 URLs in one post. Have any Villagers had them as uninvited guests?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/12/when-twenty-six-thousand-stinkbugs-invade-your-home
Peace,
Miss Charlotte – Gracious! SIX leaves AND solid oak? The whole thing put to together must weigh more than my first car! I am curious as to how all that weight is supported, maybe share a picture or two some time.
Apparently foul things are afoot. One of my co-workers fell asleep at the wheel and crashed last week. No real word on injuries, but she has messaged one person at least. Another young lady in another department lost her fiancé in a car accident this morning. Someone (I do not know who, but obviously with all the sensitivity of a pre-Jacob Marley Scrooge) TEXT MESSAGED her the news as she was walking into work.
…and the gentleman I bring to work every day is sick. I am hiding a can of lysol in the car.
Slightly sexist joke:
Behind every successful man is a woman – telling him he’s doing it wrong.
Reminds me of this Carlin classic:
http://www.quoteswave.com/picture-quotes/194791
Lucked out: Not that we didn’t argue, but never had a problem w/ this. We would actually admit to each other that we were wrong [but maybe not right away].
Peace,
Coffee-making music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFYu4KOmgeQ
Thanks Mark! I’ll check into those.
March Madness overtaken us? Of course some of us have our hands full health-wise