The BIG! News here is that Mark and family have found a home !!!
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Last sunday was Francis’ eleventh birthday. He is actually growing like a weed as folks often say of children. He is within an inch or so of being taller than his mother. And getting to look more and more like his brother.
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Weather is still cold but getting a bit warmer and staying dry.
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Did I remember to tell you that in the Old Farmers Almanac told that the Mona Lisa has no eyThe BIG! News here is that Mark and family have found a home !!!
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Last sunday was Francis’ eleventh birthday. He is actually growing like a weed as folks often say of children. He is within an inch or so of being taller than his mother. And getting to look more and more like his brother.
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Weather is still cold but getting a bit warmer and staying dry.
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Did I remember to tell you that in the Old Farmers Almanac told that the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows, and that when he was Emperor Napoleon kept the Mona Lisa on the wall in his loo?
Just a couple of bits if you are ever in a game of Trivia.
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More doppelgängers … a ringer for Rochester, Jack Benny’s man-of-all-whatevers, is currently the King of Harlem?
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It’s my guess that some of you wonder what I am watching on tv. I am not watching what is said older people watch such as game shows or romance serials or sports or just sitting in front of the tv.
I watch mostly scifi, mystery, local news, some comedy (with as few f words as possible), space information (for a while I was a monitor for the SETI program, but in those days computer reception was so slow to download and clogged up my computer time making the information I was able to provide minimal at best).
However, a lot has changed since then. My latest find was a program on PBS about the first verified reception of a signal from somewhere in space on a frequency known to all scientists lasting over several days and is still being studied for meaning.
It is called First Contact: An Alien Encounter. It is a semi-fictional documentary combining educated guesses combined with actual archival transcriptions and interviews with real scientists involved in the ongoing research. It is beyond my tech knowledge to tell you about all the information still being studied.
But this blog is what a cousin of mine is prone to call a long story short …
The main thing of interest to me is that the “first encounter” was on the 15th of August 1977 and was heard by observatories all over the world and appeared to be a stray Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, an UAP not an UFO.
That was a decade before Carl Sagan, instigator of SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, died and before the movie Contact, which was based loosely on that prophesy, was produced in 1997.
The opinions expressed by scientists seem to be that the signal was coming from within our galaxy but not our solar system and may be so old the civilization which sent it may no longer exist.
So much for meetings with little green or grey men.
If you are a space nerd and that kind of information intrigues you, look for a NOVA PBS program and be amazed.
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Another cluster of gun related statistics were a bit scary.
Since the first of the year, and remember the year is only a month old, there have been 40+ mass shootings (which is more than the number of days in the month) involving more than 70+ deaths.
There are more guns in the US than there are people by some counts.
The Doomsday Clock says it is only 20 seconds before Total Annihilation.
Think about it …
Enough gloom and doom.
On a sunnier subject, advice of the Day from the Old Farmers Almanac is “to cure hiccups eat a spoonful of peanut butter”. I think I’d add a bit of jam or jelly and I wonder if it would work on the sneezing fits I occasionally have.
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To close out the week …
Be grateful for all the people who were kind to you. Kindness rubs off. Other people become kind to people And it becomes addicting …
‘Til next week …
ebrows, and that when he was Emperor Napoleon kept the Mona Lisa on the wall in his loo?
Just a couple of bits if you are ever in a game of Trivia.
~~~
More doppelgängers … a ringer for Rochester, Jack Benny’s man-of-all-whatevers, is currently the King of Harlem?
~~~
It’s my guess that some of you wonder what I am watching on tv. I am not watching what is said older people watch such as game shows or romance serials or sports or just sitting in front of the tv.
I watch mostly scifi, mystery, local news, some comedy (with as few f words as possible), space information (for a while I was a monitor for the SETI program, but in those days computer reception was so slow to download and clogged up my computer time making the information I was able to provide minimal at best).
However, a lot has changed since then. My latest find was a program on PBS about the first verified reception of a signal from somewhere in space on a frequency known to all scientists lasting over several days and is still being studied for meaning.
It is called First Contact: An Alien Encounter. It is a semi-fictional documentary combining educated guesses combined with actual archival transcriptions and interviews with real scientists involved in the ongoing research. It is beyond my tech knowledge to tell you about all the information still being studied.
But this blog is what a cousin of mine is prone to call a long story short …
The main thing of interest to me is that the “first encounter” was on the 15th of August 1977 and was heard by observatories all over the world and appeared to be a stray Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, an UAP not an UFO.
That was a decade before Carl Sagan, instigator of SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, died and before the movie Contact, which was based loosely on that prophesy, was produced in 1997.
The opinions expressed by scientists seem to be that the signal was coming from within our galaxy but not our solar system and may be so old the civilization which sent it may no longer exist.
So much for meetings with little green or grey men.
If you are a space nerd and that kind of information intrigues you, look for a NOVA PBS program and be amazed.
~~~
Another cluster of gun related statistics were a bit scary.
Since the first of the year, and remember the year is only a month old, there have been 40+ mass shootings (which is more than the number of days in the month) involving more than 70+ deaths.
There are more guns in the US than there are people by some counts.
The Doomsday Clock says it is only 20 seconds before Total Annihilation.
Think about it …
Enough gloom and doom.
On a sunnier subject, advice of the Day from the Old Farmers Almanac is “to cure hiccups eat a spoonful of peanut butter”. I think I’d add a bit of jam or jelly and I wonder if it would work on the sneezing fits I occasionally have.
~~~
To close out the week …
Be grateful for all the people who were kind to you. Kindness rubs off. Other people become kind to people And it becomes addicting.
‘Til next week …