Links and Miscellania

Take a look at Mr. Bacciagalupe's t-shirt.    Now, that's a sharp looking shirt.   I was a kid in the 1950's, and it was common for t-shirts to have horizontal stripes.   After the 1950's, though, God must have decided that t-shirts would not have horizontal stripes anymore. 

After 6 months of being listened to by a small, wild bird, that roosts in my heater box on the roof, it's had it's effects on me, and the bird, too.  I don't think this situation is sustainable due to the plus 100 degree days we have here, during July and August.   Listening to music full time, as this bird wants, is something I've never done before.   Very soon, the music that I liked was either listened to again and again, or I had to try new music, which I've done, so this is what's been happening for  6 months....every day.  Expanding my horizons, musically, is something I wanted to do as a retiree, and the bird has been a positive force in my current living environs.     How does a bird listen to music?   I've read that birds listen to music differently than humans, and that must be true.   And it's probably the case that other species of birds listen differently, if they listen to music at all.  Does a bird remem...

Fat people avoid exercise Fat people eat sugar Fat people wolf their food.   I fasted for 3 days, once, when I was in junior college.   On that 3rd day, I stopped being tired and hungry, and I felt full of energy. What happened was my digestive system stopped drawing energy to digest because there was nothing left to digest.  It was a eye-opening lesson in how much energy it takes to digest food.  Eating slower means the food is chewed more thoroughly.  It's the opposite of wolfing down your food.  Unchewed food takes more energy, and stomach acid, to digest.    I think it's the usual cause of sluggishness.  During 20013-14 when I lost weight,  I experimented with chewing food until there was nothing left to chew.   It takes quite a long time.   Surprisingly, there is flavor in the tiniest of morsels left in the mouth during chewing.   After a while I get bored with chewing and become ...

I'm just a regular guy from somewhere on the fat part of the bell curve asking a question to the YouTube geeks about Cosmic Microwave Background . And here is what I posted in the comments: "Why is it that this earliest of light, or microwave background, still in our neighborhood? What's it been doing all this time? Shouldn't it have sped off into uncharted space long ago, leaving matter, like galaxies, suns and planets, such as Earth, in it's wake? Surely microwaves travel faster than galaxies."

I'd taken photographs before, but always at the thoroughly ignorant beginner level, and only with film cameras. My decision to go digital, I thought, was subject to pitfalls and hard lessons. After hours of research of the review s of camera s on the net, I chose the Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W150. I bought it just before leaving on a trip to Easter Island. I made certain to take the instruction booklet with me, in order to learn how to use it. Well, I was able to read some of the instructions, but I was very busy, and reading on a South Sea island is not easy. Anyways, almost all of my pics turned out clear, and certainly beyond my expectations. Here's 9 examples. Click on the pics to enlarge, and then right click on the pic and choose "view pic" and enlarge even more. They lose some clarity transferred from my computer via this blog program, which resizes them. I'll be sure next time to make the pics not so big.

In the following article , the author discusses the lost art of reading aloud. Well, not 'lost' but 'diminishing'. I decided to read  the Lord of the Rings trilogy aloud in order to increase my reading aloud skill. It worked.  Not only is it easier now to read aloud, comprehension seems to be equal to that of reading silently. However, listening to books on tape or CD is a different thing altogether. Much more difficult. One has to be ready to rewind to re-listen because the mind sometimes wonders. It seems the very act of reading the words off a page helps the mind to focus, while pure listening sparks other avenues of thought. For an extra special treat, try listening to "The Code of the Woosters" as read by Jonathon Cecil.  Cecil is the only reader of P.G. Wodehouse that I would recommend. The above link is this: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/opinion/16sat4.html?hpw April 16, 2011 - As a change of pace to reading aloud, here is ...