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Friday, October 05, 2012
Heading to New York
Believe it or not. Neither Deb Nor I have ever been to New York. Should be fun!
A mobile post.
A mobile post.
Thursday, October 04, 2012
Was Manhattan Really Bought for $24?
One of the most persistent myths in American history is that European explorers really got one over on the Native Americans by purchasing the entire island of Manhattan—where property has averaged $1000+ per square foot over the last few years—for a measly $24 worth of beads and trinkets. It seems like the ultimate bargain, but the truth of the story is more complicated and murkier than that.
Why Do We Say “Cheese” When Having Our Photo Taken?
We’re not sure when or where a photographer first asked his subjects to state the name of the delicious dairy product, but we do know that when you say “cheese,” the corners of your mouth turn up, your cheeks lift and your teeth show. It looks like a smile, and since smiling is what we do in pictures, the instruction seems pretty practical.
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Summer Has Ended
How Do I Know?
* I just lit the pilot lights on the fireplaces.
* The pool was closed today.
* The leaves are turning and dropping.
* I'm cold.
* This: Freeze warning remains in effect from 4 am to 9 am MDT Thursday.
A freeze warning remains in effect from 4 am to 9 am MDT Thursday for the Treasure and Magic Valleys. * Temperature... upper 20s to mid 30s *
impacts... damage to frost sensitive vegetation Precautionary/preparedness actions... A freeze warning means sub-freezing temperatures are imminent or highly likely. These conditions will damage or kill frost sensitive crops and garden plants. Consider covering susceptible garden plants... and moving container grown plants indoors or to a sheltered location.
* I just lit the pilot lights on the fireplaces.
* The pool was closed today.
* The leaves are turning and dropping.
* I'm cold.
* This: Freeze warning remains in effect from 4 am to 9 am MDT Thursday.
A freeze warning remains in effect from 4 am to 9 am MDT Thursday for the Treasure and Magic Valleys. * Temperature... upper 20s to mid 30s *
impacts... damage to frost sensitive vegetation Precautionary/preparedness actions... A freeze warning means sub-freezing temperatures are imminent or highly likely. These conditions will damage or kill frost sensitive crops and garden plants. Consider covering susceptible garden plants... and moving container grown plants indoors or to a sheltered location.
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Monday, October 01, 2012
10 Uninhabited Islands and Why Nobody Lives on Them
The internet has embraced the story of Brendon Grimshaw over the past couple of weeks. Grimshaw did what so many dream of doing: he bought an island. He purchased Moyenne Island in the Indian Ocean in 1964 for $20,000, quit his job in 1973 to move there, and spent the past 40 years developing it into a paradise, cultivating and protecting flora and fauna native to the Seychelles. Now 86, Grimshaw’s island is worth millions to developers, but he is determined that it remain a nature preserve after his death.
There are still many abandoned and uninhabited islands around the world. Why isn’t there anyone living on them? After all, 270 people live on Tristan de Cunha, which is 2430 kilometers from the next inhabited island! The reasons islands remain uninhabited are financial, political, environmental, or religious -or a combination of those reasons.
There are still many abandoned and uninhabited islands around the world. Why isn’t there anyone living on them? After all, 270 people live on Tristan de Cunha, which is 2430 kilometers from the next inhabited island! The reasons islands remain uninhabited are financial, political, environmental, or religious -or a combination of those reasons.
Mental Floss: 10 Things You Didn't Know Had Names
You know aglet and grawlix and tittle and punt, but did you know any of these ten words?
1. You know how it smells after it rains? That clean, greenish smell when rain lands on dry ground? That’s petrichor, from the Greek petra (stone) and ichor (the blood of Greek gods and goddesses). The term was coined by two Australian researchers in 1964.
2. Originally, a zarf was a metal chalice keep the heat from your coffee from burning your fingers. The name for the fancy cupholder has morphed into the modern-day cardboard sleeve that comes wrapped around your hot coffee.
3. Chanking: Chewed-up food that’s been spit out. (Try to avoid giving us reason to use this one, OK?)
4. Scroop is the rustling, swooshy sound ballgowns make. More specifically, it’s the sound produced by the movement of silk.
7. Not only is the word “nef” rather esoteric, the ornamental, ship-shaped stand it describes is fairly uncommon as well.
8. You know the words “lock” and “tendril,” but did you know the similar feat? Aside from being an act requiring great strength, it describes a dangling curl of hair.
9. Playful, joking banter can be calledbadinage.
10. Libel is one thing, but a damaging lie made publicly known for political effect is a roorback.
11. Bonus! How about something that doesn’t have a name? There is no medical terminology for the back of the knee.
1. You know how it smells after it rains? That clean, greenish smell when rain lands on dry ground? That’s petrichor, from the Greek petra (stone) and ichor (the blood of Greek gods and goddesses). The term was coined by two Australian researchers in 1964.2. Originally, a zarf was a metal chalice keep the heat from your coffee from burning your fingers. The name for the fancy cupholder has morphed into the modern-day cardboard sleeve that comes wrapped around your hot coffee.
3. Chanking: Chewed-up food that’s been spit out. (Try to avoid giving us reason to use this one, OK?)
4. Scroop is the rustling, swooshy sound ballgowns make. More specifically, it’s the sound produced by the movement of silk.
5. If you’ve put your shirt on backwards, you have your arms in the wrong armsayes, which are the armholes.
6. People with expressive faces often end up with wrinkles in their glabella—the space between the eyebrows.
7. Not only is the word “nef” rather esoteric, the ornamental, ship-shaped stand it describes is fairly uncommon as well.8. You know the words “lock” and “tendril,” but did you know the similar feat? Aside from being an act requiring great strength, it describes a dangling curl of hair.
9. Playful, joking banter can be calledbadinage.
10. Libel is one thing, but a damaging lie made publicly known for political effect is a roorback.
11. Bonus! How about something that doesn’t have a name? There is no medical terminology for the back of the knee.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
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