Would you jump into the stratosphere if your feet warmers weren’t working? What about your visor heater? What failures are acceptable to you at that altitude?
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Know Bell Pries
Today, the Committee overseeing all committees awarded the Committee Award Prize to the Nobel Prize Committee for their prize-winning performance in keeping the Nobel Prize relevant in today’s changing cultural shifts.
No sur-prize there!
While…
While we wait for the launch of the balloon/capsule combo that will take Felix Baumgartner to a 23-mile jumpoff altitude, we pause to reflect on the activities of our species elsewhere:
- Children are born
- Bombs are set off in street bazaars
- Flowers bloom from planted seeds
- Families gather for reverent reasons
- People suffer smashups on highways
- A person learns to read
- Someone dies from an accidental injection of meningitis
- A phone rings
NASA parades out astronauts for space shuttle finale
In 1000 years, our descendants, who would look like aliens today, recall faint dreams about the last space shuttle’s final resting place.
Reposted story du jour
Thanks to Giba, Stephen, Lesya, the Ledges Lodge, Friends inc., Harold of KCDC, Marketplace Cafe, Latrice, Patton James and the Synchromatics…sweet sax music!
Stop-motion short film to follow!
[edited this post twice]
Autumn contrasts
The reddest leaves of autumn in north Alabama this year have been those of poison ivy vines. To the eye, a delight; to the skin, a detriment.
The neurotic, neural path of neuropathy
While the “live in Japan” set of 21st Century Schizoid Band bangs out tunes in the living room, the unsyncopated water beats of rain from the gutter streak across my window view.
Out of synch, out of tune…vie-veh-vuh-v-vroom!
Methinks it’s time for a new stop-action video before neuropathy takes over my toes and I can no longer feel sand squish between the digits of my feet.
Neuroaesthestics — same view, two different viewpoints?
Are they alike, similar, or opposing, in your view?
Good news for 4G LTE programmers?
Habits of Habitual Habitating Habitats
I am a man of opposites.
I don’t always know why.
If you say left, I say right.
If you say can, I say might.
If you say Catherine, I say Kathryn.
If you say Jennifer, I say Guinevere.
Opposites have meaning in alliteration,
Different than meanness in symbols/ideas.
Vocabulary definitions,
Vocational constabulary,
Destabilising vacations,
Docent verifications.
Definitely vocal.
Defiantly local.
Lo-cal.
Vo-tech.
Lo-tech.
Hi-tech.
Hi-test.
Tie vest.
Vie via “veni, vidi, vici.”
Vital.
Words curb.
Curb words.
Carve wood.
Weave curds.
The rhythms rhyme with rheumatism like no other word could.
THE END
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Thanks to Morgan at Dreamland BBQ; Robert Gates; Tony Yates; Christa DeCicco; “Christabel” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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