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IMPOSSIBILITIES IN THE WORLD
1) You can’t count your hair. 2) You can’t wash your eyes with soap. 3) You can’t breathe when your tongue is out. Put your tongue back in your mouth, you silly person. Ten (10) Things I know about you…. Have a great Day. Laugh, and then laugh some more and sing “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning” – even when it’s not. “Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.”  |
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IMPOSSIBILITIES IN THE WORLD
The Archimedes Palimpsest
The Archimedes Palimpsest is the name given to a Byzantine prayer-book which was written over a number of earlier manuscripts, including three unique examples containing works by Archimedes, unquestionably the greatest mathematician of antiquity. Sold at auction in 1998, it has since been the subject of a privately funded project to conserve, image and transcribe its texts. In this volume the scientists, conservators, classicists and historians involved in the project discuss in full their techniques and their discoveries. These include new speeches by the classical Athenian orator Hyperides, a lost commentary on Aristotle’s Categories from the second or third century AD and substantial re-readings and reinterpretations of the works by Archimedes. The book discusses the pioneering imaging and post-processing techniques used to reveal the texts and includes detailed codicological descriptions of all eight manuscripts comprising the Palimpsest. It will be of interest to manuscript scholars, classicists and historians of science.
This ingenious man who discovered so many wonderful things..ending his life on the edge of a Roman sword was such a shame…Just think if what we may have learned from this genius had he lived a little longer…
Bullying in the media…
I’m getting rather tired of constantly reading in the media, the bullying they do..It seems no one can wear or do anything without the media doing some Poll or other to see how much of a “minger” that person is, or a statement of “woo look what she is “wearing” I think if the media were to send out a more positive vibes instead of putting things that make people turn into a pack of bullies then there would be a lot more nicer things in this world..Don’t you think?
Happy New year….
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow;
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife,
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweet manners, purer laws.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.
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Wonderful wonderful Copenhagen.
.HC Andersons stomping ground, beautiful parks surrounding the city.
CAPS..is shouting
Cap Locks… Shouting?
ALL CAPS = Shouting (not a new thing) One of the first things you learn about in a communication is email and internet etiquette. You are told not to type in all caps because a message written in all caps is seen as shouting, and rude. I have heard and read this so many times and I thought by now everyone would know this. But, there are people at work who still type emails with the caps lock on for the entire message. Tim was told not to use caps.. Tim was irritated because someone got offended by his use of all caps. Ted wanted to know why people were so sensitive and he wanted to know who decided that all caps means shouting. Tim thought he was just typing a message with the caps lock on and the capital letters didn’t add any additional meaning to the actual words he was using. From Tim’s perspective, the internet came along and with the internet came email and then later came cell phones and text messages and facebook, and with these new technologies came new spellings and abbreviations of words and phrases. To Tim, the use of all caps to indicate shouting is as new as lol or omg or rofl. I was listening to Ted and not really hearing or caring and I was thinking he needed to just move on. I was thinking about what a dope he was and I wondered how it could be so difficult for him to understand WHY THIS LOOKS LIKE SHOUTING. And then I started to wonder if the use of all caps to indicate shouting really did begin with the widespread use of the internet. It didn’t. People used capital letters to add meaning to their written words before the widespread use of internet and email. In works of fiction, for example, authors used capital letters when their character was shouting in the dialogue. I have a book here on my desk that was published in 1982 and there are phrases written in all capital letters to indicate excitement or shouting.So we need to maintain our politeness when emailing people or texting in general, keep our wonderful language alive.
Julan62 