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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Five Years of Consternation:
Revelations in the Garden: Just realized that we (me, myself and I) have been consternated for the last five years. Five Years! Who knew?
Apparently everyone around me. While sorting thru some photos snapped on mother’s camera, and some shots taken in my last season on the JOB in the […]
The Butterfly Effect
Monday, April 21st, 2008Edward Lorenz, the father of chaos theory, died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, April 17th. He was 90.
His discovery of “deterministic chaos” brought about “one of the most dramatic changes in mankind’s view of nature since Sir Isaac Newton,” said the committee that awarded Lorenz the 1991 Kyoto Prize for basic sciences. […]
Marching Ants
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Here come the ants. In the kitchen. So annoying.
The new addition to our bug collection is the Egyptian Scarab keepsake urn. The scarab beetle was of one of the most important religious symbols in Egypt and many of the dead were buried with scarab amulets as a symbol of regeneration.
Our Sacred Scarab […]
Brush With Greatness
Sunday, March 30th, 2008Last month I had the television on and in the background was a documentary on the boxer, Joe Louis. I snapped to attention at the mention of Louis’ attorney, Truman K. Gibson Jr. Honestly, I’m sad to say that I’d never heard of Gibson, until 2006, when his grand daughter called from D.C. to […]
Hillbilly Funeral
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008More death and burial folklore from famous hillbilly folklorist Vance Randolph:
Time Stops: When a death finally occurs, one of the bereaved neighbors rises immediately and stops the clock. Everybody knows that if the clock should happen to stop of itself while a corpse is lying in the house, another member of the family would die […]
In Memory of GGA
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints in the sands of time.
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
Doris Duke
Monday, March 10th, 2008The movie “Bernard and Doris” was on HBO a couple of weeks ago and after watching it, we wanted to find out more about Doris Duke, The tobacco heiress had a $1.2 billion estate that was the subject of much litigation. A New York judge ordered the removal of two co-executors […]
That That Don’t Kill Me
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008You know what’s fun about living in the Ozarks? Extreme Weather. Ice last week to a hot blustery 80 degree wind today.
And intense solar rays after weeks of darkness.
Strolled the garden and everyone is out, on the roof tops, and in the trees despite the wind. Running, walking, basketball and skating.
Check the […]
SCI-FI CSI LA
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008The student at Embalmed to the Max introduced us to Thomas Noguchi, former LA Medical Investigator, L.A. Chief Coroner, and the inspiration for the show “Quincy”. We dug a little deeper and found an interview done in 1986 and found these futuristic thoughts.
On “Psychological Autopsies”:
I hope to see the day when we […]
Manipulation
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008Sunday’s 60 minute episode featuring the story of FBI agent George Piro and the interrogation of Saddam Hussein fascinated my simple mind.
First let’s talk about Agent Piro. Handsome, Lebanese, scary mind control and fluent in Arabic.
The subject of weapons of mass destruction was the most important mystery Piro was trying to answer. It would take […]
