Is Spring here? 65 degrees at our house in Westminster, Maryland. Is it just a teaser?
Stuff:
You will notice that I do not get deeply immersed in the items that I talk about... this is because I want you (if there is anyone out there) to get interested and look things up on your own. It's a lot like the Mensa meetings I have gone to from time to time... we talk a little bit about a lot of stuff.. it makes for a lot of fun.. at least for me.
Birth of the Computer?
Right now, the book I am reading on my Kindle is The Man Who Knew Too Much.. Alan Turing and The Invention of the Computer ... by David Leavitt.
Alan was a homosexual in a bad time for those folks in England, and committed suicide at a very young age. This was a great tragedy for a man who had so much to do with breaking Hitler's code during World War II. I've read where his action reduced the length of the war by a couple of years and probably saved thousands, if not millions, of lives. Just imagine what this man's brain could have created had he lived longer.
The author says that he is not a mathematician, yet he fills pages of the book with mathematical formulas and algorithms. In my younger days I might have understood some of the material, but my tired brain now just wants to skip lightly over the technical parts of the book, content with knowing that I've, in a sense, graduated to a higher mental plain. (Alas.. I sound like I have espoused the words of my Mensan friends.)
Roman Times
I continue to watch I Claudius on DVD. Caligula has just had his younger brother beheaded because he continuously coughed.. and he has fitted himself with female paraphernalia and become a ballerina. He's finally gone completely mad and it is time for him to be assassinated. Claudius survives the blood bath where all of the other members of the Royal Family are killed, even a baby. The Pretorian Guard is sure that Claudius is an idiot that they can control and make him the new emperor.
Claudius' pretty young wife turns out to be a problem, as predicted by King Herod. It confirms the tattoo phrase of the last episode of Orange is the New Black... TRUST NO BITCH!
Dessert:
Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Company says that they stand ready to make marijuana ice cream, whenever it is legal to do so.
Did it Work?
In 2009, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov promised to ward off snow by hiring the Russian Air Force to seed approaching clouds before they reached the city. Suburbanites did not like the idea. I can't find out if the snow solution worked or not. I suspect not, otherwise, we would be doing it in the good old USA.
Plaster Casters:
I'm surprised that they are still around. A lady named Cynthia Albritton is the current leader of the folks who try to convince rock stars to make plaster molds of their private parts. She has adopted the name: Cynthia Plaster Caster. I first read about this type of activity in the early 1960's. Cynthia is available to talk to your group, and she'll bring her molds to display.
Happiness?
Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me reported a while ago that the happiest person in America was Alvin Wong, a tall Asian American Jew who makes over $120,00 a year. Why? I haven't the foggiest idea.
Bottom Line Secrets:
Auras
Glowing light that some people claim to see around certain people may actually exist. Individuals with the neurological condition synaesthesia "see" emotions as colorful auras.
Roach Medicine
Future antibiotics might be made from ground-up cockroach and locust brains, which contain molecules that kill harmful bacteria. including E Coli and Staphylococcus.
I Don't Want a Receipt!
It has been reported that bisphenol A can be found on cash register receipts and passes readily through the skin and into the bloodstream. Bisphenol A has been linked to sexual dysfunction in men.
Keeping Kosher in New York
Balaboosta.. means "perfect housewife" in Yiddish. This restaurant boasts that it serves Israeli style cooking.. but they do serve shrimp wrapped in phyllo.
Traif.. means, in Yiddish, foods that are forbidden under Jewish dietary law. Just check out the pork belly, rock shrimp and bacon doughnuts.
My Ancestry.COM DNA test said that I might be English, Irish, Italian or Jewish. So, I need to know about Jewish things, just in case.
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