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A couple of faces, only their Mothers could love! Ha Ha
Or as Groucho Marx once said:
“I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.”
In all actuality, these are a couple of my favorite friends....Friends I met up with through WQUD !
What did our parents do to kill boredom before the internet?
I asked my 11 brothers and sisters and they didn’t know either?
Just sold my homing pigeon on eBay for the 22nd time.
Sometimes I think that the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us....
DON'T GROW UP.......IT'S A TRAP !!!
"FIELD OF DREAMS"
“Moonlight" Graham"
“We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, "Well, there'll be other days." I didn't realize that that was the only day"
Nice tribute to my sister, Madonna, for her 60th birthday in 2020....Nice job putting this together, Anna.....Madonna really was EVERYWHERE in our lives! Oh, how we will miss her!
Gonna MISS this girl !!!!! One of the Brightest Stars on Earth !
Pretty Sure she is a BLUE STAR, one of the seven sisters of PLEADES.
Blue stars are, By Far, the biggest and brightest stars in the galaxy. Known to live fast and die young.
With their high luminosity they're constantly blasting out huge amounts of energy into space. As a consequence they burn through all their fuel very quickly, making them the shortest lived of all stars.
PLEIADES
Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters, is an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars in the north-west of the constellation Ta**us. At a distance of about 444 light years, it is among the nearest star clusters to Earth.
The cluster is dominated by hot blue luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years.
The unfinished obelisk is nearly one-third larger than any ancient Egyptian obelisk ever erected. If finished it would have measured around 137 feet and would have weighed nearly 1,090 tons. Incredible the process that was used to carve it out...
The obelisk's creators began to carve it directly out of bedrock, but cracks appeared in the granite and the project was abandoned.
The bottom side of the obelisk is still attached to the bedrock.
Some techniques involved carving grooves in the rock, pounding in wood and then soaking the wood...The expansion of the wood pieces would crack the granite!
Frazz by Jef Mallett/Says it Best!
Mars Curiosity rover's wheels look all beat up, but NASA isn't fretting
Cracks and holes and broken treads, oh my.
Mars hasn't been kind to the rover's aluminum wheels, which have taken a serious beating from rocks since it started exploring Gale Crater in 2012.
Curiosity snapped some fresh looks at its kicks in late January, and the views led to some concerned social media discussions (and some humorous ones) about the state of the wheels and what it means for the rover's ability to rove. Good news: Curiosity is doing OK.
The wheel image that attracted the most attention is quite a looker. It shows multiple holes and broken grousers (raised treads), cracks and bent metal. If your car tire looked like that, you'd be breaking out the jack and the spare. But the wheel issues have been known for a long time and the Curiosity team already implemented mitigation measures to extend their life.
NASA JPL spokesperson Andrew Good told me Curiosity had been performing wheel imagery every 500 meters (1,640 feet), but that distance was recently extended to every 1,000 meters (3,280 feet), an indication that efforts to protect the wheels are working well. "The current predicted odometry remaining is expected to be sufficient to support Curiosity throughout the remainder of the mission,"
The Indiana Bell Building: A Brief History of the Most Remarkable Building Rotation Ever:
No matter how solid, excellently engineered, or heavy a structure is, engineering can sometimes relocate it without destroying it. The Indiana Bell building, constructed in 1884 and operated until 1957, is an ideal example when the American architect Kurt Vonnegut Sr. suggested relocating the existing structure to the back of the land so it could stand on 13 West New York Street rather than being demolished. This innovative problem-solving would give enough space to create a new structure. Wait, was that even possible?
Was Indiana Bell building an iconic building? In 1929, the Central Union Telephone Company building was bought by the Indiana Bell Telephone Company and was initially planned to be demolished to construct a much larger headquarters instead of the old one. However, they could not destroy the old structure because it served an essential function in the city that couldn’t be interrupted, so practically demolishing the building didn’t seem applicable.
On the other hand, moving an eight-story, steel-frame, and brick building, which measured about 100 X 135 with a weight of 11,000 tons, wasn’t easy, especially in the 1930’s right? The process involved shifting the vast steel and brick structure 16 meters south before rotating 30 degrees, then going again 30 meters west. However, this massive ex*****on of moving the building began on October 12, 1930, and took over four weeks to finish.
Bare in mind that the power used to move the building was generated by hand-operated jacks with the aid of a steam engine. Moving the mass was accomplished using a tangible mat, softened by Oregon fir timbers, with hydraulic jacks and rollers.
The construction workers utilized a pair of manually operated jacks that turned handles through an arc of 90 degrees six times in just thirty seconds to push and pull the building three-eights of an inch in one move, while the rotating movement was accomplished with cables attached to the stationary steam engine.
As as soon as Halloween is over:
I like the last Beatles song a lot!
Described as The Beatles’ final song, “Now and Then” has finally been released, featuring the voice of the late John Lennon decades after he first wrote it.
The track featuring the sound of every member of the British rock group was released Thursday.
Lennon sings: “I know it’s true. It’s all because of you. And if I make it through, it’s all because of you.”
Now and Then's eventful journey to fruition took place over five decades and is the product of conversations and collaborations between the four Beatles that...
Sorry, but this always makes me laugh …….
Happy Halloween !
Stopped in to see my good friend, Johnny Dollar, over the weekend! His Sunday show is great! So is he!
Our good friend, Neal Foard, drew this on an index card!!!
Cliff young is one of my my heroes....Australian potato farmer and athlete from Beech Forest, Victoria. He was best known for his unexpected win of the inaugural Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1983 at 61 years of age.
He just showed up, took off, and won the 544 mile race!
The "Young Shuffle" has been adopted by some ultramarathon runners because it expends less energy.
Young became very popular after this "tortoise and hare" feat, so much so that in Colac, Victoria, the Cliff Young Australian Six-Day Race was established that same year. In 1984, he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia "for long distance running"
Looks like a cool place to visit:
Some of the numerous handprints that were carved into the soft sandstone surface of the White Mountain, in Wyoming, by the Ancestral Eastern Shoshone. 1000-1800 CE (Common Era)
White Mountain Petroglyphs
Hundreds of carved figures dot the sandstone cliffs at the White Mountain Petroglyphs site in Wyoming’s Red Desert north of Rock Springs. Etched into the sandstone bedrock of the Ecocene Bridger formation some 1,000 to 200 years ago, several figures appear to portray bison and elk hunts while others depict geometric forms or tiny footprints. Handprints are scooped into the rock as well.
The rock face also tells of contact with European cultures. Many figures portray horses, and one warrior figure is shown brandishing a sword. Members of the Shoshone, Arapaho, and Ute tribes hold this site to be sacred. Some believe this was a birthing place for Plains and Great Basin tribes.
Grandparents Henry and Anna in the 1950s! Not sure where they found these Pigeons?
Talk about some hard working and good people !!!!!!
Mrs. Uncle Tim and I like walking in cemeteries....I, personally, learn something new every time I spend a few minutes in the Erie cemetery....It's a reminder of our own mortality...100 years from now nobody will remember who we were or where we lived or what we had or what we did...But when you're dead it doesn't matter who remembers you. In 100 years we will be completely forgotten. Our time on this planet should be occupied by one thing: to do the best, and be the best that we can.
This first old tombstone is very worn, and getting hard to read...
Best guess is it was someone named Harry, son of T & M Boypom?
Born August 8,1832, died November 6, 1884
Has a favorite epitaph on it:
"Budded on Earth, to Bloom in Heaven"
Then there is Ezra Bunn, 1827-1902 & his wife,Harriet, 1840-1901
This epitaph will give you the 'wi***es" or the "heebie-jeebies."
My loving friends as you pass by
On my cold grave you cast your eye
You sun like mine may set at noon
Your soul be called on very soon
In this dark place you soon will be
Prepare for death and follow me
Then lastly are the tombstones that have almost disappeared from everyone's sight and minds.....
Erie, IL
61250
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Category 5 Sufferfest/2023/Grand Canyon. It doesn’t have to be fun, to be fun. And, as they say, it builds character…..right? And, I meant to say 8,241 feet in altitude…Only one crossing was tougher than this one, and I had to keep repeating the famous quote from David Horton: “It Never, Always gets Worse”
Saint Ambrose fountain is up and running!
Probably a bad idea to feed the seagulls! They like to sh*t on you! Ask Mrs Uncle Tim!
Been quite awhile since I have attended the drags....Ventured over to the World Series in Cordova on Saturday.....Been years since I felt the raw power in my chest, and smelled the Nitromethane in the air! Gotta love the sights and sounds of 11,000 horsepower!
These are the stages before extinction: The Red List has seven levels of conservation: Least concern, Near threatened, Vulnerable, Endangered, Critically endangered, (Monarch Butterfly) Extinct in the wild, And Extinct.
"It Never Always gets Worse" It never always gets worse is a signature quote from David “Horty” Horton. David Horton is an accomplished ultra runner who has won the Hardrock 100 mile run twice and who has set a number of impressive fastest known times. It never always gets worse was the advice that Horton gave to Scott Jurek as Jurek was struggling at the beginning of his Appalachian Trail, FKT attempt. Horton knows a few things about the AT, he set the FKT for the 2,189 mile trail in 1991, completing the route in 52 days. Having run close to 90 ultramarathons over four decades, David Horton has gained some wisdom. He came up with this statement some time ago as a way to get through the low points of long races. At mile 25 of a 50-miler, he explains, it’s easy to think, “‘If I’m dying now, how’s it gonna be at 40 to 50 miles? It’s gonna be worse.’” Not necessarily, Horton says. Instead of wallowing in dark thoughts, listen to your body, make adjustments if needed and keep running, knowing that there’s a good chance you’ll come out of your mid-race low. “You always have to think, ‘It never always gets worse,’” he says. “Sometimes it does, but many times it doesn’t.” Horton’s quote is very appropriate for our times. We are living in very tough circumstances – It won’t always get worse though. It may be uncertain when our situation will improve, but we can take comfort in knowing that it will eventually get better.
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