I replaced the Diner's feeder this week. The old one had served us well but had been battered over the years due to raccoon attacks. Our patrons were wary, like us all, who enjoy routine and continuity that gives us the sense of security and safety in a chaotic world. After a couple of days, it was back to business as usual.
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Some commercial I saw recently emphasized a retail credo: we continuously kiss your ass the minute you hit the door. Perhaps, mercifully, this is something that can become the realm of AI who can read your mind and give you the mental pandering you so desire and deserve.
In a similar vein, I was reading in The Guardian that a grocery retail chain in the UK was jettisoning their self-checkout lanes citing positive customer input who wanted the personalized, human checkout service. The world, I feel, falls into 2 categories: those who crave human interaction and get their fix at the store and those who just want to get their stuff and get the hell out of there. The latter is my choice.
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| Buddy's bedroom! He has taken to his larger, new bed located in my clothes closet. Nice and comfy for the big guy, smells like Dad and he can see me when I'm working in my office. He is using it nightly now (yay!) and from this location, he can hear Mom get up during the night to use the john. If he wants a snack, he can quickly get up and place his order. | | |
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It must be a puzzle when cats first encounter a glass window. They can see everything perfectly well yet they are deprived of the scent of the outdoors, an important part of their sensory array.
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A series of images pieced together from those made by American robot rovers. This vid also covers the robot's end in terms that to my ears, seem like myth making akin to the accounts of the doomed Scott Antarctic expedition in 1912.
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Artist rendition of Opportunity rover.
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In 2018, Opportunity ceased to function. A science reporter talked to a couple of Nasa scientists and reported that the robot's final words were "My battery is low and it's getting dark". Well, not exactly. The reporter later admitted that he provided a "poetic translation" of what the Nasa folks told him. The actual final message was in data, not words and read "No power left".
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I was brushing my teeth in the main bath when I looked out the window at the East Garden and there was a hawk sitting in one of raised beds. This is odd I thought—don't see this everyday. I reckon perhaps he had tracked a mouse in the shrubs next to the house.
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Yellow eyes and yellow feet. Look at those talons!
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2/26-They're Back! Since 2021, a pair of Sandhill Cranes visit the Farm Bureau field across the street to the North. According to research, they are right on time returning from their Winter homes in FLA. Welcome back!
Over the years, crop circles have appeared near Stonehenge as well as other neolithic sites in England. One of the first appeared in July of 1996. The pattern is known as a Julia Set fractal—a basic definition can be found here:
The fractal appeared, according to witnesses both on ground and in the air, in a 20 minute time frame in the afternoon adjacent to not only Stonehenge but a busy highway, the A303. It measured 915 feet by 501 feet containing 151 circles of varies diameters.
This massive 780-foot crop circle
appeared in 2001 in the remote area of Milk Hill in Wiltshire, England about 20 miles South of Stonehenge.
The elaborate design is composed of 409 circles that form a pattern
called a double, or six-sided, triskelion, which is a motif consisting
of three interlocking spirals. It's worth noting that in August, the nights are only four hours long and on the night of creation, hardly enough time to make unless you had many participants. No one was seen. Also, it rained. Yet no muddy footprints were found in the wheat field.
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Steve Alexander
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Cymatics is the study of the effects that sound and vibration have on matter. Experiments of this kind, similar to those carried out earlier by Galileo Galilei
around 1630 and by Robert Hooke in 1680, were later perfected by
Ernst Chladni, who introduced them systematically in 1787 in his book Entdeckungen über die Theorie des Klanges (Discoveries on the theory of sound).
In 1967 Hans Jenny, published two volumes entitled Kymatic
(1967 and 1972), in which, repeating Chladni's experiments, he claimed
the existence of a subtle power based on the normal, symmetrical images
made by sound wave.
Jenny put sand, dust and fluids on a metal plate connected to an
oscillator which could produce a broad spectrum of frequencies. The sand
or other substances were organized into different structures
characterized by geometric shapes typical of the frequency of the
vibration emitted by the oscillator.
Here, piano notes were used to create vibration:
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Cult leaders. It never ends well.
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