It’s been H.O.T.! My little town got up to 113 deg. two days this week. Another hot one today, (111 deg. projected). It’s kind of a three ring circus to get the house cooled down. I don’t have central air conditioning and I’m in an old house that needs the windows upgraded. I have a little deLonghi Penguino that I’m rolling around with the sun. I’m grateful that I only lost my electric (*fingers crossed* / knock on wood) on Tuesday night for a bit. It’s also my “vacation” week but I have no desire to leave the house, or be in the yard, or do the shopping I was looking forward to. “Vacation,” I’m not sure even sure what that is any more. work work work
My home town is actually a vacation town. Here she is in all her glory Saturday night. I sure do miss those sunsets. I look forward to being there full time soon.
Stay cool, all!
Thank you for reading today's post. Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP
Did You Know?
The color of the little piece of glass (glass bubble filled with liquid alcohol) found inside the sprinkler heads of fire sprinkler systems indicates the temperature at which it bursts (and activates the sprinkler): orange is the lowest temperature and black is the highest.
Did You know?
November 9 is called the “Day of Destiny” in German history because of Kaiser Wilhelm’s abdication in 1918, Einstein’s Nobel Prize in 1922, the Munich Putsch in 1923, the Night of Broken Glass in 1938 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 all occurred on the same date.
Did You Know?
Although it takes a mere eight minutes for photons to travel from the Sun to Earth, it takes tens of thousands of years for photons to escape the Sun’s core and outer layers to move freely through space—all due to how dense the sun is and how many times the photons are deflected internally before breaking free.
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Empress Irene, empress of the Byzantine Empire, became empress by winning a beauty contest, and after her husband’s death she became the first empress to rule in her own right in Byzantine history.
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The Jewish population of Albania increased during the Holocaust. The largely Muslim population sheltered Jews from all over Europe, and only five Jews were killed in Albania during the two years of Nazi rule.
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When you think of Napoleon, you think of France. But Napoleon Bonaparte was actually more Italian than French. His original name was “Napoleone di Buonaparte” and he was born into a noble Italian family in Corsica, which had been purchased by France from Italy (Genoa) just before his birth.
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When glass cracks it seems almost instantaneous thanks to the speed at which glass shatters–cracks form in glass at a staggering 3200 meters per second.
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The plot of the 20th episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles hinges on a plot to kill the governor of California—in a fun real-life plot twist, the then governor of California was Arnold Schwarzenegger, famed for his role as the original Terminator in the 1980s.
Why is it impossible to breathe underwater with a hosepipe?
Because a 33-foot layer of water weighs the same as a 120-mile layer of air.
You can certainly breathe underwater through an unpressurized pipe. That’s what a snorkel is, and it works great as long as you are floating with your lungs under only a few inches of water.
But if you swap the snorkel for a stiff hose and try to breathe under, say, 3 feet of water, now the water is pressing on your lungs with a force of around 1/10th of an atmosphere, or about 1.5 pounds per square inch, or about 500 pounds. Can you breathe with a sumo wrestler sitting on your chest? Probably not.
Most people grossly underestimate the mass of air and the force of atmospheric pressure, simply because we so seldom have to fight it. Sitting here as I am at the moment on a cruise ship, 35 feet above sea level, it matters not that the air around me is pressurized to about 14.7 pounds per square inch. That pressure is pushing in on my chest, but also pushing out from inside my lungs. To draw a breath, I don’t have to fight air pressure, just the slight viscosity and mass of a lungful of air.
But step overboard and try to draw a breath through a 3-foot snorkel and I’m fighting the force of five sacks of concrete on my chest. Drop that down to a garden hose at 33 feet, and the force on my lungs would be 14.7 psi from the weight of the air.pressing down on the water, plus another 14.7 psi from the weight of the water above me (a total of 29-30 pounds) offset by only the 14.7 psi from the air in my lungs. Multiply that 14.7 psi water weight differential times the number of square inches around my ribcage and across the diaphram (figure 300-500) and you get the weight of a rather small, but loaded, cement truck. There is simply no way a human rib cage can produce that sort of leverage. They used to execute people by putting a board across their chest and piling a couple hundred pounds of stones on the board until they asphyxiated from being unable to inhale.
So how do SCUBA divers breathe? SCUBA gear includes a tank full of compressed air and a pressure compensating regulator. When you draw a breath from a SCUBA tank, it feeds you air at the same pressure as the water around you, whether you are at three feet, thirty, or three hundred (though at that depth, you’ll have other problems besides just drawing a breath).
You can’t breathe underwater through a rigid pipe because it can only give you air at the pressure it flows in the open end of the pipe. To breathe underwater, you MUST have air at the pressure of the water at depth, or you will not be able to draw it into your lungs.
JOKE:
A man walks into a bar and asks the bartender, “If I show you a really good trick, will you give me a free drink?”
The bartender considers it, then agrees.
The man reaches into his pocket and pulls out a tiny rat.
He reaches into his other pocket and pulls out a tiny piano.
The rat stretches, cracks his knuckles, and proceeds to play the blues.
After the man finished his drink, he asked the bartender, “If I show you an even better trick, will you give me free drinks for the rest of the night,the bartender thinks that nothing could possibly top the first trick so he agrees.
The man reaches into another pocket and pulls out a small bullfrog, who begins to sing along with the rat’s music.
While the man is enjoying his beverages, a stranger confronts him and offers him $100,000.00 for the bullfrog.
“Sorry,” the man replies, “he’s not for sale.”
The stranger increases the offer to $250,000.00 cash up front.
“No,” he insists, “he’s not for sale.”
The stranger again increases the offer, this time to $500,000.00 cash.
The man finally agrees, and turns the frog over to the stranger in exchange for the money.
“Are you insane?” the bartender demanded.
“That frog could have been worth millions to you, and you let him go for a mere $500,000!”
“Don’t worry about it.” the man answered.
“The frog was really nothing special.
You see, the rat’s a ventriloquist.”
JOKE:
As I was getting in bed, she said “you’re drunk.”
I said, “How do you know?”
She said. “You live next door.”
A guy walked into a crowed bar, waving an upholstered pistol, and yelled “I have a 45 caliber colt, 1911 colt with a 7 round magazine plus one in the chamber and I want to know who’s been sleeping with my wife?”
A voice in the back of the room called out.
“You gonna need more ammo.”
JOKE:
There was this man who walked into a bar and says to the bartender 10 shots of whiskey.
The bartender asks, “What’s the matter?”
The man says, “I found out my brother is gay and marrying my best friend.”
The next day the same man comes in and orders 12 shots of whiskey.
The bartender asks, “What’s wrong this time?”
The man says, “I found out that my son is gay.”
The next day the same man comes in the bar and orders 15 shots of whiskey.
Then the bartender asks, “Doesn’t anyone in your family like women?”
The man looks up and says, “Apparently my wife does.”
Brushing Scams: Here’s Why You’re Getting Random Packages
JASON FITZPATRICK
Across the United States and other countries, millions of people are surprised to receive packages they never ordered. In most cases, the source is a scam called “brushing.” Here’s why you’re getting free loot.
What Is Brushing?
If you’ve received a shipment through the post office or private couriers like UPS, FedEx, or the equivalent services in your country, that you didn’t order, you might be puzzled.
Maybe you were even further confused by the sheer randomness of what the shipment contained. Over the last few years, for example, I’ve received dozens of unsolicited packages, and if you have had a similar experience, you won’t be surprised by the package contents I’m about to list.
I’ve received vegetable peelers, motion-activated toilet bowl lights, flashlights, stickers, perfume atomizers, combs, beard balms, iPhone cases, smartphone car mounts, sunglasses, mouthguards, can openers, selfie sticks, letter openers, dish brushes, and other random small and cheap products I never ordered.
The answer to “Why am I receiving all these things I didn’t order?” is “brushing.” If you’ve never heard of it, you certainly wouldn’t be alone. Unlike some of the more old-fashioned scams out there—like mailing the victim a fraudulent invoice—brushing is a relatively new kind of fraud.
The basis of the fraud is fairly straightforward once you get past the “Who would send me these chipmunk-themed chip clips?” part.
Online storefronts with multiple sellers, such as Amazon.com, are intensely competitive. In an environment where hundreds, if not thousands, of online sellers are all trying to sell the same thing—hair brushes, jar openers, dog leashes, you name it—standing out from the crowd is the key to getting in front of consumers and making money.
And what better way to get in front of consumers than to have a 5-star rating and a best-seller slot, putting your product right in front of shoppers?
This is where the brushing scam comes in. The entire crux of the scam hinges on the fact that the product has to actually be purchased and shipped to juice the seller’s stats. These days fake reviews from un-verified purchasers just don’t cut it.
How Fake Reviews Are Manipulating You Online
Unscrupulous sellers will buy their own products and ship them to addresses in the region they wish to boost their sales. That alone juices their sales numbers. Then, in most cases, they will also leave a review for the product giving it five stars and a positive written review.
Once they’ve done so enough times, the listing takes on a life of its own. Regular shoppers see a product with thousands of positive reviews, and they buy it because it stands out from other products that only have hundreds of reviews and lack a solid 5-star rating.
Just another little tidbit to show how the traitorous confederates were fighting to preserve the right to keep blacks slaves. Colonel Shaw was a white Union Officer who lead black Union soldiers in battle.
After Colonel Shaw was killed in battle, the Confederates buried him in a mass grave as an insult to the black soldiers he led. Union troops attempted to recover his body, however his father sent a letter saying “We do not want his body removed from where he is surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers.”
Some woman found a million dollars (?) in her bank account, so she went to the bank to tell them there was some type of mistake. They denied making any mistake, and asked her whether she participated in some lottery. She said she had — the Irish Sweepstakes. They said congratulations, you’ve won.
Then they advised her how to spend and invest her money. She was one happy non-winner. What? She didn’t win any lottery. The bank had gifted her the money in an error. When they found out, they took the money back, but she was short about 100,000 dollars. They wanted it. She didn’t have it.
The insurance company for the bank said they didn’t insure the bank’s stupidity. If the women stole the money, the bank could get reimbursed. The bank took the woman to court, charging her with theft. The woman couldn’t afford good council. The courts put her in jail after the conviction. The insurance company paid the bank. Everybody was happy — except the women and family.
Eventually, newspapers published and free-attorneys opened up her case. She was found not guilty and let out of jail.
Banks!!! Insurance companies! Just make sure you do not get between them.
Your ex President Teddy Roosevelt wrote this. He did it when women were thought of as nothing. If you substitute woman or she for every place this speech has “man” or “he,” it would describe you and your girlz. I would do anything to be one.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Post again on 11Sept22 if your request is still the same.
I hope I am doing this right. I still wish to become a girlz.
Why is it bad to thaw and refreeze meat?
There’s an old wives’ tale that says you’ll get sick from refrozen meat. That’s wrong. That will only happen if you thaw the meat the wrong way such as leaving it out on a counter overnight, letting it sit at a temperature where bacteria will grow.
The actual truth is that it’s fine and part of normal procedures for many businesses. I often buy a whole turkey when they’re on sale for the holidays. It wouldn’t make any sense however for me to cook a whole one as it’s just me and my cat here. So I always thaw the turkey in the fridge, then cut it up and wrap portions, then refreeze them for later use.
Most every deep sea fish is processed similarly. Tunas for instance are caught in the ocean and flash frozen on factory ships. That way they don’t have to head for shore each day; they can continue to fish until they have a full load.
The fish are thawed, then cut. In Japan they use long tuna knives that resemble swords. Obviously this method couldn’t be done on a fish while it is frozen.
Now recall that you’ve probably seen frozen packages of tuna and other ocean fish in the supermarket. It should now be obvious that this fish has been frozen AT LEAST twice.