http://www.ted.com/talks/what_we_learned_from_5_million_books.html
Ngram ” I just wondered how people of yore (didn’t) think of pencils & pens & paper plates in the “millions-of,” or $ in the “billions or trillions-of.” hundred,thousand,million,billion,trillion ”
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hundred%2Cthousand%2Cmillion%2Cbillion%2Ctrillion&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=
I’ve recently become aware of a feeling I have, that it’s “a new, valueable commodity” if it “comes in a plastic bag.”
I don’t like this feeling. It’s obviously a subtle advertising mind-mastered paradigm-shifting thing, (the feeling is too strong & foreign to be endogenous.) (More introspection will be put into this.)
I heard that the former Costa Concordia cap’n wants his job back. I say, “Fine! Put him back on it, and let it sit there!”
I recently heard a politician on t.v. talking about “I have a picture of me & the President,”
and right-after he said that, the echo of it sounded so hollow, and I realized that it was a really “hollow” thing to say, kind-of. (I think he realized it too.) And if I were there & quick-wittied & mean, I might’ve said, “So does the President have a picture of you on his wall?”
I recently heard that one politician said, “I like imposing my opinions on others.” and I’m like, “duh, doesn’t everyone?”
http://imgfave.com/view/3177411
http://imgfave.com/view/3249409
“YIS”?? http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3380/3183368954_01ba911303.jpg
Was watching Roger Tolces – The Surveillance Police State & Electronic Harassment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0no2TZBTfk
He said as per the U.S. Styles Manual “ficticious name entity,” that a name spelled with all capital letters meant that it referred to a corporate entity that the actual was now in charge of, (responsible for). I found few references to it; one said in several replies on the same post that this was not true, but then at the bottom of the page, said: “and some formal company names;” (which opens the door again)! http://teamlawforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=130 (I’m glad they did say to go to the original sources & do your own homework.)
Mr. Tolces said that digestive tract cancer (“Gastrointestinal stromal tumor”?) was the second-leading cause of death. the CDC shows only cancer as a whole group, as far as I could find. I’m not sure where he got his info. [It is interesting that the CDC apparently keeps tabs on drownings & drycleaning!]
Agarikon (Fomes officinalis) mushroom [sp?] (oldest fungus) against pox viruses & bird flu, etc.!
old train tracks http://pixdaus.com/single.php?id=82159
peaceful sunset http://pixdaus.com/single.php?id=85049
ice window http://pixdaus.com/single.php?id=85098
swirling clouds sunset http://pixdaus.com/single.php?id=84958
http://pixdaus.com/white-cat-in-snow-but-look-at-those-eyes-cat-eyes/items/view/574282/
http://pixdaus.com/the-wookie-cops-a-feel-funny-movie-star-wars/items/view/15626/
http://pixdaus.com/birdwatching-birds-funny-kids/items/view/15295/
http://pixdaus.com/grey-langurs-by-cyril-ruoso/items/view/575501/
http://pixdaus.com/snake-grass/items/view/575230
“The brainwashed never wonder”
(or do they, a little?)
I hid a couple of nickels today – whoot!
And I threw a penny out, so as-to not waste the freight-gas it wouldv’e taken just to haul it home; right?
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