November:
Archive for November, 2009
No proper time of day
Posted in Art and Craft, tagged Art of Noise, dusk, november, sunset on 16 November, 2009| 1 Comment »
Imagine explaining this to Elizabeth I and Philip II…
Posted in Backstory, tactless observations, tagged British Airways, Iberia, idle thoughts, jingles, odd twists in history, old air iran on 12 November, 2009| Leave a Comment »
British Airways and the Spanish airline, Iberia, are in merger talks?!
I’ve flown BA before, but all my memory can supply for Iberia is their jingle from the early 1970’s, which is filed next to the terribly dated Iran Air jingle. Iberia’s just sang their brand name several times, but Air Iran seemed to make a kind of social promise that….well, might be as improbable to our current sensibilities as a merged airforce would have been to those venerable British and Spanish monarchs of centuries ago:
“…in our hearts and many more ways
America, we’re going your way!
Air Iran is going your way…”
Tonight’s euphemisms
Posted in CopterCopter, Elsinore, tactless observations on 7 November, 2009| 2 Comments »
An “unfriendly noise”: suspected gunfire, typically followed by sirens
Related:
“My God, it’s Detroit, with crabs…”
Word had me laughing out loud as we drove this afternoon [and we completely forgot what we had been looking for].
What does one say…?
Posted in Musing about Teaching, tactless observations, tagged headdesk, precious snowflakes, the nature of science on 6 November, 2009| Leave a Comment »
…when one of the snowflakes asks plaintively:
“so there’s no science without nature? is that true with only science or other areas as well?”
Snicker, or how the velvet worm turns…
Posted in Backstory, tactless observations, tagged evolution, failure of the critical thinking process, PNAS, science you're doing it wrong, velvet worms on 5 November, 2009| 2 Comments »
Not what it looks like
Posted in Gardening, My brain, tagged autumn leaves, distractable me, fall color, Nikon camera sensor fail, not what it looks like really on 2 November, 2009| 2 Comments »
Few of these leaves survived the weekend’s rains, but I thought you should see them anyway:
This was taken with Word’s camera; the sensor on my Nikon 5700 is misbehaving again:
The rhodie is roughly the correct colors, but the basket and morning glories sure as hell aren’t! Purlewe thought it might be a battery problem, but this was with a new, newly charged battery, so I’m not feeling optimistic about my camera at the moment….
Rethorykal Questions 