Inquiring minds (and cooks!) want to know!
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Showing posts with label poll. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Recipes for writers and readers...What do you cook?
Inquiring minds (and cooks!) want to know!
Monday, April 15, 2013
10 Things I love (or maybe 3 things)
The other day I watched something (can't remember what) which isn't the point. The point is that we had to think of 10 things I loved that weren't family, friends, pets, etc. Ten things? That I loved?
Thinking...
Ok, so 10 things. I mean I like my things and all but love? Hum. Pretty strong words for items. I came up with 3. Yes, 3. Three items I love and can (but don't want to) live without.
1. My Disney thermal hoodie. What? It's warm, versatile, and flattering. What isn't to love? It's missing one button which I kept for ages swearing to sew it back on until I lost both the will to do so and the button itself.
2. My car. Perfect size, it fits in any parking space and contrary to outside size it holds lots of stuff. I've moved twice in that car and it's never let me down.
3. Sneaker inserts. Apparently flat feet really is a condition and yes, it hurts to walk long distances. Went to the podiatrist, got these cool inserts (on e-Bay, so much cheaper!) and haven't had a problem since!
Your turn: What do you love that falls inside the rules laid out above?
Thinking...
Ok, so 10 things. I mean I like my things and all but love? Hum. Pretty strong words for items. I came up with 3. Yes, 3. Three items I love and can (but don't want to) live without.
1. My Disney thermal hoodie. What? It's warm, versatile, and flattering. What isn't to love? It's missing one button which I kept for ages swearing to sew it back on until I lost both the will to do so and the button itself.
2. My car. Perfect size, it fits in any parking space and contrary to outside size it holds lots of stuff. I've moved twice in that car and it's never let me down.
3. Sneaker inserts. Apparently flat feet really is a condition and yes, it hurts to walk long distances. Went to the podiatrist, got these cool inserts (on e-Bay, so much cheaper!) and haven't had a problem since!
Your turn: What do you love that falls inside the rules laid out above?
Thursday, December 20, 2012
The world is not ending and neither is the Mayan Calendar
But if it was, I'd want cake. Chocolate cake of course. All of it. Every last morsel.
However, since the end of the 13th Mayan bak'tun cycle really doesn't mean the end of the world, I'll settle for something a little lighter to eat. Christmas feasts are heavy, after all, and I have one on Christmas Eve and one on Christmas Day.
If the world was ending, I think I'd be slightly more panicked (read: a lot more panicked though there'd be nothing I could do about it). And probably wouldn't have done all my Christmas shopping.
So let's say the world was ending and you had only 1 hour notice (phones, internet, wifi all works, this is a what if scenario). Granted, most of us would find family members, cry, pray, possibly run into the streets screaming. But let's have fun with this.
Would you
A) Eat cake?
B) Call your ex?
C) Lay naked on ground?
D) Tell your customers/co-workers/fellow whoevers what you really think of them?
E) Think on what craziness you want to do for that entire hour and then have little to no time implementing said craziness?
F) Say yes to anything right in front of you at that moment?
NASA has prepared a press release for Dec. 22 titled "Why the World Didn't End Yesterday."
"The whole thing was a misconception from the very beginning," says Dr. John Carlson, director of the Center for Archaeoastronomy. "The Maya calendar did not end on Dec. 21, 2012, and there were no Maya prophecies foretelling the end of the world on that date."
Mayan apocalypse: End of the world, or a new beginning?
Simon Martin is curator of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia's
"Maya 2012" exhibition. He says the calendar is complex, and best thought of as
a series of gear wheels. He points out that at a Mayan site in Palenque, Mexico, there is an
inscription describing an event that takes place in 4,722 of our era, "and that
is the turning of an even bigger cycle", he says.He adds that technically this is also not the start of a new cycle. In 3114 BCE the calendar reset to zero with the turning of the 13th bak'tun
(which is a smaller, 400 year cycle). This time, however, it does not reset to
zero but merely goes on to the 14th bak'tun. "The Mayan Calendar is a weird and wonderful thing," he says.
The Real Deal: How the Mayan Calendar Works
Three calendars
The first thing to understand is that the Maya used three different calendars. The first was the sacred calendar, or Tzolk'in, which lasted 260 days and then started over again, just as our 365-day calendar refreshes once it hits Dec. 31. This calendar was important for scheduling religious ceremonies.
The second calendar was the Haab', or secular calendar, which lasted 365 days but did not account for the extra quarter-day it takes the Earth to revolve around the sun. (The modern calendar accounts for this fraction by adding a day to February every four years, the reason we have leap years.) That means the calendar wandered a bit in relation to the seasons.
The final calendar was the Long Count Calendar -- the recording method that has caused all of the doomsday brouhaha of 2012. On Dec. 21 (approximately), the calendar completes a major cycle, which has triggered doomsday fears and mystical rumors about the end of an age
However, since the end of the 13th Mayan bak'tun cycle really doesn't mean the end of the world, I'll settle for something a little lighter to eat. Christmas feasts are heavy, after all, and I have one on Christmas Eve and one on Christmas Day.
If the world was ending, I think I'd be slightly more panicked (read: a lot more panicked though there'd be nothing I could do about it). And probably wouldn't have done all my Christmas shopping.
So let's say the world was ending and you had only 1 hour notice (phones, internet, wifi all works, this is a what if scenario). Granted, most of us would find family members, cry, pray, possibly run into the streets screaming. But let's have fun with this.
Would you
A) Eat cake?
B) Call your ex?
C) Lay naked on ground?
D) Tell your customers/co-workers/fellow whoevers what you really think of them?
E) Think on what craziness you want to do for that entire hour and then have little to no time implementing said craziness?
F) Say yes to anything right in front of you at that moment?
NASA has prepared a press release for Dec. 22 titled "Why the World Didn't End Yesterday."
"The whole thing was a misconception from the very beginning," says Dr. John Carlson, director of the Center for Archaeoastronomy. "The Maya calendar did not end on Dec. 21, 2012, and there were no Maya prophecies foretelling the end of the world on that date."
Mayan apocalypse: End of the world, or a new beginning?
Simon Martin is curator of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia's
"Maya 2012" exhibition. He says the calendar is complex, and best thought of as
a series of gear wheels. He points out that at a Mayan site in Palenque, Mexico, there is an
inscription describing an event that takes place in 4,722 of our era, "and that
is the turning of an even bigger cycle", he says.He adds that technically this is also not the start of a new cycle. In 3114 BCE the calendar reset to zero with the turning of the 13th bak'tun
(which is a smaller, 400 year cycle). This time, however, it does not reset to
zero but merely goes on to the 14th bak'tun. "The Mayan Calendar is a weird and wonderful thing," he says.
The Real Deal: How the Mayan Calendar Works
Three calendars
The first thing to understand is that the Maya used three different calendars. The first was the sacred calendar, or Tzolk'in, which lasted 260 days and then started over again, just as our 365-day calendar refreshes once it hits Dec. 31. This calendar was important for scheduling religious ceremonies.
The second calendar was the Haab', or secular calendar, which lasted 365 days but did not account for the extra quarter-day it takes the Earth to revolve around the sun. (The modern calendar accounts for this fraction by adding a day to February every four years, the reason we have leap years.) That means the calendar wandered a bit in relation to the seasons.
The final calendar was the Long Count Calendar -- the recording method that has caused all of the doomsday brouhaha of 2012. On Dec. 21 (approximately), the calendar completes a major cycle, which has triggered doomsday fears and mystical rumors about the end of an age
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