Just to reassure you …
While I driving near the Mississippi River near downtown Saint Louis a few days ago, I spotted this sign. Perhaps it was meant to reassure people who were nervous about seeing locomotives operating themselves . . .
Super-shovel: It slices, it dices
I thought the music was a bit dramatic until I got half-way through this shovel advertisement. Maybe I should start carrying a shovel in my briefcase, in case I need to climb a mountain or chop potatoes.
Another Musing on Our Evolving Ability to Perceive
I have occasionally ruminated our improved ability to see and understand the universe around us. On this blog, it usually is in terms of comparing the Young Earth view with what we've learned in the last few hundred years. Posts such as The Universe is not Specified to Human Scale and My limited vision make the point.
But I've started another blog that focuses less on politics and culture, yet found that one of my first posts again addresses the issue of how we've improved our vision of the world around us in the last few dozen generations. Please peruse The Object At Hand: Light Lens a Hand, to Help us Understand and see if I am off the beam.
The fake problems of infomercials
I caught this video on the Daily Dish. It is a compilation of excerpts from numerous infomercials. This excellent editing of a string of disasters that suggests the need for one more infomercial offering this bit of free advice: Slow down; quit being such materialists; simplify your life and quit acting so recklessly. Excellent humor and anthropology, "kickintheheadcomic"! I suspect we'll soon be hearing a new soundtrack on this clever video, unless the creator has his use rights to the Beatle's "Help" nailed down . . .
Carrot music
This video shows you how to play a carrot (with a little help from a reed). You'll get the idea in the first m
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