“Error Code” comic from

xkcd.com

Great accomplishments are overrated.  I prefer to “go with the flow.”

How about you?

Cartoon shared from Calamities of Nature.

Sometimes the overuse of words make them unsustainable and actually reduces their impact.

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Funny thing, I didn’t see anything in the last few days about the apocalyptic predictions for 2012, not that I really watched that much of the traditional media end-of-the-year lo0king back, looking forward tripe.

(Cartoon is from XKCD – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.)

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Wind energy doesn’t quite live up to it’s hype.

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“I’m Sorry” just doesn’t cut it, sometimes.

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Whether it’s weather or climate – it’s all in the accuracy of the models and the accuracy model assumptions and data that the models are fed.

If the assumptions and/or data are off, what can be said about the results?

I just couldn’t resist sharing this one, especially since the author encourages use of his cartoons.

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Had to share…

Comments?

Mother-in-law bell
Bells of this type were stamped out of quarters and were common in the 1880′s.  They were worn by men and women during war dances and by an older woman to warn her son-in-law that she was approaching.  Older Navajo believed that a man could become blind if he looked at his mother-in-law.

from display of artifacts
in Far View Visitor Center
Mesa Verde National Park
September 12, 2009

Debo came closest with the guess, “wildlife warning bell,” except that the bell is to warn the wildlife — the son-in-law — instead of warning of the approach of wildlife.

I still don’t know whose blog post I was thinking of when I noticed this artifact in the display.  I deliberately took care to get a good picture so that I could share it with whoever had written the post, but now I can’t find it.

Oh well.

Perhaps it was just a blog comment that I had read somewhere.

Or maybe, just maybe, I’ve been reading blogs in my dreams.

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Commentary and images from the road

image and information from September 12, 2009

This post is being simultaneously published on Exit78 and Haw Creek Out ‘n About.

In a previous post, I provided the following information:

I came across this little item during our recent travels. It has an interesting purpose.

What do you think it is? Include the interesting purpose, if you can.

I’ll provide the answer later in the week if no one gets it correct.

Some additional information:

• I came across it in a National Park visitor center.
• I took a photograph of it because it reminded me of a post someone had written on their blog about a relative — a post I cannot find right now.
• It’s a 19th century artifact.
• Debo and Dot have come closest so far

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Commentary and images from the road

image and information from September 12, 2009

This post is being simultaneously published on Exit78 and Haw Creek Out ‘n About.

I came across this little item during our recent travels. It has an interesting purpose.

What do you think it is?  Include the interesting purpose, if you can.

I’ll provide the answer later in the week if no one gets it correct.

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Commentary and images from the road
September 9, 2009

This post is being simultaneously published on Exit78 and Haw Creek Out ‘n About.

Climate change “alarmists” want to stop the use of coal and predict that the fabled Northwest Passage will be free of ice and passable in the near future.

West Seattle Herald, Seattle, Washington, March 26, 1931

Several years ago — OK, it was a long, long time ago — I was attending college as a non-traditional student, finishing up my degree while working full-time. George Herbert Walker Bush was the president of the United States and Al Gore was a United Sates Senator who hadn’t invented the internet yet.

One of the classes I was in was a college algebra class. It was the first college class that I had ever had that required a calculator — the only calculator I had used in high school had been a slide rule.

The airhead I was sitting behind was having difficulty getting the answers and kept asking the professor questions about how to do the calculations for the problems on the black board.

Exasperated, the professor finally asked, “What kind of calculator do you have? It’s supposed to be a scientific calculator.”

The airhead replied, “Well, of course it’s scientific — it’s a solar calculator!”

Funny Monday

A lost Exit78 post , recovered from Internet Archive WayBackMachine; March 2011

Karen shared a hilarious eBay story with the family about a lady with 6 kids who went grocery shopping and one of the kids slipped some Pokemon cards into the carts without her catching it. It is absolutely hilarious.

You can read the story on the original page at eBay for now — it’ll go away eventually. It’s titled Lot of Pokemon Cards that My Kids Tried to Sneak by Me. She had 53 bids and the winning bid was for $142.51 by redsox*07.

You can also read it on her blog, where she titled the article Adventures in Grocery Shopping. If you like reading funny true stories, I recommend this one highly!