Saint Paul Winter Carnival
First All-Women’s Ice Sculpture Entry
Kids cheering on their Dad at a 10K. They came to blows after this picture.
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Right before I started driving (1986), there was IIRC some kind of OPEC action after which gas was 68 cents/gal. By the time I got my license, it was still 88 or 90 cents (even then that was cheap).
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The kid in the hat looks pissed. Did he hit his brother with the giant dad head? That’s messed up
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Light bopping with foam board followed by arguments on who gets to hold Dad. Eventually broken up by Mom.
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I don’t know, but we’re working on a great Greek tragedy.
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Ice Spiders, RUN!!!
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Gnarly!
789
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Leaky faucet: sorted.
We live in a building where plumbing is…not the super’s strong suit, so I’ve been getting better at just doing things myself. after replacing both valves in the kitchen, suddenly the faucet started leaking at strange times into the cabinet underneath. Not all the time, and not consistently, but when it would leak it was a lot. it was driving me nuts and making me feel the impending doom of calling an actual plumber who would come in and condemn our spliced-in illegal washer/dryer and try to replace our whole setup.
what it turned out to be?
the old rotten washers had flushed into the aerator and were casuing the faucet to back up into the housing. all I had to do was rinse it out. I’ve gotten used to doing this for the shower, as we get quite the mineral buildup after a rainstorm that noticably affects our water pressure. I din’t know what made me check this one, but glad I did!
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I lived in one apartment long enough that, by the time I moved out, I’d replaced every part inside the toilet tank. (Generally when something like that broke, I didn’t want to wait a day or two for someone to come out, then leave work to meet up with them etc.)
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Ad for Donald Duck comics.
Oletko sinä jo platkun päihittäjä?
(Have you overcome platku yet?)
Lukutaito on voima joka päihittää platkun.
(literacy can overcome platku.)
I’m shit at translating.
Platku seems (not invented by Disney) to be a new word they say it means sloppy, boring, flat, gray, languageless, flat-headed, grim, impersonal, discouraged and illiterate.
Donald looks like Big Brother…
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Nothing like a cardinal in the snow!
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Yeah that’s more likely inspiration.
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Back at the Game of Thrones finale, the LCBO had cases of branded wine, and someone had too much fun writing the reviews.
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The universe as God’s stringed instrument. From Robert Fludd, Utriusque Cosmi Historia (1617-19). The metaphor of the universe as a giant musical instrument, a divine harmony, was a commonplace of Renaissance thought.
Here the hand of God is represented as tuning the universe so that the delicate harmonic relations are exactly maintained. As Ulysses, in his famous speech on order and degree and the chaos that results when these principles of harmonic subordination are violated, says: “Take but degree away, untune that string, / And hark what discord follows” (Troilus and Cressida, I.iii 109-10).
Fludd’s diagram also illustrates the principal outlines of the Ptolemaic system. with the Earth as the centre of the universe. Note particularly the central and commanding position of the Sun, referred to by Ulysses as “the glorious planet Sol / In noble eminence enthron’d and shepherd / Amidst the other [planets]” (lines 89-91), through which it links the heavenly diapason with the material diapason. (By permission of the Harvard College Library)
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Aber was bedeutet es?
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