Today: is a new day page.

How did you like the video? (Admittance: I have not yet watched it myself.)

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I just got back from a pleasure trip. I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

It's probably too late (that was a good joke) but was there any difference in what you did (yes-/)today for Australia Day, or was it business as usual, Zooks?

Those kooks over there outside Rod Laver Arena actually embarassed me by association.
The taste of Vegemite is not nearly as bad as having to endure someone else talking about it as though it were breaking news.

I liked it! Well, not literally "liked" it as in the new age of facebook, but I liked it. I also watched his "death of a washing machine" and it reminded me of when we were young hunters and if we came upon a dump, our favorite part was blasting out old TV screens...back in those days they were still CRT's.



Hey, did you guys hear about UDFj-39546284?

It's now snowing with lightning ...interesting combo.

The nation drags itself to various central points for festivities and fireworks, however, as my missus was going to the beach to support the Haviana thong (footwear!) challenge, and I had to go into work to see a man about some goods, I then headed home for a quiet arvo on the couch...

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You pick up a gorgeous hitch-hiker. That's good.
She faints inside your car. That's not good.
You take her to a hospital where they say she's pregnant and congratulate you. That's bad.
You say you're not the father, but she says you are. That's stressful.
You request a DNA test to prove it's not yours, which it does. That's a relief.
The doctor adds that you're infertile. That's terrible.
Then you remember you have three kids at home!


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UDFj-3
9546284?
What the heck is that?

(Funny, ZookSport2,
infertility aside,
a good diversion.)

UDFj-39546284 was a compact galaxy of blue stars that existed 13.2 billion years ago, around 480 million years after the Big Bang. It is the oldest galaxy found as of 26 January 2011 and beats the previous distance record holder by roughly 150 million light years. It could remain so until the anticipated launch of the James Webb Space Telescope sometime this decade. The galaxy has a z (redshift) of ~10. But unlike UDFy-38135539, UDFj-39546284 has not been spectroscopically confirmed.

The galaxy is remarkable mainly because it has significantly expanded knowledge of the early period after the Big Bang. Astronomers were surprised to find evidence that the rate at which the universe was forming stars grew precipitously in about a 200-million-year time span; the rate of star birth increased by about a factor of ten going from 480 million years to 650 million years after the Big Bang.

One day I'd like to be spectroscopically confirmed.

(2/4)x2=1+0

2 - 4 + 2 + 1 - 1 = 0

I experienced the same thing a time ago. I wonder to what you would, "unofficially", call this cumulus combo? Thunder and Icing? -- "White Lightning"?

mmmm.... Jet, your post makes me want some rich chocolate cake and a shot of my best vodka.

Do you happen to have both in your electric cabinet, I ponder?

http://i52.tinypic.com/2hebsj5.jpg
(I just wanted to add: {and spite!} this is awesome.) -- [Ice + Thunder = Refrigerator]

Come back everyone! I'm lost without you.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc...583xo1_400.jpg
(I must have posted this before; else, I wouldn't feel so deja-vooey.)

^ a reminder of current events in Egypt. At least so far, most of the populace and the army are protecting their ancient historical treasures.

Just so's yer knows..... 1.30 in the arvo, and it's 44 Degrees on my back verandah... thats 110 F for yous blokes...

(2x4)+2-1=9

The Western Desert
is still living & breathing,
I can hope & trust.

---------- Post added at 09:35 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:42 AM ----------

We're eighty behind
& I can't double-post.
I'm wasting haiku.

please don't consider it a waste since it provokes my thoughts

Zooks, with that kind of temperature differential (14C) you can generate a lot of power. Sterling cycle?

That has confused me, Nick....


Then at 3.00pm, it rained and the temp was 27degress...

Think I got contraction cracks in my lawn...

If you are still here, Zooksport, we can play a quick round of "tennis", no?

By the by, I've just remembered: (plus, I'm expanding my thoughts over several posts, and I say, why not?, fors no ones but us fours, plus maybe an invisible two, cares all that much for the IDEAL.)

But... back to the sudden memory recollection for the moment: I had a recent dream whereby in it, there was a quick segment in which I received a virtual (vicarious) private message from our own jewels.

In the message, she started off nice enough, but then quickly got down to some knitty-gritty about why I'm dissing her WA and all, and it got me (in my dreamstate mind) to thiknking, how incredulous! ... it was something else.

I was, at least I think I was, giving myself, vis-a-vis another personality, a lambasting for not supporting another ridiculous ratty rhubarb pie (re: thread) that's entire premise is condensed to a less-than-second thought, and a random one-word reply.

I'm never one for bullying, or trying to put down the minority, (most of the time, tho, it's the majority that I don't understand) and telling them why they do the what to which they feel akin to doing, but I still ask (in shrouded terms): why? (re: to what aim do you derive any pleasure from this?)

Maybe I'm being critical of myself here (in shrouded, unconscious terms) ...

-- there's a thinker.

(someone else was supposed to intercept me in-between the threes.)

Until you return, I'll still be contemplating what if we had a few of these (for the better)...



--(to note: I was once supposed to write the benefit of the Earth if there was to be a "population shock" event... it was supposed to be my masterpiece, and actually accredit me as sort of evil/true neutral mastermind. I don't know what happened that time. I must have gotten lost in my Super Monkey Ball trance.)

I used to like to bet on mudders at the track...when it was wet, of course.

Thanks, Jet. This inspires my dinner plans for tomorrow. Luckily I got some lamb chops at the market today.

Have you ever made the rhubarb, Nick-0?

(Muddy waters still rock. She'll know what it means.)

Oh yes, I have fond memories of rhubarb. 1st time I ate it was raw, cut fresh from Betty's garden. We were about 7 years old. Her mom used to give it to us and let us dip it in sugar. We'd sit in Betty's kitchen and eat a few stalks and then go out and compare our parts ...little boy/girl thing. I remember I loved her. This was while spending my summers in Frankfort, Ontario, Canada at my grandmom's farm. My grandmom also made a rhubarb souffle that I always liked....to put that into perspective, there's almost no food I've ever tried that I don't like.

Later as an adult, I've also eaten rhubarb pie which I like a lot. It's often combined with strawberries. If I stop at one of the traditional Pennsylvania Dutch restaurants west of Philadelphia and they have rhubarb pie, I almost always get it. And also their chicken/corn chowder with fresh baked biscuits.

Bugger... Sorry Jet, but then you play teenis well enough on your own... you must be really fast, hey..

Nick... see my prior post?

Zooks, the Sterling cycle? We have a couple models of Sterling engines in work, as well as an antique Sterling engine. It's a fun gadget and I think it has a lot of untapped potential. When the internal combustion engine was invented and fuel was cheap, the Sterling engine was put on the back burner. But as fuel gets more expensive they will again become interesting and practical. There's tons written about it online, but here's a link with good info: Stirling Technology, Inc. | Stirling Engines: Uses

All you need to make it do work is a temperature difference. That will allow it to rotate a crank to run a pump, a well, a generator, etc. This animation will give you the idea; the hot side doesn't have to be a fire, all you need is a temp difference; and you can see the finned radiator here is just loosing heat to the atmosphere on the cold end:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2..._animation.gif

Here's an old water pumping Sterling engine but it uses a firebox to make the hot side. The one we have in work is a smaller version of this:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...air-engine.jpg

I understand the sterling cycle.. it was the 14c reference thats throwing me....

Goodnight, Moon.

Sorry...though I'm glad I was wrong about the Sterling cycle confusion.

I figured since it's 30 in the arvo and 44 on your back verandah, that's 14C difference. But just now I looked up "arvo" so now I realize you might also need a time machine to take advantage of a temp difference between the afternoon and your verandah.

Hey, what do you take for a verandah?

LOL .... I don't know, What do you take, for a verandah?

Arvo = afternoon
Back verandah= not at the front of the house....

1.30 in the arvo on BACK verandah = 44. see?

http://mountainparkretreat.com.au/_u...ws_2_small.jpg

I knew "verandah" since we use that word around here, too. But I like the d.u. lingo <<< hey, lingo dingo...that rhymes!

I might have mixed up verandah and haddock, for which I sometimes take a aspirin, sometimes I take a Calamel. No delta T there unless I have a fever.

Zooks, that is one fine verandah. I'd name a daughter, Verandah, yes I would.

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palindrome ahead...

(2x4)-(2x4)=0

At a tender age,
others were content with weird,
definition-wise.