Where the heck is this?!

It's raining cows! Halleluia it's raining cows!

Things that make you go 'Eeeeeeewwww....'

With a "Free 10 day home trial" I think the real (and un-nerving) question here is: What the heck did they do with the unwanted used/returned Love Maids?! Actually on second thought, maybe some things are better left to the unknown...

The higher the hair, the closer to God!

Amen to that sister!!

Cabin Fever

AAACKK is right! I have got to get the heck out of here! I mean really... OK so the month and a half has gone really quickly since my surgery but sitting on the love seat getting really grumpy at the dismal choice of TV shows my cable company happily overcharges me for has really gotten old. The most exciting flicks I have watched in the last week were from my DVD collection ~ or from the library. OMG - one was The Land of the Lost movie. That was hysterical, glad I had my staples out or those things would have shot across the living room as I laughed so hard. A clever T-Rex!

Really, ask yourself this: how many times can you watch the same show on the 'On Demand' channels?! Twice and then it's like put some darn new ones up already (this is from experience...) Uugh. Paranormal documentaries are no fun the second time around. Sorry there's no ghost in this room, and not that one either. You folks are going home with nothing this show, saw it last night.... Sigh. Even the ghosts are bored.


I want to go back to work. It's not like I want to work, I mean personally I'd rather be out on a ginormous yacht taking sun in the Mediterranean while someone serves me dinner and cocktails with frilly little umbrellas in them. BUT at least while I'm at work, I can be around people much more miserable than myself. My job, like most, comes with so much entertaining drama. Utter silliness, I have flashbacks to grade school way too often there.

And what's even worse, all this sitting around healing. And eating. And watching TV. And reading. And eating. They took a huge mass out of me and yet I PUT ON SOME WEIGHT. That's how that works for me. I figured out that there was this newly created empty space so I had to put food there and quickly. Not thinking that maybe some vital organs needed to go back to where they belonged? I'm just thinking here.

OMG it is time to get out among the living and be active and vibrant again. OK maybe 'vibrant' is pushing it a little but you get the picture. Like the great philosophers The Muppets once sang in their film classic "Treasure Island" ~ "Cabin fever has grabbed us all aboard, this once proud vessel has become a floating psycho ward. We were sailing, sailing heading who knows where, and now though we're all here, we're not all there." Makes you think, doesn't it?

Yeah, it makes you think that I really do need to get out of this house or at least step away from the computer, no?!

The Muppets searching for their sanity also...

Wallpaper Nightmare

Ma! Come help me! Your wallpaper is so loud I cannot hear myself play Christmas music!

Parade of Peacocks

Aren't peacocks so fascinating? I first ran into one in person while on my honeymoon in Crete. Visiting Knossos, right next door was a fenced in area with a bunch of peacocks all just milling around and squawking (they are VERY loud!) But what beautiful creatures they are, in their blue green finery.

And the albino ones are so devastatingly lovely too. Really amazing animals.

Along with my fascination of this majestic creature I also adore silent films, and that is my bridge to explain why I am sharing the next few photos.. Silent film stars in peacock finery.
Pauline Starke
Mae Murray

Thank you Captain Obvious....

Funny!

Caller : Hi, our printer isn't working.

Technician: What's wrong with it?

Caller : The mouse is stuck.

Technician: Mouse? M'am, printers don't have a mouse!

Caller : Oh really?... well I just sent you a picture ...

Our interesting Earth!

Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist without heat, light, or oxygen, and are essentially the definition of "primordial ooze." The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the waterfall its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within.

Read more: http://www.good.is/post/science-rules-antarctic-glacier-has-five-story-blood-red-waterfall-of-primodial-ooze/?GT1=48001#ixzz0hEz21e7x

http://atlasobscura.com/place/blood-falls

WANT!!!!!!

OMG!! I just LOOOVE all kinds of decorated eggs!!! Can you imagine this?! Died and went to painted egg heaven!

Chilean Quake Likely Shifted Earth’s Axis, NASA Scientist Says

By Alex Morales

March 1 (Bloomberg) -- The earthquake that killed more than 700 people in Chile on Feb. 27 probably shifted the Earth’s axis and shortened the day, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist said.

Earthquakes can involve shifting hundreds of kilometers of rock by several meters, changing the distribution of mass on the planet. This affects the Earth’s rotation, said Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who uses a computer model to calculate the effects.

“The length of the day should have gotten shorter by 1.26 microseconds (millionths of a second),” Gross, said today in an e-mailed reply to questions. “The axis about which the Earth’s mass is balanced should have moved by 2.7 milliarcseconds (about 8 centimeters or 3 inches).”

The changes can be modeled, though they’re difficult to physically detect given their small size, Gross said. Some changes may be more obvious, and islands may have shifted, according to Andreas Rietbrock, a professor of Earth Sciences at the U.K.’s Liverpool University who has studied the area impacted, though not since the latest temblor.

Santa Maria Island off the coast near Concepcion, Chile’s second-largest city, may have been raised 2 meters (6 feet) as a result of the latest quake, Rietbrock said today in a telephone interview. He said the rocks there show evidence pointing to past earthquakes shifting the island upward in the past.

‘Ice-Skater Effect’

“It’s what we call the ice-skater effect,” David Kerridge, head of Earth hazards and systems at the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh, said today in a telephone interview. “As the ice skater puts when she’s going around in a circle, and she pulls her arms in, she gets faster and faster. It’s the same idea with the Earth going around if you change the distribution of mass, the rotation rate changes.”

Rietbrock said he hasn’t been able to get in touch with seismologists in Concepcion to discuss the quake, which registered 8.8 on the Richter scale.

“What definitely the earthquake has done is made the Earth ring like a bell,” Rietbrock said.

The magnitude 9.1 Sumatran in 2004 that generated an Indian Ocean tsunami shortened the day by 6.8 microseconds and shifted the axis by about 2.3 milliarcseconds, Gross said.

The changes happen on the day and then carry on “forever,” Benjamin Fong Chao, dean of Earth Sciences of the National Central University in Taiwan, said in an e-mail.

“This small contribution is buried in larger changes due to other causes, such as atmospheric mass moving around on Earth,” Chao said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Alex Morales in London at amorales2@bloomberg.net.




Roberto Candia, Associated Press. A view of Pelluhue, Chile, some 200 miles southwest of Santiago, Sunday. After the earthquake that struck central Chile Saturday, a tsunami destroyed much of the village.

Just a thought..

How lousy a pres is Obama when the Germans are inspired by his ineptitude to create a float like this?!