Apr 223 2024 - Autocorrect Funnies

 

There have to be the top funniest autocomplete suggestions.  Because I get them often, and then I don't write them down.  Here are some results in this article I found HERE.   These are from 2010.  There were a lot of inappropriate autocompletes in 2010.  Even if they came from actual search results.  How strange that in 2010, "I hate it when j" had autocompletes with Jesus in them.  But then, skip ahead to today's retrieval on this query and it is equally strange and incoherent with Jesus references.   Here's the article's search autocomplete for "Is it wr": This is what I got:   Here's the 2010 article's search autocomplete for "when I jump": It looks like a lot happened in the decade that passed. This is from a similar 2023 article:   Not much has changed in a year or so since the last retrieval.  This is what I got:   This activity would either lead to a research study or be turned into a word game. If you figure out the word game, let me know.   I seem to think we are well into Spring.  The early daffodils are finished and we're on to the mid-season bloomers.

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Apr 22 2024 - Priscilla Queen of the Desert Rides Again

 

The bus in the 1994 movie "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" has begun a journey to being restored into a museum artifact.  This story hit the news in the last week - $2.2 million Australian is being raised to restore the bus and its interior for display at the National Motor Museum. Priscilla started out as a 1976 Japanese model Hino RC320. It was owned by Sydney company Boronia Tours before it was sold to a couple who leased the bus to Latent Images, the film’s production company, for the duration of the shoot in September and October 1993. Afterwards, the couple hired it out occasionally, including to the Australian band the Whitlams, who used it as a tour bus for six months in 1994. Its location was lost for all these decades, although there have been "pretenders to the throne" - for example the bus that was driven around the 2000 Olympics closing ceremony in Sydney.   "Michael Mahon said he bought the property, and unbeknownst to him the bus in the paddock, in 2016. He said the property belonged to musician Ian Ross East, whose friend brought the bus to Ewingar when she moved there. After the community told him about the bus, Mr Mahon did some research on the provenance of the bus and started making calls." Then it got complicated as it was abandoned on a deceased estate.  They had to wait a year for someone to come forward to claim it.  That completed, they got started on moving the bus to the museum and starting the restoration.  There's talk of putting the giant high heel back on the top again. I've used all the filters on this version of the Spring Magnolia around the corner.

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Apr 21 2024 - Snow Blizzard Cherry Blossoms

 

The Weather Network has a video of winter snow and hail blizzard conditions in China.  Normally, the cherry blossoms fall to the ground/water creating a beautiful pink blanket.  Pink petals on the ground is desirable.  Pink petals, snow and hailstones is serious.  With climate change, the Weather Network is extremely busy - floods in Dubai, snow in China.  Here in Niagara the video says cherry blossoms Niagara and they are showing the Magnolia trees at the Floral Showcase in Niagara Falls.  They are beautiful pink, so maybe a good substitute for cherries.  We have more flower festivals in the area on the horizon - not just cherry blossoms.  There is a tourist tulip display on Seventh Avenue, just north of Fourth Street.  They grew fields of Dahlias last summer - I assume a picked flower crop.  They are advertising a tulip festival this weekend.  These flower festivals are starting to pop up in Ontario - the one that is best known is in Fenwick - TASC - they are advertising 2 million tulips this year.  They open in a week.   Checking the weather forecast, there don't seem to be any blizzards on our horizon.  The picture of the Magnolia tree with snow was from 2021 when we did get a snowstorm in April. The sense of movement is created with multiple exposures in camera.

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April 19 2024 -The Speed of Smell

 

What is the speed of smell?  How far can smell spread? This is prompted by a bizarre dream I had.  There we were when an alien space ship landed nearby, and then there was an overpowering acrid smell.  The smell spread around the world extremely quickly.  How could it spread so fast?  Was it a weapon or instrument of the aliens? Were we going to die from whatever made the smell?  The speed of light is 186,282 miles per second. The speed of sound is 761.2 miles per hour. If it was going the speed of light it would only take 0.13 seconds to go around the earth.  We wouldn't have time to ask the question if smell travelled as fast as light. In  comparison to light and sound there isn't a set speed to smell - the speed of smell is dependent on the odorous compounds that make up the air - we would ask how fast does air travel in the air?  Here is the article on the science behind the speed of smell. Let's jump to the fun comparison: "So then, let's use Graham's Law to compare the effusion rates of two odorous molecules, geraniol and skatole. Gerianol has a rose-like fragrance that is commonly used in perfumes, and it's naturally found in geraniums and lemons. Skatole is a somewhat toxic compound that occurs naturally in feces, and it's thought to be one of the main causes of odor in flatulence. Yes, in one of the most high-brow and intellectual thought experiments ever devised, I'm basically asking which odor, under ideal conditions, you would smell first: a rose or a fart? Gerianol is composed of ten carbon atoms, eighteen hydrogen atoms, and a single oxygen atom, which gives it a molar mass of 154.25 grams per mole. (A mole is a unit equivalent to about 6*10^23 individual molecules). Skatole, one the other hand, has nine carbon atoms, nine hydrogen atoms, and one nitrogen atom, which adds up to a molar mass of 131.17 grams per mole. Graham's Law says that the rate of gerianol effusion divided by the rate of skatole effusion will equal the square root of the molar mass of skatole divided by the molar mass of gerianol. In other words... This means that the rate of effusion of gerianol is about 92% that of the rate of effusion of skatole. In other words, the speed of smell of a fart is faster than the speed of smell of a rose. Admittedly, that's all one hell of a massive approximation, but that still seems like the sort of information that's just worth knowing" Let's ask the question:  how fast does a fart travel?  And the answer is 10 feet per second, or 6.8 miles per hour.  That's going to take a long time to get around the earth. Maybe that dream came about from this picture I took a few years ago. I was putting images through that Watercolour Filter the other day, and this delightful abstract came out. Starry sky sort of theme.

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Apr 18 2024 - Tiny Homes

 

No new houses in Grimsby are small.  There's a new development on Main Street East and the houses are monsters, according to my thinking.  What do you see when you look at this? Probably 3,000 sq ft.   They seem to be a long time in the making.  I wonder when everything will be completed. What I pass each day does not resemble this picture - all the houses are tight against each other and right up to the sidewalk.  No gracious front lawns and gardens will appear. Now let's head over to Fredericton, N.B. where a tiny home village has been in the news.  There will be 99 tiny homes.  This has been masterminded by Marcel Lebrun who has created a charity to develop the community.   Comparing the pictures, it looks like at least a 3 to 1 ratio in terms of lot usage.   I wonder what it is about Ontario builders and residents that we are not given to reducing our house size. Can you imagine what it would take to start thinking in terms of tiny homes?  There is one Ontario example of tiny home communities - it is in St. Thomas-Elgin.  This is similar to New Brunswick's project.  Both are charity-based projects building community services.  Let's hope there will be more of these projects.  A tiny tree is our picture today.

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