May 24 2025 - How Old?

 

The headline says Canada Residents Born 1945 to 1985 could be eligible for this - you have to click to find out "this."  But the disgruntled older person in the picture gets your attention.   Was this person born in 1945?  If I sat next to hear at the table would you ask if we were sisters?  THat's interesting isn't it? So I went about the internet doing some asking.  The first site says 79, the second 36, the third 88, and the fourth says 79.  These are all sponsored sites selling other things.  What about sites that are interested in discerning age.  The last one says 82 years old.  If we go to Perfectcorp.com we will find the YouCan Makeup: AI Selfie editor will give us all kinds of advice - it is a virtual makeup ap, free AI hairstyle and hair colour changes, clothes changer and avatar generator, a one-tap photo face shaper, and AI skin and photo retouch. And don't forget to get an AI-powered body editor.  These all require a download "for free."  So we'll let them go by. And how old does this lady look - older than my mother when she passed away at 93. It could be how grumpy she looks. And I start to look carefully at the image and can see a 40kpm sign in the background, so think this is a Toronto street scene.  But even though I put the image into ClarityCheck, I don't want to give my email for the report so maybe I'll have to figure out this age-looking thing some other day. Should I look at those apps that predict a person's age progression?  At the Perfect app, it shows a person's age progressions - 16, 24, 35,  and so on.  Can you imagine young people at 16 looking at themselves and what they will look like at 45?  It seems a bit scary to me.   Here's the example, with the postings  to instagram, X and TikTok.   Historically, this technology started out as a method to identify and apprehend fugitives and locate missing children.  We do get to odd places from where we started.

A polka dot abstract today.

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May 21 2025 - Norm then and now

 

George/Norm has passed away and his obituary says he was 76 years old.   Last week I saw an article on how much younger people look now compared to 30 or 40 years ago.  The picture used as the demonstration was Cheers' Norm.  They showed what a 34-year-old Norm looked like during the Cheers series which ran from 1982 to 1993 and how he would look today at the same age.  Today's Norm looks younger.

I found an article that showed pictures of the main characters at the beginning and then the end of the series.   "A 33-year-old George Wendt first perched himself up at the bar as Norm Peterson during season one of Cheers. Greetings of "Norm" continued each time he arrived at the bar throughout the series 11-season run until he was 44."   Doesn't he sort of look the same age at the start and the end?   And why do we seem to look younger now? Here's an answer:  "Yes, it's generally accepted that people today are looking younger than they did 50 years ago. This is due to a combination of factors, including advancements in healthcare, changes in lifestyle (like better nutrition and smoking cessation), and increased use of sunscreen and skincare." Here's another answer: "Our skin, hair and teeth are benefiting from less cigarette smoke and physical toil, as well as an ever-expanding collection of cosmetic interventions designed to make us look younger." The studies say that people of the same chronological age are also biologically younger than fifty years ago.  There are some pretty irises blooming in my garden.  Irises have a long season of bloom - there are early bloomers with the snowdrops right through to June when the bearded varieties bloom.  These beautiful bearded irises are at Royal Botanical Gardens and will bloom in a week or two.

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March 31 2023 - Perfectly Preserved at 30,000 Years Old

 

How old is that Doctor?  Looks 15 to me.  That's not unusual these days.  I've heard that comment a few times in the last week or so.  People visiting the hospital specialty clinics are confronted with the new generation of Doctors. My cohort age group isn't used to looking at younger people.  We don't mingle with them much.  How would we? We don't take courses in universities.  We don't work in corporate head offices .  We don't  commute on the subway.  We barely go into Starbucks and if we do likely don't look at the baristas.  And we don't stand in Starbucks line-ups at the Dundas and University Hospital lobby with all the Doctors on break.  Such opportunities either elude us or we are self-inclined.  That seems to be our generation's experience.  So a perfectly preserved 30,000 year old.   That expression seems equivalent to our musing over how old the doctor is.   Yukon paleontologists unveiled to the press an unusual find from the goldfields near Dawson City.  It was found in 2018 and goes on display soon.  It is a mummified Arctic ground squirrel from the Ice Age, curled up in a ball as though it died while hibernating.  Arctic ground squirrels are still existent today in the Yukon.  So to be able to say it is perfectly preserved is to make a comparison to today's squirrels.  That's my guess.   Comparing mummified squirrel picture vs real squirrel picture, I further conjecture that it  a comparison from an older palaeontologist.   Ha!  I've included the pictures from the articles.  Isn't this squirrel in great condition - if we saw it in hibernation in a hole in the ground, wouldn't it look just like that.  The X-rays showed it was a young squirrel.     Here's a quiz:  How old is the person represented this sculpture?  I guess we could figure this out with an expert.  It is an amazing puzzle that scientists can solve the brown blob question with an estimate of 1 year old.    Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblogspot.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwell.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

March 28 2020 - A Whale of a Time

The oldest person ever was Jeanne Calment who lived from 1875-1997.  That's 122 years and some days. There may be people who lived longer.  The distinction is that Calment's age has been verified. Across mammals, lifespan can vary 100-fold.  Bowhead whales are considered the longest-living animals. They can live for more than 200 years. The whale’s enormous size – 20 metres long and up to 100 tonnes in weight – creates some unique challenges that are of particular interest to biologists. For instance, if its cells burnt energy at the same rate as mice cells, the excess heat would boil the surrounding water, so it has evolved to live with a slower metabolism and lower body temperature.   Isn't it interesting to find out about science facts in such interesting ways.  Perhaps jokes are a similar sort of experience.  The unexpected is fascinating and humorous.  Here are the whale jokes that seemed to fit this experience: I feel like school subjects need to be represented by animals English should be a hawk, they have good eyes, and you need good eyes for reading. History should be bowhead whales since they’ve lived through more than anyone else. And finally, maths should be snakes, I hear they’re great Adders. I was sitting in a bar one day and two really large women came in, talking in an interesting accent. So I said, “Cool accent, are you two ladies from Ireland?” One of them snarled at me, “It’s Wales, dumbo!” So I corrected myself, “Oh, right, so are you two whales from Ireland?” That’s about as far as I remember. What do you call a group of killer whales playing music together? An orca-stra! What do groups of whales listen to together? *pod*-casts What do whales like to draw with? A-krill-ic paint Gerry is writing an article for the Porsche magazine about his car.  I took this picture last Fall - the sun rays happened naturally - no filters applied.

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What Age are you wearing?

Can we tell the age of a person by simply looking carefully at what they are wearing? That's my theory - the style and colours tell the story.  This seems to me to be a sociological study rather than a google search. On the other hand, I found this article in everydayhealth.com.  What makes it remarkable is that it identifies ages such as 30 as being too old to wear various styles.  It is clearly addressed to women.  There are some articles for men, but fashion is targeted primarily to women.   Top 10 items you're too old to wear 1. Message t-Shirts (retail retirement age: 30) 2. Too-trendy denim (retail retirement age: 35) 3. Costume shoes (retail retirement age: mid-40s) 4. Micro-mini skirts (retail retirement age: 40) 5. Anything showing excessive cleavage (retail retirement age: 50) 6. White, ribbed cotton tank tops (retail retirement age: 40) 7. Hair gadgets (retail retirement age: 30) 8. Oversized, overly-decorated hobo bags (retail retirement age: 50) 9. Cheap, unflattering underwear (retail retirement age: 40) 10. Loud accessories (retail retirement age: 35) 11. Visible or coloured bra straps (a throw-in without age) Here's the concluding platitude:  “But what you’re striving for isn’t to look youthful – it’s to look ageless,” DeMartino says. “This way, you’re going to look more fabulous because the look is appropriate for you.”  It is followed by a referral to Charla Krupp’s How Not to Look Old  (Grand Central Life & Style). There are lots more top ten lists on what to do/not do:  the AARP entertains us with their concluding four items: Gold chains with your name on them. Gold chains with anyone's name on them. Gold chains. Chains. We had lots of rain in the garden yesterday, so I took a few shots of the rain drops.

How old is Kirk Douglas?

Have you ever wondered about your favourite celebrities from past decades?  At NEWS 1130, they list the celebrity birthdays for the following week in order of oldest to youngest.  Here are today's celebrity birthdays: July 22: Actor Orson Bean (“Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”) is 90. Actress Louise Fletcher is 84. Actor Terence Stamp is 80. Game-show host Alex Trebek is 78. Singer George Clinton is 77. Singer-actor Bobby Sherman is 75. Actor Danny Glover is 72. Writer-director Paul Schrader is 72. Singer Don Henley is 71. Actor-comedian-director Albert Brooks is 71. Composer Alan Menken (“Little Mermaid,” ”Little Shop of Horrors”) is 69. Actor Willem Dafoe is 63. Singer Keith Sweat is 57. Singer Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls is 55. Actor-comedian David Spade is 54. Actor John Leguizamo is 54. Bassist Pat Badger of Extreme is 51. Actress Irene Bedard (“Pocahontas”) is 51. Actor Rhys Ifans (“Elementary,” ”Notting Hill”) is 51. Actor-singer Jaime Camil (“Jane the Virgin”) is 45. Musician Daniel Jones (Savage Garden) is 45. Singer Rufus Wainwright is 45. Actress Franka Potente (“The Bourne Identity”) is 44. Actress A.J. Cook (“Criminal Minds”) is 40. Actor Keegan Allen (“Pretty Little Liars”) is 31. Singer-actress Selena Gomez is 26. It seems so fascinating.  I would not have realized Louise Fletcher or Terence Stamp were over 80.  What about Kirk Douglas?  He's age 101, born in 1917.  (His son Michael Douglas is 73 years old).  Olivia de Havilland is age 102, born 1916. There's a wikipedia list of actors, entertainers, celebrities who are centurions (living and deceased).  I found this person in the list:  Ruthie Thompson, born 1910, age 107, American animator.  (Maybe she's 108 by now). This seems really old.  In comparison the oldest verified living person is 117 years old - Chiyo Miyako, born May 2nd, 1901.  And the oldest person who has ever lived and whose age has been verified is Jeanne Calmest at age 122 years, 1875-1997.  She has a fascinating story HERE. We look at the delicate shapes and textures in  carnation flowers today.