Marilyn's Photos - Dec 11 2025 - Sherman's Wharf and Aquatic Park Cove

 

There’s a regular piece of Sponsored Content on msn titled Grimsby:  Your home’s value is public!  with the following aerial map.  I know this isn’t an aerial view of Grimsby or of the house values - with almost legible amounts like 2.3M or 5.5M.  Where do you think this is?  With Sherman’s Wharf , Marina District and Aquatic Park Cove as the clues, I guessed San Francisco. That was a bit easy, wasn’t it? And the heading of the article seems to indicate some concern of public vs private. Some sort of alarmist article one would expect.  It makes me wonder if there is anything we don’t worry about, care about, or have an opinion about.  Odyssey Online has 25 things nobody cares about:  it means boring topics no one is interested in hearing you talk about.  Even Wikipedia has an entry for really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create. This turns out to be different: the warning on the page says that it contains material that is kept because it is considered humorous.  Such material is not meant to be taken seriously.  The Wikipedia article is HERE. Go check it out and enjoy this humorous entry. You know those links scattered throughout Wikipedia entries.  These are themselves humorous and worth reading especially the religion, language or country that you made up with your friends in school one day - that’s item 5 on the list.  There’s another entry devoted to things “you made up with your friends in school one day” - it is HERE.  It says Wikipedia is not for things that you and/or your friends made up. “If you have invented something in school, the lab, your garage, or the pub, and it has not yet been featured in reliable sources, do not write about it on Wikipedia.  Write about it on your own website, blog, or social media instead.”  Here’s what Wikipedia says is the right way to get there: "As an example, consider the history of the game Scrabble. It was originally invented by Alfred Mosher Butts in 1938. At first, he made only a few copies to give or sell to his friends, and contacted several game manufacturers, all of whom turned him down. Therefore, had Wikipedia been around in 1938, it could not have had an article on Scrabble. Even though Butts had invented a game that would eventually become a worldwide bestseller, at the time it was known only to a few people and little or nothing had been written about it. However, he was not disheartened: he kept promoting his idea until several years later it was bought by a games manufacturer, sold in many stores, and became widely known and widely written about. This is the point at which Wikipedia could have had an article about it, as opposed to when it was first invented.”  Excellent entertainment by Wikipedia. Here’s a happy Christmas wreath.

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