Sep 26 2020 - How the Days Fly

 

"Time Flies when you're having fun."  Or: "How time flies." Alexander Pope's version: "Swift fly the years."   And the originator: Tempus fugit is a Latin phrase, usually translated into English as "time flies". The expression comes from line 284 of book 3 of Virgil's Georgics, where it appears as fugit inreparabile tempus: "it escapes, irretrievable time". I think that is September's experience.  Warm days, cool days, cold nights, then warm days again. So much happens in September that we are 'overrun' with the experience.  And it is an enjoyable one.  Here, in Niagara and Ontario where the leaves turn colour.  Perhaps less so other places, as it ranks only mid-way in the much quoted 2005 American poll.  Is it true that Albert Einstein said "Time flies when you are having fun"?  Here's what one article gives as the entire quote from Einstein:  "When You’re Having Fun Time is an interesting beast, because it is relative. Put your hand on a stove and time moves slowly. Boredom draws our attention to the passage of time which gives us the feeling that it's slowing down. Watch an excellent movie with someone you love and time flies by. Ultimately it may come down to how much you believe that time flies when you're having fun. Always choose your actions wisely!!!" I can't imagine Einstein using three exclamation marks.  But there is a low chance that I can prove this as I've just gone to the wikiquote.org website to look for the quote, and there are hundreds or perhaps thousands of quotes in the article on Einstein.  They list them by year, by event, by person, by disputed, by post-humous, and so on.  There are many quotes because he said many interesting things. So right now Summer and Fall sit side by side in the trees. Here is the green and red of a Sumac yesterday.  And then there will be none.  And we'll say:  "How time flies". Enjoy this wonderful weekend!

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What if...

Wake Up on the Bright Side    What If questions are considered the questions that reimagine the future.  Forbes tells me so. The forbes.com article tells me that a 'what if' question is one where the brain usually holds no previous precedent, paradigm or example to rely upon for an acceptable answer, so the answer heads to a different area of the brain. The Forbes article goes on to present these questions for our consideration: • Health: "What if I felt energetic, focused and ready to go every morning?" • Adventure: "What if I took the most outrageous adventure of my life this year?" • Wealth/Investments: "What if I had $5 million in liquid assets invested by 2025?" • Learning: "What if I finally learned to paint with watercolors?" • Team: "What if we doubled our sales this year?" Here's a question that seems very familiar.  It is the premise for a series of novels/movies (by Robert Ludlum).    What if you woke up one morning with only the clothes you sleep in all alone in another country unable to speak the country’s language? And here is Einstein's famous 'what if' question: "What if I could ride a beam of light across the universe?"

A Truth Table Day

I find out that Einstein created a series of riddles.  What is interesting is that in Einstein's time he considered only 2% would solve the riddle below.  In our time the creation of a logic grid (like a truth table) to manage boolean logic is common. Basic boolean logic dominated computer and information management disciplines by the 1970's.  Computer spreadsheets in the 1980's made possible the analysis and display of row and column data. It made complicated oral descriptions simple.  In fact, it seems to me that we completed the move from the oral tradition to the visual tradition with computer spreadsheets.   The Einstein riddle comes from brainden.com.  "It is said that this quiz was made up by the famous physicist and according to him 98% will not solve it. There is a row of five different color houses. Each house is occupied by a man of different nationality. Each man has a different pet, prefers a different drink, and smokes different brand of cigarettes. The Brit lives in the Red house. The Swede keeps dogs as pets. The Dane drinks tea. The Green house is next to the White house, on the left. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill. The man living in the centre house drinks milk. The Norwegian lives in the first house. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer. The German smokes Prince. The Norwegian lives next to the Blue house. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water. Who has fish at home? Are you one of the 2%? Further Discussion" Let's complete our 'truth table' with its metadata row along the top:  Occupant nationality, House colour, Cigarette brand, Drink type, Pet type. Our garden pictures today come from the Denver Botanical Garden, so I guess our first picture would be titled Botanical Bunny.