Jan 7 2023 - One Week In

 

I didn't realize that antimatter is the most expensive material on Earth.  Only small amounts have been produced, and there is currently no way of storing it.  It would be $62.5 trillion per gram.   Then what? If you can't store it?  That turns out to be the NSAS estimate of what it cost to make rather than buy it.  What makes it so important? "Using a tiny amount of antimatter to set off a nuclear reaction—a.k.a., Antimatter Initiation Microfusion (AIM)—can be a great catalyst for bombs, but it can also be used theoretically to fuel spacecraft. Matter-antimatter annihilation releases the most energy per unit mass of any known reaction in physics. A spacecraft powered by this method would require as little as one microgram of antimatter, depending on the length of the mission."  That comes from Futurism.com. But if you paid $62.5 trillion how would get access to owning it? That is a little different than the question often asked - what would happen if you touched antimatter?  I think the answer is K-Boom! Here's a website that wants us to sign up on coinable.com to get your AntiMatter Governance Token.  It is on the rise this week!  Here's the website HERE. this is weird stuff to me.   Antimatter is an Ethereum-based application designed to be the gateway of DeFi derivatives and financial NFTs. Antimatter aims to be a permission-less protocol where users can design and deploy various perpetual options. Options derivatives are complex financial products that are difficult to use and have high barriers to entry that often deter many users. Therefore, Antimatter introduced more accessible products based on the original derivatives ecosystem to serve users conveniently. Very pretty display at the Niagara Falls Greenhouse. Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblog.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

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Aug 13 2022 - The Burger

 

How many variations of the burger are there?  Isn't it like pizza?  It is endless how many variations there are.  But most readers are interested in the weird and crazy and not the creative and innovative.  In a way we are.  There are lots of headlines on the best 22, 24, 35, and 60 burger recipes that "can't be beat".  The screaming headlines, though, are about weird and wacky about burgers.    "Le Burger Extravagant" was named the world's most expensive hamburger in 2012.  Guinness World Records has it on the books:  New York City restaurant Seredipity 3 unveiled the world's most expensive hamburger, Le Burger Extravagant, this week.  Le Burger Extravagant sells for $295.00 (£186.52). Made from white truffle butter-infused Japanese Wagyu beef, the burger is topped with James Montgomery cheddar cheese, black truffles and a fried quail egg. It is served on a gold-dusted campagna roll spread with white truffle butter, and the roll is topped with a blini, creme fraiche and caviar. Serendipity 3 is a popular Manhattan restaurant, and has been featured in several films, including 2001's romantic comedy Serendipity. But wait!  That's not nearly expensive enough.  The most expensive hamburger sells for $5,000 (£3,115.87) and is prepared by Juicys Foods and Ovations Foodservices for Juicys Outlaw Grill, based in Corvallis, Oregon, USA, as of 2 July 2011. The hamburger weighs 352.44 kg (777 lb) and is available for ordering with 48 hours notice for preparation time.   But then it is the size of my dining room, so what to make of that record, who knows. Next in line, time-wise is Chef Diego Buik " from the Netherlands he developed a passion for hamburgers during his two-year stint at the SoHo House in London. After which he returned to Rotterdam and decided to design his own burgers. His passion paid off and in 2015 his creation won the best burger in Rotterdam. But this was not enough for him, for the “International Burger day’ he wanted to create some international headlines so he decided to create the world’s most expensive hamburger. With a $2300 price tag, the ingredients include Japanese dry-aged Wagyu beef, Oosterschelde lobster (infused with Dutch Hermit gin), Foie gras, white truffle, Remeker cheese, Japanese fruit tomatoes and caviar on a brioche bun made with saffron and covered in gold leaf." Taking us into 2021, Dutch diner De Dalton has the title with a a $5,964 burger.  It is named "The Golden Boy" and takes nine hours to prepare.  It too is coated with gold leaf. This is a charity fundraiser.  The Golden Boy burger is presented on a platter of whiskey-infused smoke and loaded with premium ingredients including A5 Wagyu beef, king crab, beluga caviar, vintage Iberico Jamon, smoked duck egg mayo, white truffle, Kopi Luwak coffee BBQ sauce, pickled tiger tomato in Japanese matcha tea, and Dom Perignon infused gold-coated buns. “The ingredients complement each other very well and the flavors are intense. Even though this burger is extremely costly, you should still use your hands because that’s the only way to eat a burger. Since the bun is covered in gold leaf, your fingers will be golden by the time you finish,” said Robert.  Diners must order two weeks in advance and pay a deposit of $855 US.  Here is its portrait.

And in comparison, the simple petunia.   Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblog.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

Dec 5 2020 - Christmas Lists

 

The Christmas List - something of wonder in our current times. It began in ancient times as a tradition symbolic of the Three Wise Men and their gifts. It has moved on to include the year's "Best of {fill in anything}".  The lists have started in the Globe and Mail.   The gift-giving of Christmas is historically tied to the 12 days of Christmas tradition, with a gift given on each day. Christmas is the Twelfth Night.  That's the gift that Shakespeare gave in writing his play Twelfth Night - it closed the Christmas season with an entertaining comedy.  Scholars think that it was written specifically to ge performed for Queen Elizabeth 1. There is other speculation that the play was written for a group of lawyers of the Inns of Court. It is thought that it was performed on January 6, 1602. That seems an amazing Christmas gift, so I wondered about gifts throughout history - given we've got since 336 for such wonders to be given. I found an article on Christmas gifts through history HERE.  They include the Statue of Liberty, the City of Savannah, a White Elephant (to Pope Leo X in 1514), a bowling alley in the White House, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, The Trojan Horse, Faberge Eggs.  Some gifts don't seem to be related to Christmas (and two are gruesome).  But that's what you get with metalfloss.com.  Christmas presents along the lines of what we expect today all relate to what's most expensive  Here's the descriptions for this list HERE. The Orlov Diamond – Priceless Evalyn’s Jewels, Star of the East and Hope Diamond – Upwards of USD 250 Million Twenty-Two-Year-Old’s USD 88 Million Christmas Present - real estate  Diamond and Ruby for Liz – USD 4.2 Million - Liz Taylor Spend It Like Beckham – USD 3 Million - a necklace HK Superstar Aaron Kwok’s USD 2.6 Million Christmas Present -  Tyson’s Moment – USD 2.3 Million a gold bathtub Aaron Spelling’s White Christmas Gift – USD 2 Million -  snow machine making snow in his Beverly Hills backyard The Waterfall Gift – USD 1.6 Million - to build a Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater house Mastiff Gem – USD 1.5 Million - a rare dog A snow orchard image today. The snow has almost melted.  That means I can finish raking the leaves that are still coming down from the trees.

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