Oct 4 2021 - Deciding on your profile picture

 

We all have profile pictures now on social media, websites, and other places.  Particularly important is a profile picture on a dating site.  What got me considering this is that there are enough women who post a social media profile picture  and think that their kids, their dog, their husband and not themselves are ok content.  Men do similar things - typically pictures of celebrities or dogs. Quora has considered these sorts of approaches to women's profile pictures with many questions - these are all pointed at women.  There are none of these sex-oriented questions for men.   It is: How come guys don't put themselves as a profile picture? And the related questions are things like what is the psychology behind...Do you know why some people don't upload a picture...and so on.   But the questions about women are more compelling and reveal more about the person posing the question.  Here they are: -Is it right to assume that women who don't post pictures of themselves as their profile picture on social media platforms are not good-looking? I understand some women prefer a fabricated online social identity. But why the insecurity about looks? -What would you think of a girl who is considered hot but doesn't have pictures on Facebook or any other social media? -What do you think about girls who don't post selfies? -What does it mean when women constantly upload photos of themselves to social media? Is this a sign of insecurity? -Why do so many young girls post pictures of themselves on social media, with hopes that their pretty picture will somehow fix their lives? -What do you think about women who post a lot of selfies on Facebook? -What do guys think of a girl who has no Instagram? -What does it mean when an attractive girl doesn't have any social media? -For a girl that everyone tells her she's super beautiful and attractive, yet receives zero attention in social media, does that mean she's not attractive? Don't all beautiful girls get attention on social media no matter what? -Will you date a girl who doesn't have good pictures or isn't active on Instagram but looks good in person? -I am attractive but I don't like taking selfies. What is right with me? This last question illustrates last week's topic on the decline of spoken English.  It would be a great title for a posting on the lack of command of language to express oneself today. Here's the pretty gazebo at Charles Daley Park - this is a few years ago when the tree limbs were perfect at framing the gazebo.  I have made the leaves yellow as the wind comes whipping off the lake and the locust trees lose all their leaves in the wind as soon as they turn colour.   To make an attractive picture, one has to erase the parking lot in front of the gazebo. The end result is a perfect profile picture of Charles Daley Park's gazebo.

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June 1 2020 - Name that Joke

Here we are in June - the wedding month.  As I look out, there are three shrubs blooming white - the largest is the Bridalwreath Spirea, named appropriately. But I was actually thinking about how we turn names intojokes and how amusing they can be, so I went and found a few.  What do you call a man with no shins? Neil. What do you call a woman with a frog on her head? Lilly. What do you call a man with no arms and no legs on your front door step? Matt What do you call someone hanging on a wall? Art. What do you call someone under a pile of leaves? Russell. What do you call a girl with one leg short than the other? Eileen What do you call a guy who falls overboard and can't swim? Bob. What do you call a man on the barbershop floor? Harry. What do you call a man with a car on his head? Jack. What do you call a scientist that makes up everything? Adam (atom). What do you call an American drawing? Yankee Doodle. What do you call a lady in a Roman dress? Sara-toga. Rosewood Winery is the location of our pictures today. This is the comparison between yesterday's view and the winter storm view on December 1st.  I got to stopping because there is a wisteria in full bloom at the water's edge.  The Lake view was extensive and the Toronto skyline easily seen.

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Who is that Mansard of the Roof?

How is it that the Mansard roof is named after Francois Mansard.  The word mansard has the French origin of mansard  and the English origin of "Mansard, Francois".  The earliest known example is credited to Pierre Lescot on part of the Louvre, built around 1550.  It was named after the person who popularized it in the early 17th century. A search on roof shapes will retrieve dozens of different ones.  And then there are ones that have no name to describe their unusual shape.  Here's the Lighter Side of Real Estate's 12 most unique roofs.  In comparison, the BBC article is about the world's most unusual rooftops - typically with gardens.  It is HERE.   I thought that perhaps the Guinness Book of Records might give us insight into roofs.  Here are a few records involving roofs: Longest cantilever roof Largest reinforced concrete cement flat roof span Longest roof span covered by a single metal corrugated sheet ... and then it moves on to other roof-related items: Most consecutive donut spins while standing on the roof of a car Fastest time to flip 10 cars on the roof Fastest time to break 1,000 roof tiles (male) (female) And then an array of records involving centipedes, slime, the loudest drummer... these might really be advertisements/news items. I refrained from reading the centipede one. Here's our pretty roof from the Niagara-on-the-Lake garden tour over the weekend. The house is located on the most prestigious place on the street facing the Lake with the view of the American historic fort.  However this gazebo seems like an unlikely lover's rendezvous:  it sits under a chestnut tree and it faces away from the lake.  Perhaps there is a story in this.

Retail Space Per Capita

I notice a contrast of space when I go to the U.S.  The footprint of malls seems to be much larger than in Canada.  There's more parking lot, loading docks, grass around the boulevards, etc.   Robin Lewis of Forbes/Retail wrote in 2014 that America was on the edge of the Great Retail Demassification.   There is 46 square feet of retail space per capita in the U.S. In the UK there is 9 square feet of retail space per capita. A Financial Post article says that there are 2,370 square feet for every 100 people in the U.S. compared to 1,453 square feet per person in Canada. This leads into the largest malls in the world:  the largest is in China - the New South China Mall is 6.46 million sq. ft. In comparison the West Edmonton Mall is 3.77 million sq. ft It makes me wonder what is the garden space per person in countries around the world.