Marilyn's Photos - Oct 25 2026 - Best Jobs Worst Jobs

 

The best jobs of 1925 were supposely in finance, banking and corporate management.  That was followed by automobile and electrical engineering.  Medicine and Law have always been prestigious positions, and then the civil service.  At the bottom of the heap were unskilled agricultural and migrant labour, textile and factory, and coal mining.  Of course radium dial painting must be the all-time worst - they all got radium poisoning and jawbone decay.  That's just 100 years ago.  Think long ago and there were "gong farmers" who manually shovelled human excrement and waste out of cesspits, privies and sewers at night.  Too many excrement-related activities way back then.  There's one that picked up dog excrement from the streets by hand to be used in the tanning industry.  What do we think today's best and worst jobs are?  One site says that telemarketers are the worst, followed by cleaners, truckers, construction workers, soldiers, social workers, customer service advisors, slaughterhouse workers.  Some of these seem tame, don't you think?  OK here's a few:  pet food taster. crime scene cleaner, and...wait for it:  Pain dry watcher.  Checking how the colour of matt and emulsion changes over time...this one is a novelty job that is thrown in to entertain us. It seems to me these don't rate like the worst jobs of 100 years ago.  And what do they claim the best jobs are?  There's no list.  It's all about what's in demand and what's stable.  We can know that medicine is still in the top ranks, and today includes speech-language pathologists, physical therapists, occupational therapists and so on.  Of course corporate executives and lawyers are still tops. I expect information security is a great area now.  And there are lots of engineering specialties now.   So many neat and clean jobs now.  Think and be paid. Oops I missed the Hamilton Chrysanthemum Show - it closed yesterday.  Here's a picture from a previous year.  So many beautiful shapes, colours, and textures in Chrysanthemums. Read past POTD's at my Blog: http://blog.marilyncornwell.com Purchase at: FAA - marilyncornwell.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.com

Mairlyn's Photos - Oct 24 2026 - Egg Cooking Robots

Don't think that it is only the interior that can benefit from silly trompe l'oeil effects.  These are chalk drawings and there are lots of them. Make your front sidewalk a little more fun. I am back to the strange egg cooker.  Here's the picture, but the article does not include this product.  So I asked Google.  It says it is a smart kitchen gadget like the Cheffy Egor smart egg cooker.  You can see it in action HERE.  It is considered a breakfast robot, or egg cooking robot.  You can also get the synchronized toaster robot - I guess that makes it a breakfast robot.  I don't think you can buy it, you have to pre-order it as they get their funding in place.  Early-bird and VIP pre-orders start around $199 to $299 US.  Combine that with the T.O.A.S.T.R. and it is $349.   This truly is a gimmick Christmas present.  It reminds me of the pre-orders for Teslas. Look at them now.  Blasting off into space with the Roadster 'flying car' that can perform 'kick flips'. I haven't found out if that egg machine s real or just an AI idea. Maybe Cheffy Egor saw the picture and decided to make a dream come true. And what would make me think of Christmas gadgets and gimmicks anyway?  It is wreath time for the Fantasy of Trees.  It is only a month away. Read past POTD's at my Blog: http://blog.marilyncornwell.com Purchase at: FAA - marilyncornwell.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.com

MARILYN'S PHOTOS - Oct 23 2026 - Magnet Fishing

 

Here's the Santa holiday rug.  He seems to be coming out of the chimney in reverse, and to my mind that would be the sewer. All of a sudden there are videos of magnet fishing.  Is this a new endeavour?  No - it began in the early 2000s in Europe, and Wikipedia says it originated with boaters trying to retrieve dropped keys and tools from the water.  Then it got commercialized in the mid-2010s and catered to the hobbyist market.  The Pandemic caused it to boom as an outdoor pastime.  Now it is an online community, sharing stories on YouTube, and TikTok.  I think we are all fascinated with finding things that are surprises.  Strolling along the beach, looking for shells and finding coins, sounds ok.  But actively searching areas with a metal detector seems a strange pastime to me.  So metal-detecting underwater seems particularly strange and unpleasant.  All that gook.  And what gets thrown or lost in the water?  Here's a few things:   A live World War II bomb by a hobbyist in Milwaukee A safe full of cash - New York City couple totalling $100,000 An antique payphone  A medical hip replacement rasp - used by doctors during hip replacement A mysterious mask of Hillary Clinton  Firearms and handguns Industrial and auto debris And today's Acronym?  RINO - I had no idea what to make of this word in the New York Times news summary - Republican in name only.  On the other hand, who am I to think someone's hobbies are strange?  Here's a macro image I took of the side of a donation bin. Read past POTD's at my Blog: http://blog.marilyncornwell.com Purchase at: FAA - marilyncornwell.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.com

Marilyn's Photos - Oct 22 2026 - Christmas Gadgets

 

You may not even be in the Halloween mood yet, but the Christmas gadgets have already arrived.  And one of them is the Halloween Rug.  Here it is.  It is hilarious, with its beige mid-century living room, light streaming in the window.  Shouldn't it be in a kid's bedroom with a messy bed and toys everywhere?     I wanted to find the strange-looking egg cooker.  It is nowhere in sight.  But I found the egg spinner which scrambles the egg inside the shell.  Amazon has tons of them in cute shapes and colours.  But this is a most embarrassing product - it wouldn't be a fun Christmas gadget at all.  Unless you explain to the recipient the following:  You can make "golden eggs" - spin them, hard boil them and have a yellow-gold "egg-thing" you can eat. More entertaining than the gadget is the method for doing this by hand: Spin or Shake: Place a raw egg in an egg spinner (like the Golden Goose), use the DIY string-and-cap trick, or shake the egg vigorously inside a shirt sleeve or by hand for 2 to 3 minutes. Test the Shell: Shine a flashlight or phone light through the egg in a dark room; a dull, uniform orange-yellow glow means the yolk and white are blended. (Clear or distinct bright/dark centers mean you need to spin more.) Boil and Cool: Lower the eggs into gently boiling water for about 10 minutes, then plunge them immediately into an ice bath before peeling.  More gadgets are on their way - it's a long road to Christmas time. Some things happen once and they are gone.  This field is at Cherry Street and Highway 8.  It as perfect in 2012 when this photo was taken.  It seems like an Autumn Serenity image.  Read past POTD's at my Blog: http://blog.marilyncornwell.com Purchase at: FAA - marilyncornwell.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.com

Marilyn's Photos - Oct 21 2026 - The Man Crush

 

Thanks to the New York Times my vocabulary enlarges with alarming words.  "Man Crush" and Trump were together in a headline.  Let's go look! "Trump has a habit of complimenting men's appearances at his rallies, often praising the strength and looks of athletes and service members.  But he's been especially effusive about Republican candidates on his recent campaign tour." Here are some of the headlines that have jumped on the topic: "Trump has always had a 'man crush on Putin' - Yahoo.com "Donald Trump always falls for a handsome man in a suit" Salon.com "A handsome guy, a very handsome guy." The New York Times on Facebook "Trump has crush on me, says Khan as feud restarts" - BBC And the daily beast says:  "Trump, 80 Thirsts Over 'Beautiful' MAGA Men in Bonkers Rant" The quotes showcase rude and crude together:  “He was a great athlete,” Trump began. “I don’t do this with men very often: I started examining his body, because I didn’t know he was a great athlete. And I looked, and I watched up and down, and I looked at his a--… and I looked at the whole… and then I looked at his hands. Look at his hands; he’s got these, like, claws… and I got it, you are a great athlete.” It is ironic that "Man Crush" explicitly excludes any romantic inclinations, whereas "Woman Crush" includes them.  I would say an obvious sense of rigid social rules about masculinity, don't you think? I finally found a picture of the Grand Oak on Victoria Street before I did all the removals of background stuff.  These are from different angles on different years.  How interesting that the trunk looks so much thinner in the second picture.  I'll take a look at it on Saturday when I pick up eggs at Elizabeth's Farm, across the road. Read past POTD's at my Blog: http://blog.marilyncornwell.com Purchase at: FAA - marilyncornwell.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.com