So sweet Sunday, at a dinner party, meeting the boyfriend hitherto known to me only in the wistful memories of a recently-made friend.
This illustration, which also features the constellations Lepus, Columba Noachi (now Columba) and Cela Sculptoris (now Caelum), was produced around 1823 and comes from Urania's Mirror, a set of 32 astronomical star chart cards.
Lithograph credit: Sidney Hall; restored by Adam Cuerden
COMMENTARY
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
So sweet Sunday, at a dinner party, meeting the boyfriend hitherto known to me only in the wistful memories of a recently-made friend.
To offhandedly mention my blog.
And when interest shown, to lay down a business card, mentioning the contributions of readers, mentioning specifically the poetry of a newer contributor, mentioning her name, watching the impact.
Wow!
A physical impact.
Stuttered words of pleasure to hear of her in print.
Promises and determination to investigate.
existentialautotrip
Such a profound change in my life.
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News re: existentialautotrip
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Overcoming unforeseen roadblocks, successfully installed the mic and the light to help with the promo video which I’m hoping to share with you and then to post on social media as an intro to the website.
Meanwhile, I’ll be working on changing the look of the website when bloggers log on. So untended till now.
A lot to do.
A long way to go.
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Tracking Postings – Tracking Time
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Our 474th consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 474 posts we’re at the 9.48 percentile of our commitment, that commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
Posting always done by 6.00am the day of, but usually by 6pm of the night before.
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Weather
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
On this day Boston will present residents with a seasonably warm day of 77* with a feels-like of 77* with some clouds.
Nice summer days to follow.
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Dinner
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Monday’s dinner was leftover goose.
Not terribly exciting but delicious.
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Chuckle of the Day:
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
A professor travels to Africa to live with a primitive tribe and spends years with them, teaching them all about the wonders of science and mathematics.
He makes friends with the tribe's chief and his wife and they all live happily for some time.
One day the chief's wife gives birth to a white child.
The word spreads and the entire tribe is in shock.
The chief pulls the professor aside and says, "Look, you are the only white man we've ever seen around here, and my wife gave birth to a white child. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what happened!"
A black sheep stands out from the flock.
Jesus Solana from Madrid, Spain -
Black sheep . Do u also feel different? // la Oveja negra. Tambien te sientes diferente?
The professor replied, "No, chief, you're mistaken. What we have here is a natural occurrence what we in the civilized world call an albino! Look at that field over there. All the sheep are white except for one black one. Nature does this on occasion."
The chief was silent for a moment, then said, "Tell you what.
You don't say anything more about that sheep and I won't say anything more about the white kid."
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019
This from dear friend, Howard D:
Subject: you say frutta, I say frutti...
On no other authority than my experiences in Italy and France, and my fondness for the dish, buttressed by my checking on a myriad of recipes, mainly in cookery books in English, I’d say the dish as it’s usually prepared and served is “frutti di mare”
I’ve always understood the name of the dish to be, almost obviously, metaphorical. Given that there are usually no fruit, not in the literal botanical sense.
It’s “fruits” of the sea, as in the fruit of one’s labor, or “treasures of the sea.”
And because the dish is usually an assortment, according to the chef’s preferences, of different seafood, both of the finny and the shelled and mollusk variety, with an emphasis, I think, also usually, on the latter.
Now, as I understand it, the form “frutta” (and alternatively, with a variant based on gender of the noun) or “frutto” means, according to the context, either a single fruit (the botanical fruit, like an apple or a banana) or it may mean the mass noun “fruit.” As in, “I love all fruit.”
Now I know there is a convention, at least among English speaking cooks, to call the dish (with its toppings on pasta of shrimp and squid and clams and mussels, etc.) “frutta di mare,” but I submit to you, from a linguistic point of view, and from more prevalent usage, especially in Italy (and France, for that matter, at least on the Côte d’Azur, right next to the Italian frontier) it should be “frutti di mare.”
I’m sure you’ll teach your nephews or cousins, or whoever they are, how to make an excellent, tasty, and toothsome repast. But I hope what you teach them is that it’s “frutti di mare” and that you will also change the name on your blog.
I’m sorry this is so short, but I’m in a very busy waiting room while other things get attended to so I got other things to do.
The other problem now is, you’ve put the idea of frutti di mare in my head, and all I’ve got is a nice piece of halibut filet back home, waiting, and that ain’t gonna’ make it on its own.
Glad you made your trip to NYC so successfully and safely.
I still don’t understand your hurry.
Web Meister Responds: Love reading everything Howard writes.
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Today’s Thumbnail
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Canis Major (Latin for 'greater dog') is a constellation in the southern hemisphere's summer sky and the northern hemisphere's winter sky.
In the second century, it was included in Ptolemy's 48 constellations and is counted among the 88 modern constellations.
Along with Canis Minor, it is commonly represented as following the constellation of Orion, the hunter, through the skies.
The stars of Canis Major as they can be seen by the naked eye; lines have been added for clarity.
Till Credner - Own work: AlltheSky.com
Photography of the constellation Canis Major, the big dog
The Milky Way passes through Canis Major.
Several open clusters lie within its borders, including M41, which covers an area around the same size as the full moon.
Canis Major contains Sirius, also known as the "dog star", the brightest star in the night sky and one of the closest stars to Earth.
The other bright stars in the constellation are much farther away but very luminous.
At magnitude 1.5, Epsilon Canis Majoris (Adhara) appears as the second brightest star of the constellation and is the brightest source of extreme ultraviolet radiation in the night sky.
Next in brightness are the yellow-white supergiant Delta (Wezen), at magnitude 1.8, the blue-white giant Beta (Mirzam), at magnitude 2.0 and the blue-white supergiant Eta (Aludra), at magnitude 2.4.
The red hypergiant VY Canis Majoris is one of the largest known stars, while the neutron star RX J0720.4−3125 has a radius of a mere 3 mi.
A carry a hard copy of our universe.
No to scale, but it’s good enough.
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Good Morning on this Wednesday, the twenty-fourth day of July, 2019
Our lead picture: astronomy: canus major.
And our Thumbnail adds a bit more info on the subject.
Our commentary talks of the personal impact of the blog.
We posted a Boston weather report and the ticking calendar as illustrated by the growing number of posts as calendar markers.
We posted a chuckle not fit to mention away from its page.
And a cute letter from Howard D, who refuses to recognize the English use of the word Frutta, as in ‘all the fruit,’ preferring to see purity of language in the most unlikely places.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.