13: Landing
1. Is the word negligible related to “not legible? Is a negligee a negligible piece of clothing? Is negligence the opposite of vigilance?
2. I discovered years ago that I can only roller skate or ice skate going counter clockwise around the rink. If I try to skate clockwise, I become clumsy and fall.
3. I think an ice rink should be called an ice ring. It is round, after all.
4. What’s wrong with the new Facebook Timeline design: It focuses more on user’s demographics and consumer interests than their status sharing and posted photos. The new design also takes longer to scroll down through and is artistically boring, compared to the last one. Here’s what one user in a community forum had to say about the new design: How do you spell the sound of a Raspberry?
6. I recently heard someone refer to April as “bipolar April,” because we went from a snow storm to summer temps all in a week’s time. April is also a month with too much senseless violence. In the last week there has been a shooting at the mall nearest to us (two seriously injured), the anniversary of the mass shooting at Virginia Tech (also near us), and the deadly bombings in Boston that killed three and maimed many, all on heels of the horrific shooting of children and teachers in Connecticut. April is also the anniversary month of the Columbine school shootings, the Oklahoma City bombings and the Waco Texas Siege, which feeds into the psychotic break theory.
7. So I was happy to see my first swallowtail butterfly yesterday.
8. I watch THIS video as an antidote to feeling down or overwhelmed.
9. Why do all the blondes on reality TV shows look alike?
10. THIS video will change the way you think about beauty and possibly yourself.
11. Joe and I have been into House reruns. In case you don’t already know, House is the Sherlock Holmes of medicine.
12. I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. ~Chuang Tzu
13. When you think no one is watching, see HERE.
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April 17th, 2013 3:55 pm
Love that Dancing Queen. Wish I knew her because she has a good attitude about life and is much braver than I! All those blondes look alike because they used the same hairdressers and plastic surgeons.
April 17th, 2013 5:07 pm
It’s especially fun to watch that video all the way through because she gets braver as it goes along. I was sad when we couldn’t see her anymore, after she got on the bus. I wonder if she has seen the video?
It’s so boring to me that all those blondes want to look alike and that their look has become a standard of beauty for some.
April 17th, 2013 8:45 pm
I LOVE the Video of your Grandson and that adorable…what….creature…LOL!
April is really quite a Hideous month! And add to all that, my mother died in April—the 2nd, to be exact—-many years ago now….
And the Dancing Queen is great! Isn’t she having a wonderful time…!
I terrific T13 Colleen, as always,,,,!
April 17th, 2013 9:13 pm
Facebook is much more interested in demographics and consumer interests than in sharing or community. Sharing and community don’t generate profits; demographics and consumer interests do.
April 17th, 2013 11:05 pm
It’s interesting that you can only skate clockwise; all the rinks at which I have skated (ice or roller, indoors or out) have all gone counter-clockwise. Likewise, traffic at events on the Capitol Square move counter-clockwise. Love your swallowtail! Still too cold here for butterflies.
April 18th, 2013 4:11 am
I love that photo of the butterfly. We don’t have many butterflies in NZ, just the odd Monarch.
April 18th, 2013 5:04 am
The picture is fantastic and uplifting after this saddness this week I agree on ring. those 2 boys really growing and wonderful !!sk
April 18th, 2013 5:26 am
ahhh…. swallowtails, nana Boo Boo, Dancing Queen.
Must be Spring. I’m only just beginning to feel it.
April 18th, 2013 7:16 am
Here in Southern California, April is still suffering from her disorder. The weather can’t seem to make up its mind about anything recently: rain, daytime sunshine, nighttime temps cold enough to require the heater, and now howling winds at 4 am. And sadly, the psycho behavior extends far beyond the weather. . .
April 18th, 2013 7:40 am
negligee and negligible also seem related to me.
Love the video of your grandson. 🙂 April is the cruelest month.
April 18th, 2013 9:34 am
WOW! Another great TT! I feel April is a manic month also……it is usually Easter time too!
I, really liked #10 and it made me think, we all criticize ourselves more.
April 18th, 2013 9:34 am
re: #10 – I liked this one better http://www.mamapop.com/2013/04/dove-real-beauty-sketches-vide.html
April 18th, 2013 9:41 am
Ahhhh… House. I *do* enjoy that program. Well, Hugh Laurie, anyway. 😉
April 18th, 2013 10:16 am
You’re right Heather. Rinks go counterclockwise, which is what I meant to say but being dyscalculic I am easily turned around. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1001/why-are-races-always-run-in-a-counterclockwise-direction
Janet, I liked your link better too.
April 18th, 2013 2:06 pm
Thank you. You’ve really helped uplift me this week. Happy T13!