13: The One That Got Away
1. So, Super Bowl is for football and not bowling?
2. On Super Bowl Sunday, my friend Mara posted pictures of her holding all the best-looking bowls in her house.
3. The pre-game Super Bowl spectacle was a little too North Korea looking for me.
4. The Kansas City Chiefs looked like red tootsie pops.
5. I’ve been bowled over before, but I’ve also been floored, like the time I saw whales on whale watch boat and hit the deck in awe.
6. Noam Chomsky on ChatGPT: It’s “Basically High-Tech Plagiarism” and “a Way of Avoiding Learning.”
7. Hit me with music HERE.
8. All the Better to See You with, My Dear. Part I is HERE.
9. “Introverts think more. One Harvard study found that introverts’ brains work differently, and have thicker gray matter compared to extroverts. In people who are strongly extroverted, gray matter was consistently thinner. Introverts also showed more activity in the frontal lobes, where analysis and rational thought take place.”
10. 2022 Science article titled THE CALORIE COUNTER: Evolutionary anthropologist Herman Pontzer busts myths about how humans burn calories—and why “…As the athletes’ ran more and more over weeks or months, their metabolic engines cut back elsewhere to make room for the extra exercise costs. Conversely, if you’re a couch potato, you might still spend almost as many calories daily, leaving more energy for your body to spend on internal processes such as a stress response…” More HERE.
11. While playing Scrabble this week, a friend joked that my game board might be jinxed and cause us to draw bad letters, I innocently said, “don’t be so stuperstitious,” before I realized what cool new take on superstitious the word was.
12. I’m more of a ‘wake up and read the tea leaves’ that a ‘wake up and smell the coffee’ one.
13. I don’t get a kick out of football and basketball is over my head. (I’m 5 foot 1 inch).
___________Thirteen Thursday
February 16th, 2023 1:55 pm
For some reason I thought you were taller than I. I like your new word “stuperstitious.” I can think of loads of uses for that!
February 16th, 2023 3:29 pm
“At five foot and one inch, I’ve hemmed many pants and skirts. Maybe if I was taller, I would have read more of the classics!”
February 16th, 2023 8:34 pm
Oh, you(and your friend Mara) now have me looking for the best bowls in my home … 🙂
Love stupertitious and loved #5… Plus, hopefully #6 doesn’t become the truth..
February 17th, 2023 10:02 pm
Now I’m paining my brains where that large bowl from France is I didn’t like when I got it as a present. I forgot what was written on it. Somethng nice and…France.
I’m a wake up and hear the music… one.
Enjoy your weekend!