What has eight legs, jumps, and dances?
Jumping spiders have over 6,200 described species making up 13% of all spiders. They have the best vision of all spiders having four pairs of eyes, with the anterior median pair (pertaining to or toward the head or forward end of the body) being particularly large.
Great southern cooking!
I went to the Magnolia Room Cafeteria, in Tucker Georgia, for the first time today. They chose the name because that was the name of the dining room at the old downtown Atlanta Riches store.[1]
Occam’s razor, Ockham’s razor, or Ocham’s razor also known as the principle of parsimony or the law of parsimony.
Occam’s razor, Ockham’s razor, or Ocham’s razor also known as the principle of parsimony or the law of parsimony, is the problem-solving principle that “entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity”. if you have two competing ideas to explain the same phenomenon, you should prefer the simpler one.
A way to indicate how one vowel could influence another when spoken aloud.
In linguistics, umlaut, which is from the German “sound alteration”, is a sound change in which a vowel is pronounced more like a following vowel or semivowel. Umlaut is a form of assimilation[1], the process of one speech sound becoming more similar to a nearby sound. The diaeresis, also known as the trema, and the umlaut are two different diacritical marks[2] that (in modern usage) look alike. They both consist of two dots ¨ placed over a letter, usually a vowel.
Was it a Bigfoot?
The Skookum Cast is a supposed body casting of a Bigfoot made near Mount Adams in the southern part of Washington state in the year 2000. An Australian television program for Animal Planet called “Animal X” had come to the United States to film a Bigfoot special.
Is Direct or Transfer right for you?
Direct thermal printers work by creating images directly on the printed material without using a ribbon, toner, or ink. This is accomplished by using a chemically treated, heat-sensitive media that blackens when it passes under the thermal printhead.
They’re Gr-r-reat!
Kellogg’s “Sugar Frosted Flakes” were introduced in 1952. They were a sweetened version of their “Corn Flakes” that had been around since 1894. Corn Flakes were created by Will Kellogg for patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium where he was working with his brother John. Each corn kernel makes about three flakes. In the fall it is harvested and taken to a mill. At the mill, the corn is sifted and rolled then sent to a Kellogg’s factory for the final steps: Cooking, drying, rolling, and toasting. Add the sugar frosting, and viola, Corn Flakes become Frosted Flakes.
I believe love is what makes the world go round. No matter how old or young, love is why we are here. It is the very essence of one’s being. – Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John was born September 26, 1948, in Cambridge, England. Her father was born in Wales and her mother in Germany. Newton-John’s father was an MI5 officer on the Enigma project[1] at Bletchley Park who took Rudolf Hess into custody during World War II. Olivia was the youngest of three children and when she was six years old they moved to Melbourne, Australia where her father was a professor.
Panspermia is the belief that the life on earth derives from “seeds” of extraterrestial origin
The panspermia theory argues that life is originated in space, in spatial ices, and continuously distributed to the planets by comets and meteorites. The origin could be somewhere nearby, like Mars, or light years away.
Swingin’ down the street so fancy-free
When I was young before I had cassettes, the only good way of making a playlist of songs was to stack 45s on the turntable. I would arrange for them to play my favorite songs in my favorite order. These posts are about records I had in my stacks.
