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Poor cowboy bear! He is being attacked by salmonella!
good ideas
Tara Smith at Aetiology wrote about some fantastic inventions that can really improve the lives of millions (billions?) of poor people around the world. As she puts it, this is “intelligent design the world really needs.”
Cheap irrigation devices, water filters, and energy solutions are detailed at Design for the Other 90%. These devices are typically quite simple, but ingenious and cheap.
The Pot-in-Pot system consists of two pots, a smaller earthenware pot nestled within another pot, with the space in between filled with sand and water. When that water evaporates, it pulls heat from the interior of the smaller pot, in which vegetables and fruits can be kept. In rural Nigeria, many farmers lack transportation, water, and electricity, but one of their biggest problems is the inability to preserve their crops. With the Pot-in-Pot, tomatoes last for twenty-one days, rather than two or three days without this technology. Fresher produce can be sold at the market, generating more income for the farmers.
this is the consequence
of social awkwardness combined with too many hours of work and class.
on lesbians
So it seems that Henry’s sister has never been the same since the war, because she never had on a man’s collar and a necktie until she drove an ambulants in the war and now they cannot get her to take them off. Because ever since the armistice Henry’s sister seems to have the idea that regular womens clothes are effeminate. So Henry’s sister seems to think of nothing but either horses or automobiles and when she is not in a garage the only other place she is happy is in a stable.
And Muriel would make an ideal wife, because she did not care for the boys, and spent all of her time with girl friends. But I always think that Muriel really did have a small feeling for the boys, after all, because the girl friends she chose always seemed to resemble boys as closely as possible.
on smart people
And meeting all of those famous people that New York is practically full of, gave Henry new thoughts, and opened up things. Because after Henry held a conversation with them, he was quite surprised to find out that he was just as full of brains as they were. But that is what always happens to people who have an inferior complex about coming to New York. Because no matter how inferior your complex is, you can always meet very promanent people in New York, who have not got any more brains than you have.
More powerful than God or religion
I think stories are incredibly important, especially the ones we tell about our lives and our collective past. They make absolutely horrible experiences bearable and often meaningful. Pain without a purpose is terrifying. The Royal de Luxe tells stories to cities with giants. It is storytelling on a very grand scale.
Each time Royal de Luxe plays a new location – and this was their Scandinavian debut – Jean-Luc Courcoult, the company director, writes a story especially for the people of that place, a simple story that will reach deeply into their trove of archetypes yet be understood by children under 10. It must be performable by the Giants, too, who are between 20 and 40 feet high, made of carved wood and operated not only by cranes but by numerous actor-technicians manning pulleys and ropes, swarming all over the marionettes. Learning this, one might assume there was a lid on the expressive potential of the Giants. There is, but not in the way that springs to mind. And which is more important? What a giant marionette does, or how it makes you feel watching it? “For years, I wondered how one could tell a story to an entire town,” Courcoult has said. “On a plane to Rio, the idea of using out-size marionettes came to me… People have believed in giants since the year dot. Every culture on earth has stories about them. I find the giant more powerful than God or religion – because it is more make-believe yet more human.” [link]
How to get a diamond tiara
I mean I think a diamond tiara is delightful because it is a place where I really never thought of wearing diamonds before, and I thought i had almost one of everything until I saw a diamond tiara. The English lady who is called Mrs. Weeks said it was in her family for years but the good thing about diamonds is they always look new. So I was really very intreeged and I asked her how much it cost in money and it seems it was $7500.
So then I looked around the room and I noticed a gentlement who seemed to be quite well groomed. So I asked Major Falcon who he was and he said he was called Sir Francis Beekman and it seems he is very, very wealthy. So then I asked Major Falcon to give us an introduction to one another and we met one another and i asked Sir Francis Beekman if he would hold my hat while I could try on the diamond tiara …