You said the place looked like a struggle. Maybe it's too many mysteries lately. But a struggle usually has the out line of a body.
A struggle doesn’t necessarily mean anyone died. It just suggests two or more people fought. Although I did just book an axe throwing place for my wife’s birthday. You may have a body yet.
A labor inspector goes to the owner of a food truck. “I need to interview your employees, make sure you are following labor laws.” The owner replies “I got two guys, one who has full benefits, gets a living wage weekly, and works no more than 10% overtime. The other works 120 hours, only gets paid if we turn a profit, and on very good months gets to sleep with my wife. Who do you want to speak to?” “The second guy.” “That’s me, what do you want to know?”
Headline of the Day from The Babylon Bee: Congress Raises Debt Ceiling To Infinity Million Billion +1 No Takebacks
That's hilarious. I'm totally using that. And I'd never be an owner ot take a piece of my company as compensation. You can't divide by zero. Or divide into zero? Yeah, the second part.
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We had a major local kerfuffle with a major highway being shut down for two months when sinkholes were discovered. Now during my long daily walks I am noticing smaller sinkholes all over the place. I'm an old retired fart turning to a new hobby of cell phone videography and sinkholes are becoming a favorite topic.
[New York C]ity’s structures, which include the famous Empire State Building and Chrysler Building, weigh a total of 1.68tn lbs, which is roughly equivalent to the weight of 140 million elephants. Emphasis added Source
Multiply that by several hundred buildings, let alone the thousands of smaller ones. Probably why they're sinking.
Yeah, not clear from the limited context but it wasn't referring to only those two. That's an estimated sum total.
Our one cat died at only eight years old from an illness that had the vet stumped. We now suspect one or more of the gophers she gifted us with had been poisoned by a neighbor.
The first time bagpipes were played at a law enforcement funeral in the U.S. the song was not Amazing Grace. It was in 1963 at the funeral of an Los Angeles police officer named Ian Campbell whose hobby was playing the pipes. The piper was hired by his friends without the knowledge of the brass. The brass, not knowing where it came from decided to make it a tradition and picked Amazing Grace. Source. The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh. Further trivia. The father of the man who killed Campbell was my Jr. High music teacher. I don't have a copy of Onion Field otherwise could name the actual tune.
The reason so many German officers had facial scars in the 18th and early 19th centuries (like you see in WWII movies) was a sport called Mensur, a specialized form of fencing using edge-sharpened short swords and standing unmoving while clashing the swords overhead until one managed to cut the face of the other. It was a mark of distinction and honor among the old-world nobility class, which apparently is where officers were recruited from. From what I gather the whole point of the sport was to show courage and give and recieve scars to demonstrate it. Hitler abolished the sport, because he despised the nobility class and wanted to destroy them.
Today is Victoria Day in Canada - a nationwide holiday celebrated since 1845. Canada is currently the only country in the world that still celebrates Queen Victoria with an official holiday.
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I learned something about the Chinese lore known as Fengshui. It translates to Wind-Water. It got me to wondering if it were the pseudoscience it is portrayed as in some western literature or is there some environmental basis for it. One thing I have heard from more than one source it that placement and orientation of doors is a big deal. I can imagine a "fengshui master" taking environmental considerations into account. This can include consideration of prevailing winds, facing morning or afternoon sun, the personal dynamics of having a door that when open faces directly into the house across the street, etc. Western architectural textbooks talk about ergonomic factors. Could this be just a variation on ancient Chinese tradition?
Fung shut, from what I know is a very cultural thing. It is a way of promoting spiritual harmony with the environment, through a cultural lens. How valid it is, seems to be a very subjective thing.
Sons of Anarchy, while a good story in itself, was a modernized retelling of Hamlet. The fathers diary, was the ghost speaking to hamlet. The uncle taking the throne by marrying the mother, was mirrored in the club presidency.
Maybe. There's a guy on YouTube who posts shorts where he uses feng shui principles to get the best, most harmonious use out of various spaces. As a lapsed architect, it strikes me as a lot like what we were trained to do in Architecture school. And what I reflexively do to badly-arranged college dorm rooms I sometimes get stuck in on conferences and retreats.
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Very cultural to be sure. In one case in a western architecture textbook there was considerable thought given to kitchen layout. Several design approaches to design in residential. Commercial kitchens with different types of menu considered. I've been doing fengshui and didn't even know it. (Sandwich shops are a consideration if you want to open a restaurant on a limited budget. Cooking drives up the cost to start and operate. Deep fryer? Fuggedaboutit.) The Chinese concept sounds like it emerged more holistically.
