REFLECTIONS

For some reason I pictured the internet as a modern wireless collection of computers somehow linked to each other in an almost spiritual way. But the internet is still partly connected by undersea cables, where telegraph cables were laid in 1854. From our homes the signals travel through wires where telephone lines were set up. "In describing the system of wires that comprises the Internet, Neal Stephenson once compared the earth to a computer motherboard .  From telephone poles suspending bundles of cable to signs posted warning of buried fiber optic lines, we are surrounded by evidence that at a basic level, the Internet is really just a spaghetti-work of really long wires . But what we see is just a small part of the physical makeup of the net. The rest of it can be found in the coldest depths of the ocean. Here are 10 things you might not know about the Internet’s system..."  Link: 10 Facts About the Internet's Undersea Cables | Mental Floss Here

It's called a Peel.  Watch the videos: I think it looks like a golf cart, even smaller. Easy to park but it has to be dangerous. Test Drive I'd rather ride a bicycle.

I believe we have limited freedom, about 30% free and the rest is not under our control. It is not our choice about: ~how wealthy our parents are so they can give us the best and ensure our future, ~how the genes we inherited affect our health and intelligence, ~catching diseases, ~getting into accidents, ~marrying the wrong person, ~the religion we were brought up with and so on. Here's what scares me.  Besides not having the power to choose how our life is set up for us, some say we can't do anything  using free will.  Even our thoughts are not free. Some neuroscientists have said any decision you make is not truly free but actually determined by neural processes outside of your conscious control. It's like really being an android, not what we think of as human . The quotes below are from the link  Neuroscience and Free Will Are Rethinking Their Divorce "Luckily, for those who find this state of affairs philosophically (or existentially) perp

My wife Lynette did a great job planning out the backyard. Here's the vegetable patch.  It's small but just for fun. The blue buckets are planted with tomatoes, Beefsteak and Better Boy.  I'm not sure what we will plant in the four pots, probably herbs and marigolds. Here's where we planted sunflowers.  Lynette helped me cut back on the pumpkin plants, which grew on their own from a Halloween pumpkin I threw in there last November. We put a wire screen over the patch to prevent birds and squirrels from eating the sunflower seeds.  These are the two pumpkin plants we kept.

A picture is worth a thousand words.  these illustrations come from a Russian site I just discovered: Here's the link:    Awesome - things worth sharing This article: 30 crushing illustration of an unhealthy dependence on the Internet. The frightening picture ... PRIVACY! BLIND TO REALITY!

Today is a quiet damp rainy day and don't feel like doing anything.  I hope you enjoy this silly post.  (Wait for videos to download. A larger screen and louder sound is sometimes better) Trampoline  A Musical Commercial The Harlem Shake This is if you really hate it.