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20100514

Picture Perfect - Cuisine - Wok

Bayfield Wisconsin Art Festival, Food vendor. 
It was raining at the time so I guess you could say
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he was "Woking in the Rain".
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20100505

Mystery of the infinite bucket.


Five years ago I started to fill it. In six months it was half full.
Over the next 5 years I added to it at a constant rate and now 5 years later it’s STILL only half full.

HOW long can this go on ? ? ?
Will it ever fill up ? ? ?


Just how much does a pound of Feathers weigh ?




20100405

It’s impossible to demolish a building by implosion.

The term has been so badly MISUSED so often that some dictionaries will refer to building implosions. NO NO NO, that’s totally wrong. It’s not physically possible.

The ONLY THING that can cause ANY implosion of ANYthing is if external pressure is greater than internal pressure. The inside air pressure of buildings is exactly the same as external air pressure … therefore… NO BUILDING IMPLOSION is possible. 

Buildings simply crumble due to many precisely timed explosions which cause it to fall inward by ordinary gravity, hopefully the desired direction, (inward if done correctly). THERE IS NO IMPLOSION involved.
As you can see, these buildings simply rolled on their side, no implosion. 




THIS is a bubble imploding.  

  
Bubble in the process of imploding.



A bubble imploding then vanishes to it's natural state.

Example - If you had a freestanding brick wall and set off explosions to make one side of the foundation crumble, the wall would fall in the desired direction (No implosion). If you had FOUR brick walls (like a building) and set off explosives to cause each wall to fall toward the center (like a building being demolished), there is NO implosion of that building (4 walls ) just simple gravity… NO external pressure caused the building to fall inward. It was a simple demolition, gravity, NOT an implosion.
IF you suck all the air out of a pop can, the can will implode because the outside atmospheric pressure will be greater than the inside pressure… THAT’s an implosion.
Heat up an oil drum then seal it airtight and spray it or cool it with cold water, the oil barrel will implode with significant force (LOUD noise from the shock wave). The external air rushes toward the implosion then stops abruptly, causing the noise.
Submarines can implode because the water pressure outside is greater than air pressure inside pushing out.
Hydraulic cylinders can cause implosions in the hydraulic fluid (Can actually destroy equipment due to the "slamming" (Jet) effect when the bubbles collapse=implode)
Ultrasonic vibrations can cause implosions in liquids and the friction of the collapsing bubbles can cause enough heat to boil the water, or
cavitation due to or ultra-high speed underwater propellers, can cause temporary air bubbles which instantly implode causing an "explosive" noise that sounds like boiling water. The bubbles implode so rapidly they create destructive shock waves (noise).
FINAL NOTE: "A BUILDING WILL NEVER IMPLODE" (It’s physically impossible).
Imploding pop can
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhMPBCeQKrw
Imploding oil drum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEqjIHclzp8&feature=related http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~scidemos/ThermalPhysics/55GallonDrum/55GallonDrum.html
 An example of a misuse of the word Implosion. but...see box "A real implosion".
http://www.howstuffworks.com/building-implosion.htm
If you like to see buildings here are Many demolitions (but not a single implosion).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK50So-yYRU
Building rolls over on roof
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/03/implosion-goes-wrong-buil_n_249940.html


20100311

Fresh Chicken Chick-Nuggets


Note the warm earth tones blended skillfully with pastels in the low frequency range to give the art a feeling of warmth, comfort and satisfaction.  The content integrates with many of the human senses.
Many European art critics feel this piece has a musical affiliation and was originally titled "Third Movement".
(Hint - That is not a grill.  It's the wire floor of the Chicken coop).
(Another piece in the Chicken-Art series).


20100213

She picked out all the red Lucky-Charms hearts and handed them to me.



So I sit at my computer munching on various (dry) breakfast cereals one piece at a time from a hand full. Spot, the 100% pure white Dove always lands on my hand to see what I’m eating, if she likes it she steals some (WHOooo HOooOoo she says). 

Today, Valentines Day, I was eating "Lucky Charms" and she came and picked out ALL the little red marshmallow hearts and held them up for me to take (they were too big for her to eat)..until all the red hearts were gone. Isn’t she sweet? (Repost from 2 yrs ago)

She helps me type... and is not a very good speller.
For more about sweet gentle Doves, Click here
Spot always has to check out what I'm eating or drinking.

20100211

Ski jumping is for Chickens

Sochi Olympics spectators cheer as Bert sets a world ski jumping record.


As he leaves the jump, Bert takes advantage of his physical attributes to soar far beyond the second place jumper.
Other Olympic contestants cried fowl but Officials said they could find nothing in the rules that would keep Bert from claiming the First Place title (No artificial enhancements allowed).
Bert was quoted as saying "I could have gone much farther, but at the end of the landing area there was a KFC restaurant".

20100109

Fat cat no longer hostile toward the hand that feeds him.

Tuna has no will power... therefore.... food rationing, however, Tuna becomes very grouchy and ornery when hungry (always), and attacks our ankles until we acquiesce. 
BUT
there IS a solution. . . . a new feeder - 

NOW, Tuna get's angry at the feeder instead.... just one bit of food at a time, a very slow process. There's a hopper in the center and he has to work for his food.
If you prefer, ..... a 10 second video.