Best COVID-19 Parody Video – Ever!

An extraordinarily gifted friend of mine posted this fantastic parody video – Stay At Home / Let It Go. Enjoy!

Three Little Pigs – like you’ve not heard it before

If you need a laugh (and who doesn’t these days?) listen to John Branyan regale you with the account of the porcine trio in a manner most unaccustomed.

Sometimes you need to know who is in the other car…

My daughter’s boyfriend shared this text from his father with me, and it was too good not to pass on! Enjoy!

–

– – – – – – – – – – – –

–

First in line at the red light at Mt Hope and Elmwood, wondering what idiot is going to try and come down the right lane and cut me off before the squeeze.

.

And then it happens!

.

He jumps out of line about 5 cars back and tries to time the light and blow by me.

.

I move my coffee up one holder and stab the shifter into manual just in time for the green. The traction control can’t hold the power back as the Goodyears howl in pain. I grab 2nd at 7000 rpm and pull even with my opponent.

.

I look over at him just to let him know who he’s dealing with and that he will never get by me.

.

That’s when I saw the big Sheriff sign on his car.

.

Oops!

.

– Donald Faraone Jr.

.

Geeking out to science music videos!

Arrgghh! Enough politics!

Time to lighten up and have fun with SCIENCE (music videos)! Not boring ones, either.

You don’t even have to pretend to understand, but maybe they’ll impress your friends.

At the very least they will wobble your brain nicely.

So what is your field of battle?

But what are facts if you don’t have love?

Sigh…talk nerdy to me!

Then there’s this…this…whatever. I don’t understand all he’s talking/singing about, but he does it so beautifully! (Maybe he is ze Frenchman?)

Have I blinded you with science?

http://dai.ly/x4nfqks

(Lyrics follow for those who simply MUST know what he is saying – like me)

It’s poetry in motion, she turned her tender eyes to me,
as deep as any ocean, as sweet as any harmony.
Mm, but she blinded me with science,                   “She blinded me with science!”
and failed me in biology.

When I’m dancing close to her,                               “Blinding me with science, science!”
                                                                    “Science!”
I can smell the chemicals.                                         “Blinding me with science, science!”
                                                                    “Science!”                          “Science!”

Mm, but it’s poetry in motion, and when she turned her eyes to me,
as deep as any ocean, as sweet as any harmony.
she blinded me with science,                                   “She blinded me with science!”
and failed me in geometry.

When she’s dancing next to me,                             “Blinding me with science, science!”
                                                                    “Science!”
I can hear machinery!                                                “Blinding me with science, science!”
                                                                    “Science!”

It’s poetry in motion! And now she’s making love to me.
The spheres are in commotion; the elements in harmony.
She blinded me with science,                                   “She blinded me with science!”
and hit me with technology.                                     “Good heavens Miss Sakamoto,
.                                                                               you’re beautiful!”

I…I don’t believe it! There she goes again!
She’s tidied up, and I can’t find anything!
All my tubes and wires, and careful notes, and antiquated notions.

But! It’s poetry in motion, and when she turned her eyes to me –
as deep as any ocean, as sweet as any harmony
Uh, she blinded me with science,                             “She blinded me with, with science!”
She blinded me with…

Songwriters: THOMAS DOLBY, JONATHAN KERR

.

.

But I can’t resist one last song for all those who have ever wondered “What IS love?”

Mathematical Limerick

I found this outrageous poem and had such a chuckle (whooped and hollered, actually) that I had to share it!

I showed it to my son, for whom math has not been coming easily and has been working on polynomials and quadratic equations this summer in preparation for college. His comment? “I don’t like that. No. I don’t like that.”

Yes, I know, poetry was not meant to be used this way. 😉

Save

Save

Save

Math Jokes! (explained)

I’m an odd duck – I find math fascinating (especially weird conceptual stuff), but as for working it out, I don’t quickly “get it.” I managed to mostly get passing grades in middle school because I could figure out “work arounds” (there’s often more than one way to get an answer) but rarely by the method taught. Formula for maths failure in high school. Sigh.

Anyhow, I blame it largely on frequent moves during middle school creating substantial academic discontinuity. I’m also a quirky visual learner, so when math jargon was casually tossed around in a classroom my eyes glazed over and I didn’t try to understand it because by then the teacher had raced on down the road and I knew I wouldn’t catch up. I could have interrupted to ask for a proper explanation, but…I knew how that usually went. Because it would take me a bit longer than others you could almost hear the rolling eyes and suppressed sighs.

On to the point: I love math jokes! Often they are puns (which I adore!), but it’s also a way to learn what I never understood because people are generally more willing to explain these “fun bites.” So here’s a great video with some popular maths jokes “dissected in forensic fashion” from one of my favourite channels.

BTW, for those concerned about my regrettable maths deficit, no fear! I developed an ongoing, multi-layered solution:
1. I grew up. If you like learning, you learn better as you get older.
2. I taught myself the essentials I had missed and needed to know.
3. I bought cool books about fascinating mathematical topics and math shortcuts.
4. I watched “Numbers” obsessively and looked up what they were talking about.
5. When I became a sign language interpreter I learned the “tech signs” for math and suddenly jargon had logical meaning! Hey, it’s not everyone’s solution. If I could make a video it would make sense, but I am not of the “selfie” generation, so making videos of myself seems narcissistic.
6. Then I homeschooled my children and I am now very much better at maths.

The “Woman in the Window”

This isn’t a tale of fiction, or about the 1944 Edward G. Robinson “film noir,” but an explanation of Elizabeth, the woman who watches.

She’s familiar to neighbors, delivery people, the mailman, many who come up our driveway and (especially) the local kids, but they mostly just call her creepy. That’s fair enough because you can usually see her in the window even from across the street. It’s what she does, but not exactly why she came to be here.

We have a two-story, two-car garage, which is our only “attic” since the house has none. Built in the early 1900’s, it once stabled a few horses but was never finished up or downstairs. When we bought our house the garage windows facing the driveway looked sad and naked, so I put up curtains, added silk flowers in vases and, voilà! It looks proper enough from outside that most people think it’s functional space or even an apartment, though I tell all who ask that it’s just storage.

And so I unknowingly set the stage for the entrance of our unplanned “tenant,” the watching woman.

Time passed. One day I wanted to put away a dress form I wasn’t using, so I took it to the attic. I decided to put an old dress on it, and then added a cape, stabilizing its wobbly light wire structure, reducing its chances of being knocked over, and making it look more respectable. I was pleased with the result, and that was that. Then, some months later, it all came to a head.

When my daughter was young a neighbor gave her a beauty school practice head. She had a lovely time with it, but as she grew older she lost interest but still wanted to keep it, so when I took it to the “attic” I affixed it to the form because it seemed the logical place, Elizabeth came into being, and I became a kind of accidental Dr. Frankenstein.

Halloween came around, and on a whim I put her in a window facing the driveway–not so close to the front that she was completely obvious, but not too far back because most people don’t look up often. The effect was pretty much what I had hoped – she startled some and alarmed others. Even when they came up close and I explained her, she was still disturbing.

Part of the effect is the dark blue eye shadow that enhances her large eyes. Light and shadows of the passing day also change how well you see her. Then we have a solar-cell spotlight inside the window that shines up at her at night (it’s the only place we could physically put it), so the shadows cast look very spooky!

(If your computer can play it, set the video’s resolution to HD 1080)

Halloween came and went, and she was left to watch people come and go. However, time and familiarity hasn’t tempered her unsettling influence. In fact, in the last two weeks four people have mentioned her to me with nervous laughs as they glance furtively at her window.

Elizabeth’s debut was gratifying, but I never intended to make our neighbors wonder about us; I just didn’t move her because I got busy. But her continued presence provided unexpected benefits we didn’t want to give up. We have a security system, but that won’t prevent kids (and some adults!) from running up our drive, cutting through our yard and hopping the fence to get to the private street that abuts our back fence. Most of the time stopping them and politely asking them not to do that kept things fairly well in check, but you can’t very well sit in the drive all day! After she took up residence (so to speak) I pointed her out to some of the local boys and how it looked like she was “watching them.” The word got around, and shortcuts dropped dramatically!

I could share amusing stories about people’s reactions, but one was particularly dramatic. One evening our daughter rode home with a friend. They pulled up the drive, she got out, and as she walked in front of the car to the door her friend looked up, noticed Elizabeth in the window behind her, and screamed! My daughter says she doesn’t remember the specifics beyond that since “a lot of people…are scared of her,” but that one was most memorable.

A neighbor suggested putting up a second sign, next to the ADT sign, saying “Watch for Elizabeth, she’s always there,” but that could be a bit heavy-handed, so our “creepy” tenant is now a part of our security system.

You know, if it weren’t for her, I would mount our bat house on the wall facing the drive. It’s not only the best side for mosquito control, but also because it gets the hot afternoon sun that brown bats like. It’s true!

But…then we might have fewer guests, and the newspaper man might refuse to deliver to our door, so for the time being she retains the exclusive status of being our most interesting, if rather unsettling, topic of conversation.

She’s really not that bad. Come visit sometime and I will introduce you.

(Am I enjoying all this just a little too much?)

Boomer the Cat Loves His Ball Pit

If you like cats, here’s some cat-therapy to make you chuckle.

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.  Proverbs 17:22

 

Gardening humor

That’s all I have to say because I actually pre-scheduled this post because I knew I would be outdoors.

(Sorry Stanley, I couldn’t find a way to link to the image on your FB page, so I copied it.)

 

 

Friday Funny: Study claiming psychotic traits linked to conservatism gets reversed–finds liberalism more likely to have those traits

Watts Up With That?

From the friends of Stephan Lewandowsky, and upside-down Mann department

From the movie “Young Frankenstein” by Mel Brooks. Igor peruses the brain of “Abby Normal”

Ralph Dave Westfall submits this story:

Here’s an interesting example of possibly politicized research findings getting blown out of the water: Conservative political beliefs not linked to psychotic traits, as study claimed.

Researchers have fixed a number of papers after mistakenly reporting that people who hold conservative political beliefs are more likely to exhibit traits associated with psychoticism, such as authoritarianism and tough-mindedness.

As one of the notices specifies, now it appears that liberal political beliefs are linked with psychoticism. That paper also swapped ideologies when reporting on people higher in neuroticism and social desirability (falsely claiming that you have socially desirable qualities); the original paper said those traits are linked with liberal beliefs, but they are more common among people with conservative values.

View original post 419 more words