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when one thinks of the great discoverists of our time, very few people come to mind. that may be because i just coined that word, but nonetheless, my point has been made. our generation—and i say that without being able to gauge my audience—is one that lives in fear of new frontiers. the internet? too unsafe. boobs? prophylactics are expensive these days. prunes? maybe plums have less of a stigma, mom.
but here i am, your fearless leader, dropkicking those boundaries in their fat, ugly buckteeth. get orthodontic braces, boundaries. or feel my wrath.
so back to my discoverance. i looked for a chisel and a large, pre-flattened rock. one that would have been hand-delivered to charlton heston's cold, dead hands by a key grip, but alas, no luck. so i've instead marked my territory in a very odorless way on the internet. here you have my discoverance. the topless beer.
the topless beer is the brainchild of no less than 20 seconds of problem solving. and despite her arduous upbringing, she ended in nearly 5 minutes of pure enjoyment—with far less burping. see, you drink from the can, but it's like a glass. i hate having to explain things to you. let me break it down into instructions.
1. crack open the beer using its lame tab opener thing like the sheep that you are.
2. use a can opener to get rid of the top. pretend you're poor, like many of the great fearless discoverists were. maybe you're eating a can of creamed corn to save money. but maybe you just like creamed corn. stop judging, asshole.
3. drink the beer like you would normally, but from a glass made of aluminum that you made with your ingenuity and hard work.
life is rewarding. especially if you're me. and you've had several of these topless beers ™.
For Our Daily Challenge - Inventions
It was the lightbulb, the steam engine, or the wheel. I opted for the handiest. Great topic BTW.
For Our Daily Topic - Handy.
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Now that the lettuce has given out and my new crop has not germinated, I'm reduced to more inventive salads. I thought I'd share this one--it was pretty tasty and very healthy. "Purslane Etc." Chop: purslane, basil, tarragon leaf, and sorrel leaves with cottage cheese, homemade sweet onion dressing, salt, pepper.
Purslane is considered a weed in America--suitable only as pig food! See what you are missing!
Extremely high in omega 3 fatty acids. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portulaca_oleracea
From Michael Pollan's IN DEFENSE OF FOOD, p 127:
"Wild greens like purslane have substantially higher levels of omage-3s than most domesticated plants."
Plate, an old one bought at a flea market in Erwin, TN, 15 years ago. Marked "Blue Point", Royal China Co., Sebring, Ohio.
My laptop stand invention using a tripod, brackets, bolt and vent tray. a real lifesaver for a broken neck.
I am a Suffolk, or Norfolk, boy. Depends on how you define where I was born or where I lived. Anyway, my point is that despite living in East Anglia I thought I knew the area, and yet, Polstead is a place, until Simon presented me of churches to visit, I had not previously heard of. I suppose that is true of most of us, thanks to the efforts of my friends and contacts here on Flickr I am learning more about my home area every day. And on the rare occasions I go back, I try to see as much of it as I can.
Dedham Vale is most famous for John Constable, and why not, because on a bright and golden September morning it is a perfect place for some photography. It really was such a golden day, I should have taken more shots of the landscape, clearly. But I was here for the churches. And churches I visited.
Take Polstead, a wonderfully picturesque village, with the main part of the village climbing up the side of the shallow valley with the church set on the other side of the valley among trees the other side of the pond.
Its called a pond, but it really is a small lake. I did take shots of that, which I will put up at some point.
I drove the few miles from Stoke by Nayland, and as there were just four roads out of the village, my thought was that by driving along one I would find the church. And surely the church would be up on the highest point? I drove through the wonderful village, noting the shop and signs for a tea shoppe, but I could not see it. I drove up one road through the village to a farm beyond.
No luck, I turn round a head into the village and out again on another lane.
Also, no church.
That left the main road which I turned off at the pond to go up into the village, it must have been further along that road. And it was.
Back on the lower road I saw a sign pointing up a hill to where the church could be found. There was more than ample parking, so I park near the church gate, and I spied the church beyond.
There were wonderful views over the valley to the hill where Stoke church was, and at the edge of the churchyard was the largest village war memorial I had ever seen.
The entrance to the church was through a smaller door on the south side of the church, and the sight that greeted me was glorious, whitewashed walls, with wonderful brick Norman arches. A glorious combination.
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The 15th century wealth of South Suffolk almost completely rebuilt many of its churches, and in the triangle of Clare, Lavenham and Stoke by Nayland are some of the best examples of Perpendicular architecture in England. How strange then to find, right in the middle of this area, a maverick, a church quite unlike any other in the county. A beautiful, ancient place that speaks of more distant days than parvenu Perpendicular can possibly do.
Is this the most beautiful setting of any medieval church in East Anglia? Perhaps only Dalham is more sensational. That St Mary is unusual is immediately apparent, for this is the only medieval stone spire in all Suffolk. Medieval spires of any kind are unusual in the county; the only full-sized one is at neighbouring Hadleigh, and there are reconstructed medieval ones at Bramford and Rattlesden. The stone spires of Woolpit and St Mary le Tower, Ipswich, may be grand; but they are, of course, modern inventions.
Polstead churchyard is also clearly ancient, set high and back from the village pond and street. In the churchyard are the remains of the so-called Gospel Oak, attributed with an age of 1300 years, and believed to have been planted by St Cedd, or at least his missionaries. There's no evidence for this, of course, or even for it being that age; although oaks have to come from somewhere, and there may have been an earlier one on the spot. The most beautiful view is to the east, where surprisingly large hills climb to Nayland. Here stands Polstead's war memorial, one of the largest church war memorials in England, remembering the Polstead men who did not come back.
This is an interesting village. As well as the pond, there is an ancient pub, and most famously a murder, for here it was that William Corder slew Maria Marten, and buried her in the red barn, before pretending to elope with her. It makes Polstead the only parish in East Anglia which has had a Tom Waits song written about it. More than 10,000 people witnessed Corder's execution on the market hill in Bury; the account of his trial, bound in his skin, can be seen at the Moyses Hall museum there.
St Mary has an unusual nave roof. Back in the 1980s, essentail repairs had to be carried out economically. Aluminium was chosen, and is a striking sight from a distance on a sunny day. Beneath it, you can see that the Perpendicular age did not completely avoid St Mary, but most details are Decorated, a sign of an early 14th century rebuilding, when faith was still shot through with mystery, and the cold theological rationalism of the 15th century had not yet built tall clerestories to let in the light. You go round to the south side to get in, and because of this many people miss the roundels and fragments of glass set in the windows of the north porch: continental pieces depict Judas betraying Christ with a kiss, the three Magi adoring the infant Jesus, and a pretty St Dorothy, surely part of the same set as the roundels at South Elmham All Saints in the north of the county. There is more old glass inside, but those fragments, in the south side of the chancel, are plainly local, of the Norwich School of the late 15th Century. One depicts a bishop who may be St Leger, and another is a sheep, a fine companion to those in the field to the east of the church.
You step inside to a beautiful space, touched with a patina of age. The most striking aspect of the interior is the colour, the combination between white walls and the red brick of the arcade arches. These bricks bear close examination. They date from the original construction of the arcades, about the year 1200, and yet they are clearly not reused Roman bricks. So, we have here what may be the oldest surviving English bricks still in use for their original purpose - bricks of a similar age can be found at the Hall at nearby Little Wenham, and across the county border at Coggleshall Abbey in Essex.
The arcades predate the aisles, as we have seen, and the little clerestory is hidden by the aisle roofs. This is strange, and also strange is that one of the arcades has been replaced, that to the west end of the south aisle, as though work began, but was not completed. It doesn't take much imagination to suggest that the Black Death of 1348-50 may have finished off (quite literally) the work here. The Norman arcades interlock and shift as we move around the church, opening up new vistas and elevations. There is much to see; an extraordinary brick octagonal font, for instance, which might be any age, but is set on a 13th century base. Sam Mortlock was uncharacteristically uncharitable about the modern fibreglass cover, but I rather like it. On the walls, two consecration crosses sit surprisingly close together, and another wall painting shows a figure, perhaps a bishop. A brass in the north wall of the chancel shows a priest dressed for the Mass - another rare survival. Also in the chancel, a good set of Laudian communion rails.
At the west end of the nave there is a large opening above the tower arch. This might be dismissed as a sanctus bell window, but I think it might be an entrance to the tower itself, that a ladder could be drawn up, as at Thorington. Step through the arch, and turn east, and you see that this, like Westhall, was originally a Norman church with a west entrance; the archway is clearly an exterior doorway, with three bands of heavy chevrons. Above the chancel arch there is a triple window that would have provided a backlight to the rood. Just to the south of the chancel arch, set at an angle, is the memorial to Jacob and Benjamin Brand. The Brands lived at Polstead Hall which you can still see to the west of the church. It is said that the little boy Benjamin was killed in a fall from one of the upper storey windows.
Before leaving Polstead, don't miss the heartbreaking modern memorial just to the east of the churchyard gate. In Memoriam, it is headed, and beneath it the inscription is to Alexander James Sowman aged 32, and his wife Jane aged 29, of this village, both of whom died in 1907 leaving their children Ellen 10 years, Annie 9 years, Alexander 6 years, Ivy 4 years, Rosa 4 months. At the bottom, the inscription concludes Erected by Anthea, the only Grand-daughter.
This is an outstandingly lovely church, full of interest, and not simply because of anything in particular that it contains, but because of itself as a whole piece. Just the way it should be.
Simon Knott, May 2009
It's impossible to know who invented music; perhaps man didn't invent it at all, but simply learned to imitate the sounds of nature. Nevertheless, music is one of the universal joys of people everywhere.
We attended the free Friday night concert at the Courthouse Square in Redwood City to listen to one of our favorites who perform there every year - Caravanserai - an excellent Santana Tribute Band. Their percussionists - 4 in total are absolutely fantastic; and as you can the crowd was on their feet all night. It was one of those joyful summer nights that just makes you glad to be alive - music can do that to us !
During the annual fourth-grade invention convention held on March 26, students presented their one-of-a-kind handmade inventions to parents and the Augusta community.
From GE reports: "Playing baseball at night is now one of the league’s primary revenue machines, and its all based on a GE innovation from the 1930s.
That lighting revolution began in 1935 at Crosley Field in Cincinnati. What happened on that field irreversibly changed the economics of the sport, and allowed baseball to become the international entertainment product that it is today.
In 1934, the Cincinnati Reds drew 207,000 fans in 77 home games. The advent of night baseball also was a revolution for American workers — it allowed anyone with a 9 to 5 job to attend live baseball games. As such, in just 7 night games in 1935, the Reds drew 130,000 fans. Not bad for their $50,000 investment in GE’s lighting."
Of course, these lights are from a Dixie League game. The lights allow the kids to start their games at 7:30 on a school night. Clearly those decisions are not made by moms.
Today i am presenting you a list of cool and awesome inventions. These gadgets are so wonderful that you want to buy all of them. Lets have a look on these gadgets and inventions and tell me in comments below what you like or dislike? On This Page.
At the launch of the 1001 Inventions exhibition at the Science Museum, London.
See a short video of the launch here.
This series in inspired from the "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai. This series, created just before the invention of the photography, shows the daily street life along the Tokaido road, with the Mount Fuji dominates the background in its full majesty. In this series the Baradello Castle, a military fortification located on a high hill next to my city Como, called the Stone Guardian, is photographed from different locations and in various seasons and weather conditions.
Found these sketches while cleaning out before moving - some inventions I dreamed of when the kids were babies.
This one is a light on the car front that is automatically turned on when the speed exceeds XX km/hour.
O baixista Roy Estrada, membro original do Mothers Of Invention --banda de Frank Zappa nos anos 70 e 80--, toca em show do Grande Mothers Re:Invented, em São Paulo. Mais fotos - UOL - musica.uol.com.br/album/thegrandemothers_sp_2010_album.jh...
Derek Lerner Invention of Demand 2003 Limited edition of 8 diazo bluelines, 43.18 x 53.34 cm signed & numbered
Researchers have begun trialing a toilet they devised that collects urine for microbial fuels cells to convert into electricity to light up cubicles in refugee camps.
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Lucy was doing some finger weaving today and was called on to ice some cupcakes. She had to take the weaving off her hand to take care of the icing but was concerned that she might not be able to pick up where she left off. After icing the cupcakes, she made this Finger Weave Holder to set the weaving on until she could get back to it. Note that it even has labels for proper use. This is a left hand Finger Weave Holder as the label indicates and the fingers have simple indicators so the user can easily identify which finger takes which loop - P: pointer; M: middle finger; R: ring finger; Pi: pinkie finger. Since she's coming up with inventions like this at 8, I'm hoping she'll make me a flying skateboard when she's 12.