Sunday, October 23, 2016

Chinese Food?

Univirtuous Abbey: Facebook (Thanks, Chucky)


Tonight:

Musician friend: (Not Chucky, paraphrased)

'Yes, I am working on a new album with McCartney (The Beatles), McLaughlin (Mahavishnu Orchestra), Ringo (The Beatles) and Geddy (Rush).' 

Satire Und Theology:

'So, you are taking care of getting the Chinese food?'
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Saturday, October 22, 2016

Bermuda triangle v shorts



Popular Mechanics October 22

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'New Theory May Explain The Deadly Bermuda Triangle

Hexagonal cloud formations could be to blame.'

Cited

'We may finally have an explanation for the mysterious area just south of Miami known as the Bermuda Triangle.

The Triangle has swallowed dozens of airplanes and ships in accidents over the last hundred years. But scientists say the deadly patch of ocean may just be the result of strange cloud behavior.

New satellite images shows areas of hexagonal clouds with straight edges around the Triangle. Clearly, clouds usually don't form straight lines."The satellite imagery is really bizarre. These types of hexagonal shapes over the ocean are in essence air bombs," Meteorologist Randy Cerveny says in a documentary by the Science Channel. "They are formed by what are called microbursts and they're blasts of air that come down out of the bottom of a cloud and then hit the ocean and then create waves that can sometimes be massive in size as they start to interact with each other."

This kind of turbulent air is extremely dangerous for airplanes, which could be flipped or knocked into the sea by the currents. The waves formed by this kind of wind could tower at more than 40 feet. Not exactly a friendly area for air or sea travel.'

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So, I take it, aliens are not responsible for Bermuda shorts either.

Friday, October 21, 2016

Time Travel Via Facebook: Aberystwyth & Cardiff



Aberystwyth was a stop on my train with bus journey to the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter campus. The trip had beautiful greenery and scenery.  Seems to me I took the bus from Aberystwyth to Lampeter, at least once. Very nice area, but very isolated and rural.


Lampeter 2004: University centre




Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Time Travel Via Facebook: Edinburgh & London

Edinburgh Castle: Summer 1995. The trip that increased my interest in potential future PhD study in the United Kingdom. The University of Edinburgh was a possibility based on my 1997 visit, but it did not work out. In the end, I am pleased to have studied through the University of Wales, at the time, the second largest University system in the United Kingdom. The University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, where I earned my PhD, now has its own system.

























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