Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 11:25PM Okay check this out - these guys actually advertize that they will give you a "Free camera phone when you buy a pizza!"
What have we come to?
Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 9:09AM Wow - I haven't written here in a long time.
Peripheral Vision, in a non-technical definition, means the ability to see stuff outside, around, above, below, to the side - of the point at which our eyes are aimed.
So, if I am walking on the sidewalk and my head and eyes are pointed straight ahead of me, I may be able to tell if there is a big black hole that I am about to step into - or if a car traveling on the street is coming near me.
The thing that I wonder about is dogs. When they are walking they certainly have a sense of what thier legs are about to encounter from the terrain they are traveling on. They can make adjustments if they approach a hole in the ground or a curb to go up. But this would seem to be working for their front legs - what is looking out for their rear legs. I've never seen a dog glance behind them to see if their rear legs are about to encounter some obstacle. I guess they must just have some visual memory of what has been coming and the ability to process it and compute what their hind legs have in store for them.
Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 8:31PM Joyce and I went to Miami last week and visited the Miami Seaquarium. My grandparents took me to the Seaquarium when I was 5 years old. There are a number of animals that put on performances there and one group that we watched were the dolphins. They are of course beautiful, and you have to believe they are pretty intelligent.
After the topside performance we went downstairs where we could watch the dolphins through viewing windows. One behavior that we observed was pretty amazing. A dolphin would expel some air from its mouth and it would be in the form of a ‘smoke ring’ like that that smokers blow – only these were with air, of course. If that weren’t enough, the animal would create a second ring soon after the first one and you could watch one ring follow the other in the water column. AND THEN, the dolphin was able to use it’s snout/beak or whatever you call it to disrupt one ring and the two rings that were moving one after the other would each break at one point on their circumference and join into one large ring.
To give you an idea of what the ring blowing is like – I found this video of some other dolphins blowing rings – in case you haven’t seen this.
Sunday, September 6, 2009 at 12:43PM While Joyce is suffering in Mexico eating great food and studying her art - we're not doing so bad back here in Cincinnati. Today I was fortunate to go out to lunch with my next door neighbors, William, Gretta, Jeff and Alex. We had fine dining at Skyline Chili. It brings back memories of when our girls (in their early 20's now) were little ones. What fun. The way a cousin of mine described this age - 'we only go out to eat in restaurants where you look up (to the menu on the wall) to order'.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 12:04AM
If you said the White House Lawn - you are correct.
I have been cleaning up my office the last couple days and pulled out this photo from a few years back. Can you recognize the backdrop? It's a pretty famous lawn somewhere in the US.