Sunrise. August 23, 2008. This is an opportunity to be aware of something immutable and absolutely reliable. Observe the sunrise and sunset everyday this year and ring a bell when you do. This installment: Ringing out back by the Williamsburg Bridge. Those are Penelope’s tomato plants in the foreground. I always said that I would never eat anything that grew in such proximity to those fumes and exhaust. I had a dream many years ago after riding on a bus through Newark, NJ. When I was a child as we approached North Jersey in a car, the air would become brown and opaque. We couldn’t roll the windows up fast enough. The sun vanished; the air was so thick you could taste it while it burned your eyes. I would bury my nose in whatever clothing was thickest and nearest to my face and try to filter out the particulate matter as well as the smell. It was a living nightmare.Years later, as I was riding the bus on the Jersey Turnpike and we approached Newark, everything had been cleaned up. It was remarkable. The air was clear and didn’t smell bad. The marshlands had come back to replace some of the industrial wasted landscape. It seemed to good to be true. In my dream I was riding in an elevator and when the doors opened I was standing before a lush green rural scene. It was sunny and felt festive. People were walking around enjoying the weather and the greenness. Apparently, this was a newly opened area that had recently been determined to be safe after some kind of apocalypse. The elevator was the conveyance to this world and until that point, we had all been living inside. Long tables were set up and people were serving and eating all kinds of food. At one table someone was preparing a salad and was chopping and slicing a scallion. As the white part of the scallion was sliced into thin, round slivers, the pieces fell over onto their sides. When I looked closely at the sliced rings, I noticed that each ring was like a band, and the band was rotating. Each band was slowly turning in the opposite direction from the one next to it. The head of the scallion was alive in a way that no vegetable should be alive. I decided to pass on the salad, but there was a Chinese man in the line in front of me and he ate the salad. After the picnic was over, I returned to the elevator to go home and prepared to get off at the 4th floor. When the door opened, there was the Chinese man, lying dead on the ground.When I woke from the dream, it was clear to me for the first time that toxicity in the environment could mutate plants so they could and probably did contain poison and contaminants long after they looked “normal” and restored to health. That it was no longer possible to trust our eyes when it came to the food we grow. That the air and soil could poison our food in ways that was invisible to us. This was an old dream and it seems to be even more prophetic now in regards to genetic engineering. Pollution seems almost benign by comparison.However, I couldn’t refuse when Penelope offered some of her homemade pesto and fresh tomatoes from those vines. And it was delicious. Maybe if I ate them everyday, I would develop some extra appendage, but once in a while, it’s really amazing to eat something growing within ten feet of that massive air putrifier.http://dailybell2008.blogspot.com
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I was fooling around with a sound from NASA - a radiosignal recorded by the Cassini spaceship on a mission to Saturn in 2004. The result was very surprising.You can download the NASA sound file here:http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/saturn/audio/pia07967-072504.wavCredits to “jostvandyke2007″ for bringing this to my attention with his video “Alien Speech Found in NASA’s Saturn Radio Signal”I basicly did what he recommended - turning up the pitch. But then I applied the remarkable noise reduction filter and bingo!I repeated the procedure several times - the selection I made for the noise reduction filter to analyse and then applying that to the whole sequence was cruical but just in terms of the resulting quality. The outcome was not always sounding totally different, although I once got something like “spaceship” in the first part of the 3 major “words”. Unfortunatly I didn’t save it.Try yourself, maybe you find something even more stunning.The program is Audiocity and it’s free.Please don’t take it too serious. It may just be a wierd coincidence.
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First of a three part series in cleaning the bucket and filter of a modern dehumidifier
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I’m 19 and my body and buttocks itch.Daily Monitor, Uganda - 9 hours agoSince you have itching in other parts of the body as well, you may have a general allergy which requires identification of its trigger which you then have …
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this is a cheap way of making a filter to exhale your smoke so no ones the wiser…smells like fresh laundry
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An allergy to all oppositionDispatch Online, South Africa - 2 hours agoCORRUPTION had reached gale-force intensity by mid 2005. Housing projects, children’s feeding schemes, even Parliament’s own security systems – all fell …
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Brando & Jon make a commercial…about herpes. Hope you enjoy this awesome creation from the minds of Brando & Jon & Ashton! The newest member of our team. Pics will be up soon.
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Autumn Allergies Nothing to Sneeze AtRedOrbit, TX - 1 hour agoSpring is the most common time of year for pollen allergies, but autumn can bring worries of dust mites and mold. Dust mites, a common allergy in the autumn …
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