Monday, December 05, 2005

lunch time

The Daily Factoid - Gingerbread Lattes

A gingerbread latte makes a cold (relatively speaking, I guess, it’s 50F here today), errand running day in December just seem more festive.

Sunday, December 04, 2005

late morning

This Cold…Is Kicking My Butt

I thought it was going to be a quickie one or two day affair.  But alas, we’re now at a week and it’s still hanging on.  Still stuffy and coughy and nose runny.  Make it stop!

Saturday, December 03, 2005

evening

The Daily Factoid - Phi

1.618—The ratio, or proportion, determined by Phi (1.618...) was known to the Greeks as the “dividing a line in the extreme and mean ratio” and to Renaissance artists as the “Divine Proportion” It is also called the Golden Section, Golden Ratio and the Golden Mean.

Plants illustrate the Fibonacci series in the numbers and arrangements of petals, leaves, sections and seeds.

Phi appears in the Solar System and The Universe.  From the distances between the planets, to the structure of Saturn’s rings to the shape of the Universe itself, phi is found again and again in different manifestations.  New findings reveal that the universe itself is in the shape of a dodecahedron, a twelve-sided geometric solid with pentagon faces, all based on phi.

A cool book that we bought after reading about phi in The Da Vinci Code was The Golden Ratio : The Story of PHI, the World’s Most Astonishing Number - fascinating book, but sometimes over my head.

Friday, December 02, 2005

evening

The Daily Factoid

I decided to start up a new category for “The Daily Factoid”.  Whatever it is, it’ll be true, whether it’s about me (I did not eat nearly enough spaghetti tonight), Bill Gates (rich!!), Tom Cruise (nuts!), Julian McMahon (yummy!), or Oprah Winfrey (rich!).  Today, several freebies already to get us started, but today’s official factoid is:

I must, no matter what, put my left shoe/sock on before my right.

lunch time

Did Anyone Take My Doctor’s Office Calling Bet?

Well, if you bet in favor of them calling, you lose.  They did not call yesterday, nor did they call today.  What a surprise.  I’m sure the woman at the office was too busy on personal calls and just didn’t get around to calling me.  I’ll call her on Monday.  Oh joy.  Getting simple procedures done just shouldn’t be this difficult.