Walking is also an ambulation of mind. -Gretel Ehrlich, novelist, poet, and essayist (b. 1946)
Dear Critics! I beg of you, craven knaves, it is "Holier-than-Thouness", foist and foremoist. Then the HIT Man did a tune-up lasterday, solo mio, forlornly, following the Stanley Park PPHL 7 times, (for Buona Fortuna, it goes without saying), to arrive back at The Heartache Terrace with 103.1 K over 4:45:48, AVG 21.6 KPH, MAX 54.4 KPH, for best ride since returning from Tinsel Town/The Peg. No sluggards or malingerers to slow me down!
Much malt talk on ferry. Until we three meet again. Cheers, Il Conduttore! Pic: In case The Bull joins us to HB!
Kurt,
as the plan stands
now we (Pat, Mark & me) will be on the 12:50 ferry arriving at your
digs on our bikes as soon as we can get there from the ferry. Call or text if you need more info. 7NT, G
Dear Duplicadoes! Doubled! Cheers, Patrizzio! Pic: For the Nicotine Fiend!
Thanks for the update. I just hope that not all the booze has gotten drunk by the time you get here!--Kurt
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Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher best known today for his
statement "that which does not kill us makes us stronger," was an early
convert to the pessimism of Schopenhauer. Yet by 1876, at the age of
thirty-two, he had radically changed his philosophy -- and adopted a
philosophy that revered
Ubermenschen ( which can be translated as "supermen"), men who
pursued lives of adventure and exhilaration, but only after suffering in
pursuit of that life: "What had ... helped to change Nietzsche's outlook was his reflection on the few individuals throughout history who appeared genuinely to have known fulfilled lives; individuals who could fairly have been described -- to use one of the most contested terms in the Nietzschean lexicon -- as Ubermenschen. "The notoriety and absurdity of the word owe less to Nietzsche's own philosophy than to his sister Elisabeth's subsequent enchantment with National Socialism ('that vengeful anti-Semitic goose', as Friedrich described her long before she shook the Fuhrer's hand), and the unwitting decision by Nietzsche's earliest Anglo-Saxon translators to bequeath to the Ubermensch the name of a legendary cartoon hero.  |
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Dear Duplicadoes! Doubled! Cheers, Patrizzio! Pic: For the Nicotine Fiend!
Funny, I am off, shortly, to ride to Horseshoe Bay, with Whirlygig, as we are off to Nanaimo to have our Book Club meeting on Sunday. Playing bridge this afternoon and evening. Staying with a friend of Giorgio's, Kurt. Had thought about riding up to see you two but have to be back on Sunday as Patti/Gavin are visiting. Coming from China.
Sarge, Big Al, Heraldo, (Colleen's Dad), Dave, (Maya's ex), all went to Dram Come True last night at Hycroft. Wonderful evening and some stupendous malts.
Starting to feel pretty good, thanks. Yesterday, solo mio, (Whirlygig and Robo Ray begged off!), following the Stanley Park Prospect Point Hill Loop 7 times, (for Buona Fortuna, it goes without saying), to arrive back at The Heartache Terrace with 103.1 K over 4:45:48, AVG 21.6 KPH, MAX 54.4 KPH, for best ride since returning from Tinsel Town/The Peg. No sluggards or malingerers to slow me down.
Fond regards and best wishes to The Range Rider. Cheers, Il Conduttore!
Pics: Isaac Brock reunion dinner; Filmer/Sally, my cousin. I stayed with them. Kaitlyn, Scott, her boyfriend, Travis, S's/F's daughter/son. Los Horridos!
my apologies for this late notice but I got called in for
my on-call job today so I will not be making the trip to Mr.
Rathfelder's plantation aka sugarland. I read Brothers Sisters per the
pledge of the NRBC to actually read the books, and my
only opinion is that it's not my kinda book so I'm looking forward to
the next book which I'm assuming is the elusive Muddy Waters bio? Or are
we changing it because there aren't many copies around to loan? With love and affection, VL
Thanks for letting me know, Victor. Make money...much more an important endeavour! Glad to see that you've read the book. Kurt
I'll be in Victoria tonight to see my sister's brother and some
nieces and neice's sisters. I plan to drive up to the Wrathslair
tomorrow morning to meet with nrbc brethren and any interloping members
of the sisterhood who may present themselves. I confess
I lack Misha's ambition for a dawn departure. If it won't be too late,
I see arriving about 11ish by motor, so no pick up at ferry terminal
required. Guy
As
many of you may know, Pig on the Street recently had their generator
stolen from them, right before the busy summer season started! This
makes me and many of their other loyal friends and customers angry, so I
decided to kickstart a fundraiser to help them get back on their feet!
You can always make more money..but those sandiwches are irreplaceable!
Krissy and Mark put so much love into what they do, so lets give some
back! xo
My little sister has gone off the deep end of the vegan dock this time...but let's do this for bacon!! Who's with me!!!!!
The astonishing physiology of the eye:
"A trip through an
eyeball, [starts] from the pupil, where light enters, [and goes] to the
back of the eye. Here, the retina is the layer of the eye's wall that
includes the photoreceptor cells -- the rods and cones -- that capture
light energy and change it into the electrical language of the nervous
system. The rod cells provide black-and-white vision and detect motion,
and the cone cells send signals for color. The retina also has cell
layers that transmit the light signals to the optic nerve, which sends
the information to the part of the brain that interprets the input as a
visual image. The comparison of the human eye to an old-fashioned camera
is apt -- the back of the retina is like a sheet of photographic film.
...
"Each eye
has 100 million ... long, skinny [rod] cells, and each has about two
thousand translucent discs that fold inward from the surrounding cell
membrane, making the rod look a little like an electric toothbrush. The
aligned discs resemble toothbrush bristles at one end, and a neural
connection at the other end of the cell that goes to the brain
corresponds to the part of the toothbrush that plugs into a power
outlet.
"Embedded in the rod's
folded discs are many molecules of a pigment called rhodopsin, which
actually provides vision. Each rhodopsin molecule is built of a protein
part called opsin and another, smaller part made
from vitamin A, called retinal. A flash of light lasting mere
trillionths of a second changes the shape of the retinal, which in turn
changes the shape of the opsin. The change in opsin triggers chemical
reactions that signal the nearby optic nerve, which
stimulates the visual cortex in the brain. In this way, each of the 100
million rods and 3 million cones of a human eye contributes a tiny
glimpse of a scene, which the brain then integrates into an image.
"To see the world as a
continuous panorama, rather than a series of disconnected snapshots,
rhodopsin must quickly reform after it changes in response to light. In
dim light this happens slowly, and the rhodopsin
is recycled inside the eye. But in very bright light, rhodopsin
contorts too fast to fully recover. This is why we are temporarily
blinded when walking out of a dark theater, to which our rhodopsin has
adapted, into bright sunshine.
It is also why we tell
children to eat their carrots, because vitamin A deficiency causes
night blindness. Cones work in a similar way, but instead of rhodopsin,
they use three other visual pigments that are sensitive to different
wavelengths of light, and interpret the hues of
red, green, and blue that color our world. Mammals other than humans
and our primate cousins have only two types of cones, which restricts
the color palette available to them. ...
"In a layer of cells next to [the rods and cones] called the
retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is a caretaker of sorts for the rods
and cones, removing wastes while absorbing stray light rays that might
otherwise bounce around the eyeball, creating meaningless
flashes. The RPE's most important job is to store vitamin A. It uses a
protein, called RPE65, to activate the vitamin, forming the retinal
essential for black-and-white vision." Ricki Lewis, The Forever Fix, St. Martin's Griffin, 2012
"A trip through an
eyeball, [starts] from the pupil, where light enters, [and goes] to the
back of the eye. Here, the retina is the layer of the eye's wall that
includes the photoreceptor cells -- the rods and cones -- that capture
light energy and change it into the electrical language of the nervous
system. The rod cells provide black-and-white vision and detect motion,
and the cone cells send signals for color. The retina also has cell
layers that transmit the light signals to the optic nerve, which sends
the information to the part of the brain that interprets the input as a
visual image. The comparison of the human eye to an old-fashioned camera
is apt -- the back of the retina is like a sheet of photographic film.
...
"Each eye
has 100 million ... long, skinny [rod] cells, and each has about two
thousand translucent discs that fold inward from the surrounding cell
membrane, making the rod look a little like an electric toothbrush. The
aligned discs resemble toothbrush bristles at one end, and a neural
connection at the other end of the cell that goes to the brain
corresponds to the part of the toothbrush that plugs into a power
outlet.
"Embedded in the rod's
folded discs are many molecules of a pigment called rhodopsin, which
actually provides vision. Each rhodopsin molecule is built of a protein
part called opsin and another, smaller part made
from vitamin A, called retinal. A flash of light lasting mere
trillionths of a second changes the shape of the retinal, which in turn
changes the shape of the opsin. The change in opsin triggers chemical
reactions that signal the nearby optic nerve, which
stimulates the visual cortex in the brain. In this way, each of the 100
million rods and 3 million cones of a human eye contributes a tiny
glimpse of a scene, which the brain then integrates into an image.
"To see the world as a
continuous panorama, rather than a series of disconnected snapshots,
rhodopsin must quickly reform after it changes in response to light. In
dim light this happens slowly, and the rhodopsin
is recycled inside the eye. But in very bright light, rhodopsin
contorts too fast to fully recover. This is why we are temporarily
blinded when walking out of a dark theater, to which our rhodopsin has
adapted, into bright sunshine.
It is also why we tell
children to eat their carrots, because vitamin A deficiency causes
night blindness. Cones work in a similar way, but instead of rhodopsin,
they use three other visual pigments that are sensitive to different
wavelengths of light, and interpret the hues of
red, green, and blue that color our world. Mammals other than humans
and our primate cousins have only two types of cones, which restricts
the color palette available to them. ...
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