Quest For Knowledge
One of the quips I put on my blog to describe myself is that I quest for knowledge and sometimes find it. I have a voracious appetite for reading. I am constantly looking for new things to read whether it be books, news (on-line), the Burpee’s seed catalog or even the back of a shampoo bottle. I have been reading all about the seed selections presented by the 2006 Burpees catalog for the past week. Since it is garden time, I wanted to see if there is anything new and interesting to put in the garden. I haven’t found anything that has blown me away so I will go with the standard tomatoes, peppers, green and yellow beans, zucchini and summer squash and cucumbers. Last night’s rain will help with the seed germination but I still have to put up a barrier so the dogs won’t use the garden space as their speedway.
Continuing with my quest…
I read an interesting article yesterday on Neptune’s moon Triton. It is the only moon in our solar system that does not circle its parent in the same direction as the planet’s spin. The article says that it was probably captured as it circled the sun and became a captive moon. Another article was about a white bear that had been shot. It had some features that looked like a combination of polar bear and grizzly. A genetic test confirmed that it was indeed a hybrid animal. This was the first such sighting recorded by man.
Those are the useless bits of information that I roll up into my knowledge base. Some days you get nothing but poorly aimed attempts to provide misinformation to the public. That is how I have come to view the state of our current mass media. They are perched on platforms like messianic candidates hoping to get noticed and vaulted to the level of savior. Unfortunately, the constant pounding by a select few manage to be heard above the din but their message is becoming more and more bizarre. Mostly I hear the same old blah, blah, blah.
Pink Floyd’s Time from Dark Side of the Moon puts it nicely, “thought I’d something more to say.”
Icool
Cobb
Continuing with my quest…
I read an interesting article yesterday on Neptune’s moon Triton. It is the only moon in our solar system that does not circle its parent in the same direction as the planet’s spin. The article says that it was probably captured as it circled the sun and became a captive moon. Another article was about a white bear that had been shot. It had some features that looked like a combination of polar bear and grizzly. A genetic test confirmed that it was indeed a hybrid animal. This was the first such sighting recorded by man. Those are the useless bits of information that I roll up into my knowledge base. Some days you get nothing but poorly aimed attempts to provide misinformation to the public. That is how I have come to view the state of our current mass media. They are perched on platforms like messianic candidates hoping to get noticed and vaulted to the level of savior. Unfortunately, the constant pounding by a select few manage to be heard above the din but their message is becoming more and more bizarre. Mostly I hear the same old blah, blah, blah.
Pink Floyd’s Time from Dark Side of the Moon puts it nicely, “thought I’d something more to say.”
Icool
Cobb
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