Yes, it can be difficult to keep your eye on ALL the balls in the air at once! I often re-read books for that reason, too.
Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?
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Me Too!
Not me. I have that, but rather in reverse. I can remember movies, tv shows, lines from my favorite novels, songs from 30 years ago....but I can't remember what day it is.
I guess that says a lot about my priorities.
I guess that says a lot about my priorities.
I don't like modern action movies: usually the plot is sacrificed to the action - not my cup of tea
that would be great for me, I could read Mark Twain and others for the first time again
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Seems he has a distinct modus operandi.
This is me. I lose most of the details of even some of my favorite books and I almost always have the order of my favorite movies wrong in my mind and it's almost like a new experience every time I read or see them.
mine start with montag and has no braille dots on it (the letters are mostly gone on all of them)A buddy texted me this morning saying "TGIF." I replied that in retirement I have no weekends and that this is my calendar - the only way I know what day it is:
Yeah - the letters on mine are pretty much worn away (though they are embossed in the plastic so you can still read them) and the braille dots have no paint - they're the same color plastic as the rest of the tray.
Did you ever wonder what the world would be like without hypothetical situations?
Hypothetically, no.
There is a pair of cardinals nesting in my lilac bush in the back corner of the yard. They are not afraid of me, but Gus pisses them of. Their songs are beautiful. Tomorrow I will go out with the camera to see if I can get a photo. The lilac is huge and the nest is tucked away pretty well, but I should be able to get a pic. I never knew they nested so close to the ground - the nest is about waist high.
Very good - Cardinal In The Kremlinyou are going to name that flieder (german name for lilac) the kremlin?
We now know where hypervelocity stars come from. Binary stars systems are very common and as a matter of fact, there is a good chance that our solar system started that way. Our Sun had a twin that was pushed away at some point in the remote past. So, once in a while, one of these binary systems comes too close to the central black hole of our galaxy, one of the stars (the unlucky one) goes beyond the event horizon of the BH and consequently it is captured by it, never to be seen ever again!! the other, on the other hand, gets released (kinda like in a hammer throw) and pushed away from the BH at a very high speed. So high in fact, that in a mere thirty million years, a short time at the scale of a solar system, the star moves beyond the borders of the galaxy and finds itself in the intergalactic void, literally in the middle of nowhere. Imagine a totally starless sky!! It's estimated that there are about ten to the eighteenth power such stars in the entire universe, one billion of billions!!!
what happened to our sun's twin and how do we know there ever was one? (Just curious)
I once read a pretty good SciFi where a counter-Earth shared our orbit and always kept at the other side of the sun so that it could only be discovered when mankind started space travel. I always found that an intriguing idea with great possibilities, plot-wise.
I once read a pretty good SciFi where a counter-Earth shared our orbit and always kept at the other side of the sun so that it could only be discovered when mankind started space travel. I always found that an intriguing idea with great possibilities, plot-wise.
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