I normally don’t put such blatent ads for something on my site, but this is deserving
Why is this deserving? Because I have known the author for almost 19 years and consider him a very dear friend, and I could not be more thrilled for him. You can see the site that started it all at dorothyparkerNYC.com.
For those of you unfamiliar with Dorothy Parker, you can read about her on Wikipedia. She is well known for her acerbic wit, being one of the founding writers of The New Yorker magazine and was a member, and the founder, of the infamous Algonquin Round Table.
So if you have even the least bit interest in Ms. Parker, please check it out!
Well, this just might be some of the coolest news ever. We may finally have an actual picture of a planet outside of our solar system. (in the picture, it is the red “blob”)
Up until now, we have discovered 130 or so instances of what we think might be planets, but never been able to prove it for sure. This one is over 200 light years (about 1,174,917,984,840,791 miles..in other words, no place we are going soon) away and circles a brown dwarf star near the Hydra constellation.
This was first discovered last yeat, but follow up study had to be done to make sure the two objects in the picture were locked by gravity, and it appears they are now. Of course, there are those who have to say this is all wrong:
Dr Chauvin added: “Given the rather unusual properties of the 2M1207 system, the giant planet most probably did not form like the planets in our Solar System.”
“Instead it must have formed the same way our Sun formed, by gravitational collapse of a cloud of gas and dust.”
As a consequence, there are bound to be some scientists who will still question if 2M1207B really is a planet.
Lynne Hillenbrand, an assistant professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, told the Associated Press news agency: “The claim of an object being a planet is subject to one’s definition of planet, and there are different camps on what that definition is.”
I don’t care, I think it is a planet and that is it just further proof that there has to be something else out there besides us. While it is highly unlikely that this planet has life as we know it, the concept that there is no other life in the universe, to me, is just plain silly. Even if it is a one cell ameoba, there is life elsewhere.
Pretty good episode. Reward challange was nice to see them making the tribe fight each other for the reward. Always good to split up the power, make them question each other.
The real drama was in the immunity challange. Nifty will power challange with the first person out being deserted for a night on an island by themselves. That lucky person was Janu, who dropped out after only 6 minutes. Could someone tell me how this women is a Vegas Showgirl? She has NO stamina! Oh well, she went off to her little island, took 2 & 1/2 hours to make fire and did a little dance. Yay for her. Tom won immunity again, the rest of the tribe better watch out for him. He is a power to be reckoned with.
So as the tribe prepared for tribal council, it seemed like instead of voting out the original target of Janu, a lot of folks thought it would get rid of my darling Stephanie, whom they now viewed as a threat. NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Not my Steph! She could sense it was coming also, and the only one seeming to fight for her was Tom.
So at tribal council Steph couldn’t hold her disgust in, she knew everyone was aiming for her, but then the Survivor Gods smiled down on our little Steph….Janu started saying she thought everyone should vote her out, she wanted to go and it was the smart call on their part. Steph took up the “Boot Janu” banner and helped lead her to say more. Finally Jeff asked her if she just wanted to lay down her torch if she felt Steph was more worth of staying. She said she felt Steph should stay, so she would walk away.
Well Steph asked for a rewording of that and Janu gave it to her. So there ya go boys and girls, Janu threw herself out of the game and saved Stephanie. The Janu fan club line starts forming to the left!
Everyone in your family has been on a “Float trip.”
“Vacation” means driving to Silver Dollar City, Worlds of Fun or Six Flags.
Down south to you means Arkansas.
The phrase, “I’m going to the Lake this weekend,” can mean only one thing.
You know what “Party Cove” is. (If you know where, you are a boating party animal)
You think Missouri is pronounced with an “ah” at the end.
You know in your heart that Mizzou can beat Nebraska in football.
You think I-44 is spelled “foarty-foar.” (St. Louis Only)
You’ll pay for your kids to go to college unless they want to go to KU.
You know that Concordia is halfway between Kansas City and Columbia, and Columbia is halfway between St. Louis and Kansas City, and Warrenton outlet mall is halfway between Columbia and St. Louis.
You can’t think of anything better than sitting on the porch in the middle of the summer during a thunderstorm.
You know that Harry S. Truman, Walt Disney and Mark Twain are all from Missouri.
You know what “cow tipping” or “Possum Kicking” is.
You think “frog gigging” should be an Olympic sport.
You think Imo’s is larger than Pizza Hut.
You can tell the difference between a horse and a cow from a distance.
You don’t put too much effort into hairstyles due to wind and weather.
There’s a tornado warning and the whole town is outside watching for it.
The local gas station sells live bait.
Little smokies are something you serve on special occasions.
You know enough to get your driving done early on Sundays before the Sunday drivers come out.
You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Missouri.
I have got to stop waiting until so late in the day to write my entries because this is what causes these stupid, little short entries. I want to hold to my at-least-one-a-day rule, but I am also getting annoyed with how short some of my enteries have been lately.
And also, there has been so much in the media I would love to talk about, but don’t because I like to remain neutral. *le sigh* I am going to have to figure out a compromise of some kind.
