TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")
"Things You Wouldn't Know If We Didn't Blog Intermittently."
27 March 2024
Aspen
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I like to end my blogging day with a nice photo at the top of the page. This one (© Robert J. Ross / World Nature Photography Awards, via T...
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Good for her
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I have pleasant memories of doing this once, decades ago, somewhere in the Boston area. So glad to see this young woman keeping the sport a...
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Word for the day: dredging
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I was reading today about how to make walleye pike almondine, and the recipe called for "dredging" the filet. In cooking, the word...
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Optical illusions for those in a hurry
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Forty of them in eight minutes (many of which I've previously covered in TYWKIWDBI in the optical illusions subcategory ). Via Neatorama .
24 March 2024
So far, so good (31/32)
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One bracket has a 2-seed to win it all (Ohio State) , the other a 4-seed (Indiana). Multiple men's brackets already effectively busted....
22 March 2024
Queen Anne style Victorian architecture
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The Carson Mansion in Eureka, California The house is a mix of every major style of Victorian architecture, including but not limited to: E...
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Metallic mercury emboli in the lungs
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The result of an attempted suicide by injecting elemental mercury intravenously. Image via The New England Journal of Medicine , via Reddit...
Metal umlauts
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I've seen them for years but never thought to read about them until the term appeared in a recent NYT crossword puzzle. Here's a su...
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19 March 2024
Reconsidering Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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I have not previously blogged the 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but decided to do so today after I encountered lengthl...
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"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."
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The title is Hannibal Lecter's famous line from Silence of the Lambs . I learned at the movies subreddit that there is a subtle implic...
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Another type of chess "problem"
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Broadcast media (movies, television) have persistent difficulties incorporating chess into their storylines without introducing errors: ...
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18 March 2024
Wisteria
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The (unquestioned) beauty is deceptive. Multiple comments at the Pics subreddit post attest to the destructive capabilities of Wisteria...
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A blueberry the size of a golf ball
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Developed by a fruit and vegetable vendor in New South Wales: It’s dark blue, about the diameter of a golf ball and it weighs 10 times as mu...
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CAPTCHAs - updated re "I'm Not a Robot" clicks
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Embedded image 😀 via Interesting Engineering . Today I learned that CAPTCHA is an acronym. Reposted from last year to add some interestin...
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World Down Syndrome Day is March 21
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The 21st day of the 3rd month was chosen for World Down Syndrome Day because the syndrome is caused by trisomy of the 21st chromosome. Thi...
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