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Hello my fellow Politiores Troglodytes. This Blog is a collection of Posts, Poems, & Short Stories that I write on a daily basis. If you find it entertaining, informative, and controversial, then I have done my job properly. Thank goodness too, because Karma has been on my case of late. I'm supposed to bring fifty people into the fold or I'll have to give back the part of Einstein's brain I inherited. No, I'm not one of the Scientists who got a piece of his brain when he died. Karma said, "Eat this knowledge. It'll make you smarter!" The bargain I made with Karma was, if I could change fifty people into Politiores Populos, I would be rewarded with my very own Lamborghini. So, that's my story and I'm sticking to it! Like what you're reading, then read on. P.S. Populo is Latin for people. Politiores is Latin for educated. Troglodytes is English for troglodytes. And Einstein's brain was stolen by Thomas Stoltz Harvey after his death in 1955 and eventually divvied up into 240 pieces. If you just read that last sentence, then you have just learned something and I'm just that much closer to fulfilling my commitment to Karma!

Monday, March 14, 2016

An Experiment Gone Wrong - R2-D2 In Your Own Backyard - And Celebrating Pi!

Yesterday, 
I experimented with a few  
"Key Words" 
on my Blog to see if they were influencing the viewership of certain Posts 
I write, 
as one person has suggested in a email. 
I am happy to say, 
it was a complete disaster. 
My viewership did not increase by using those 
"Key Words," 
but actually dwindled, 
from what I expect would be considered a boring 
Post 
I wrote. 
I am hoping my viewership is increasing because people understand my type of humor,
are interested in the current events I Post,
and my take on what they mean to us all. 
Either that, 
or everyone is coming to my Blog, 
looking for a good laugh,
to see how crazy I am. 
That is fine with me too!

"Last year at CES, (A Technology Convention next held in Las Vegas from 01/05 thru 01/08/2017) I remember seeing a life-size, fully functioning R2-D2 unit (minus the Leia hologram, sadly). I assumed it was hired out from a professional movie props unit or something similar; now I'm not so sure. Walking around SX Create -- the maker fair section at SXSW -- I bumped into not one, but two equally well-made replicas only to find they were handmade. In fact, there's an entire club -- funnily enough, called R2-D2 Builders -- dedicated to making them. What's more, the models I saw were built using a veritable menagerie of weird and wonderful items, including a good old Lazy Susan. But that doesn't mean building your own R2 comes cheap, or is a project for the faint-hearted."
By James Trey for Engadget 
"Making your own functioning R2-D2 is a labor of love. You just need $8,000 and a little bit of force."

This is,
Celebrating Pi Day With A Pie,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“A bell cannot tell time, but it can be moved in just such a way as to say twelve o’clock – similarly, a man cannot calculate infinite numbers, but he can be moved in just such a way as to say pi.” 
- Daniel Tammet -

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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