The Five Best Posts Of The Month Of July, 2018

It is that time of the

Month

again.

The time where we see what

Posts

from the previous

Month

were the read most.

I like

Posting;

The Five Best Post Of The Month,

because it gives me retrospective of the kind of material,

you the reader,

have an interest in.

If you have read my

Blog

over the years,

you will have found that I often go off the beaten path,

and write about stories that I find entertaining,

interesting,

and very often controversial.

I won't go into any details right now on those three subjects,

so if you are new to this

Blog,

you will have to take my word for it.

So here are;

The Five Best Posts Of The Month Of July, 2018!

The Fifth Best Post Of The Month Of July, 2018 Is;

Funny How Outer Space Is

A lot of times, on a Friday, I like to end the work week and begin the weekend with humor. I scour the internet for jokes, try to make one up myself, and write down ones I hear from comedians. This Post was all about jokes, about outer space. Hence the name.

The Fourth Best Post Of The Month Of July Is;

Clean Meat

If you haven't heard about this product, you are in for a big surprise. Clean Meat is "cultured meat." Meaning, it is grown in a petri dish! Read the article to get all the juicy tidbits.

The Third Best Post Of The Month Is;

Great Time To Be A White Hat Hacker

A Post about the ability to make some real money hacking in a good way. There are companies out in the world who will pay large amounts of cash for those who find "Critical Issues." Is $250,000.00 dollars good enough?

The Second Best Post Is;

Why Should I Vote

I am really glad to see this Post on the list. This is one of my biggest pet peeves that I have. I always hear from people who will say, "Why should I vote. My vote doesn't count anyways." Well if you read this Post, you will find out how my Grandfather lost an election when two of his family members forgot to vote! This is a true story.

The Number One Best Post Of The Month Of July, 2018 Is;

Why The Tardis Is The Perfect Spacetime Machine

I was thinking about Time Machines in general, after re-reading "The Time Machine" form H.G. Wells. Just having a Time Machine which didn't travel in space wouldn't work out so well for the traveler. I give all of my ideas why on the subject. And yes, these are the kinds of things I think about in my spare "Time."

There you have it.

The Five Best Posts Of The Month Of July, 2018.

And what a

Month

 it was.

Why The Tardis Is The Perfect Spacetime Machine

Brought in more viewership,

and two new commentators,

then I had all year!

That is why subjects on

Doctor Who

can stimulate the brain.

This is,

Having Great Story Ideas Floating In My Head Right Now,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“My mind has a time machine; it can travel back to the past when I close my eyes and in my dreams it travels to the future.”
- Munia Khan -

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The Strange Science In Fashion

If you are too young to remember the decade of the

1960s

and all the crazy fashions which came into vogue during that time,

I would like to educate you about the

"Paper Dress"

with a little help from

Wikipedia.

Paper clothing, in the form of women's dresses and other clothes made from disposable cellulose fabric, was a short-lived fashion novelty item in the United States in the 1960s. The  mass-produced paper fashion was invented by the American Scott Paper Company in 1966 as a marketing stunt. Customers could send in a coupon and $1.25 to receive a dress made of "Dura-Weve", a cellulose material patented in 1958. 500,000 of them were produced, and other manufacturers soon followed suit. By 1967, paper dresses were sold in major department stores for about $8 apiece, and entire paper clothing boutiques were set up by companies such as Abraham & Straus and I. Magnin. At the height of demand, Mars Hosiery made 100,000 dresses a week. Other items made of paper included underwear, men's vests, bridal gowns, children's pinafores, and even rain coats and bikinis. Good for two to three wearings. But as the novelty appeal of paper clothes wore off, their downsides became more apparent: they were generally ill-fitting and uncomfortable to wear, their garish colors could rub off, they were often flammable, and of course they very soon ended up as waste. By 1968, paper clothing had disappeared from the market.

Now,

if you think that is the most outrages,

ill-conceived,

idea for clothing,

you haven't heard about the

Wet Runway Shower, Where Dresses Dissolve.

By M Dee Dubroff for Inventorspot.com

Renowned for his experimental designs, British/Turkish/Cypriot fashion designer, Hussein Chalayan, has once again created a unique runway show and collection. Forever alive on the silver screen, Gene Kelly cheerfully sang and danced in the rain, but despite the deft and graceful magic of his moves, he couldn't make his umbrella dissolve. This type of high-tech enchantment would come decades later, with the advent of the works of an exciting and highly unconventional designer named Hussein Chalayan. Using the medium of the fashion runway, he has created a show worthy of a colorful circus act with his water-soluble dresses.

Yes,

this designer developed clothing which dissolves when it gets wet.

How is that for a fashion statement?

This is,

Why Didn't They Have This When I was Twenty-Years Old?

Think Of All The Water Balloons Which Would Have Been Sold Back Then!

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness.”
- John Steinbeck -

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Customer Complaint

This Babylonian tablet from 1750 BC goes to show that customer service and client/vendor disputes were happening well before shopping malls and Amazon. The clay tablet comes from the ancient city of Ur, now part of southern Iraq, and is part of the British Museum‘s collection. Though it's just 4.5 inches (11.6 cm) tall and about 2 inches (5 cm) wide, the complaint is rather detailed. Written in cuneiform, the letter from Nanni to Ea-nasir is a complaint about the wrong grade of copper delivered and Ea-nasir's subsequent slights as Nanni attempted to get his proper delivery. The tablet, which was acquired by the museum in 1953, was translated by A. Leo Oppenheim in the 1960s and published in his book Letters from Mesopotamia. Oppenheim was a leading Assyriologist until his death in 1974 and was said to have read more cuneiform than any living person.
By Jessica Stewart for MyModernMet.com

"Tell Ea-nasir: Nanni sends the following message: When you came, you said to me as follows: “I will give Gimil-Sin (when he comes) fine quality copper ingots.” You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Sit-Sin) and said: “If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!” What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory. Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt! On account of that one (trifling) mina of silver which I owe(?) you, you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the palace on your behalf 1,080 pounds of copper, and Umi-abum has likewise given 1,080 pounds of copper, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple of Samas. How have you treated me for that copper? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full. Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any copper from you that is not of fine quality. I shall (from now on) select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt."

 This is,

Finding Stories Like This Fascinating,

I Hope You Do Too,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

"When Marduk sent me to rule over men, to give the protection of right to the land, I did right and righteousness in, and brought about the well-being of the oppressed."

- Hammurabi, -

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Apophis

What will you be doing when you are

Seventy-Four Years Old?

Or,

should I ask,

what will you be doing on

Friday, April 13th, 2029?

Yes,

it will be a

Friday The Thirteenth

kind of day!

Are you afraid?

To soften the blow,

I wrote a humorous story you might want to read called

Some Institutions Will Let You Write Things Down On Paper With A Crayon.

Where I use

Psychological Terms

like

Friggatriskaidekaphobia,

Triskaidekaphobia,

and

Paraskevidekatriaphobia

to described people in

Western Cultures

who are afraid of the number

Thirteen
and the days of the year that fall on

Friday The Thirteenth.

So why is the date of

April 13th, 2029

so important?

That is the day when most of the fanatics of this

World

will come out of the woodwork

and claim

"The end of the world is here!"

You see,

the

Egyptian God Apophis

is coming.

And is he pissed.

I would be too if the

Egyptian God Ra 

took my job away!

A little background from the pages of

Mythology.net.

"Apophis has quite the reputation. He’s known as the god of evil, chaos, darkness and destruction. In some retellings of his legend, Apophis was actually a former sun god, who was pushed aside when Ra came onto the stage. Ra and Apophis are therefore constantly fighting, since Apophis does not want him to succeed in his task of bringing up the dawn everyday."

Of course,

it is not really an

Egyptian God

coming to the

Earth

to ruin our day.

It is an

Asteroid

called

Apophis.

The size of a football stadium,

it has been calculated that the

Asteroid

will miss the

Earth

and the

Moon

on that fateful day.

The exciting part of the story is,

the

Asteroid

will come closer to the

Earth

then some of our

Satellites

circling our planet.

Won't that be a sight to see?

Why did I ask,

what will you be doing when you are

Seventy-Four Years Old

at the beginning of this

Post?

Because,

that is how old I will be on that day

and I plan on seeing it!

This is,

I Have The Genes To Be Able To Do It,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“It sounded somewhat doom-laden, so I felt obliged to look it up more thoroughly, in case I should eat some chocolate rather quickly.”
- Carol Anne Dobson -

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Fur-Ternity

You have just gotten a new pet

and you have no way of paying for a

Sitter

all day while you are at work.

What to do?

What to do?

I know,

work for a company who cares!

Minneapolis company's 'fur-ternity leave' lets new pet parents work from home!

By Gabriel Kwan for MPRNews.org

It all started with a new puppy. Nina Hale, a digital marketing company in Minneapolis, just introduced a policy that allows its employees who have just gotten new pets to work from home.
They're calling it "fur-ternity leave." The policy was inspired by Connor McCarthy, senior accounts manager at Nina Hale. Back in May, he had adopted a Goldendoodle named Bentley, and he wanted to be there for him as the new puppy settled into his new home. "I reached out to my direct supervisor ... and the lead in our team, and just mentioned that I was getting a puppy," he said. "So I just discussed if there was any way that we could have adjustments to my schedule ... to allow me to at least be with the puppy while still working." Allison McMenimen is the executive vice president for client services at Nina Hale and McCarthy's team lead. She said that McCarthy's request was quickly approved and that it tipped company leadership off that fur babies were just as important to their employees as human babies.

Isn't that sweet.

Now if we can get more

Companies

on board,

we wouldn't have the

Traffic Jams

we do today.

This is,

Still Hoping To Get My Computer Fixed Soon,

So I Don't Have To Sit In Line At The Library To Use One Of Theirs,

Jim Hauenstein,

Maybe Then I Will Be Able To Have Time To Write Some Good Short Stories Again,

And,

"Life is too short to be miserable. So let's be happy."

- Gethard Berger -

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I Am A Reading Whovian

 

Yes,

I am a reading

Whovian!

I can't wait for the new television season to start too!

This is,

I Own A David Tennant Sonic Screwdriver,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.”
- Steven Moffat -

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Pack 220

Yesterday's

Post

got me to thinking.

Remembering the days when I was in the

Cub Scouts

 and

Boy Scouts,

back home,

in

South Milwaukee,

Wisconsin.

I actually enjoyed being a

Cub Scout

more than a

Boy Scout.

I believe the reason I liked the

Cub Scouts

so much is because my

Mother

was the

Den Mother

of our group.

The only real story I still remember of those days is when our troop went on a field trip to the

Port Of Milwaukee.

This was during the early 1960s

and the reason we were going to the

Port

was to take a tour of a

World War 2

era

U.S. Navy Submarine.

Yes,

they still had submarines stationed in the

Great Lakes

during this time because at first,

our

Government

was afraid of

German U-Boats

infiltrating these waters during
and after

WW2.
Then,
afterwards,
it was the

Cold War

with

Russia.

I guess the

Military

thought that during the

Cold War

that

Russia

would attack

Canada

first,

then come down from the

North

and take over the

Great Lake Region.

I'm not sure,

its just my speculation.

While our troop of

Cub Scouts

was touring the

Submarine,

and let me tell you,

there was barely enough room for us kids to move around,

the

Lines

or

Hawsers

mooring the

Submarine

to the pier,

somehow unraveled

and the ship floated away from the dock.

Since there wasn't a full crew to run the ship back,

the

Navy Lieutenant

giving the tour,

had to radio in to the

Port Authorities

for a

Tug Boat.

We were all kept down inside the ship,

until we docked because our

Den Mother

thought we might fall over board

and drown.

But still,

it was an adventure of a lifetime for an eight

or nine year old,

and I,

myself,

had plenty of tales to tell my fellow students when I went back to school on

Monday Morning!

This is,

Life,

It Is Always An Adventure,
Live It,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“There is no teaching to compare with example.”
- Baden Powell - 

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The First Year

This is the first year.

And the times they are changing.

I thought about it

and I am all for it!

Girls in the Louisiana Boy Scouts? Yes, it's for real!

By Kris Wartelle, The Daily Advertiser on WWL-TV.com

In an historic move, The Boy Scouts of America, for the first time in its 108-year history, is inviting both boys and girls to join the Cub Scouts. Boys and girls must be between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. Scouting leaders say all families will now be able to participate in the Cub Scouts, a program renowned for character-building fun and adventure. Each Cub Scout den will be single gender — all boys or all girls. Meanwhile, Cub Scout packs can include any combination of all-boy or all-girl dens. Scouting has seen a decline in membership over the years, said Michelle Copper, committee chair for Cub Scout Pack 451 in Scott. After studying successful programs around the country, the organization found that those run as family programs, which would include girls, were the most successful packs.

 

I chose this story about the

Louisiana Boy Scouts

 because one of my

Granddaughters

has just signed up to be in the first ever class of girls joining the

Cub Scouts

in that state.

Good for her.

I am very proud of you

Lilah!

This is,

Being A Proud Papa,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“I became a Cub Scout and learned how to salute by bringing my index and middle fingers together and touching my forehead just above my right eyebrow. I could snap a smart salute and did so whenever the occasion arose. My uniform was second hand and already had most of the required patches sewn onto it. It was quite worn and had a faded look, which suited me just fine. It gave the illusion that I had been around a while, and wasn’t just the tenderfoot that I really was.”
- Captain Hank Bracker, -

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April 8th, 2024

Last night I watched a recording on the

Science Channel

of a program which looked back at the last year's

Solar Eclipse.

It was spectacular,

wasn't it?

And if you did not get to a spot where you could be in the

"Totality Area"

of

America,

where the

Moon

blocks the

Sun

completely,

never fear,

there is another

Totality Eclipse

coming next year!

Nearly two years after the Great American Solar Eclipse of 2017, the world will once again have a chance to experience totality, when the moon completely blocks the sun, turning day into night as its 125-mile-wide (200 kilometers) shadow moves across the surface of the Earth. On July 2, 2019, the moon will block the sun over the South Pacific Ocean, Chile and Argentina. Other parts of South America will be able to see a partial eclipse. Most of this eclipse will be happening over the Pacific Ocean, where the partial eclipse starts at 12:55 p.m. EDT (1655 GMT). This total solar eclipse will have a longer duration than last year's total solar eclipse, with totality lasting up to 4 minutes and 33 seconds. However, this maximum duration may be visible only to observers on a few boats and airplanes, because it will be happening over the Pacific Ocean. By Space.com Staff.

If you don' want to put your

Pontoon Boat

out in the

Pacific Ocean,

there will be another

Totality Solar Eclipse

coming to

America

on

April 8th, 2024!

So don't get your knickers in a bunch!

Come

and join me on this date,

just north of

San Antonio, Texas.

That is where I will be.

This is,

Now I Am Thinking About My Days Drinking

And Driving A Pontoon Boat

With My Girlfriend On

Tippecanoe Lake

In Wisconsin

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“A little tranquil lake is more significant to my life than any big city in the world”
- Munia Khan -

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Group Texting Dad Jokes

A couple of years ago,

I started

Group Texting

my kids.

It is my way,

of letting them know,

that they are in my thoughts everyday.

Even though I am retired,

and I would like to point out that I was very lucky to be able to retire at the age of

Fifty-Three,

and have a lot more free time on my hands now,

my kids are busy as ever with living their lives.

They don't always have the time,

to take out of their busy schedules,

to just sit around

and chat about the weather with me on their cellphone.

So I

Group Text

them a

"Dad Joke"

on a daily basis to keep in touch.

It also keeps them on their toes.

A lot of times,

it also starts a conversation between them,

about how corny I am.

In this way,

I have them communicating with each other too!

What?

You don't know what a

"Dad Joke"

is?

"Dad joke" is a pejorative term used to describe a corny or predictable joke, typically a pun.^[1] Generally inoffensive, dad jokes are traditionally told by fathers among family, either with sincere humorous intent, or to intentionally provoke a negative reaction to its "dagginess". One of the most common "dad jokes" goes as follows: A child will say to the dad, "I am hungry," to which the dad will reply, "Hi, Hungry, I am Dad." Many dad jokes may be considered anti-jokes, deriving humor from an intentionally unfunny punchline. Wikipedia

 My oldest daughter thinks I am so corny with my

"Dad Jokes"

that she thinks I am ruining my kids lives!
My grandson asked me to make him a sandwich. I said,
"Poof, you are a sandwich!"

This is,

I Have Personally Used The

"Sandwich Joke"

On More Than One Occasion,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
- Steve Martin -

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Long Boards Or Short?

Since I like

Science

so much,

and I like to try to be funny,

I thought it was time to bring back my story

Hey Dude, Are You A Long Boarder Or Short Boarder When Riding Those Gravitational Waves?

A

Post

I wrote on

February 13th, 2016.

*****

I was talking to my friend Albert awhile back, 

you know, 

Albert Einstein.

About a hundred years ago,
I was talking to him about some of his theories.

He starts telling me,

"We will not only use telescopes to do astronomy, by seeing beautiful close-ups of the Planets and our Moon, but we'll see the Milky Way in a whole light. In the future we'll finally understand Star formation, how our Solar System was born, and we'll discover and prove my theory on Black Holes."

 So I say to him,

"Come on Al, aren't you stretching things a bit with your Black Hole theory?"

So Al, 

who is part of my posse says to me,

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” 

If I didn't know any better, 

I would have thought that I just got insulted, 

I think?

Well, 

my 

Good Ol' Homie 

was proven right once again last 

September 14th, 2015. 

It took Scientist, 

who released their findings just a couple of days ago, 

that long to sift through all the data to prove there are 

Gravitational Waves. 

They did it with 

LIGO. 

You know, 

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatories.

The headlines read,

"A scientific milestone was achieved using a pair of giant laser detectors in the United States, located in Louisiana and Washington State, capping a decades-long quest to find these waves." Story by Will Dunham and Scott Malone for Reuters.

I know, 

these guys are cheating! 

My man Einstein used chalk 

and a blackboard for his findings. 

These 

LIGO  

people are using lasers 

and got their money from,

The National Science Foundation, 

"an independent agency of the United States government, who provided about $1.1 billion in funding for the research over the past 40 years."

But I must say, 

I always wanted one of those laser pointy sticks for myself! 

I would use it to set up my wobbly telescope, 

pointing it to the Moon.

This is,

Gravitational Waves Are Kind Of Small,
So I'm Using A Long Board When I Go Surfing,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign of?” 

- Albert Einstein -

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