Apple growers set to release Honeycrisp successor

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Apple growers set to release Honeycrisp successor Honeycrisp was a phenomenon in the apple industry because its taste and texture were so good it sold for about $1 more per pound than other varieties. Those investing in SweeTango are banking on it commanding the same premium price, and they've formed a cooperative to grow and sell it nationwide.

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When next we meet......... Hatah!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hatah

The Force of Mortality

http://understandinguncertainty.org/node/76

They say if you can't spot the sucker, then, its you.

But really, its even worse then that;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect

Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn?

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak?currentPage=1

ending is notable.

Ultralights no longer good for you?

http://www.broward-post.com/?t202id=8114&t202kw=benchmark

Long John(son) Willkomm

Amy wanted to name me Long Johnson Willkomm where the son is silent for talk like a pirate day but, being a modest man I said "No, while true we don't need to brag. Just call me Brown Beard." Fortunately, Melissa Two Hooks put aside her pirate pension for falsity and was inclined to acquiesce to my request. Here is my crew for the day.
 
 

Left to right: Self titled "Arrg Lucia", "Shark Bait", "Captain Darby", "Anna One Sock" and "Hairball the Pirate"
 
 

"Arrg Lucia" has trouble with lip curling.
 
 

"Anna One Sock" believes sticking your toungue out is very Pirate.
 
 

"Melissa Two Hooks" shows them how lip curling is done. Bonus points for the eye patch that doubles as a sleeping mask.
 
 

Arrrrgggggg!

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

Shark bait, who ha ha!

Reasonable

Some people like this quote. I've quoted it. But the more I look at it the more I think its simply not true.

"A reasonable man adapts himself to his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable men."

Assertion 1: "A reasonable man adapts himself to his environment." Sure, but he or she may also sees places where their environment can be changed. Change the pairadigem, as they say. It also would mean that people can not intentionally be creative or imaginative. That they can not intentionally or randomly think outside their little box to see the edges of the real box. Which they have proven many times, they can. Discovery can happen by accident even.

Freemasons: mortar of the United States

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112884584&ft=1&f=2

"...when the group was organized from a stonemasons' guild in 1717, its members adopted the radical proposition that men of different faiths can agree on God's existence.

"They can agree that God compels them to do good in the community," Morris says. "And then they can stop talking about religion.""

And all before the US was even invented. Perhaps you can even give them partial credit for the notions of tolerance found in the Constitution. Also, its Constitution day!

"There were 9 founding fathers that were Freemasons. Benjamin Franklin, William Ellery, John Hancock, Joseph Hewes, William Hooper, Robert Paine, Richard Stockton, George Walton and William Whipple. George Washington was also a Freemason. "

Tell the moms...

...their baby name fears are even more crazy then originally thought.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/babynames/

"Fewer and fewer people are picking the very most popular names. In the early part of the century, one in four babies were given one of the top 10 most popular names. Now, the most popular name (Emma) will be attached to barely one percent of the year’s babies."

So yes, if you name them Emma, only every 3 years on the average you will have another Emma in the classroom. And people used to be fine with that. Only the "my kids are special" generation take issue.

Melody makes it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PxsFCuBXLY&feature=related

You can take the Beatles songs and sing them by yourself or strip the melody out to a lone instrument like guitar and you've still got something pretty.

Should Santa's elves really...

Should Santa's elves really be called Santa's gnomes since their short and fat not tall and thin.
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Childish things

When I was a child I spoke as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things...

some of the time.

The Age of Turbulence

Currently reading Alan Greenspan's book. Book reviews and summaries are too big for a post so please look here.

http://sites.google.com/site/cogitoergoweb/books-1/the-age-of-turbulence-synopsis