order of the golden ratio

1. From the  geometry of ancient Greece , a golden rectangle is a rectangle whose side lengths are in the golden ratio, 1.618. The formation of this ratio is considered by some to be a governing force in the universe.
2. jpr: i have two flower beds in this ratio of width to height!

                                

The beauty of the scam.

This handsome devil is 45 year old Paul Gonzales currently a resident of the LA County Jail.  An alleged "dine-and-dash" dater, he's accused of repeatedly leaving restaurant bills unpaid and facing 13 years in prison.  So far 10 women who he arranged online dates with have come forward to accuse him of various financial crimes.  Seems old Paul would invite them to an expensive restaurant for dinner.  After a fine meal he'd excuse himself for the loo, then disappear leaving his dates with the bill.

What more can one say.

‘Tis a fearful thing to love what death can touch.

A fearful thing to love, to hope, to dream, to be –

to be, And oh, to lose.

A thing for fools, this,

And a holy thing,

a holy thing to love.

For your life has lived in me, your laugh once lifted me, your word was gift to me.

To remember this brings painful joy.

‘Tis a human thing, love, a holy thing, to love what death has touched.”

― Yehuda HaLevi  11th centurey

Another whacky English sport.

I wonder if the English ever work?  No one, I mean no one has sooo many sports.  Most merely an excuse to hang out and drink?  A five-a-side soccer match played in a river.  The annual event is played in the River Windrush, which is ankle-deep as it flows through the village of Bourton-on-the-Water in the Cotswolds.  Hundreds of spectators turned out on Monday to watch the match, which is said to date back about 100 years.

on the porch in appalachia

Visited my aunt on her 91st BD. No porch but she led us all in singing "You are my sunshine.
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcnNb7Pnmok

Happy Birthday, Auntie E

Nosey neighboor? Look closely.

Its actually a door, painted to look like someone peering out a window.  A painting.  Brilliant.

The World's Oldest Currency; another usless factoid.

The British currency ‘the pound’ has been in continuous use since first introduced in the 8th century, making it the oldest currency in the world.  Modeled on an older system introduced by the Romans,  its name derives from the Latin word Libra for weight or balance, via the construction Libra Pondo, meaning a pound weight. While the word ‘libra’ has  long since been discarded, it makes its presence felt in both the £ symbol, an ornate L, and the abbreviational system for the unit of mass, lb.  Its value originally equated to the price of a pound of silver.  A pound was originally divided into 20 shillings and 240 silver pennies, but now is based on the decimal system.

more Stephen Hawking

refer: where'd they go?

You Might be a Redneck Gardener If:

You mow your lawn and find a wheelbarrow.
A half moon reminds you of your fat husband pulling weeds.
You think a chain saw is a musical instrument.
You move your refrigerator and the grass underneath it is yellow.
You know how many bags of fertilizer your car can hold.
You've ever cleaned your house with a leaf blower.
You empty the trash when you have enough to fill up the pickup.
You can amuse yourself for more that an hour with a hose.
You've been cited for reckless driving on a riding lawn mower.
You move your weed-eater to take a bath.

Shaquille O'Neal is Dr.O'Neal

Shaq has earned a BA (general studies), MBA, and Ed D (Leadership and Human Resource Development). His future plans include earning a Law degree.

He has always been a good student.  
 

simply a rose

enjoy!

living in a car

JPR: In the 1980s job boom in Houston Tx. There was a housing shortage. Some workers lived in their car under bridges. Summer temps run 105/99 F. There is no cool running water in such heat as water lines run just under the surface  Flash forward to the Marcelus Shale job explosion in Appalachia. .Low home prices have doubled over the past several years. There is a housing shortage now with multibillon dollar chemical plants soon to be built there.

epitaph

for John Knott, of Sheffield, England: 

"Here lies a man that was Knott born, 
His father was Knott before him, 
He lived Knott, and did Knott die, 
Yet underneath this stone doth lie." 

tim conway and joe flynn

McHales navy is back (on cable). These two birds are truly hilarious together.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0KwlnunTxCA

mother turkey

jpr: A wild turkey and one (1) chick came strutting out in the back. It's uncommon these days with coyotes about. I'm guessing the other chicks were taken and the rest wiill be  soon!

Viva La France

Paris installed 100's public urinals on city streets so that people can, um, pee and go as they please. They look like mailboxes and are called "uritrottoirs"; the name is a combination of the French words for 'urinal' and 'sidewalk'. Perhaps the most contested one has been placed very close to the heavily-trafficked Notre Dame cathedral, while residents in upscale neighborhoods are balking at the idea of people taking a leak outside their door.

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alicia silverstone today

Looking good as she nears 40.

Police Reports?

Native American Poem

I give you this one thought to keep - 
I am with you still - I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the sweet uplifting rush,
of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not think of me as gone - 
I am with you still in each new dawn.

them old boys ain't poor

They be millionaires...yeah multi millionaires being made damn nearly daily in the back woods from gas/oil on their small farms. In West Virginia too!

Yogi Berri

                                 “Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.”

38 sioux hanged on christmas eve 1862

The great Sioux uprising in 1862-3 resulted in several massacres. One white settlement over 500 all citizens died at the hand of the Sioux.

The hanging of these Sioux was ordered by Pres Lincoln.

News from the Planet Mercury

Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun , possesses a recent estimate of 100 billion to one trillion tons of ice. At noon at the equator on Mercury, the temperature can hit 800 degrees Fahrenheit. 

Near Mercury’s poles, deep within craters where the Sun never shines, temperatures dip to as cold as minus 370.

when I fish..this be my choice

jpr: I likes to wade up stream with small light rod. Jar full of insects ifn you can handle em or some artificial stuff. Them pools can be good fishing ifn you gets up clear from homesteads. See a lot of nature as well including snakes in the trees overhead. Lots of fun when i could get the boys along. My bad knee don't let me climb than steep banks now days.

femto-photography

nano laser pulse

scientists are now able to take high-speed video at a trillion frames per second. 

http://www.ted.com/talks/ramesh_raskar_a_camera_that_takes_one_trillion_frames_per_second?language=en


Shazzam Bat Boy!

just amazing

Approximately 19 billion Lego elements are produced per year. 2.16 million are molded every hour, 36,000 every minute.

More than 400 billion Lego bricks have been produced since 1958. There are about 62 Lego bricks per person of the Earth's population.

ancient Celtic Design

This ancient Celtic Design is taken from the Celtic Burial Mound at New Grange in Co. Meath. This design pre-dates the arrival of Christianity in Ireland by some 3,000 years. It is thought to be the oldest Celtic symbol and is supposed to represent the 3 stages of man: Birth, Death, Eternity. Available in Black.

the great persian empire

At the height of its power after the conquest of Egypt, the empire 
encompassed approximately 8 million square kilometers spanning
 three continents: Asia, Africa and Europe. At its greatest extent, 
the empire included the modern territories of Iran, Iraq, Syria, 
Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, all significant population 
centers of ancient Egypt as far west as Libya, Turkey, Thrace 
 and Macedonia, much of the Black Sea coastal regions, 
Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, much of Central Asia, Afghanistan,
 northern Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and parts of 
Oman and the UAE. An estimated 44% of the world's population
 were ruled by this empire.

rural china

Between 50 and 55 per cent of the population resides in rural areas, where about two-thirds of the population is engaged in farming, forestry, animal husbandry and fishing. About 40 per cent of total employment in China is in rural areas. 

Reform-driven economic growth, together with a well-funded national poverty reduction program, has brought about a major reduction in rural poverty in mostly the eastern provinces. The current official poverty line is less than 1$ US per person per day!!

Chinese saying "Life is hard then you die!"

ma dwag in heat wave

This water hole was the favorite of a great  dog named Penelope.  This is the first time in 11 years  that my boy ever plunged. He watched Penelope swim here for years but never immersed until after Penelope's recent death.

Joseph Pearce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOAvyxU8C_Q

Pearce was born in East London, and brought up in Dagenham, England. At the age of fifteen he joined the National Front(NF), a far-right political party opposed to a multi-racial and multi-cultural England. He was closely involved in NF organisational activities and first came to prominence in 1977. Pearce was twice convicted under the Race Relations Act of 1976  serving time in prison in 1982 and 1985–1986.^[3] In 1980,  He was a frequent visitor to Northern Ireland and he maintained regular contact with the Ulster Defense Association..

Pearce attributes his subsequent religious conversion from a culturally-Protestant agnosticism to Roman Catholicism in part to reading G. K. Chesterton..

Joseph Pearce (born 1961) is an English-born writer, and as of 2012 Writer-in-Residence and Professor of Humanitiesat Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, NH; previously he had a comparable position, from 2001-2004, at Ave Maria College in Ypsilanti, Michigan and from 2004-2012 at Ave Maria College in Ave Maria, FL

The Art of Hunting Leprachauns

a little rain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NitBpJaom5k

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.  
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by soft falling. Lucretius

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.  

 Frederick the Great

Iq

One-Question IQ Test

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Here's a one-question IQ Test to help you decide how you should spend the rest of your day ...

There is a mute who wants to buy a toothbrush.  By imitating the action of brushing one's teeth, he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done.

Now, if there is a blind man who wishes to buy a pair of sunglasses, how should he express himself?  Think about it first then follow the jump..

Rachel Nichols - New Member of the JP Gallery

The 34 year old actress from Maine stands 5'10', graduated from Columbia, and is the star of the Sci-Fi classic Continuum.

One of the greatest lines of all time.

Could mental health have been an issue?

Lady Gaga has paid tribute to model Rick Genest, who has died at the age of 32.  Rick was known as Zombie Boy, due to bone and organ tattoos across his body, including skull features on his face.  He was found dead at his home in Montreal, Canada and is believed to have killed himself.

most popular tattoo for the ladies

        Easy to cover????

Need I Say More

More school excuses

1. Please excuse Tommy for being absent yesterday. He had diarrhea and his boots leak.
2. Irving was absent yesterday because he missed his bust.
3. Please excuse Jennifer for missing school yesterday. We forgot to get the Sunday paper off the porch, and when we found it Monday, we thought it was Sunday.
4. Sally won't be in school a week from Friday. We have to attend her funeral.
5. Please excuse Jason for being absent yesterday. He had a cold and could not breed well.
6. Gloria was absent yesterday as she was having a gangover.
7. Chris will not be in school cus he has an acre in his side.
8. Please excuse Ray Friday from school. He has very loose vowels.