“You’re such a hypocrite, sitting there with that irritating look on your face, pointing out all the flaws in my writing. It’s time to own up to your own vulnerabilities and stop criticizing others, especially me. Now if you have some honest knowledgeable analysis, be my guest.”
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Lucky Dip – Saturday Mix, 12 October 2024
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No Theme Thursday 10.10.24
Doing my nails after using cologne
Heard my cell ring, a message ignored
My treasures are sitting on the shelf,
A magazine article promoting myself
My ego all represented here
I face my life with no fear
I feel my worth truly justified
It’s my opinion, while others are mystified.
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Reena’s Xploration Challenge #351
Using this clip about Columbus’s ship trio:
“Though only two of Columbus’s ships ended up being caravels, Isabella’s decree speaks to the popularity of the vessel during the 15th-century “Age of Discovery.” Starting with Portuguese explorations of the African coast in the mid-1400s, caravels were prized for their sleek, lightweight hull and their uncanny ability to sail into the wind.
Luis Filipe Viera de Castro, a nautical archeologist at Texas A&M University, says that the earlier Portuguese caravels, known as the caravela latina, were rigged with lateen (triangular) sails that hung at 45-degree angle to the deck.
“Lateen sails are […] almost like wings,” says Castro. “You can point the bow of the caravel with an angle of just 20 degrees off the wind and still get enough lift on the outer edge of the sail to propel forward.”
The lateen-rigged caravels were critical in the Portuguese voyages to sub-Saharan African, where strong coastal winds blow north to south. The versatile caravel could speed south along the coast and easily return to shore against the wind.
For Columbus’s maiden journey, he used a Spanish update to the caravel known as the caravela redonda, a three-masted ship where the first two masts were rigged with conventional square sails for open-ocean speed, and a third was rigged with a lateen sail for coastal maneuverability. That rigging combination made ships like the Niña and the Pinta some of the best sailing vessels of their time.”
Clip here and read more at https://www.history.com/news/christopher-columbus-ships-caravels.
Have a great weekend!
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The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Oct. 12, 2024
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Ovi Poetry Challenge 69: SPICE is your inspiration.
The gods are angry, especially him
You can see he has no seraphim
He works with anger, frustration and greed
Thrives on them, and constantly feeds
Your evil desires, your worst devastations
They feed his soul with a fascination
Endless ages he has existed
Keeping all the crimes listed
He revels in hate and must
Glorify all who use innocents’ trust
Every abhorrent act he praises
Keeping the hellfires blazing
Observe his presence, but stand back
Or he’ll find a tiny goodness you lack
And triumph as he opens that crack.
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No Theme Thursday 10.10.24
“Very big plant, uh, many countries they do that, and, uh, and then all of a sudden you hear that they’re leaving Milwaukee or wherever they may be, located, very sad to see it, and, it’s so simple, I mean, you know, this isn’t like Elon with his rocket ships that land within twelve inches on the moon where they wanted to land, or he gets the, engines back, that was the first I really, I said who the hell did that, I saw engines, about three four years ago, these things were coming, cylinders, no wings, no nothing, and they’re coming down very slowly, landing on a raft in the middle of the ocean someplace, with the, circle, boom, reminded me of, the Biden circles that he used to have, right, he’d have eight circles, and he couldn’t fill them up, but then I heard he BS with the popular vote, I don’t know, I don’t know, couldn’t fill up the eight circles, I always loved those circles, they were so beautiful, they were so beautiful to look at, in fact the person that did that, that was the best thing his, the level of that circle, was, great, but they couldn’t get people, so they used to have the Press, stand in for the circles, because they couldn’t get the people, then I heard we lost, oh, we lost, now we’re never going to let that happen again, but we’ve been, abused, by other countries, we’ve been abused by our own politicians really more than other countries.”
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This is an excerpt from Facebook’s Stonekettle:
“That’s Trump, VERBATIM. That was Trump talking to the Detroit Economic Club, AFTER he repeatedly trashed Detroit as essentially a 3rd World country. This is not a person you want to hand over our economy to. This is not a guy you want deciding the makeup of the Supreme Court. This isn’t someone who should have the power to decide who can get married or what rights women should have or who pays taxes or what religion you’re forced to worship. This guy should be kept absolutely as far from the nuclear weapons as humanly, or even inhumanly, possible.”
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This image reminded me of my granddaughter:
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No Theme Thursday 10.10.24
“Wait!” she told her son. “The rain is going to stop and then you and I will go outside for a really big surprise!” Julie wanted her son to experience one of mother nature’s best features, a huge rainbow. He was only three years old and there very few rainbows in their area. He asked to go outside but she told him it was raining and they would go only when it stopped. He was impatiently waiting and she kept him away from the window, until the rainbow colors brightened. Outside, her son jumped up and down seeing the rainbow.
The Bag Lady 
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