This n that..snippets of wisdom

A lazy day and a mishmashof of wisdom for my chers readers on the line of

 

That's not an owl-it's a chair from Yoruba!

DID Y'ALL KNOW THAT?

• Early politicians required feedback from the public to determine what the people considered important. Since there were no telephones, TV's or radios, the politicians sent their assistants to local taverns, pubs, and bars. They were told to 'go sip some ale' and listen to people's conversations and political concerns. Many assistants were dispatched at different times. 'You go sip here' and 'You go sip there.' The two words 'go sip' were eventually combined when referring to the local opinion and,thus we have the term 'gossip.'

Aztec banquet-Gossip time!

• The problem is that goaltenders have two specific career differences from forwards and defencemen. The majority, not all, players tend to hit their peak playing time from about 26 to 32. They are all still affective after the age of 32 but this tends to be where their production slows and leadership skills start to show. Goaltenders need a couple extra years of development and therefore have a peak of 29 to 35. The problem is that the goaltending position places strain on the lower body and causes early retirement or inability to reach peak potential for a sustained period.

 Panthers' goalies collects

• Mandelbrot emphasized the use of fractals as realistic and useful models of many "rough" phenomena in the real world. Natural fractals include the shapes of mountains, coastlines and river basins; the structures of plants, blood vessels and lungs; the clustering of galaxies; and Brownian motion. Fractals are found in human pursuits, such as music, painting, architecture, and stock market prices. Mandelbrot believed that fractals, far from being unnatural, were in many ways more intuitive and natural than the artificially smooth objects of traditional Euclidean geomety: Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.



Sinus of Danube

• In music class tt was often difficult to hear the music for the buzzing of the snores! So teacher asked his classes why it puts them to sleep and the general response was that the music was “okay” (Beethoven late quartets, e.g.), but the big caveat was it had no BEAT!