When pressed on her contribution to the Lives of the Elders, Sally T. Intern‘s response was simply, “When life gives you lemons….” She did not elaborate.
Sally is considering a lemon-themed tattoo:
Mood Level Midnight: Lemon
UC#4-SU
UC#4 – Hospital volunteer, blood donor, friend of the snail.
UC#2
Chicago / Origen
UC#2 is in Chicago today, preparing to give a talk on Origen and the stylistic comparison to Plato’s Republic.
On my way to Chicago right now. We’ll be there in 20 minutes. It’s a Boeing 737 Max, so we get Wi-Fi on-board as well as the underlying fear of being sucked out the side of the airplane.
I’m trying to identify this lake that we flew over on our flight to PHX at 1:45 local time. I think it’s the Salton Sea.
UC#2
Santa Barbara / Bunnies
On Wednesday, UC#2 spotted four bunny rabbits on campus. These are actual photos from UCSB:
UC#3
Blue Angels
UC#3 is providing valuable feedback for the Blue Angels training runs at Annapolis.
UC#3 is also deeply involved in the WLBOTT investment scheme strategy. You can read about it here.
UC#1
UC#1 is celebrating the local Crab Apple Blossom Festival.
He is also deeply involved in the WLBOTT investment scheme strategy. You can read about it here.
Big Stuff
I don’t know if we are still keeping track of large things, but here are a couple that I don’t think we mentioned earlier:
Drumheller, Alberta – 80′ dinosaur
Sudbury, Ontario – Giant Nickel
By Motorbicycle – A visit to Dynamic Earth, CC BY-SA 4.0
UC#1
UC#1 also shares with us a graph that we are still decoding….
UC#4
Chick Pot Pies (CPP)
UC#4 has been spending his dwindling time resources comparing frozen chicken pot pies:
(All prices in USD)
Banquet CPP: $1.00
Boston Market CPP: $3.32
Marie Calendar CPP: $3.48
(Note: The Marie Calendar CPP is considered by many to be the Queen Mother of Chicken Pot Pies).
Gastronomical Analysis: All three tasted identical. The only real difference was the thickness of the crust and the size of the chicken chunks. Two of the 3 are made by ConAgra, who also make Patio Frozen Chicken Burritos, which also taste identical to the CPPs (except w/a flour tortilla for crust).
[ed. note: Patio Burritos, now apparently extinct, used to be our go-to 3 for $1 sustenance.]
Another Talent Acquired by UC#4
UC#4 today learned how to un-do an un-do (a.k.a. re-do):
Semi-Sequiturs: UC#2
Salton Sea
The Salton Sea is a shallow, landlocked, highly saline body of water in Riverside and Imperial counties at the southern end of the U.S. state of California. It lies on the San Andreas Fault within the Salton Trough, which stretches to the Gulf of California in Mexico.
The modern lake was formed from an inflow of water from the Colorado River in 1905. Beginning in 1900, an irrigation canal was dug from the Colorado River to the old Alamo River channel to provide water to the Imperial Valley for farming. The headgates and canals sustained a buildup of silt, so a series of cuts were made in the bank of the Colorado River to further increase the water flow. Water from spring floods broke through a canal head-gate, diverting a portion of the river flow into the Salton Basin for two years before repairs were completed. The water in the formerly dry lake bed created the modern lake, which is about 15 by 35 miles (24 by 56 km) at its widest and longest. A 2023 report puts the surface area at 318 square miles (823.6 km2).
After 1999, the lake began to shrink as local agriculture used the water more efficiently, so less runoff flowed into the lake. As the lake bed became exposed, the winds sent clouds of toxic dust into nearby communities. Smaller amounts of dust reached into the Los Angeles area, and people there could sometimes smell an odor coming from the lake…. In 2020, Palm Springs Life magazine summarized the ecological situation as “Salton Sea derives its fame as the biggest environmental disaster in California history”.
Origen of Alexandria (c. 185 – c. 253), also known as Origen Adamantius, was an early Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria. He was a prolific writer who wrote roughly 2,000 treatises in multiple branches of theology, including textual criticism, biblical exegesis and hermeneutics, homiletics, and spirituality. He was one of the most influential and controversial figures in early Christian theology, apologetics, and asceticism. He has been described as “the greatest genius the early church ever produced”.
Two sides of the Papyrus Bodmer VIII, an early New Testament fragment from the third or fourth century AD containing the Epistle of Jude, 1 Peter, and 2 Peter. Origen accepted the two former as authentic without question, but noted that the latter was suspected to be a forgery. – WikipediaThe dude got around. Origen almost certainly enjoyed a Mediterranean Diet.
UC#2: No Context
WLBOTT archivists found the following images in UC#2’s correspondence log. There is no context. The Mystery of UC#2 deepens.
