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Category Archives: Art
Creative Accounting
It was just said in the news that Donald Trump’s wealth has reached 6.5 billion dollars for the first time ever. This is enough to put him in the top 500 wealthiest people list for the first time. Just don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Humour
Tagged 175 million dolllars Donald can pay, 175X multiplier, 22.5 million dollar stake now worth 4 billion dollars, 500 wealthiest people list, business acumen?, couldn't pay 500 million dollars, creative accounting, Donald known for taking out loans with inflated collateral values, Donald Trump, loans, socialism, wealth tax
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Plunder Wonder
A trickle of repatriation of artifacts of particular value has already started. That is where the museums of the west and in particular Europe give back artifacts that are known to be from other countries. Because of this we are … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, History, Politics
Tagged acroplis, Athens, Atlanta museum, Britain, Egypt, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Elgin, gem stones can be cut to make them untraceable, Greece, Greek, mummy, Niagara Falls, Parthenon Marbles, Rameses I, Rosetta Stone, silver and gold can be melted down to make untraceable, the west saved it for future generations
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April 2023 Grab Bag o’ Humour
As two letter abbreviations for Canadian provinces become more and more common in Canada, I looked up Newfoundland. NL is the two letter abbreviation for Newfoundland. This is way better than the four letter, Nfld., we were taught as kids. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Geography, Humour, Music
Tagged Art, Canada, CFL, D list, doctor, engineer, Fender Bender, Fender guitar, football, Frank Zappa, Joe's Garage, lawyer, lead guitar, Newfoundland, NFL, paintings, realist art, rhythm guitar, scientist, soccer, stratocaster, telecaster, tiger mom, two letter abbreviations for provinces
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The Colours of Wealth
Centuries ago, they didn’t have an inexpensive dye for purple. But they did for the rest of the spectrum. So only rich people could afford purple clothes. The colour became associated with wealth. Royalty and nobles alike used to like … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Humour
Tagged America, are the wealthy unnecessary?, B&W photos can't counterfeit colour, Bezos, Branson, Canada, colour, counterfeit, government got to the moon 53 years ago, green, greenback, money, Musk, orange, orange hair and skin, primary colours, purple, purple clothes were for nobles, Rosedale, secondary colours, subway stops, Toronto, Trump, wealth, when will private enterprise make it to the moon?
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Fun With the Fine Arts
The fine arts are fun. Ask anybody (except those who bleed, perspire or cry for their art!). Just look at some of the words used to describe the fine arts. We’ll start off with music. Music is fun! Just look … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Humour, Music, Stage and Screen, Writing
Tagged action, all doctors and lawyers can be boring, Art, comedy, fun, gravitas of other disciplines being named after it, joking around, lies and fabrications, music, play, staid profession, starving artists, the fine arts, theatre cinema, visual art, writing fiction
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But
This post has a couple of big buts. If you don’t like big buts then don’t read it. However if you do like big buts or are neutral this may be an article for you. The most famous person who … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Humour, Religion
Tagged art can affect people, big buts, buts, can sit beside homeless Jesus, can't iie on homeless Jesus' bench, charity, Christians, Elmira District Secondary School, Golden Leaves, Gordon Lightfoot, grooves to make skateboarders wipe out, Homeless Jesus, homelessness, Malcolm Gladwell, Orillia, sculptor, sculpture, Timothy Schmalz, Waterloo Public Square
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Lauding Economics but Dissing the Hard Sciences is a Recipe for Disaster
Politicians mostly hang on every word of an economist. They give that art its highest praise (as evidenced in practice) while trying to cherry pick the hard sciences of physics, chemistry and biology. Briefly I had a computer alias as … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Politics, Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged 99.9% of affected scientists believe in global warming, biology, chemistry, cherry picking, collusion, competition, economics is an art, economics may be a discipline but that doesn't make it a science, economists, economystic, global warming, hard, hard sciences, Loblaw Companies Ltd., market, ogilopolies and monopolies, physics, politicians, soft, supply and demand
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Irrational Bias in the Guardian
This recent Guardian article whines about today’s children not being able to use a pencil properly because all they do with their hands is press buttons and screens. But of course they had to make a large point of holding … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Social Science, Writing, Wry
Tagged "x"es and a check, 5 fingered grasp exercises 5 fingers, Bass, crokinole, dynamic sounds positive, dynamic tripod, dynamic tripod only exercises 3 fingers, fine motor skills, five fingered grasp, get a grip - The Guardian, grasp sounds negative, guitar, I can get likenesses of people while not using the dynamic tripod method, keyboards, musicians and precision games don't need the dynamic tripod method, neatness is probably in the wrist, people who hold their pen in other ways are just as fast and have as much stamina and are just as neat, recent Guardian article, The Guardian, today's children can't hold a pencil properly
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The Insidious Malevolence of Krypton
Many years ago, the planet Krypton almost stamped out its Kryptonians. I used to think that Kryptonians like Superman and Supergirl and Kandorians were just unlucky that Krypton exploded taking with it many loved ones. But I no longer think … Continue reading