Stannous Flouride's Book of Truthiness

CORRECTION:
The pics were wrong, I have been placed with a family (Neyda y Enriqué). It is nearby but I replaced the photos with new ones showing the correct street below.

It is next to the old German Quarter in Colonia San Esteban:

Aerial view

Calle 27 entre Calle 10 y Calle 12

Calle 27 entre Calle 10 y Calle 12

The corner restaurant and market

Calle 27 #341 entre Calle 10 y Calle 12

One of these 3. I can’t make out the street numbers.

The park and nursery school at the corner

Daily specials!

The park at the corner

Looks like a nice neighborhood, just 3 days away!

On this day in 1957, machines at the Wham-O toy company rolled out the first batch of their aerodynamic plastic discs–now known to millions of fans all over the world as Frisbees.

The story of the Frisbee began in Bridgeport, Conn., where William Frisbie opened the Frisbie Pie Company in 1871. Students from nearby universities would throw the empty pie tins to each other, yelling “Frisbie!” as they let go.

In 1948, Walter Frederick Morrison and his partner Warren Franscioni invented a plastic version of the disc called the “Flying Saucer” that could fly further and more accurately than the tin pie plates. After splitting with Franscioni, Morrison made an improved model in 1955 and sold it to the new toy company Wham-O as the “Pluto Platter”–an attempt to cash in on the public craze over space and UFOs.

In 1958, a year after the toy’s first release, Wham-O–the company behind such top-sellers as the Hula-Hoop, the Super Ball and the Water Wiggle–changed its name to the Frisbee disc, misspelling the name of the historic pie company.

    
Over the years almost 400 million Wham-O Frisbees have been sold, not to mention the millions more of the many other flying discs it inspired.
In no small fault to this sort of marketing:

A few randomly snagged pieces from a very beautiful rabbit hole:
http://collection.whitney.org/artists/by-letter/A

California’s Republican(sic) Senator feeds her husband the kind of info that sent Martha Stewart to the joint so he earns a billion and helps the defunding/privatizing of the USPS move forward.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/dianne-feinsteins-husbands-real-estate-firm-poised-make-1-billion-selling-post?akid=12698.274885.Nq9fT5&rd=1&src=newsletter1030527&t=11

Now filling my apartment with a mouth-watering fragrance, an easy to make and delicious treat for a cold winter’s night.

Most recipes I have found online use far too much sugar that masks the main ingredients’ flavors. This one started with 3.5 cups of sugar and ½ cup of molasses.

Pre-heat oven to 350º F

Peel & boil until soft 2 cups (3-4 medium) sweet potatoes, mash or purée, set aside to cool

In a large bowl mix:

• 1 cup sugar (brown or white or ½ & ½)
• 1 cup molasses
• 1 cup vegetable oil (I use ½ peanut & ½ canola)

Sift together:

• 3 ½ cups flour (I have been using a mix of various types: garbanzo, millet, almond, corn, & wheat just because I inherited them. It doesn’t seem to make a big difference. I have made it using all non-gluten flour.)
• 2 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 tsp. nutmeg
• ½ tsp. salt

Add to liquid alternating with ⅔ cup water.

When well mixed stir in sweet potatoes, mix well, and pour into one 9”x13” glass baking dish (or 3 small bread pans).

Bake at 350ºF for 1 hour.

Allow to cool before cutting (if you can wait)

Or anyone else’s on ANY social media site for that matter.

It’s just an ego stroke anyway but seeing the number of people from the far-flung reaches of this rocky orb that seem to be checking out my stuff is fine for me.
There is a reason for this- it is to protect you from predictive social media algorithms that might be used against you in the future.
In fact, you should stop doing it everywhere, especially on FB:

Illustration by Jeff Chiu/Associated Press

For a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Wu Youyou, Michal Kosinski and David Stillwell used a computer model to gauge subjects’ personalities based on Facebook Likes. To measure the model’s accuracy, the researchers compared its verdicts to subjects’ ratings of their own personalities. The result: Fed enough Likes, computers are quite good at judging human personality — better than the average friend or co-worker, and about as good as the average spouse. At least when it comes to a certain conception of personality (the researchers used the five-factor model, which looks at traits like extroversion and neuroticism), a computer program can know you as well as your husband or wife does.

The researchers also tested the computer model’s assessments to see how good they were at predicting 13 “life outcomes” that have been linked to personality, including health, political leanings and satisfaction with life. The model’s ratings were better than those provided by other humans at predicting all but one of these outcomes (life satisfaction). And they were better than people’s self-ratings of their personality at predicting four of the outcomes: Facebook use; number of Facebook friends; use of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs; and field of study.

The first two aren’t necessarily shocking, said Ms. Wu in an interview — you’d expect a Facebook-based algorithm to be able to predict Facebook behavior accurately. More surprising, she explained, is the fact that computers’ personality ratings were so good at predicting how much people drank or used drugs, and what subject they were likely to study. Using the computer model to guess at such outcomes is “basically a measure of how the judgment of personality described this person’s behavior in real life,” she said. “In that sense, computers to some extent know you better than people know themselves.”

Scary potential for abuse by the corporatocracy.
Read more here:
http://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/how-your-facebook-likes-could-cost-you-a-job/?_r=0

Via APoD:
The Complex Ion Tail of Comet Lovejoy 

Image Credit & Copyright: Velimir Popov & Emil Ivanov (IRIDA Observatory)                                                                                                      Explanation: What causes the structure in Comet Lovejoy’s tail? Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy), which is currently at naked-eye brightness and near its brightest, has been showing an exquisitely detailed ion tail. As the name implies, the ion tail is made of ionized gas — gas energized by ultraviolet light from the Sun and pushed outward by the solar wind. The solar wind is quite structured and sculpted by the Sun’s complex and ever changing magnetic field. The effect of the variable solar wind combined with different gas jets venting from the comet’s nucleus accounts for the tail’s complex structure. Following the wind, structure in Comet Lovejoy’s tail can be seen to move outward from the Sun even alter its wavy appearance over time. The blue color of the ion tail is dominated by recombining carbon monoxide molecules, while the green color of of the coma surrounding the head of the comet is created mostly by a slight amount of recombining diatomic carbon molecules. The featured three-panel mosaic image was taken nine days ago from the IRIDA Observatory in Bulgaria. Comet Lovejoy made it closest pass to the Earth two weeks ago and will be at its closest to the Sun in about ten days. After that, the comet will fade as it heads back into the outer Solar System, to return only in about 8,000 years.the coma surrounding the head of the comet is created mostly by a slight amount of recombining diatomic carbon molecules. The featured three-panel mosaic image was taken nine days ago from the IRIDA Observatory in Bulgaria. Comet Lovejoy made it closest pass to the Earth two weeks ago and will be at its closest to the Sun in about ten days. After that, the comet will fade as it heads back into the outer Solar System, to return only in about 8,000 years.

The eruption of Vesuvius in ad 79 obliterated the nearby towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But the volcanic ash preserved what it destroyed — including, in Herculaneum, a library in a lavish villa thought to have belonged to Julius Caesar’s father-in-law. The library contains 600-700 of papyrus scrolls, dried and blasted by hot gases into what look like twisted logs of charcoal, and then buried deep under the ash.

The researchers were able to decipher an alphabet of Greek letters, and occasional words. Delattre compared the handwriting to that in other Herculaneum scrolls, and found a match with a scribe writing in the first centurybc. Given that scribe’s activity in other scrolls, the new text is likely to be a copy of writing by the philosopher and poet Philodemus, who lived from 110 bc to around 40 bc. That would match up with what has been learned from the texts already translated. They are mostly written in Greek, and include a large amount of work by Philodemus, who saw himself as defending the teachings of Epicurus, a philosopher who lived two centuries earlier and built up a system of ethics based on a materialist view of the world.

http://www.nature.com/news/x-rays-reveal-words-in-vesuvius-baked-scrolls-1.16763