If you're reading this from the United States I can guess with a fair amount of confidence that it's colder than you're used to where you live, and has been all week. In that spirit, maybe you'll get a kick out of this page I came across the other day describing a special pair of gloves:
The site is in Japanese, but you don't need much language to figure it out. A speaker in the thumb, a microphone in the pinky, volume on the wrist...
YES!!
I'm not sure what brand is in the Japanese feature, but it turns out there's a company called Hi-Fun that'll sell you a pair for around 70 bucks.
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Quick get a pair of racing styled ones! Varoom varoom.
As if watching a bunch of crazies talking to themselves ain't bad enough, now we gotta see them walking around with their gloved hands up to their ears! Sheeesh, if ET drops in on us he might die laughing.
Hey Paul: Whenever somebody catches me talking to myself. I just tell'em every now and then I like talking to someone with a little intelligence (emphasis on the little) . I do'nt think I'm crazy.... Am I?
As long as you are asking...
Heck fire I've got papers to prove I'm crazy.
Its not the talking its the arguments, but it seems you can't win and end up giving the silent treatment!
That map tells you all you need to know about why southern California was settled by we midwesterners. :-)
Heheheheeeee , That's about the brightest thing that I've seen since the beginning of the teabagger thugs / neo Nazi group of Anti-Americans ! Heheheheeeeeee............Oh , and they will run a Special price this week ~ Just For You !!!??????? Ha...ha hahhhaaaaaaaa >>>>>>>>>> OH~YEAH ! ............... Trust Them ??????????????????????????
Just think, it was almost 60 degrees in Washington, D.C. just last week. Now it's about 21 degrees. Strange, when I was a kid we never had winters like this.
Micheal Jackson meets Boy George?
Need them mittens with this accelerated global warming I reckon.I saw a polar bear floatin on an iceberg and I dang near squalled. Mrs. Hillie comforted me though.She said,"Bill them critters LIVE on ice, sometimes pieces break off, they can swim. That smokey old Nash tractor of yours didn't cause that."
So why do we need fancy electric mittens with a globe in alarm status?
Seriously? Is the whole "It's cold where I am right now so that disproves global warming" bit of sophistry the best that the right wing shills can come up with, now? I can't even tell anymore which posters are the actual trolls and which are the troll parodists...
I think this particular account is meant to be a parody. Anyone have a counter-argument? I wish the comment section here allowed polls. :)
I too suspect that billhillie's post is meant as satire. However, I once heard Rush Limbaugh use the "polar bears can swim" argument with all seriousness (or, at least, the pretense thereof). I will further note that down here in Florida, we've had a rather odd winter. We have had basically warmer-than-normal temperatures, punctuated by occasional cold days (including a couple of colder days last week). Right now, it's 73 degrees, with a forecast low of 50. On Tuesday, we're due for a high of 84. Great weather for Tampa's Gasparilla Festival.
Regarding the hullabaloo regarding recess appointments I have just two words: John Bolton
I read a book once (I cannot find it to check my reference) about temperature. When talking about temperature and weather, it said that a hot summer is often followed by a cold winter and I think, that a cold winter is likely to be followed by a hot summer.
Hot and cold in this country are determined by the jet stream. From about Jan. 1, 2013 to Jan. 20 it was very cold in the West because the jet stream dipped all the way down to the Mexican border. At my house in Southwest Colorado the temperature did not get above 35 degrees F. until Jan. 17 and the low was not above freezing until Jan. 25 (yesterday). This morning it was 33 and raining lightly.
So while the East was unseasonably warm the West was freezing. Now that the East is cold, the West is warm. Next week the West is due for another dip in the jet stream that will make it cold again.
Local and short term weather patterns do not support or refute climate change. It is the long term averages that matter, and the averages are going up. If we do not do something to stop the trend toward higher averages, life may be untenable on this planet.
You READ a book? How quaint. Are you into other retro things? Have you taken a walk? Have you written a letter?
Ahhh how sweet it is to traipse down memory lane. I too get retro at times and read. I enjoy reading old letters and books written in a more formal style. The flourish and emotion that some authors commanded warms my heart and softens my soul.Then I awaken to the sounds of jets and buses.
Campbell: are you being snarky? I read books all the time. It is a family tradition. I just finished reading Les Miserable in an unabridged edition, for the third time in my life. I am on the last chapter of Jon Meacham's new biography of Jefferson. I am also working my way through King Lear, which I read between commercials when I am watching the news or MSNBC shows. I used to teach King Lear in my college English classes.
I haven't written a letter since Monday when I wrote one of my senators and copied the other senator and congressman, and I did it on paper and sent it by snail mail because it is easier for me to write on Word and print copies. And I found their office addresses before their e-mail addresses.
I have also written three or four posts on this blog this morning. I do not yet have a Kendle fire or an I-pad. I am not sure my computer equipment is new enough, and I live in a dead zone so I do not have a cell phone.
I take a walk every morning out to feed my horse and my chickens. It is kind of hard to take a walk at my place today; it is raining on top of the snow, at least that which did not melt yesterday, and none of it is soaking in because the ground is still partly frozen. It is going to be a mucky mess when I go out to feed this afternoon. In the summer when my organic vegetable garden is up and growing, I walk a mile or so before breakfast just moving my irrigation water.
And I do stop and smell the flowers in the summer. It is winter now and Nature is sleeping. When the rain turns to snow tonight, if the forecast holds, Her bed will be beautiful; not so much now although I love the rain. In the West water/rain/snow are our life's blood. And heaven help the energy company that tries to take my water rights for fracking so you city folk can live in big, warm houses.
Sorry if it seemed snarky. In truth I do enjoy such things and I find the new wave of twits tweeting in snippets or books by digital screens lacking in grace and grammar. I am disgusted by newspapers that seem to hire illiterates and proofread through spell-check rather than hiring someone with a command of the English language.
If it was snark, it was aimed at today's world not you.
Paul C: thank you for your apology. I too cringe at the debasement of the English language, and the failure of writers on these blogs to proof their posts, although even a good proof reader sometimes misses things.
There are some mistakes that are obviously typing errors, but there are others that reveal a larger problem of not using the language precisely and therefore not communicating fully or even saying things that are not intended.
One of my pet peeves is the use of the relative pronoun "that" to refer to a person. "That" refers to things, to inanamate objects. Refering to a person as "that" dehumanizes him/her. The correct pronoun to use when refering to a person is "who." I am a who; not a that. It bothers me because the language we use colors how we see people. When we constantly us "that" to refer to people, before long we stop seeing people as people and begin to see them as things.
bflynch,
I love to read, as well, and often enjoy rereading the classics. Anything by Victor Hugo is worth reading three times!
I also love to write letters and I'm sad to see it become a dying art. I have an Aunt in NJ whom I write to regularly; she is 93 years old, and is clearer in her thinking than most 40 year olds. Her handwriting is better than mine!
We have an organic garden, too, and it is great fun to grow things that actually taste as they were designed to taste. Supermarket fruits and vegetables frequently have so little taste and such an odd texture that if you close your eyes you can't be sure if you are eating a banana or a cucumber.
My hair stands up over, "Just between you and I." LOL
Aaaaghhh......
Sounds like a idea for new game! Turn out the lights and guess what it is!
Cucumber? Zucchini?
Just don't let Lorianna Bobbitt in the game!
Ouch milk carton!
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#6.7.....Great Point!
Hey India....I agree ...you can't beat fresh produce....Nothing better than a good ole garden tomato!
I began this thread with a comment about the weather, specifically temperature. We digressed to a discussion of reading and the use of language and are now back to organic gardening, which brings us back to the weather and climate change.
While I was posting yesterday there was something going on outside my window and is continuing as I write: it rained all day yesterday and is raining off and on this morning. I had 1 3/8 inches of rain in my gauge this morning. I hope that the predicted amount of snow fell up near Telluride yesterday, because that is where my irrigation water comes from. No rain, no snow, no vegetable garden. People in cities often see rain and snow as a nuisance and an impediment to transportation. But the high price of food is largely the result of the droughts in Texas and the mid-West and even Australia.
It just goes to show how interconnected we are and how complex our problems are. Our political scientists like to say all politics is local, but we are learning that our problems are really global. And what may seem like a local issue and maybe a local solution quickly has national and even global fall out. This storm that is bringing me rain today is moving east and will be in Illinois and Ohio tomorrow.
Although my tomatoes, zucchini, melons, cucumbers rarely get out of Montezuma County, Colorado, the water in the rocky mountains affect the entire country. The headwaters of the Colorado river, the Rio Grand, the Arkansas and many others are in the mountains where the snow from this storm is falling.
If we allow the big energy companies to come into the rocky mountains to extract natural gas by fracking, there is going to be a fight, a real war, over water. It will not be so much about contamination of the ground water, but just the use of the water to extract the gas. I will fight tooth and nail to keep them from taking my irrigation water to pump into a gas well.
So many of our environmental issues are fights between interest groups. It may come down to a question of whether we are going to eat or whether we are going to have gas or electricity to cook the food with.
None of these issues is easy or simple. We have to recognize the fact that everything is interconnected. We are all travelers on the space ship Earth, and we are all together.
The storm that came over my house yesterday is now in Davenport, Iowa -- I just heard a report from Mike Sidel of The Weather Channel. To those of you in the eastern U.S. travel is going to be bad tomorrow. Just remember that that storm may mean we can all eat next summer.
You are so right, we are fellow travelers on a small, vulnerable planet which our politicians don't seem to care about as much as we do.
It was 10 degrees F this morning here in the woods outside PGH. It is beautiful here with everything covered in snow that glistens like diamonds.
I sure hope we eat fresh tomatoes this coming Summer. I miss them already. If there is anything better than a tomato sandwich, God kept it for Himself.
No problem!I hear BP is building a Mars shuttle bus and will have a huge bio-dome on our new home(Mars) soon. Uh, wait a minute I just heard the dome was built by Haliburton, I think I'll stay here.
Your not kidding about that tomato sandwich India.......I like mine on toast...with some pepper and miracle whip....add some fried egg and some bacon...well that's a heart attack waiting to happen....but dang is it ever good....
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That game? Not so new...
Indeed, its hot and sticky and its making me hungry!
Have they already programmed Agent 99's number into those?
Dang,I can still remember the episode where she wore edible buttons. There I go drooling like an old pervert again.
There should be a version with mics in the index and pinky, for stereo bootlegging of heavy metal shows.
No wonder why I can't get a hold of my proctologist.
Its just one step up from the shoe phone!
What a way to give your betrothed a ring!
The Terminator seen this comimg...Talk to the hand!
It seems really handy!
If it vibrates it will bring phone sex to a new level!
Ah yes I see it now. Dirty old men in raincoats asking ladies "Can you give me a call?"
Wouldn't that be a crank call!
I don't know I'll need to bone up on my terminology to see!
Calls like that can be hard to handle!
Yes but at least men will now see how frustrating it is to have the battery die just as they ...
(can't believe we ain't been collapsed by the community yet. We must be in the right place today)
Does it accept three way call girls?
Set the ring tone as "Beat It?"
It would be great to see RMS/MSNBC do something on this:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/26/1182365/-Dollars-for-Deniers-Big-Oil-Funds-Climate-Science-Denialism
Seed a link on the Newsvine!
From the link posted, it looks like this is the Akiba "Bluetooth Talking Glove," which sells for 6,980 yen ($76.70).
For that price I'll just giveum the finger! Also I doubt they will hear the cash register ring anytime soon! I think this ones hands off and even OJ might say it don't fit!
Maybe Lee press on nails would be interested!
Actually, "Akiba" is a nickname for Akihabara, Tokyo's discount electronics store district. It's got multi-story electronics retailers and stalls selling radio tubes, cafés where the waitresses dress like French maids, back-alley DIY stores, manga stores, etc. The website linked is just a news site covering Akihabara.
If you look at the bottom of the first page linked above, there's a link to the actual manufacturer, which is an Italian company called Hifun, which is the second page linked above.
I should go search for this the next time I'm in Akihabara.
"Hello Chief."
"You're where?"
"I'll be right on it!"
Let your fingers do the talking
Did you heard about the deaf & dumb person who was wearing gloves?
They trying to disguise what they were saying!