nablopomo 2017 - Day Eighteen

[maybe_amanda101]

The rain came back, the very next day...

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I've been trying to take a decent picture of the quilts I am working on to show you guys, but ugh, each is worse than the last. Phone weren't really meant for taking pictures. 

Speaking of phones...

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Today in History: 1963 Push button phones are used for the first time Bell systems started replacing rotary dial phones by push button phone in the United States. Push button phones use keys or buttons to dial a number. The first time my kids saw my grandmother's rotary phone they were utterly baffled and found the notion of having to move that wheel all the way around over and over seven whole times (the olden days, before the 10-digit fad) in order to make a phone call exhausting. I guess they'll never really   understand why we 'dial' a number when we dial a number.

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Also speaking of baffling

Leonardo da Vinci painting sells for world record $450 million despite lingering doubts over its authenticity

When something is considered a copy at best, a fake at worst, for 300-odd years and then SUDDENLY someone says, "no, wait, I think it's real," and then it is real? How the hell does that work?  And even if it is authentic, 450 MILLION dollars? Several somethings are wrong here. 

But then the art world is bonkers (watch EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP on NetFlix if you have any doubt.  Then watch SOUR GRAPES so you'll be sure everything is bonkers.)

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So I'm watching hockey (because it's Saturday night, duh) and the CBC has a commercial for their new show, The Stats of Life.  

THE STATS OF LIFE is an entertaining, fact-filled, graphic-packed format that drills down on a range of population statistics, to reveal the surprising truths about the family next door, giving unique insight into who we are as a nation.

Or, We Conducted That Census, We Better Do SOMETHING With All That Information

It has the potential to be the single dullest thing ever.

I'm not planning to watch it, but that doesn't mean I won't.
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It's chilly in here. Winter - bah.