tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.comments2024-03-11T21:00:48.015-04:00Polymath at LargePolymath07http://www.blogger.com/profile/18412740018402454865noreply@blogger.comBlogger155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-77210335162524980832024-03-11T10:47:37.346-04:002024-03-11T10:47:37.346-04:00I am at once excited to find your voice and ideas ...I am at once excited to find your voice and ideas and utterly dismayed to find no one else's. I like sensible in the sense my mother used the word. Well, almost. I'll think on it. I'm not sure that there is an objective word. Still, I'm glad to read here.KEVIN TAYLORhttp://poetkevinjtaylor.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-53617779882466034532024-01-31T02:10:02.636-05:002024-01-31T02:10:02.636-05:00That drawing has been altered from the original. I...That drawing has been altered from the original. If ur gonna be a Truth seeker give the full Monty, the way it was found. Thanks for sharing Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-34275325137007496862024-01-31T01:48:56.330-05:002024-01-31T01:48:56.330-05:00 The dualistic Mesoamericans lumped moths and bu... The dualistic Mesoamericans lumped moths and butterflies into a single category, divided into “day butterflies” and “night butterflies”. Likewise they considered Centipedes (at least the divine kind) a kind of animated Serpent skeleton, the counterpart of the living Snake. Snakes personified the Sky, (the Mayan word “Kan” or “Chan” — cognates in different Mayan language families — has three meanings: “serpent”, “sky”, and “4”. In classic-era inscriptions, the different words are distinguished by separate glyphs: the late-7th-century Lord Kan-Balam of Palenque (sometimes spelled Chan-Bahlum) was always spelled with a compound glyph combining the scales, spiral/slit-pupils, and fangs of a Serpent (Kan) with the spotted pelt, nose, and ear of a Jaguar (Bahlam or Balam). But by the eighth century, spelling rules were breaking down. His relative “Long-Lips” - Kan - Maat (“Long-Lips” is the nickname of a Maya Wind God with —you guessed it— extended soft lips, whose actual name is not settled. He is ancestor to the later Aztec god Ehecatl, an avatar of Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered-Serpent god of wind and sky —see how these concepts overlap and infect each other?— who also sports long lips, though the Aztec version’s lips are stiff like a beak.) This guy was father to Lord Ahkalmonab, (dear to my heart, whose inscriptions provide the subject matter of my doctoral dissertation), and by about 735, the Father’s name was spelled various ways: the beginning and end of his name was consistent, but the “Kan” was either “4” or “Sky”. (There may even have been an example with a “Snake”, but don’t quote me!) In other words, the formerly-clear distinction between the glyphs for the three homonyms no longer existed. In other Maya cities, especially Copán in Honduras, spelling “substitutions” like this became commonplace. To this day, puns are a favorite form of Mayan humor. Marknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-13290001816777756882024-01-31T00:54:16.867-05:002024-01-31T00:54:16.867-05:00Very cool, to catch technological artifacts like t...Very cool, to catch technological artifacts like this. A lot can be deciphered from a “single” picture. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-91434959253968731112023-03-08T09:07:39.507-05:002023-03-08T09:07:39.507-05:00Lina: Certainly, and you're welcome.Lina: Certainly, and you're welcome.Polymath07https://www.blogger.com/profile/18412740018402454865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-2709205264389511452023-02-16T10:11:42.502-05:002023-02-16T10:11:42.502-05:00Hello from nearly a decade later! I see your blog ...Hello from nearly a decade later! I see your blog is still active so I hope you read this- would it be okay if I used the homophone pairs you gathered to write and post a ghazal poem? (Giving credit to you of course :) )Linanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-6671600790890054082022-12-14T10:51:56.729-05:002022-12-14T10:51:56.729-05:00Dear Anonymous,
It may be a dialect difference. To...Dear Anonymous,<br />It may be a dialect difference. To my ear, Pause and Paws sound alike, but they sound different from Pours, Pores and Poor's (Yes I count names!).<br />The first set's vowel is an open "AH".<br />The second set's vowel is more of an "OH".<br />...But some parts of the English-speaking world may hear them all the same...Polymath07https://www.blogger.com/profile/18412740018402454865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-13631107030559034082022-10-24T23:13:59.776-04:002022-10-24T23:13:59.776-04:00Not sure surnames count!
But here’s a five strong...Not sure surnames count! <br />But here’s a five strong homophone that’s not been mentioned yet. <br />Pause<br />Pours<br />Pores<br />Paws<br />Poor’sAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-83076184870582451102022-03-14T06:37:54.070-04:002022-03-14T06:37:54.070-04:00I like this blog. You have written very great blog...I like this blog. You have written very great blog. You have given very informative information and one thing also your focused only one thing <strong><a href="https://www.tradelinkservices.in/universal-joints.php" rel="nofollow">Rotar Universal Joints</a></strong>. Thanks for sharing!Tradelink Serviceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12904039122510030126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-47839166618370282142021-11-22T12:35:11.345-05:002021-11-22T12:35:11.345-05:00By chance do you have more photos of the portable ...By chance do you have more photos of the portable sawmill? I like the concept and am restoring an American #1 mill now.<br />Thank you.G.G. Sprockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05202083827723252517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-70202321801928604952021-10-28T19:14:25.011-04:002021-10-28T19:14:25.011-04:00GIMP is free image manipulation software. There is...GIMP is free image manipulation software. There is a free descreen plugin that lets you do the Fourier transform approach.Mike Ransomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00937660536145135531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-49368774455500546962021-08-16T18:14:24.242-04:002021-08-16T18:14:24.242-04:00Dear Polymath:
So glad you had a chance to spend ...Dear Polymath:<br /><br />So glad you had a chance to spend some time with one of my recent books: "The Eight Master Lessons of Nature." And thanks for your eagle editor's eye! The "more than a trillion species" remark is based on work by various biologists, including Kenneth J. Locey and Jay T. Lennon at Indiana University, who have estimated that the number of microbial species alone is close to a trillion (most of which. admittedly, are yet to be discovered). Definitely my bad on the 23 universal proteins. This is misleading. I was referring to work published in Nature in 2010, where the authors used 23 proteins to test the idea that certain genes arose only once - "containing 23 universally conserved proteins for 12 taxa from all three domains of life." The 23 was really just a subset to test a hypothesis. At any rate, great blog.GFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16349687347700406561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-15013350230269644712021-08-08T13:46:04.488-04:002021-08-08T13:46:04.488-04:00The safe zones map doesn't include the souther...The safe zones map doesn't include the southern portions of South Carolina and Georgia not being safe, as Cayce stated these would become the "bed of ocean, before New York even". Also the area between the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes will be under water. Cayce stated here that the Great Lakes would 'empty' into the gulf. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17786651398495238599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-74682093794798265232021-07-14T11:59:12.212-04:002021-07-14T11:59:12.212-04:00Addendum: In 1928, four natural elements, includin...Addendum: In 1928, four natural elements, including Technetium and Promethium, had not been discovered yet, and of course, none of the transuranics. So there was a bit of fertile ground left for Metal X.Polymath07https://www.blogger.com/profile/18412740018402454865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-63469531451189695852021-06-25T12:12:03.532-04:002021-06-25T12:12:03.532-04:00A few quibbles about the book:
Page 76 has "...A few quibbles about the book:<br /><br />Page 76 has "The flatworm, Caenorhabditis elegans...". The species is a nematode. The flatworm's genus name is Planaria.<br /><br />Page 106 lists limbs on various insect segments, placing wings on the thorax (correct, but properly "dorsal thorax") and legs in the abdomen (incorrect, they are on the ventral thorax).<br /><br />Pages 195-6 implies that mitochondria are found only in animal cells. Plants have them also. (This is mentioned in the review) Fungi also...Polymath07https://www.blogger.com/profile/18412740018402454865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-31360309025429154192021-01-20T17:53:50.415-05:002021-01-20T17:53:50.415-05:00Dear Unknown: Impossible. Carpet Beetles get into ...Dear Unknown: Impossible. Carpet Beetles get into houses to eat wool carpets. There's not much they can feed on if the carpets are nylon. Their larvae are used by museums and others that prepare skeletons to de-flesh the bones. They won't eat living tissue.Polymath07https://www.blogger.com/profile/18412740018402454865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-82653769392526601922020-12-17T13:04:57.491-05:002020-12-17T13:04:57.491-05:00I think I am infested with them in my scalp. Possi...I think I am infested with them in my scalp. Possible? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18337453652582792122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-63423354330164153892020-11-13T22:04:58.384-05:002020-11-13T22:04:58.384-05:00The title and author get mentioned about halfway t...The title and author get mentioned about halfway through the review.Polymath07https://www.blogger.com/profile/18412740018402454865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-37098141735177587522020-10-22T21:49:28.758-04:002020-10-22T21:49:28.758-04:00Did I miss the author title, or what?Did I miss the author title, or what?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14548820695256652868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-55873251845235886962020-08-17T04:57:17.199-04:002020-08-17T04:57:17.199-04:00Muy buen material de edtudioMuy buen material de edtudioAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02304261348956752836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-42819827030027052352020-08-17T04:56:22.762-04:002020-08-17T04:56:22.762-04:00Muy útil material de estudioMuy útil material de estudioAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02304261348956752836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-66007200418461764302020-08-10T21:41:30.650-04:002020-08-10T21:41:30.650-04:00As the author of this review, I think a fair reade...As the author of this review, I think a fair reader will find that I am favorable to Rescue Ink. The most recent comment by Kim T. may be directed at "Anonymous" who commented in a very negative way. I am glad that someone at Rescue Ink added their voice to the mix. I hope these folks are still carrying on. A decade has passed...Polymath07https://www.blogger.com/profile/18412740018402454865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-16633052329083301052020-08-09T21:39:39.212-04:002020-08-09T21:39:39.212-04:00Why do you have to delve into the drama of made up...Why do you have to delve into the drama of made up or inaccurate rumors that have the potential of damaging something that is only meant for the good of animals. Do you even have indisputable evidence and or personal experience to condemn this organization for wrong doing? Because if you don’t then you may very well be costing some animal(s) their lives. You must certainly do not have to contribute or aid in this journey these men are on, and you don’t even have to agree with it but find it within your heart (for the lives of the animals) to allow the rest of us to form & have our own opinions and decisions.<br />For every action there is a reaction so please make yours count and not cost. <br />Kim T.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11919838351844911115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-51092651441291677052020-06-21T14:26:10.245-04:002020-06-21T14:26:10.245-04:00Great article.Great article.Jan Świątekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09166782304611304459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13394518.post-14349547252964217632020-04-29T22:57:37.072-04:002020-04-29T22:57:37.072-04:00These days, I am getting similar hits in my blog, ...These days, I am getting similar hits in my blog, Anon Polymath. I saw the likeness. A Spidey maybe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com