Thanks to the US Geological Survey for confusing me about pronouncing the word subsidence while I was watching a YouTube video on recent activity at Geyser Hill in Yellowstone NP. For some reason the spokesperson chose not to use the preferred long i, stress-on-the-second- syllable pronunciation. As for me watching such a video, cast your aspersions elsewhere.
I see Wendy's is promoting a late-night run for the Baconator, a double patty with 6 strips of bacon, and 2 slices of cheese for a 1010-calorie punch that certainly suggests sweet dreams. If you have the stomach for it. Hold the fries?
My cucumber plants in pots are suffering from heat stress this summer. Never had this problem before and the temps haven't been unusually hot around here. Makes the skin and even the fruit bitter as in spit-out-immediately-bitter. Makes me appreciate a ripe, good-tasting cuke even more.
Over the last month or so, headlines proclaimed a stadium-sized asteroid approaching, or at least a container-sized asteroid, or one around 590 or 570 feet, depending on the news source. Last month one was the size of the Brooklyn Bridge. One, blue-whale-sized. Maybe 98 Scott Kaples would suffice for context. Or not.
An adult male grizzly bear may have a home range up to 600 sq. miles. Think a bit more than 13 miles in every direction from where you are reading this little tidbit.
A Chinese restaurant offered a free meal and other prizes to customers who could eat 108 spicy wonton dumplings. Why 108, I could not say. Regardless, authorities blocked the contest over the issue of food waste. Apparently, no Chinese version of our great patriot Joey Chestnut in the offing.
Last month my little effort here garnered a little over 2200 views out of Singapore. Why--well, why not? And if the translator gets it right, terima kasih!
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