Where Would you Wish to Wake up Tomorrow?

Where would you wish to wake up tomorrow?

I’d like to wake up in a very clean hotel room bed with crisp, white sheets. The room is high, a top floor or nearly so. The location is a big city somewhere in the world. One wall of the hotel room is just a huge window and I can see outside. It is a clear day, a few clouds and maybe a chance for rain.

When I get out of bed I look down on the street below. Everything is tiny, a miniature city spread out with a lake or ocean and far, far away I can see the beginning of the suburban areas and maybe even the green of some rural places.

I debate ordering room service or getting dressed to go to the big farmer’s market which is just a block away from the hotel and has fabulous coffee and loads of fresh fruit and vegetables. The room service wins, only because I want to stay in longer so I can enjoy the great new shower soap, shampoo and conditioner I brought with me. So I order an amazing breakfast and ask them to bring it in half an hour.

Stepping in the shower, making sure the huge thick towel is set out, I take my time in a steamy hot shower looking forward to eggs, bacon, coffee on fancy china with cloth napkins and all the luxurious extras.

Language for Aliens to Understand Us

Google challenged kids to doodle. This is one of those up for votes from children in Ontario. I looked at the drawing and my first thought was just that it was hard to read. Then, I read what the idea was behind it. What a great idea, a language to talk with the aliens from other planets.

How would you invent a language which people from other planets (other cultures, traditions, etc.) could understand?

What Does a Considering Cap Look Like?

Where did the idea of a thinking cap first come from? Someone had to start that idea.

As it turns out the origin of thinking cap was actually considering cap and that has been lost.

Lost, because people don’t use it and lost because it’s own origins are too far back to be remembered. Considering cap does seem older, which I like. It also describes the idea better. Considering things, rather than just thinking in general.

A ‘thinking cap’ was previously known by the appealing name a ‘considering cap’. That term has gone entirely out of use now but was known since at least the early 17th century, as in this example from Robert Armin in Foole upon foole, 1605:

“The Cobler puts off his considering cap, why sir, sayes he, I sent them home but now.”

via – The Phrase Finder

So, what does a considering cap look like? Is it decorative or plain? What gadgets and gizmos are on it? Does smoke come out of it if/ when it gets going or has been used too long? Is it heavy, shiny, red…?

Where Would you Teleport to First?

Thanks to the wonders of science we now have teleportation, much like the old Star Trek series. A beam of light moves people nearly instantly from one place to another. Halfway around the world and back again in less than a minute – if you want to accept the risk of scrambling your brains. There are warnings posted about over use and the effects on the human mind. But, everyone ignores the warnings and charges in to be the first to try something new.

When you get to the head of the line you are asked where you want to go. So, where do you want to go, first? You can’t travel in time, yet, but anywhere on the planet (as long as you can breathe when you get there) is open to you. Stay as long or as little as you like, your return pass is not dated.

Under the Big, Blue Sea

People have begun to explore more of the oceans. It may be a few generations before anyone finds that big plug at the bottom, but they are working on it.

What will they find at the very bottom, the deepest, most hidden depths? Atlantis? Real mermaids, or a civilization of underwater people? Dinosaurs, long thought extinct? Or just a lot of mysterious life forms, fish of new and unique varieties?

#Apartment Life

Found on Twitter: #ApartmentLife

Most of us have lived in an apartment at some time in our lives. I have, a few times and places. It is a good experience in spite of small things like limited space, smells from other people living in the same building, old buildings which could use more TLC and so on. My only real problem with apartment living was knowing it was all temporary, eventually I would be moving again. I came to need the feeling of having roots in one place and knowing I had some say in what happened with the place I hung my hat.

Have some fun on Twitter (or just make a few up without posting them) and come up with thoughts on your own difficulties with #ApartmentLife.

Mundane Things

Logic, common sense and all those mature and sensible things don’t apply when it comes to the ordinary things that for some reason you just don’t like. What common, mundane stuff bugs you, disturbs you? You might think it is so silly you don’t even tell friends and family. Here is your chance to air out your feelings. Write about the ordinary things you just can’t deal with in an ordinary way.

via – 8 Mundane Things That Make me Highly Uncomfortable chookooloonks :: discover your superpowers :: karen walrond.

Mine are:

Sharp Things Near Skin – I would not say I am afraid of needles, exactly. But, seeing something sharp like a needle, or a knife, near human skin makes me want to crawl out of my own skin. I can deal with the raw carcass of a turkey at Christmastime, pulling out the giblets, washing out the insides… I don’t know why puncturing the skin of something living makes me so squeamish.

Peanut Butter – I don’t like the way it fills your mouth with it’s smell. As if the thickness of the paste wasn’t enough it even has to take your breath away with the thick scent of it. I do like peanuts, unsalted. I will even have peanut butter cookies because the thick smell is diluted and does not bother me so much then.

Those are the only two I can think of right now. I’m sure there are more. We all have our little oddities after all.

Keep the Channel Open

This is a great quote from the book: Creating a Life Worth Living, by Carol Lloyd.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening which is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression in unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium. It will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive.

Martha Graham to Agnes DeMille

Changing Size, Shape and Dimensions

If you could take a photograph, put it in a machine and have the scene in the photograph reproduced in reality (to the scale you choose) what would you have made from a 2 dimensional photo or drawing into a 3 dimensional reality?

People in photographs don’t work. People have too much depth, which the machine can’t capture. It works from the surface of a 2D image and makes it 3D. It can not bring life, only the dimensions are changed.

You could take a photo of a pile of cash and have that made real. But, some how they would have a plan for that and you wouldn’t be able to use that money for some reason.

So what would you use this great and new ability for?

Canada Press is looking for Foodies

Found on Craiglist (Toronto). No pay for the work, but if you ever wanted to be a restaurant reviewer this would be start or a chance to try it out.

Canada Press is looking for Foodies to review restaurants (Toronto)

The Canada Press “Best of Toronto” awards are being compiled for a spring review of all the top restaurants in each respective cuisine category in Toronto.
Eat at Over 100+ of Toronto’s finest restaurants free of charge, and meet some of Toronto’s executive chefs.

Canadapress.org Food & Drink section is seeking people who:

– Are passionate about food.
– Well articulated and friendly.
– Wine + Beer knowledge a big plus.
– Live downtown or can get downtown with ease.
– Skilled writing required.
– Ability to interview owners/chefs a must.
We will have to issue you a press pass and get you the necessary documentation to record scores on food, service, atmosphere, etc.
Location: Toronto