“Mel Fisher’s most famous quotation “Today’s the Day!” became a reality on July 20, 1985. After 16 years of hardship and determination, he had finally discovered the “Mother Lode” of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha, the richest Spanish treasure galleon ever lost in the Western Hemisphere. “

“Today’s the day”, said the be-speckled visitor, who introduced himself as Mark. He said he had traveled past the property a number of times, and he said he kept hoping to stop because the yard was so “intriguing”. I laughed and said I had not considered using that word to describe what was going on here, but would consider it.  He said the parking space was available he said to himself, “today’s the day”, and got out of his car. We talked about a place in Cincinnati that he and his partner were trying to sell, in Prospect Hill, and that he and his partner now live in Vevay. We talked a little about “the yard” and the work I have done here since moving in. At the point when we were discussing the edible part of the garden I said he should take home a bag of lettuce, since I couldn’t possibly eat it all. About that point, my beau came back home and we went over the who’s and how’s of the moment. My visitor said next time I would be on the receiving end of a kindness. I laughed, telling him it is the Italian in me, no one can come and not leave with food, lol.

Atochian treasures…they showed up in my anagramming), so I looked up the Atocha online and found, sure enough, “Today’s the day!” {The] “Atocha coin wonderful reference, explain who lost it, define way I live, IC You sense code is chest” came from the two cartoon balloons which contained the text, “How can you tell the difference [and] I can’t explain it sir, the code cases were only out of view for only seconds.” I put that in m collage today with the front page of AOL that shows a man with the words CODE ENFORCEMENT written on the back of his jacket, and the article headlines: “City Stops Man Digging for Gold”.

That’s as far as I got…a little disappointed that the MS upload tool was not working properly. It cannot be MY computer, since it did not work on either computer, and I checked online and saw others were having a problem as well. Who knows, but it has spoiled my fun and interest in trying to post, when I cannot do so without my collages being part of my daily journaling. I will have to decide what I want to do at this point. Of course, as of tomorrow, I will be in Kansas City, then Ft. Dodge, Iowa. Oh boy.

C’est la vie…more or less.

6-17-06

That was what was written before the vacation....this is the link made for reasons of continuity, including the collages with anagrams made before I left, which could not be uploaded on this site:

http://www.geocities.com/rii4u/continuity.html 

copy and paste into address line if it does not link directly.

A brother's birthday is today. He is 49, physically, and about maybe 4-years old mentally. He is a multiply handicapped individual whom I love dearly. I am thinking of him today. I do not get to see him as oftem as I would like, now that I have moved.

Dance/walk like an Egyptian…Well, it is funny, Judson Laipply (the dancer I mentioned a while back) was one of AOL’s top stories yesterday in entertainment: (http://journals.aol.com/aolvideo/AOLVideoBlog/entries/129) My daughter sent me the original link, which I put in my journal when she saw it (last month I guess); she said it made her happy, and I am sure it makes others happy, too. So I am glad the comedian has the exposure.

Two collages today, one using the same text I have been using a few days, cartoons, and today's uses different cartoon text anagrams, with a little twist, more personal to me than the world I think. Today I used two separate cartoon bubbles and combined them:

"How can you tell the difference?" [and] " I can't explain it sir. The Code cases were out of view only seconds."

These anagrammed referred to Leonardo's codex and back to the Last Supper (again), asking the viewer to look at the original painting versus that which has been "restored", and noticing differences like where the feet are in the painting. A little.synesthesia came up, and part of an "over the hedge" toon worked out nicely for a subtle da vincian view.

Being a little different is just what God wants for me...according to Agnes, at least, lol.

I put two older links on for those who have not seen them:

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/rii4u/page5.html 

and one of my favorite photos is on this page:

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/rii4u/instant/howto.html

I hope you understand why.

After mentioning da Vinci’s Last Supper again, and seeing the wash on the upper wall, it should be no surprise that in a cartoon there is a certain wash going on… cartoons are such a riot these days.

Again I used the anagrams, same words, this time also used most of a Broom Hilda cartoon, and made connections via “Russ’s art”, among others, and a little something about codes, etc. Turned out somewhere between BC and the Wizard of Id, Moses and Christ showed up in the mix…must be in the DNA, lol. The way I see things, is definitely different.

 Sunday…time for my news paper, and your 611a (today's jpeg). I just noticed a 611 was where I was a year ago in the h2ogenius journal. How time flies...

I am unsure what day I starting writing this, probably the 8th:

“Australian researchers say magnetic fields could make ordinary people capable of extraordinary mental feats.”  (http://www.physorg.com/news68958001.html)

There was a study about whether repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, TMS, can improve a healthy person's ability to guess accurately the number of elements in a scene. It was reported that of the 12 participants 10 improved their ability to guess immediately following treatment.

Hmmm, I am sure I read that correctly, that the ability to “guess” was improved, so I imagine living under high-tension wires could have helped me develop super guess powers, had I stayed there longer. I used to live under high-tension wires. That accounts for where I am now, I suppose, sitting here without extraordinary guess powers, since the guess powers go away a short time after treatment. Like the Batman’s Riddler, that reminds me of that interesting outfit of punctuation marks. At this juncture, I find a picture of the Riddler, and start inverting colors on the figure, as I did with my mars global images. Not exactly an extraordinary feat, but it gave me an interesting perspective on the figure…”go figure”, the background font, was a nice find, too, I thought.

Next feat…

Cartoons.

I am a couple of days behind again, been doing yard work, removing paint from windows, other stuff. I remember, after reading the above, I had done a jpeg with the Riddler, to tie in with whatever I was doing, and saw in the chest of the figure, a smiley wink face, so I put that on there. One of these “;9” translated into a smiley picture. Before that I had done some inversions on NASA photos and a puzzle, so I was kinda’ cued in to doing another inversion for some reason.

There was that sentence from a cartoon (get Fuzzy) that stuck with me, so I figured more anagramming was in order. Another cartoon showed up with a muzzle in it, after I found that word in the anagram, so I used what I found. He’s as clueless as a misprinted crossword puzzle became many things over the next day.

“He’s as clueless as a misprinted crossword puzzle” rearranged to:

1.props used at roswell’s crash cia denies muzzles

2.ships are close, trespass in world caused muzzles

So I figured those two were together for a reason, and the rest of that collage just makes connections, like “league” which I had used 20,000 leagues in a recent entry, and other things. The other collage got interesting. I remembered using part of the Lord’s supper picture in the past week, so when I anagrammed and saw written what I had looked at when I went to the site where you can do close-ups around the walls where the Last Supper painting is, well, I decided it was supposed to be what came out of it today. The words turned into a pair of concepts that have to do with what is on the walls:

“He’s as clueless as a misprinted crossword puzzle” rearranged to:

1. essene cut a messiah’s wall cord Lord’s supper sizz
2. Lord’s supper scene, rolls sit, acid washes mezuzas

I had to look that one up, I had never heard of a mezuza (mezuzah/mezuzas) before.

The B.C. toon had the word “trussed” in it, so I used that too: from the same words “He’s as clueless as a misprinted crossword puzzle “ I anagrammed “parson trussed piazza’s success, resoled him well”

Hmmm…Garfield said, “You can pick ‘em all right” and I decided to place that bit of cartoon there too, because from the Last Supper page, at http://milano.arounder.com/category/fullscreen/IT000005356.html  I noticed on the wall a pair of pares…yeah, I picked a pair all right, lol.

Enjoy my fun; the order these were made is (names of files) a-riddler, 6-8a, 6-8b and 6-10, and who knows how they will come up after uploading. Of course, everything has an order, and then there is everyone's own order, not to be confused with mine, lol.

In my mail, the physorg http://www.physorg.com/news68796309.html

Researchers find hidden Greek text on 'world's oldest astronomy computer'. The researchers are also looking at the broader remains of the Roman ship -- believed to have sunk around 80 BC -- for clues to the Mechanism's origin. Sounds like a cool “device” to me. I like hearing about the revelations of items found in shipwrecks, etc. Speaking of Revelations…I wrote this about 7:00 pm on June 6^th, and many have attributed [today’s] numeric date as something of significance for the devil. I looked that numeric page up in my Bible once, and found on it the words “Let God be magnified,” and since then, the devil has had to go elsewhere without any notice from me.

Stargate SG-1 (episode Revelations) was just on the Sci-fi channel at the moment I wrote the word “device” in the last paragraph, with Carter repeating the word “device” as part of the script, so I guess I heard what I was supposed to hear. It was actually just going off. The 4400 show came on and apparently the new season is about to come up, so they have shown it on the sci-fi channel. I had not seen it before yesterday. The show’s episode was Life Interrupted, where Thomas, the main character, is the only one who remembers the 4400 ever existed.

I had a moment like that once, where I thought I had just read something in the Bible, and then the next time I went back to read about it, it was gone and I could never find the reference again. As though whatever I had read originally, never existed. I wish I could find the scrap paper on which I wrote what I had read there…and it was a few years ago, so it is probably gone now, but not necessarily so. I have a tendency to keep a lot of little pieces of paper because of something that occurred at a particular moment in time.

 And at this particular moment in time, I am done writing…and will finish watching the show.

Where I left off...thinking....

Three collages. One from 5-29, random selection from one cartoon became fodder for anagrams "chosen" and "find".

Early Tuesday morning, I started my usual routine, got stuck on one cartoon and pretty much stayed with that for awhile. I heard (on CNN) a story about alligators and heard mention of alligator eyes and eyelids of all things, about the same time I was figuring out how eyelids would look on the eye of God (NASA) photo I had just doubled and reversed. I had the word figured in the anagram as well, mostly due to the fact that the previous day I had used part of a cartoon with the Mona Lisa having blinked, causing Leonardo to depict her with her eyes closed, thus eyelids. So I used it again, with the randomly chosen words from two separate cartoons: . That translated into many anagrams but I used only a few. At one point, watching Stargate, the ancients figured in, and while the volume on the computer was too loud, the slamming of doors was as well, as the buddy list kept track of comings and goings.

Speaking of comings and goings and the gas to get you there...I saw the Shell price photo on AOL and realized that anagrams from the same words fit there too. "You're the only one who'll see it" and "your backward ideas" was changed to accommodate the signage by rearranging the letters to read, "We see a way Shell hit record today, you like uno born".The gas pricing sign at Shell showed regular arm, plus leg , V-Power first born. Glad someone has all this figured out already. In the "find" jpeg part of a cartoon shows a woman with eyes covered and a little sign that says "identity protection" and I noticed the anagrams included that by changing to read in part "only her eyes worried about ID" and the rest of the letters used for the other cartoons where the lab mice are finding a way out of the lab. Go figure the synchronicity on all of these. The universe has to play.

I will be gone a couple of days; enjoy the three montages/collages:

Saturday, May 27

Although my mailbox had been cleared, this appeared this morning in my mailbox, dated Wednesday: PhysOrg Newsletter Wednesday:

INEXPENSIVE DETECTOR SEES THE INVISIBLE, IN COLOR, May 24 An inexpensive detector developed by a NASA-led team can now see invisible infrared light in a range of "colors," or wavelengths. http://www.physorg.com/news67701347.html

The ability to see a range of infrared wavelengths is now possible with QWIP technology, a Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector array. When infrared light, which is invisible human eyes, hits a quantum well in the array, an image is created. Quantum wells can be designed to detect light with different energy levels, thus when light with the correct energy hits one of the quantum wells in the array, the freed electron flows through the silicon readout, where it is recorded.

Love those quantum wells. Apparently my mail goes through a slow wormhole occasionally, causing me to not receive it for a few days. It is funny how I can clear all mail, and then find new mails, from an earlier date, in a position in the inbox as though it was there all along.

Sunday, May 28

Been in and out a lot so journalling has been a bit erratic. Today's horoscope: "There's no need to explain yourself all at once. Field these questions one at a time. In the end, you're the one in charge of the information flow. You can decide what you want to answer and what you don't. "

Sooooo, I guess I don't need excuses, lol.

I ran across a page a made a while back...I need a flow chart for all the pages I have made and forgotten about, or had trouble with the computer and never got back to the pages. http://hometown.aol.com/doofendugela/page1.html and another with the same name:

http://hometown.aol.com/doofendugela/001.htm It was interesting to try to use this link via AOL's browser. It would not give me the page, "Sorry, We Can't Find That Page,You might try retyping the URL, or searching below" was the response on aol itself, but then I switched to the explorer/yahoo route, it opened just fine. Figures, it IS an aol link. So if using AOL and either of the links won't open, try switching browsers.

All things have brought me to where I am now, and life's circularity makes it so that time is of no consequence, all things remain relative, and gift me with new insights. Speaking of circles, it is soooooooooooo hot today, we are just laying around soaking up oscillating fan breezes, going between history and animals on the tube.

Today's word for the day is cerebration. Cerebration is ultimately derived from Latin cerebrum, "brain." The related verb cerebrate means "to use the power of reason; to think." Hmmm, brain was in my anagrams a lot this past week. I wonder what will grab my attention this week? It's funny, I just realized the second of the two links I just gave had to do with "thinking".

I have two collages/montages today. I started one yesterday, finished it with some add-ons today, and then made another. Hope you can get the subtle relationships.

"Enter the Professionals"... for a life-changing "wow" experience...space.com mail...I am a little slow on my news lately...actually, this was yesterday's news>

http://space.com/adastra/adastra_advocacy_prof_060525.html about the National Space Society’s International Space Development Conference (ISDC), which I just opened as I decided to start a journal entry.

My journal entry (a few back when I actually wrote something) I used the term professionally/profession/profess and used it in the montage as well...thus I begin my stream...I also mentioned the backwards spelling of Heaven as a gir's name, and as the story headline went "And if It's a Boy, Will It Be Lleh?" thus the HELL sign in one of today's montages (which was actually started yesterday).I do this to make connection, open the channel more or less, and yes, "wow" is there, too....

Someplace in that journal entry was the word of the day "cognoscente" and something about being cognizant...so I read a story today about chocolate assisting our cognition (among other things): http://www.physorg.com/news67830907.html Yum! Chocolate...not the cheap stuff please. TRUFFLES would be good for me, lol.

No doubt, this was the news everyone needed to hear today, and we can now stop debating: a scientist reported that the egg came first: http://www.physorg.com/news67829669.html . Hey, I just write down what I see, as I see it. I had to laugh when I read one of the physorg comments/posts that said: "Stupid Scientists.That's like saying the baby came before the mother." I do have to wonder how much scientists get paid to do the research they do.

Here's a study I definitely agree with though: http://www.physorg.com/news67756058.html Women's fat tied to insufficient sleep. I get a couple of hours a night, and have known for a long time that lack of sleep added the thirty pounds I have gained that in the past couple of years...cortisol is the culprit. I had always been thin, so when I went through the divorce and then started sleeping under that magical 5 hours, it started to get me...it, being weight, and also the other "it"...that thinking "it", the one that allows me to see things differently, shall we say. Speaking of thinking, that leads to brains or maybe branes.

http://www.physorg.com/news67773542.html

Dimensions...branes...how many, where are they? Interestingly enough, to me at least; that anagram keeps on giving..."ma first binal brane icu" came from the same words used the past couple of montages. Kind'a lends itself to the chicken-egg thing and leads me back to Einstein and the paradox of that twin (http://www.geocities.com/r2ii4u/etcetera.html) dimension...gamma rays oh yeah, wink, wink...I c u 2...pictorials of sorts.http://www.geocities.com/rii4u/CU2.html

http://www.geocities.com/rii4u/earth.html And I did just check to see if these old links worked...they did when I last checked, even though the pages were made over a year ago...or was it two? Anyway, the earth html takes a bit to open. If none of this makes sense, well, you just haven't been following it long enough....

WHY am I here...oh, to put on the last two montages I did, which came first.

At one point today, I looked up at the TV and saw the words ISTANBUL FIRE on the screen, probably CNN was on, and for some reason it set me off. I also heard Alex Trebeck's voice say the word "cambrian" at some point in time after that, announcing the winning answer to a question in a National Geographic Society contest. I was in the middle of something but it turns out using both words in my anagrams worked out fine for the day. Earlier this day, I placed a few montages on my journal and one included part of a ziggy cartoon, with the doctor using a tuning fork on the back of his head, the word echo in the text being of interest to me. So after I saw then rearranged the letters in ISTANBULFIRE to include the word "result" I was actually hearing the same word ("result") said repeatedly on a CNN story (May 24, 1:10 PM).

Sooooooooo, I figured I should go ahead with the text montage. "Brain fuels it"...yeah, it sure does...If humans had given more credence to the possibility that cambrian brains could tell us more...

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cambrian JEOPARDY!=per adj OY!

Istanbul fires and cambrian explosions, lead me to weird wonders http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/taxaform.html and cambrian creatures http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cambrian/camblife.html and vendian critters http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vendian/critters.html. Just following my stream....cool picture:

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vendian/vendintro.gif

MY TEXTUAL MONTAGE:

In my mail today, physorg news: http://www.physorg.com/news67174218.html "Searching for the soul in the machine". Actually, that's what I call the effigia, ghost as it were, in the machine.I made an entry about that a while back: http://spaces.msn.com/h2ogenius/blog/cns!345147715A028ABA!288.entry

I thought my horoscope was kinda' fun for the day (Friday); part of it read, "Create a little zaniness on the home front. Serve up a meal of all-orange food." All orange, huh? Imagine that, lol. I have been know to have certain color foods for fun in the past; the kids always seemed to think it was funny.

I noticed via my NYTimes mail, a blurb on Syracuse: "36 Hours in Syracuse:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/travel/escapes/19hours.html?th&emc=th
A weekend in Syracuse includes stops at Toothpick City, Dinosaur Bar-B-Que and a flea market. "

"IN Syracuse, birthplace of the serrated knife and the dental chair, as the city boasts, folks have been patiently distilling authentic Rust Belt culture" I wasn't there long enough to see any of that stuff!.

Strange stuff has an appeal, for some reason.

Again browsing the headlines of my mail for the New York Times: And if It's a Boy, Will It Be Lleh?:

"In 1999, there were only eight newborn American girls named Nevaeh. Last year, it was the 70th-most-popular name for baby girls....Nevaeh is not in the Bible or any religious text. It is not from a foreign language. It is not the name of a celebrity, real or fictional. The surge of Nevaeh can be traced to a single event: the appearance of a Christian rock star, Sonny Sandoval of P.O.D., on MTV in 2000 with his baby daughter, Nevaeh. "Heaven spelled backwards," he said."

And so it goes...That was what I started writing yesterday evening.I was amiss yesterday in not putting my journal montage online, so do so today. Anyone who reads my stuff knows you always have to go back and come forward anyway, to keep up with the stream of thought and connecting things. And since I never got back to my journal yesterday, here I am Saturday, reading part of my horoscope: "Are you sacrificing too much of yourself? Maintain more focus on your own happiness." Yeah, I stayed in last night, when I would have rather gone down to the beginning of the folk festival to listen to some music. I do give up a big part of my own enjoyment, and I should not. I will go today at some point to listen to music and storytelling though, and speaking of stories and going somewhere...

A little roverian note: http://space.com/missionlaunches/060519_rovers_update.html "Mars Rover Update: Spirit Hunkers Down, Opportunity on the Move : ""Opportunity’s mission has been all about reading the story contained within the layered rocks that lie just below the surface of Meridiani Planum," Farrand advised. "We got about 40 to 50 centimeters of outcrop at Eagle Crater [at the start of its roving] and then 7 meters at Endurance Crater."However, at Victoria, it looks like there’s a deeper story there."

Wouldn't you just love to know...

They go on to say "Spirit is devotedly engaged in gathering science data too. It’s in need of a little dental work, however."

Must be something in the water, eh?

""One thing about staying in one place for a long time is that it enables lots of interesting science that just isn’t possible when you’re always moving. We’re taking advantage of that now with Spirit," Squyres explained. The "eyes" have it"...""the missions just keep rocking on!"

Yeah, rock on Spirit and Opportunity, those of such little faith never dreamed you'd last this long, lol.

Back to headlines a moment: "Land Speed Record:Mountain Moves 62 miles in 30 minutes"...that should capture someone's attention, lol.Heart Mountain looks so out of place that geologists knew it must've come from somewhere else".

http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/060519_moving_mountain.html

I can hear it now, Mommy, where do mountains come from? They say, Heart Mountain isn't the only moveable mountain, the Canary Islands could be traveling soon. So if you can't get to the mountain, it could be coming to you.

Today is my sister's birthday, so I sent her a happy birthday wherever you are e-mail. Best I could do for now, since all my addresses and phone numbers are locked up in my other computer. C'est dommage. She is older than me, and much more successful professionally; not difficult considering I no longer HAVE a profession. Well, maybe I do, I do profess a lot, lol. Profess to know....ah, today's word of the day is cognoscente. I love those old Italian derivatives: "Cognoscente derives from the Obsolete Italian, from Latin cognoscens, cognoscent-, present participle of cognoscere, "to know."

Know? Cognizant...

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That's as far as I got today before the festival. It is now about 10PM, festival music was fine, storytelling was not. I just finished my montage. Before I left to the festival I had only pasted the love is box with the word profession. The rest was finished a few minutes ago after viewing today's cartoons. I made some interesting connections, subtle but synchronistic. I also include the montage forgotten from yesterday.

PS Before going to the festival, the man in the orange shirt came back down the street again looking to cause trouble again, but he was chased off (see story of http://spaces.msn.com/rii4u/blog/cns!D76AD12762D9D5AF!183.entry) again. I think I just need to be vigilant for my neighbor's sake.