Cosmic Bubbles

“Danger Will Robinson!” the computer in the Ziggy cartoon says today.  The parrot on his shoulder asks how old the computer is, because the Lost in Space robot is definitely dating it. I couldn’t help but notice the cartoon today because the other day I tried to upload the pictures  , but didn’t yet realize I couldn’t upload bitmaps. I now have it in jpeg form. In the picture I have, the robot is in front of a particular space photo background. I think I got the robot photo from an ad header.

I can never just leave things …I usually see something else. I remember what I did when I saw the ad header photo. I put text between two pictures of the robot, so I’d know when it was made (the time of this article on Space.com in my file) . I copied the photo, flipped the copy and placed the copy and original side by side, then connected them. I have done that before with other random photos.

In the newly formed picture I saw the DaVinci guy everyone is familiar with, and da Vinci being the reason I did that copy and flip move.  A little freaky, but hey, I find strange things in strange places. Actually, I easily find such things right in front of me, all the time. Other people may not see the same things I do, like the God eye photo I put on earlier. I suppose it depends on your perspectve.

Any hoots, I just thought it was a fun coincidence that Ziggy mentioned it today. I guess it’s all in the timing. Don’t worry, we’re safe, the destruction mentioned in that headline is millions of miles from here. Besides, the man I see between the two robots is no ordinary man.

The circus is about to begin….well, sometimes it seems like it, but in about a month things will feel like it around here, with a flurry of activity. A little background is in order.

Sometime in the past 8 months, the Beau, as I call him, fractured a femur, but he didn’t know it until he fell to the ground in November, when it completely broke. Ouch! He thought he has just pulled a groin muscle or something until that point. He is  (or I should say was) muscular so that probably had something to do with the fracture holding together that long. For the past two months he has visited doctors, and finally has one now willing to do the surgery to pull things back together…a good 25 degrees anyway. Everyone swears they saw Mr. Bill in the MRIs. Maybe I can get a photo sometime in the future. The doc said it would be a challenge but he can do it.

After two months, it is about time. The hospital called today about scheduling, so we have a tenative date. The Beau has been able to do little more than lie in bed and sit in a chair a few hours a day. Though a tinner by trade, to put bread on the table he does roofing, and as you can imagine, that has not happened in a while. He’ll be on crutches a good six weeks after surgery, and then re-hab, and still, not likely to do anything new, but maybe get the roofing jobs done that he started last summer. The people are willing to wait as long as it takes for him to complete the job.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch…paying for an operation without insurance is an interesting business, so there are well-wishers putting together a benefit auction/sale/something so the bills can get paid, roof over the head, food, etc., and the first planning meeting was last night. God love ‘em, they certainly have heart. The whole thing sounded a bit big to me, but they assure me it will be handled well, and I shouldn’t worry my pretty little head about volunteers, logistics, etc. Well, I did ask for help. I expect a certain amount of assistance to happen, because the Big Guy and I talk all the time, and I have been shown not to worry. I have faith that keeps me sane, calm, and assured.

Thanks Big Guy

Since the cosmos is an interest, sharing a few cool links is always nice, one being my recent search. And now that I have a computer running again, I can go back to sites I have not seen in a couple of years. In addition to daily comics, I also like daily space shots, which can be found at:

http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/

Since I was in the space neighborhood, having found the two links I wanted, I thought I would do a search on cosmic bubbles…real cosmic bubbles, not just the anagrammed comics bubbles. I don’t think I have ever done a “cosmic bubble” search before, so I really didn’t know there was a difference between regular and super cosmic bubbles, or blobs for that matter. It’s nice to learn something new every day. In my cosmic bubble search I even came across a puzzle, imagine that (wink, wink). The best thing I came across though looked like a cosmic eye in the sky, though it wasn’t mentioned in the text. I saw the matter in the photo as an eye, immediately, but I am trained to see that way.

Actually there is a small section of text on that page that says, “you couldn’t see it any other way”…so no, I guess I couldn’t.  It’s like part of the thought or conversation, isn’t it? Coincidence? Of course, I had to throw in a link to livescience for their odd bubbles video, which could in turn, take one into the field of orbs, and crop circles and whatever else comes up in a cosmic bubble search.

The reason for all this (as if I need a reason for my madness) was that the word entanglement (not the “confusion” kind) showed up in an anagram I was working on last night, and I meant to look that up but, as usual, I got sidetracked. Or maybe not…maybe I was supposed to find one thing before the other, since Chaos is so well scripted, it needed a certain order. I am used to that…a certain stream of consciousness that tells me what to do when.

So, today I will allow the “stream” to continue. The anagram, which came from a frame in Cow & Boy, which I included in the collage I did, had text that said, “I don’t want to invest my time and energy in people only to be forgotten when something better comes along”. The anagram reads, “People to try the synonym, I wrote of  bible ghost coming down, and gave mention to entanglement interest.” Huh, what is that in the middle, bible ghost coming down? It is what it is. The synonym most certainly refers to the synonym I highlighted from dictionary text,  <a serious play leavened with comic moments>.

It is what it is for now.