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Capsule
Thursday, October 24, 2019
This picture shows Hurricane Patricia on October 23, shortly after its record peak intensity, while approaching western Mexico.
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Lead Picture (Story below in Thumbnail)
Thursday, October 24, 2019
The image was captured by the MODIS instrument on board NASA's Terra satellite.
Photograph credit: NASA; edited by Meow
Read more on the blog www.existentialautotrip.com
The blog? A daily three to four-minute excursion into photos and short texts to regale the curious with an ever-changing and diverting view of a world rich in gastronomy, visual art, ideas, chuckles, stories, people, diversions, science, homespun, and enlightenment.
Observing with wit and wisdom, Dom Capossela, an experienced leader, guides his team of contributors and followers through that world, an amusing and edifying conversation to join.
Note that the blog is also the first place that posts the "Hello! my friends," videos and the
“Conflicted” podcasts.
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Commentary
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Love the way our activities broaden our social life.
On Tuesday, I appeared as a guest on Colleen G’s Room to Write podcast series.
In the process meeting some lovely people, Barbara, Ryan, and Adam, all involved in community-based media.
Wouldn’t have happened without our writing, joining writers’ groups, producing a blog, making videos and podcasts.
Illustrating, as did Tommie T’s letter posted a couple of days ago, that age is not a barrier to meeting new people.
Lethargy and dullness are.
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News re: existentialautotrip
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Am examining alternative ways to produce the videos and podcasts.
Will apprise you as soon as something tangible results.
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A “Conflicted” podcast
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Chapter Two of Conflicted
Diana dreams and fights the pain of cold turkey withdrawal.
The podcasts will go out first on the blog and then on many of the major social media.
Look for Chapter Three on Saturday.
Dom’s website: existentialautotrip.co
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Tuesday’s Dinner posted on
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Had a terrific lunch with Colleen G of Room to Write.
A restaurant called Sakura in downtown Wakefield.
Yes, there is a downtown Wakefield.
The restaurant was neat, the server kind and intelligent, and the drinks and food terrific at prices significantly below those of the big city.
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Chuckle of the day:
Thursday, October 24, 2019
A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence, phrase, or larger discourse is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part.
It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax.
For this reason, it is extremely popular among comedians and satirists.
Some paraprosdokians not only change the meaning of an early phrase, but they also play on the double meaning of a particular word, creating a form of syllepsis.
These three end the run of paraprosdokian one-liners.
"I like going to the park and watching the children run around because they don't know I'm using blanks." —Emo Philips[14]
"I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long." —Mitch Hedberg[8][15]
"I sleep eight hours a day and at least ten at night." —Bill Hicks[8]
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Contact me at domcapossela@hotmail.com
Thursday, October 24, 2019
This lovely piece from Kali L:
Dangerous Air
The news spouts murders and impeachment
by the hour; these are the new hands of a clock.
I stand above my body trying to make sense
of the scars across your stomach and what use my hands
will have in reshaping your splintered heart. You said,
I’ll need you.
My voice is dying on my tongue. I whisper into the
night air for you to come home. Can you hear me?
We are all just one touch away from a new life. My friend
falls down and fractures his ribs. His wife goes to mass trying
to find sense. I carve a place for her to rest; my heart full of
valleys of healing.
Web Meister responds: Lovely, Kali.
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Today’s Thumbnail
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Hurricane Patricia was the most intense tropical cyclone on record worldwide in terms of wind speed and the second-most intense on record worldwide in terms of pressure, behind Typhoon Tip in 1979.
Originating from a sprawling disturbance near the Gulf of Tehuantepec, south of Mexico, in mid-October 2015, Patricia was first classified a tropical depression on October 20.
Initial development was slow, with only modest strengthening within the first day of its classification.
The system later became a tropical storm and was named Patricia, the twenty-fourth named storm of the annual hurricane season.
Exceptionally favorable environmental conditions fueled explosive intensification on October 22.
A well-defined eye developed within an intense central dense overcast and Patricia grew from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in just 24 hours – a near-record pace.
On October 23, the hurricane achieved its record peak intensity with maximum sustained winds of 215 mph (345 km/h).
This made it the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Western Hemisphere and the strongest globally in terms of one-minute maximum sustained winds.
A tip o' the hat (U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924) after signing an Indian treaty
Sly devil that he was.
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Acknowledgements
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Thanks to Kali L for her forays into our hearts.
Thanks in general to the Microsoft team at the Prudential Center for their unflagging availability to help with a constant flow of technological problems.
Always thanks to Wikipedia, the Lead and the Thumbnail sections of the Blog very often shaped from stories taken from that amazing website. They are truly worthy of public support.
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Good Morning
Thursday, October 24, 2019
I met Colleen G.
She is a sweetheart.
I carry a handkerchief of hers for the next time I see her.
But now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your Taeyeon