Seersucker, what a great word. I like it almost as much as serge.
They're both fabrics. Serge is a type of twill. It's also a popular name in France and Belgium. Seersucker is a thin, puckered, all cotton fabric.
The experts say seersucker is making a return to fashion.
Recently worn by the likes of Jay Z, Kanye West, and Leonardo DiCaprio (as designed by Brooks Brothers in the movie "The Great Gatsby"), seersucker has jumped out of its humble beginnings and into the modern dandy's closet.
I will never wear a seersucker suit. Hell, I can't even say it without sounding like Daffy Duck.
I'm never sure something will be funny or interesting. So I keep a notebook handy to, well...make notes. A single word or partial sentence will often become an entire blog. Sometimes I can't read my scribbles, or like this morning, I can read the words but I'm not sure why I wrote them.
Static in coffee? Making myself crazy? I can take an educated guess.
Is it any wonder why people can't get along?
I use a burr grinder. It does a fine (no pun intended) job with the coffee beans but makes a mess. Due to the static electricity produced the grinds stick to everything, both the inside and outside of the plastic container they fall into, the measuring spoons, my hands, the counter and the grinder itself. It improves after I clean it, but only for a few cycles.
Last week I started grinding the new beans from Steeltown Coffee & Tea. They produce very little static electricity. I have yet to clean anything. Is it the way the beans are roasted that causes the static electricity? The Starbucks espresso beans were a constant cleaning problem. After a week using the Steeltown beans, nothing. Why?
Is it a personality quirk? I'm bothered by both the excess, and the lack of, static electricity. Is it true I'm not satisfied unless I have something to complain and worry about? Just when I'm happy and at peace with the world, static electricity causes me considerable consternation.
A 73-year-old man who was given the first civil marijuana ticket in a Vermont town says he had planted some seeds he found in a box.
William Reynolde was issued a $200 civil ticket by St. Johnsbury police after authorities seized a potted 2 ½-foot-tall marijuana plant from his Main Street apartment.
Police say they saw no indication Reynolde was a pot smoker or had other marijuana plants.
He says he "did wrong" and won't contest the ticket but he would like his plant returned. "Although I 'found' the seeds I did think the plant was real pretty. It looked nice next to the lava lamp. I don't get it? I thought a small plant was OK? I was going to decorate it this Christmas."
Reynolde said he doesn't smoke marijuana.....riiiiiiight.
Vermont decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana on July 1.
Robin Guther a 26-year-old New York bank robbery suspect was trying to elude police when he jumped into a garbage chute and survived a 200-foot fall.
Police said Guther fled on foot after robbing the bank. When detectives learned he was seen entering a nearby apartment building, they began a search. That's when a maintenance worker told them he could hear someone calling for help from a garbage chute in the basement.
When the officers checked it out, they found Guther trapped in the compactor. Police said he had some of the money on him.
"I see all those movie guys jump in pipes and tunnels. It seemed like a good idea at the time. I heard they only compacted the trash on Tuesday so I knew I was sort of safe."
Guther is currently in the ICU and will be charged when his condition improves.
Today, September 3rd, is Skyscraper Day. Our next cruise is booked through Skyscraper Tours. Today is set aside to honor very tall buildings, not our travel agency. The consensus is this day was picked because it's Louis H. Sullivan's birthday, the architect credited with designing the first skyscrapers.
Older Daughter Jennifer and I were in the observation gallery of the Sears Tower in Chicago when it was the tallest building in the world. Today it's number eleven.
The world's tallest man-made structure is the 829.8 m (2,722 ft) tall Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The building gained the official title of "Tallest Building in the World" at its opening on January 4, 2010.
Check out some of the confusing criteria for what makes a structure or building tall. Or, what makes a structure a structure, a building a building.
When assessing the placing of structures, there is some debate about:
- whether a building is actually a building
- whether a structure under construction should be included in the list
- whether a building or structure has to be officially opened before it is included on the list.
- whether structures rising out of water should have their below-water height included.
- what should be counted as a building or a tower, and what is being measured.
- for towers, whether guy-wire supported structures should be counted.
For buildings, there is debate over:
- whether only habitable height is considered
- whether communication towers with observation galleries should be considered "habitable" in this sense.
- whether rooftop antennas, viewing platforms or any other architecture that does not form floors, walls and rooms, i.e. not built as an occupiable room, should be considered towards height of building
- what would stop a room built on top of a telecommunications or viewing tower from changing the tower's class to that of "building"
- why a building that is not officially opened should be excluded from the ranks of tallest buildings
- what counts as an official opening
Mine is bigger than yours.....
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