Saturday, February 25
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Warmer weather today.
We were able to put the goats back outside in their normal pen with the ponies.
We were able to get to the city in decent time (for me).
We went to the big aquarium store for a few things for the turtle, we didn't have a lot of time so I didn't peruse the lovely display tanks this time. It is a beautiful store with several very nice tanks with lots of naturalized decoration and such.
We picked up the tile for the bathroom downstairs (I still like it). We also picked grout, and some metal edge trim that my husband will get the next time he comes home from work.
We've kind of broken "the fourth wall" with a guy who works at the tile store (maybe runs it?), and that's kind of nice. He's fun, and I think he enjoys that we engage with him differently than the usual customer/service person relationship. I know I prefer it, when feasible.
Then we went to the art gallery. I got notifications in my Facebook feed that they had an extra special exhibit going on right now. The Sobey's family (owners of the grocery chain) private collection which is going on tour to several galleries across Canada.
Wow, it it SUCH a great collection. Very recognizable works by a lot of prominent painters; Group of Seven, David Milne, one by Alec Colville, one by Peter Doig. What is remarkable, is that these are REALLY GOOD paintings by these artists, better than most of the ones I've seen that the gallery owns by those same artists, or even that have been on tour by the National Gallery of Canada that curates exhibits to tour.
We briefly said "hi" to the guy we talked to last time, who works at the gallery.
It is mind blowing to think that this is a privately owned collection.
My Sweetie really enjoyed this one too.
Then we met up with a friend of mine from WAAAAYYYY back. I probably haven't seen her in 25 years.
We reconnected through Facebook (see, it isn't ALL evil) and she lives in the nearby city. We have been chatting a bit through FB, and recently it seems that she has been dealing with some pretty serious health issues. Nothing fatal likely, but some pretty serious after effects from a concussion, issues with side effects from medication for that as well as ADHD and anxiety. She hasn't been able to work, and so on.
Just kind of a crappy series of events and health issues.
We took her out for supper at a nice little Indian place (hadn't been there before, but it worked out nicely), and let her know that if she needed help to make ends meet until she could get her disability support worked out to let us know.
It was kind difficult, seeing her after so long, and you can tell she's really struggling. She kind of talked almost non-stop, and mentioned that she had a lot of trouble sleeping because of the medication, and it was starting to affect her short term memory and motor skills. I don't know what one can do, but I guess at least taking her out and letting her know we care is something.
Then we came home.
I learned that the writers of Futurama created and proved a new mathematical theorem as a plot point for a body-switching episode.
The Futurama Theorem is a theorem about the symmetric group that was developed for and proved in the episode “The Prisoner of Benda” for the TV show Futurama. The theorem was proved by show writer Ken Keeler, who has a PhD in applied mathematics from Harvard. During the episode, Professor Farnsworth and Amy invent a mind swapping machine and after swapping minds, they realize that the machine cannot be used on the same pair of bodies again. After several characters swap minds, they are confronted with the problem of putting everyone’s mind back where it belongs. The Futurama Theorem proves that regardless of how many mind swaps have been made, all minds can be restored to their original bodies using only two extra people.
https://danaernst.com/talk-the-futurama-theorem-and-some-refinements/
Warmer weather today.
We were able to put the goats back outside in their normal pen with the ponies.
We were able to get to the city in decent time (for me).
We went to the big aquarium store for a few things for the turtle, we didn't have a lot of time so I didn't peruse the lovely display tanks this time. It is a beautiful store with several very nice tanks with lots of naturalized decoration and such.
We picked up the tile for the bathroom downstairs (I still like it). We also picked grout, and some metal edge trim that my husband will get the next time he comes home from work.
We've kind of broken "the fourth wall" with a guy who works at the tile store (maybe runs it?), and that's kind of nice. He's fun, and I think he enjoys that we engage with him differently than the usual customer/service person relationship. I know I prefer it, when feasible.
Then we went to the art gallery. I got notifications in my Facebook feed that they had an extra special exhibit going on right now. The Sobey's family (owners of the grocery chain) private collection which is going on tour to several galleries across Canada.
Wow, it it SUCH a great collection. Very recognizable works by a lot of prominent painters; Group of Seven, David Milne, one by Alec Colville, one by Peter Doig. What is remarkable, is that these are REALLY GOOD paintings by these artists, better than most of the ones I've seen that the gallery owns by those same artists, or even that have been on tour by the National Gallery of Canada that curates exhibits to tour.
We briefly said "hi" to the guy we talked to last time, who works at the gallery.
It is mind blowing to think that this is a privately owned collection.
My Sweetie really enjoyed this one too.
Then we met up with a friend of mine from WAAAAYYYY back. I probably haven't seen her in 25 years.
We reconnected through Facebook (see, it isn't ALL evil) and she lives in the nearby city. We have been chatting a bit through FB, and recently it seems that she has been dealing with some pretty serious health issues. Nothing fatal likely, but some pretty serious after effects from a concussion, issues with side effects from medication for that as well as ADHD and anxiety. She hasn't been able to work, and so on.
Just kind of a crappy series of events and health issues.
We took her out for supper at a nice little Indian place (hadn't been there before, but it worked out nicely), and let her know that if she needed help to make ends meet until she could get her disability support worked out to let us know.
It was kind difficult, seeing her after so long, and you can tell she's really struggling. She kind of talked almost non-stop, and mentioned that she had a lot of trouble sleeping because of the medication, and it was starting to affect her short term memory and motor skills. I don't know what one can do, but I guess at least taking her out and letting her know we care is something.
Then we came home.
I learned that the writers of Futurama created and proved a new mathematical theorem as a plot point for a body-switching episode.
The Futurama Theorem is a theorem about the symmetric group that was developed for and proved in the episode “The Prisoner of Benda” for the TV show Futurama. The theorem was proved by show writer Ken Keeler, who has a PhD in applied mathematics from Harvard. During the episode, Professor Farnsworth and Amy invent a mind swapping machine and after swapping minds, they realize that the machine cannot be used on the same pair of bodies again. After several characters swap minds, they are confronted with the problem of putting everyone’s mind back where it belongs. The Futurama Theorem proves that regardless of how many mind swaps have been made, all minds can be restored to their original bodies using only two extra people.
https://danaernst.com/talk-the-futurama-theorem-and-some-refinements/
