Showing posts with label smiles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smiles. Show all posts

Sunday, January 11, 2015

What Can I Say, It's 2013 In May, But On This New Day, My Heart I Will Obey, From A Straightened Arrow I Won't Stray, Pointed In Direction Of No Decay, And A Healthy Smile Display

What Can I Say, It's 2013 In May, But On This New Day, My Heart I Will Obey, From A Straightened Arrow I Won't Stray, Pointed In Direction Of No Decay and A Healthy Smile On Display

Snapping Through The Snow & Ice
Below you will find some early versions of my Morning Meme-Oh from September 2013!, which has changed to have a consistent rhyming theme in October and November of 2013, then purely rhymes in December of 2013. About that time it also became a once a day, every day of the month event rather than on weekdays alone. It took its present format, one rhyming word per line, on May 18, 2014, but I would later drop the My from the title, so as of this posting, it looked like this sample.

Before getting to my historical archive of tweets, I have the following little ditty.

Crossing The Threshold Of Climate Change

The world is being drastically changed by us. Besides what I've read, amazing and often devastating climatic changes are evident in things we see happening now that we have never seen before. The adjacent photo was taken in central Minnesota at Lake Maria State Park. The photo is a stunning example of the bizarre changes occurring. It was taken by me in late April of 2013.

The scene shows a snapping turtle crawling across a dirt road in the park. In the background a small body of water can be seen with significant ice still remaining on the surface. It is April 28, and ice is usually completely off small lakes by mid April or sooner. It would be another week or so before the ice was completely gone, almost a month after the normal thawing for this part of the state. I have been hiking and running in this park for over 20 years, every three days or so, and I am not aware of seeing turtles moving around when ice was still on the lake. While it may not be an odd event in the history of the world, it can be added to a much longer list of events including the most egregious examples like the melting of the glaciers and Hurricane Sandy that do seem to fit what climatologists have feared from manmade climate change.

Of course, at least some may question why ice on a lake would be part of global warming or climate change? While you should read other sources to get the real picture like this data and explanation from Skeptical Science, here is my take as far as I've been able to understand it.

First, both global warming and climate change are terms that only partially explain what is going on. Think of both terms together, and then you get a more complete picture of what is going on (than what you can from two terms). The climate is always changing, but it usually takes a very long time. For example, there are long term weather patterns like El Nino and El Nina that may cause some swings in the weather, which may only occur in 50 or 100 year patterns. That means many people may forget how it was then or just weren't alive when those changes occurred.

However, you must understand there is more than just one metric to follow beyond how hot or cold it is in one place. Among other things, you need to add in the rise in CO2 in the last 100 years, and that temperatures are rising faster than climatologist found in the fossil and sediment records. Temps have never risen so fast in such a short time, except maybe after sudden cataclysmic events like huge meteoroids hitting the earth, Yes, climate change "like this in many ways” may have happened in the past without cataclysmic events but that would have taken thousands of years. It would be like watching grass grow versus seeing a rocket takeoff. That is my analogy, not a scientific one, but think of any actual CLIMATE change in similar turns as no one could see this happen except if they lived 500 or more lifetimes at least.

Second, the reason we see lots of snow like in Buffalo, NY in late 2014, inches of snow in Temecula, California, and ice on a lake is because the rise in temperature is going to screw up the weather in various ways. Basically, winters may not go away for many decades (and probably not completely for 100s of years) but what will happen is wild swings in the weather rather than a consistent reduction of snow over time, like a slowly and evenly deflating air mattress.

Rather, expect it be like a climate balloon bouncing around, deflating, reflating and over inflating, while wreaking all kinds of havoc, like torrential rains, floods, and severe heatwaves as well as heavy snow. Amazing events which have never occurred before all together or in thousands of lifetimes. It may be that internal parts of the country may be more consistent than coastal states where the warming oceans affect things more quickly and drastically. Think some consistency depending on where, yet many wild swings almost everywhere at some point, but consistently worse over the decades.

Finally, remember it is NOT the weather we are concerned about but the climate. Animals and ecosystems can survive bad weather, but a drastic change in the climate over just a few decades or even a century or two can be like a slow motion cataclysmic event for them. Humans may be able to survive by going inside or digging underground, but these creatures and systems cannot change their "survivability code" to adapt that quickly. It is especially difficult for higher life forms or any with very strict boundaries like rainforest frogs, polar bears and such.

Once again, I am not a scientist, so I may be off in some of my comparisons, or even facts, but it's what I understand so far. I hope it helps you in some way to get, or start to get, your head around it if you were struggling up to this point.

Sincerely, RTC

















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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

April 2013 Arrives Like A Lamb, Made Into Mostly Ham, Handed Off To A Poetry Slam…

April 2013 Arrives Like A Lamb, Made Into Mostly Ham, Handed Off To A Poetry Slam, Causing Them To Say What A Sham, Wow He Should Undergo An Exam
Circa 2007 • when I was such a young lad

The photos found on this page are mixed like on the March 2013 version, some hoping for warmer days, most showing the colder, snowier ones. My daughter also took a few of them, at the beginning of the month, it was a trip to the Minnesota State Capitol.

In addition, I did some extend writing associated with the political nature of one of my daughter's photos.

PHOTO: My Fishing photo can also be found on pinterest.

FYI: Here's the "Morning Meme-Oh! Story" if you want more background on how all this got started: The Beginning of the Story Starts Towards the End.

Niche Dental
Morning Meme-Ohs
for April 2013
































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Thursday, September 18, 2014

Autumn 2012 Arrives Falling On Our October To…

Autumn 2012 Arrives Falling On Our October To Pick Things Up As September Leaves The Fest To Us

My Punned Title Gets Its Hit From This Pic
You will notice that this is a highly charged month of politicking. Obama's 2nd term is about to be verified. I apologize for any high charging I do myself. I've tried to avoid any kind of politics in the past year or so on my NicheDental Twitter, but some of my opinion-nations came out here in October of 2012 and in various places over the next few months or so.

That said, you'll also notice that the Morning MEme-Oh! or Morning Meme-o:) as it's shown here, is still not a rhyming vignette. I haven't looked ahead to see when it actually changes to 99% rhyming, but it must be soon.

FYI: Here's the "Morning Meme-Oh! Story" if you want more background on how all this got started: The Beginning of the Story Starts Towards the End.
































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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Falling On The End Of September Is The Beginning Of Autumn's Colors To Beautifully Remember

This guy was hiding underneath a bucket out back!
The month of September 2012 was nearly devoid of the rhyming now* evident in all Morning MEme-Oh! tweets I am doing now.

(*Sept 2014, when this compilation was being posted) 

I veered away from attempting to write "profound" statements or higher thought musings after awhile because I wanted a more creative and fun outlet for this vignette rather than something more serious. I do that in other areas, and I like it as a creative jumping off spot in the morning.

FYI: Here's the Morning Meme-Oh! Story if you want more background on how all this got started: The Beginning of the Story Starts Towards the End.

• There are many other photos of mine below, scattered between the Meme-Oh! tweets:

Otherwise…

BELOW Are All The MM-oh! Tweets of September 2012.

Sincerely,

Richard The Chwalek (RTC)
NicheDental.com






























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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

August 2012 Brings To Mind Many Dog Days Left Behind

Watching daughter
playing tennis
FYI: Here's the Morning Meme-Oh! Story if you want some background on how all this got started: The Beginning of the Story Starts Towards the End.

Otherwise…

Below Are All The MM-oh! Tweets of August 2012.

• Pic of my running shoes and daughter in background also on Instagram.

Sincerely,

Richard The Chwalek (RTC)






















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Monday, June 9, 2014

July 2012 Has Again Arrived In The Form Of Smile Tweets Reprised

I'm reposting previous Morning Meme-Ohs! Circa 2012: Over time these have evolved and hopefully improved, but this is just month of two of the experiment, which has now lasted two years+. It may continue to go on indefinitely or it may not.

For history about why I started this tweet odyssey, read. 

I begin with the latest one (as of this reprised posted date, June 9) to show you what they look like now. Then I round out all of my July 2012 "creative writing" tweets.

You'll also notice pictures I took during July, and some other creative writing or vignettes and such interspersed throughout. Please enjoy.

Now to July of 2012






































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Sincerely,
Richard The Chwalek
NicheDental.com
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Monday, June 2, 2014

June 2012 Seems To Be The First Month I Did Tweeted Nearly Fully

I will start with the tweet below that describes my initial idea for doing the Morning Meme-Oh concept. Then do this latest one in the month of June 2012, and go backwards, since that format is how tweets are published. Of course, I will go beyond June 2014 some point in the future.

While these first few months or so do not rhyme like the current (June 2014, and many months before) you will see the progression of my style. Once again, there will be some cryptic and riddle qualities to the earlier ones especially. Some may seem like non sequiturs, but actually are more cryptic than not directly connected or errant.

Then again, if you read my initial post, there may have been other reasons they did not connect as well as I thought when I wrote and posted them. That said, more towards a fun rhyming scheme in months farther in the future from June 2012.

I'm remembering as I look up again and post these tweets that some were also political to a minor degree or two. I've avoided my political bent for the "most part" now at NicheDental Twitter.

The first tweet shows what they look like in June of 2014.


Below are all of June 2012














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