My Daily Banana

Computer Banana

 

Photo of the day:

Wir sind uns einig, jetzt kommt blödsin!
(We both have the same thoughts, let's be mischievous)
 

 

And it came.

 

 

Selfie of the Week:

 

A reflection in the rain

 

 

Word of the day:

 

Digit

Comes from 10 digits (ancient Latin digiti means fingers) 10 itself consists of two digits the 1 and the 0. The year 2014 consists of four digits the 2 and the 0, the 1 and the 4.

The decimal system has (as the word deci proclaims) ten digits 0123456789

The binary system ( used in the computer world) has two digits 1 and 0

To round it all up, there is also the hexadecimal system which is based on sixteen digits 0123456789ABCDEF

 

Name of the day:

Perry

Comes from the English rock, also the France form of Peter or thirdly in Wales “the son of Harry”

An alcoholic fizzy drink made of pear-wine

Event of the day:

 

12th May 1941

the Z3 fully automatic computer was presented by its inventor and constructor Conrad Zuse. The computer filled a room, program and data were saved on punched film. It had 2000 relays built. What does a relay do? Its either on or off, that’s the whole principle of a computer 1 and 0: 1 is true and 0 is negative.

The Z3 was destroyed in 1943 during a bomb attack over Berlin. Zuse Company built a replica of it in the 1960’s, which can be seen in the “Deutsches Museum” in Munich, Germany.

The Zuse Z3, today it would fit into a pocket calculator
(a cheap one not a scientific calculator)

 

 

Birthday of the day:

12th May 1942

Harrow, London, England

Died 27^th March 2000

In London, England

Ian Dury

Ian looking good

Punk singer and songwriter. Founder of the group “The Blockheads”. They brought out such songs as “What a Waste” and “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick”.

As a child he suffered from polio
and was for the rest of his life disabled.
All except for his music!!

Hit Me With You Rhythm Stick:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WGVgfjnLqc

What a Waste:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmopROxBnBU

 

 

 

Died on this day:

12th May 2001

 

in Jupiter Inlet Colony, Florida, United States

 

Born 18th May 1912

 

in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Perry Como

Every mother's Prince Charming,
Perry Como
 

One of America’s most popular singers between the 1945 and the Rock’n’Roll era. He was one of the causes of Rock’n’Roll, the young were so fed up with listening to their parents tripe they longed for music that would reflect their lives and along came “The Pelvis”

Every mothers "Devil in Disguise"
 

 

Listen to one of Perry Como's soft listening hits "Don't Let The Sun Get in Your Eyes":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmkg_E2evbg

 

Here’s a soft version of Elvis’s first parent shocker “That’s All Right Mama”:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xslu3_elvis-presley-that-s-all-right-mama_music

 

Non-Cycle ride of the day:

It’s hit me. The cold has been knocking on my door for the past week and now I’ve let it in., that’s why I have to take a pause in cycling. If I’m lucky it’ll be gone in a week, I hope so, otherwise I’m going to have problems with our Challenge.

Met me on my walk, I wish it was my backside!

Today was my first day without cycling, instead I went for a long walk with Heike (usually it’s just a short one). It wasn’t bad and we stayed almost dry, it looked like rain when we set off and we both had our rain dress on: The Gore-Tex shoes, pvc coated rain over pants, rain jacket and I had my Burberry Wax cloth rain hat. Reminds me of my Boy Scout days

“Be Prepared!”

 

The Challenge:

Who carries the torch this week?

Raymond 96.7 kg

That’s a loss of 1100 grams this last week

Andrea

Fraser

Well done all three! Is it showing? Has the bulge shrunk?

 

Bye, see you all tomorrow. Have a good day

My Daily Banana

Highland Banana

Photo of the day:

Another well kept Thatched farm houe,
it dates back to about 1800

Nice touch with the flowers.
See the pantry built below in a half cellar?

Word of the day:

Euphoric

A feeling of great happiness

German: euphorisch

Name of the day:

Eric

Comes from the Danish name Eiríkr and means ruler

Event of the day:

11th May 1985

(this is something new to me)

Bradford City Stadium Fire:

It was a third league match, Bradford City against Lincoln City. Bradford City was to receive the Third League Cup and therefore the stadium was sold out, there had never been such a large crowd in the Valley Parade Stadium before.

The main tribune of the Valley Parade stadium was dated back to 1903 and was condemned and due to be demolished, under the seats the debris was piling high. At 3:40 pm the television-reporter announced in alarm, that a small fire had been sighted. Within four minutes the wind ignited it to a major fire, engulfing the whole tribune. Panic struck home and the crowd fled, trampling many of the still seated spectators. Fifty-six spectators died and at least two hundred and sixty-five were injured.

After this tragedy the British stadium standards were changed, all wooden roof constructions were forbidden.

Memorial to remember the casualties of the fire

The new Valley Parade Stadium

Birthday of the day:

11th May 1904

in Figueres, Spain

Died 23rd January 1989

in Fifueres, Spain

Salvador Dali

Surrealist painter, sculptor and performer.

I loved his melting clocks. There’s one story that comes to mind when I hear his name: Salvador arrived at an exhibition in his Rolls Royce, the door was opened but instead of Dali stepping out, cabbages spilled out of the car. The car was stuffed to the limit with heads of white cabbage and Dali hid underneath. Not a very dramatical scene but it shows what a childish imagination Dali managed to keep and show throughout his life; whereas I lost it when I grew up.

When I was a tripper, I was fascinated by his paintings, they tell so many stories grotesque, fierce, loving and sometimes mellow. I could explore a painting for hours.

Here's a collection of perfume bottles we collected.
They are formed after the painting:
Apparition-of-the-Face-of-Aphrodite 

Apparition-of-the-Face-of-Aphrodite

Another Birthday of the day:

11th May 1941

in Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Eric Burdon

Singer of the Animals! Who doesn’t know the hit where he sings:

 “My Mother was a tailor,

She sewed my new blue jeans,

My Father was a gambling man,

Down in New Orleans”

Of course it’s “the House of the Rising Sun”

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x15dmey_the-animals-house-of-the-rising-sun-1964_music

Died on this day:

11th May 1981

in Miami, Florida, United States

Born 6th February 1945

in Nine Mile, Saint Ann, Jamaica

Bob Marley

Jamaican reggae singer and song writer. He or should I say his inheritors are the third of the top earners (US$18 million) after Michael Jackson (US$160 million) and Elvis Presley (US$55 million).

The ironic thing about Bob Marley’s death is his vanity. Bob had skin cancer, the carcinoma started on his foot but he refused treatment; the radioactive/chemo therapy could have caused baldness. He didn’t want to lose his dreadlocks.

Is that possible? Had he never heard of wigs? What a waste!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGqrvn3q1oo

Cycle ride of the day:

Today we, Heike and I are looking after our grandchildren Fentje and Martje. Heike went straight there in the car and I did round on the bicycle with a detour that landed me at Kirsty’s house. The three girls were playing quietly with plastercine at the kitchen table, but when I arrived all hell let loose, the two little ones were so happy to see me. Well the first moment was great, such a greeting I thought “nice, but now you can cool down again” (I was knackered from cycling and needed a rest first). The only thing is kids don’t cool down immediately so there was nothing for me to do other than grit my teeth and bare it. I did and a couple of minutes later the euphoric feelings had simmered down.

Two wild ones

 

and two new friends

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/496821660

Bye, see you all tomorrow. Have a good day

My Daily Banana

Nosey Banana

 

 

Photo of the day:

There are still some around

 

 

Word of the day:

Inaugurate

Introduced to, to begin (Tony Blaire was inaugurated on the 2 nd May 1997)

German: einführen, einweihen

Tony Blair New Labour Party

 

Name of the day:

Anthony

English form of the Roman name Antonius meaning highly praiseworthy, could also come from the Greek anthos meaning flower.

Event of the day:

10th May 1994

Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president

Nelson Mandela
 First Black president of South Africa

Well that took a long time, until then a black country and a white leader. How could that last?

 

South African Apartheid

Here’s a poem that Mama once gave to me, it’s cut out of an Australian newspaper and was written by the most famous poet Anenymous. It has nothing to do with Mandela but it fits to the old Apartheid ruled South Africa (and America, and Australia and everywhere where the right wing whites breed)

Dear White Fella:

Couple of things you ought to know

Firstly,

When I am born, I’m black

When I grow up, I’m black

When I get sick, I’m black

When I go out ina sun, I’m black

When I’m cold, I’m black

And when I get scared, gee I’m black

When I die, I’m still black…

But you, white fella…

When you born, you pink

When you grow up, you white

When you get sick, you green

When you go out ina sun, you red

When you get cold, you go blue

When you get scared, you yellow

And when you die, you purple…

And you have the cheek to call me colored!

 

Birthday of the day:

10th May 1955

Mark David Chapman

The murder of John, may he rot in his cell.

Mug Shot Mark Chapman

Asking for an autogram

John as we knew him

 

On the 8th December 1980 he waited for John and Yoko on their way home to the Dakota House and shot him. He shot five times, four bullets landed in John’s back. What a waste? He killed one of the world’s best.

On 24th August 1981 he was sentenced to twenty-one years imprisonment for second degree murder. Today thirty-two years later he is still imprisoned, his next parole appeal is in 2014, I hope he stays there until he dies.

Died on this day:

10th May 2012

Carroll Shelby

Shelby in young years

Shelby designed and constructed the American muscle car: the Shelby G.T. 350 a modified Ford Mustang. He bought the cars from Ford and modified them with a heavier axle from the Ford Galaxie, stronger rear drum brakes, disc brakes on the front axle and a souped up engine. The car was not easy to drive then it was built for the racetrack. In later years Ford took over the manufacture of the Shelby Mustang and softened it up for road users.

Shelby G.T. 350 made for the racetrack

In the early sixties he also imported the British AC Cobra into America, but instead of the Ford Zephyr six cylinder 2.6 litre motor he had an eight cylinder Ford 4.3 litre motor built into the chassis.

 

AC Cobra modified by Schelby

Cycle ride of the day:

Between rainfalls I rode my cycle today. It was wet so I rode my trusty mule or cart horse, the Focus Jarifa. You will all know of the bicycle because of my dreary report of it yesterday. Well for the weather today it was perfect, wet, windy (south-west five to six Beaufort) and horrible. I wasn’t as fast as usual but I got the twenty-five kilometres behind me in an hour and six minutes. Fast enough for a “sit up and beg” bicycle.

The photo of the haulage preparation was supposed to be posted yesterday, but as I first shot it last evening I’m publishing it today. The other photo is of another fantastically painted transformer station in Risum-Lindholm. There seem to be four, I’ll publish all four in a future blog.

Road prepared for the heavy haulage

Transformer Station in Risum-Lindholm;
painted as to be a garage, it is stood next to Autohaus Bunge

 

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/496120927

 

Bye, see you all tomorrow. Have a good day