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The densest planet in the solar system - here; the Earth. Kind of figures - there are lot of dense people living here. Least dense planet in the solar system - Saturn. It is less dense than water. So if you had a bucket of water large enough (and that would be vey large indeed!) Saturn would float. Factoids of the day over and done.

Annual Barnes & Noble 50% Criterion sale. Time to buy the CC40 Blu-ray Collection. Upcoming birthday present to myself? Check. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dvd-cc40-criterion-collection-49pc-box-aniv-dts-sgnl/1146148868

TJ's Spicy Pumpkin Samosas with Organic Sri Lankan Mango Chutney, to start. Followed by Creamy Coconut Chicken Curry with pumpkin, Banana and Mango Chutney.

Yesterday. Today, with pumpkin, because 'tis the season.

Telly Savalas If

Duets by Kevin Eubanks & Stanley Jordan (2015) https://album.link/i/960015276 Example: I lost track of Stanly in the 90's he stopped for about 12 years or so, and I didn't pickup that he started again in the 2000's. Anyway my friend let me know that he listened to the "Friends" album (2011). Which I will get to, but I was more interested in this colab first. I really liked this mellow album.

One out of the archives.

I call it bachelor's casserole. Polish sausage, potatoes, onion, corn, bell pepper and mushrooms. Really, whatever I have in the fridge.

And Earth imaged by Cassini during its mission to Saturn

"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." Carl Sagan

hehe - Turned 57 - but I still have a few birth years and a 60yo waiting in the wings. So I will run out soon - but I have not run out yet. :} Oh and a birthday present to myself showed up today. The completely ridiculous tall nosing glass: Riedel Superleggero Spirits Feels like I could snap it with my fingers. But it is just a bit of fun, Testing with an newly opened (old bottle) Glenmorangie Traditional 1L 57.2%.

You know you can hire people to do that stuff every once in a while, Nate. Well done regardless of the easier alternative. 😎