Sunday, July 30, 2023
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Saturday, October 29, 2022
LEONARDO da VINCI AS PERSEUS STATUE
I'm not sure of the size of the statue but I estimate the size as being about 5 ft from knee to heel.
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Bronze statue of Leonardo da Vinci as Perseus on the Ile d'or in the Loire opposite, more or less, the Château d'Amboise, Amboise, France
Leonardo da Vinci spent his final years in Amboise and is said to be buried in the chapel of the château (there is some doubt that his remains are actually there). This statue by the Italian sculptor Amleto Cataldi (1882-1930) was presented to the French government by the Republic of San Marino in 1935. It represents Leonardo as a "Greek god," although why the subject of Perseus and Medusa was chosen is not known.
The sculpture was originally installed in Paris. It was moved to its present location in 1976, but for some reason it was left unidentified (no plaque or marker) until December of 2011.
The sculpture rests on a concrete platform near the river bank on the Ile d'Or, a small island in the Loire River at Amboise. The statue faces the château but at an angle from slightly upstream.
For a rear view of the sculpture, see: www.flickr.com/photos/hunky_punk/15306546653/
For a detail of the Medusa's head, see: www.flickr.com/photos/hunky_punk/15303964404/
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
DIARY SEPT 21/22
Below is a response to an article about a woman who thought her sister (who was suffering from dementia) was not getting the quality of long term care that she expected. The demented sister was being given a drug to control her behavior (the article does not specify what the unacceptable behavior is) but there were undesirable size effects (as there always is with any drug).
One cannot help asking why wasn't this woman's sister kept at home? The answer can only be because the demented sister was impossible to control and was put in an LTC facility. The woman, having unburdened herself of her crazy sister, now feels she is free to complain. She is, of course, projecting her guilt for abandoning her sister onto the poor staff who, somehow, have to manage an unmanageable dementia patient (and without the use of drugs). Perhaps she thought that individual counseling was a viable option, free of charge, of course.
Monday, September 5, 2022
BIKE DIARY SEPT 05/22
FINALLY!!
Start time 9:15 pm
Temp 17.4 C
Ah 27.92
Trip Distance 64.10 km
Total Distance 13,005 km
Time 119:11
Av. Speed 32.20
Trip Wh/km 22.70
Trip Wh 1452.90
Friday, September 2, 2022
BIKE DIARY SEPT 02/22
Saw two coyotes tonight, hunting together. First coyotes this year.
No.3 battery cut out at some point. A weakness in info gathering by concentrating on mileage. After 13,000 km I'll go back to using the main screen which shows voltage level. I would have picked up the battery cutout by noticing the drop in voltage by using the main screen.
If I had noticed the drop in voltage I would have stopped and re-set each battery. By doing this I would have noticed a voltage increase the instant I re-set the battery that had cut out.
Start time 9:35 pm
Temp 21.5 C
Ah 14.87
Trip Distance 30.17 km
Total Distance 12,941 km
Time 54:30
Av. Speed 33.20
Trip Wh/km 22.60
Trip Wh 697.40
Thursday, September 1, 2022
BIKE DIARY SEPT 01/22
Start time 9:30 pm
Temp 21.4 C
Ah 15.55
Trip Distance 35.54 km
Total Distance 12,911 km
Time 603:09
Av. Speed 33.70
Trip Wh/km 23.10
Trip Wh 817.72
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If I may paraphrase Col. Jessup from A Few Good Men:
“You weep for your sister Linda and you curse the LTC facilities. You have that luxury because you have off loaded the burden of caring for your demented sister to others. The treatment of your sister, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, is the best care care possible within the available budget.
Your sister could have had the finest care that money could buy. All you had to do was keep your sister at home and cough up the money for private nurses and other caregivers. But the truth is that you won’t do that. You want other people to pay for her “money-is-no-object" long term care. But you don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you don’t want to take care of your crazy sister. You and the rest of your family should have had a talk about the proper way to die before you got into this mess. I’ll bet you have never used the words duty, sacrifice and honor to govern the end of life healthcare.
We accept the principle of dying for one’s country - if one’s country is in jeopardy - because it is one’s duty. And it is dishonorable to do otherwise. Well, how about the duty to die for one’s family if one’s continued existence puts the family in jeopardy? But the woman does not want to do her duty. Actually she probably thinks duty, sacrifice and honor are quaint anachronisms. But the taxpayers of this country should not have to commit, either in time or in inclination, to explain themselves to irresponsible people who rise and sleep under the blanket of the very healthcare system that they provide and then question the manner in which they provide it.
Personally, I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, otherwise, I suggest you provide your own end of life healthcare at home and accept that burden. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.”
Excellent!
Well done.