OCT 2, portraits of couples: background-subtracted format

 a) Reprise of material posted on October 2 in previous years ...

2020: Greek prefixes, chrono- (poem)
2021: anagram swarms, Canadian scramble-towns 7 (wordplay maps) 
2022: Italian loanwords, ciao (illustrated poem)
2023: decorative touches, Gaudi bench (fabric art)

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Gaudi bench

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 2, 2024):  

   Birds, and occasionally other types of animal, may exhibit paired behavior that often seems to reflect the human proclivity for sharing among two mates of different gender. Photographs of these moments, often intimate, are only available for certain species, but are highly prized. We have tried to capture this state of pairing in a series of over 30 blogposts entitled "Portraits of Couples" (you can find these assembled into collections on our topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense".)  

   We wondered whether a recent technical advance, automated background subtraction, targeted principally at single human subjects, might be of value in highlighting some representations of shared experiences in the biosphere as well as with humans. The software renderings below (the original photos were all taken by Giorgio) show some of our results. It seems that the technique is not bothered too much by the presence of two heads, but only works if the two bodies are touching. And, as with single bird photos, there is the danger that some dangly body parts, such as legs, claws, horns and beaks may be unwittingly amputated by the software.  

        

Canada geese

horses

domestic geese

emus

pigeons 

mallard ducks

mute swans

chickens

broad-headed skinks

brown pelicans

emus

bros

  

bros

OCT 1, pill-poppin' poem: simethicone for abdominal bloating

 

 a) Reprise of material posted on October 1 in prior years ...

2020: new world palindromes, 39 (wordplay maps)
2021: STD-poetry, tabes dorsalis (tertiary syphilis) (poem) 
2022: waterfowl, more snowy egrets, (photo-collage)
2023: chemical states, US, western (wordplay maps)

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snowy egret, hunting

b) Today's Offering (Oct 1, 2024): 

Authors' Note: Simethicone (simeticone), a silicon-based product, is the active ingredient in most current over-the-counter remedies to relieve abdominal distension and gaseous bloating. With coalescence of the offending small bubbles, the gas is dispersed by flatulence and belching.

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Pharmaceutical (pill-poppin') Poems' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

SEP 30, singable satire: a lament -- "WHERE HAS NEUROPHYLIS GONE?"

  a) Reprise of material posted on September 30 in prior years ...

2020: insects, yellow jackets (illustrated poem)
2021: singable satire, Yogi Berra's wisdom (parody lyrics)

2022: singable satire, Postcard to Chubby Checker (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Broken Arrow (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 30, 2024): 

PARODY-LYRICS

Pete Seeger, "America's tuning fork"

ORIGINAL SONG: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" Pete Seeger 1960, additional lyrics by Joe Hickerson, also recorded by Kingston Trio in 1962, and later by Peter, Paul and Mary, Marlene Dietrich, etc. Check out the YouTube videos by Seeger here, and by the Kingston Trio here.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, June, 2014, performed at the CUJ (Corktown Ukulele Jam) Theme-Night, with photo here.

WHERE HAS NEUROSYPHILIS GONE?

(to the tune of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone")

Where is early Alzheimer’s?

Home-care agencies.

Mod’rate cases, few years passed

Fill long-term nursing homes

Weren’t some medications tried?

Functions slid and patients died;

Care system’s overburdened - 

When will we ever  learn?

Where has neurosyphilis gone,

Headstones fading?

Textbooks say it filled asylums

Long time ago.

Where Trep. pallidum would lurk,

Course of Penicillin works,

One thing we clearly learned,

One thing we clearly learned.

Where is all the Wernicke’s

encephalopathy?

Confabulating, filling wards

I saw it long ago.

Malnourished boozers off the road

Saved by whopping thiamine load

Another thing we’ve learned, 

A useful thing we’ve learned.

Hypothyroid mania?

 - Hormone treatment

Tots doomed by leukodystrophy?

 - Lorenzo’s oil

Polio? Almost gone, my son

- Vaccinated everyone.

Perhaps, few things we’ve learned,

I guess few things we’ve learned.

Where’s dementia research gone?

Some fills graveyards

Prod choline receptors? – seems not

Helpful in long term. 

Inhibit amyloid?

Doesn’t fill the treatment void.

Where’s that key thing to learn? 

Where’s that key thing to learn?

  

Where've Alzheimer's patients gone ?

Home-care agencies.

Mod’rate cases, few years passed

Fill long-term nursing homes.

Weren’t “preventive measures” done?

Gone to graveyards every one;

Care-system's overburdened - 

I hope someday we’ll learn.

SEP 29, defining opinion: hors d'oeuvres

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 29 in prior years ...

2020: savoir-faire, French enologists (illustrated poem)
2021: domestic hazards, kettles (poem) 
2022: STD poetry, monkeypox (poem)
2023: postal places, Canada, Antigonish, NS (illustrated poem)

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 fish), into one of the two search bars at the the top of your blog-page. Underneath the slides for each entertaining delight that you discover, you will find a clickable link that lets you easily explore a more widespread collection of blog-stuff (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 

b) Today's Offering (Sep 29, 2024): 

 

Our blogpost "Defining Opinion" on the topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" shows a selection of similar verses submitted to OEDILF (the online Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form). You can see all of these on one visit by clicking HERE.

SEP 28, OEDILFian limericks: 'identity' rhymes

 

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 28 in prior years ...

2020: pandemic poetry, D.Y.O.D. (illustrated poem)
2021: portraits of couples, red slider turtles (photo folio) 
2022: invertebrates, chelipods (illustrated poem)
2023: duplications, hocus-pocus (illustrated poem)

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another red-slider grouping

b) Today's Offering (Sep 28, 2024): 

SEP 27, planet-saving verse: beach foam

  a) Reprise of material posted on September 27 in prior years ...

2020: Toronto ravines, Sherwood (photo-collage)
2021: birdlore, American goldfinch (illustrated poem) 
2022: defining opinion, diaphoretic (poem)

2023: ambulatory verse, scamper (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 27, 2024): 

You can help save the planet by viewing all our verses in this series at "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!

SEP 26, diagnostic imaging: DOGgraphy

a) Reprise of material posted on September 26 in prior years ...

2020: Toronto oases, Humber Bay park (photo-collage)
2021: humorists' scurrilous talk, the C-word (poem) 
2022: organic brain poetry, CTE, traumatic encephalopathy (poem)

2023: gruesome verse, hidey-hole (poem)

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mute swan at Humber Bay

b) Today's Offering (Sep 26, 2024):   

Authors' Note:   The confusing terminology for advanced, i.e. 3D medical imaging, uses acronyms that may be historically based or poorly explained. The development of a method of imaging known as ‘DOGgraphy’ is apocryphal. 

CAT: computerized axial tomography, X-ray imaging of a body section; better described in modern terms as ‘x-ray CT’

PET: positron (dual-photon) emission tomography; a Nuclear Medicine technique involving prior injection of a positron-emitting radionuclide ('isotope'); becoming an important modality in cancer assessment

Holography: processing of fields of light or other radiation scattered from objects; well developed with lasers, but with limited current application in medical imaging.

 You can review all our verses on this intriguing topic by proceeding to a post on 'Edifying Nonsense' entitled 'Selected Topics in Diagnostic Imaging'. Click HERE!

SEP 25, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #26

You have reached the "Submitted Palindromes" thread on the blog "Daily Edifying Nonsense", a light literary entity that emanates through the blogosphere daily (almost), i.e. 30 times per month.

a) Reprise of material posted on September 25 in previous years ...

2020: Toronto ravines, Park Drive Reservation (photo-collage)
2021: at heart, dipyridamole, cardiac stress agent (illustrated poem) 
2022: classic palindromes, step on no pets (poem)
2023: submitted palindromes, targeted, Won't lovers revolt now? (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 25, 2024): 

   On the 25th of each month you will find a slide-filling group of palindromic phrases submitted to the editors by a panel of 7 palindromists. These folks have all been working on this project since January 2020. Their profiles are indicated in panels published here at the start of things, and then, we have asked them to provide (palindromically, of course) their views on one of the iconic items in the classic literature, starting with "A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama", and continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". Otherwise, their contribution will be grouped in random piles (a phrase that you might recognize as an anagram of the word p-a-l-i-n-d-r-o-m-e-s).

SEP 24, magical palindromes: examples #26 - #30

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 24 in prior years ...

2020: trees, sago palms (illustrated poem)
2021: Toronto ravines, Etobicoke Creek (photo-collage) 
2022: toxic vignettes, antifreeze poisoning (poem)
2023: lexicon of word-pairs, echoic binomials P (wordplay)

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sago palm
(a sexy male cycad)

b) Today's Offering (Sep 24, 2024):

You can view our entire collection of these intriguing wordplay oddities, in a post on our blog "Edifying Nonsense", entitled Magical Palindromes: a compendium".

SEP 23, life in Palindrome Valley: dalliance

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 23 in prior years ...

2020: poets' corner, limerick adddiction (poem)
2021: binomial phrases, sin and redemption (illustrated poem) 
2022: American satire, civil lawsuit --Fore! (illustrated poem)
2023: waterfowl, flightless seabirds (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 23, 2024): 

You can review other illustrated verses on this topic by proceeding to the collection 'Life in Palindrome Valley' on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.