The basement.
Chemical engineer Bernie Astiazarán had at the basement of his house —this one looked like a Gothic temple— a pool billiard table, another for playing carom; some checkered tables with 64 squares painted, and ashtrays glued. The tables were intended to play cards, dominoes, chess and checkers; a small cellar, a bar, a radio-CD player, and a coffee maker of the Bunn-O-Matic Corporation,* the company that invented them in 1963.
*1400 Stevenson Drive, Springfield, Illinois 62703.
Dense clouds of smoke from cigarettes and cigars got out by the four cellar windows overlooking the outside garden, two on the south, two on the west.
That cellar and smoking lounge was a kind of Tubby's Boys' Club, but occasionally transformed into a "Club of Little Lulu", where the wife of our character, Azucena "Azu" de la Rosa, and her friends were playing bridge, Uruguayan canasta, or pool (billiards), and drinking tea.
Astiazarán and his friends told jokes and chatted (some pontificating) about politics, history, philosophy, more about music, and literature. Some agreed with the poet and columnist Francisco Manuel Hernández Pérez (San Andres Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico, 1946- ), who states that "The creators [...] also have the pleasure of inventing dishes, vehicles, houses and alcoholic beverages, apart from that useless nonsense, such as novels, essays, short stories and poetry. "*
*Article "El aguardiente y la desnudez" ("Liquor and nudity"). [In Spanish.] Daily newspaper Público (Public) Guadalajara, Jalisco, México, page 16, Saturday, 01/26/2002.
Nonsense CCXXXII.
Lemonade.
The search by the girl Amanda has given green fruits, yes. At about 5:30 a.m. that Saturday she left her house without her parents noticing this, walked about 150 feet to another home, she knocked on the door and the landlady opened. Little Amanda greeted,
—"Hello, grandma!, smack!"
—"How do you do today, my little Amanda?, smack!"
The grandmother, at that she used to get up out of bed, lit a candle, prayed, and then turned on the radio to hear the latest news on the radio station KLMN, "590 kilohertz of Truth", as she washed clothes by hand.
Amanda asked permission from his Grandma to cut two or three lemons. Granted. The girl returned from the garden; the old woman had already put on the dinette table a bowl of water and honey. The girl prepared three glasses of lemonade, who immediately they both drank.
Margarite called on the phone to her daughter to tell her her daughter Amanda (Margarite's granddaughter) was at her home, not to worry. She lent her little Amanda an illustrated copy of Puss in Boots, which Amanda began to read while sit on a pouf, and her grandmother returned to her duty at the laundry.
Nonsense CCXXXIII.
My devil scooter.
Like many children of several generations, I considered a formidable my devil skate. It was made of wood, and iron painted in red. I made it roll the sidewalks when I was eight, nine, ten years old, in 1966-1968... (Calle Sonora Sur) South Sonora Street, between Nicolás Bravo and 6 de Abril (April, 6)*...
*This name and date commemorates the end of the Battle of Caborca, from 1 to 6, April, 1857, and the shooting of dozens of American slavery filibusters who wanted to conquer the Mexican state of Sonora and incorporate it as a slave entity to the United States of America, under the command of Lawyer and General Henry A. Crabb, a native of Nashville, Tennessee, who was the last to be shot to death by a firing squad on April, 6, 1857.
Nonsense CCXXXIV.
Strange underquarks.
A former classmate of nuclear physicist Andreas Rattlefort, whose name is omitted because his acts can be considered dangerous and even illegal, has proposed building three transformers or generators of underquarks for which has already received funding through various U.S., European, and Japanese foundations:
1) One which through unorthodox methodology based on randomness supported by pseudodatabases will allow the search of endoreplicant and self-accelerating special underquarks —and if these do not exist in nature, their creation out of the most most abundant forms or varieties of underquarks, that exponentially will accelerate the expansion and the end of the universe, or at least the extinction of life on this unclean planet (Earth). Id est, a few years are left for all of the human kind. A worthy aim, perhaps, of some political leaders of the more distant past.
2) Another one with a methodology to be fully defined yet, but it would include some sort of hiperentropy within the underquarkic entropy, with unpredictable and terrifying results.
3) The third, with a normalizing methodology that would allow galaxies and clusters of galaxies to not separate from each other, and maintain current distances, simply by orbiting in lengthy ellipsoidal movements. As for quasars, the guy said: "No matter, quasars are far from us; we intend to regulate galaxies, quasars can go wherever they want."
The Most craziness of this individual is that, once completed, he may decide to launch simultaneously two generators: 1 and 2, or 2 and 3 (the combination 1 and 3 is not provided by his crazy mind), or to worse the future situation, all of the three (1, 2 and 3).
Nonsense CCXXXV.
Twenty-four uses of newsprint paper (an uncoated paper).
(1) To read the newspaper.
(2) To write by hand or by using a typewriter: Remington, Underwood, Olympia, Erika, Smith-Corona, Hermes Baby, Olivetti, IBM, Multiplex Hammond, Royal, Voss, Gossen Tippa, et cetera.
(3) To provide content —información— to readers in libraries.
(4) Without printing (and sometimes printed): tortilla* wrapping, or to wrap almost any other product.
*This is the Latin America tortilla, which is a thin unleavened disk of cornmeal about 5½ to 6 inches in diameter, while the tortilla in Spain is a thick one, and it is made out of potatoes and eggs.
(5) To make cornets.
(6) To make sales notes blocks.
(7) To make blocks of paper sheets for handwritten notes.
(8) To read only certain columns of the classifieds section (there are individuals, known in Mexico as "coyotes", who are dedicated to buy and sell used goods, cars, et cetera, and they are not interested at all to waste time reading news)
(9) Toilet paper.
(10) Coiled cylindrical or conically shaped indicator sticks used by teachers in classrooms.
(11) "Wallpapering" motor vehicles before painting them.
(12) To dry glasses and crystals after one has washed them.
(13) To assist in starting fires in braziers and charcoal grills. This competes with plant resin, pitch pine, gasoline, ethyl alcohol, and so on.
(14) To wrap avocados or other fruits and put them inside the oven stove (without lighting this one) or put them over the top of the refrigerator, to make them ripen.
(15) Free (or very low cost) fuel for grilling: steaks, burgers and so on. Famous actor and comedian Foster Brooks (1912-2001) founded the company WETOO, Inc., 8242 Moberly Lane, Dallas, Texas 75227. In October 1977, the telephone number was 1-800-527-7060, and the manager was Boyd Bennett. This company offered to resellers an ecological grill. Foster Brooks says: Sell my incredible Ecology Drill™. With this Ecology Drill, no coal is needed. With only four sheets of newspaper you cook eight burgers or four steaks in less than ten minutes ... BBQ with free fuel. Many ads featuring the Ecology Drill™ were published in the United States of America in the 1970s. If you happen to type in the search box of Google the following: Wetoo Inc. 8242 Moberly Lane... it will appear a link that could lead you to page 24 of a Texas newspaper, The Amarillo Globe-Times of Tuesday, May 24 1977.
(16) To start a fire in a house, business, or almost anywhere in the world.
(17) To dry your hands, face, body...
(18) To wipe off any excess ink when writing with a fountain pen, or a feather.
(19) Origami.
(20) To make piñatas.
(21) To manufacture paper toys.
(22) For coverage/shelter from the the wind, cold et cetera: newspapers are used as if they were blankets, by some street children and street people in general. Some of the homeless who sleep under the sky, sometimes get themselves covered with newspapers.
(23) To damp shock when packing in cartons, wood, plastic boxes... fragile glassware, glass, clay, ceramic or ... crafts, wrapped in several layers of newspaper, previously crumpled or not...
(24) Frequently, newsprint paper is recycled to manufacture paperboard, cardboard, and for other uses.
Nonsense CCXXXVI.
A declined identity.
Oh powerful humanist engineer Moe Moritani!, you who are standing to the left of programmer Cecilia Blackhurst, and at the same time, behind cyber administrator Roger Kanind, but at the same time you are a wreck when one compares you to nuclear physicist Matsuo Yoshida (currently on a course at the Leipzig University, but he would also be in a standing position in front of you), we demand that you give us another identity, because that one that we believed to be ours, has slowly died out.
Nonsense CCXXXVII
Yellowish small sphere.
Oh, powerful yellowish small sphere, you come and go!, you "rotate" and seem to bounce from left to right and back before the icon of the computer when you symbolize the quest for wireless network connections, you seem to come to life, I love watching your swing.
Praise to you.
Nonsense CCXXXVIII.
Spain plums.
The small girl selling plums from Spain who carried those fruits in a medium size bucket while walking along the corridors of the Large municipal market, used to wear jeans and a navy blue blouse with a lower court that allowed a perfect view of her beautiful navel (surely her mother bandaged her womb when she was a baby). He wore shoes of the British brand Hackett, a pair of cobalt blue suede.
The beauty showed her right free one of those laxative and fibrous drupes.
In a haberdashery situated in an inside corner of the market, Doña Pachita Sáenz allowed the young woman to keep two or three large boxes with those fruits, while wandering to offer.
Daira actually was more of a student of Sociology, night shift, in the Popular University of the State of Curitiño, who turned into daytime hours in a seller of plums. Year of Our Lord 2003. There were many prowlers in the mornings by the market, especially on Saturdays, they would not buy food, but were attracted by the "dolls".
A heavenly vision, Daira, which Egbert S. never forget and to reaffirm what he considers his misfortune: he is married.
Nonsense CCXXXIX.
Alfred.
In the Espresso Cafeteria, located at avenue Tolsa* 367, Guadalajara, develops a strange conversation.
*Today, the name is Avenida Enrique Díaz de León Sur.
~~~~Alfred.
------Matthew, a homolog of Alfred.
——Newcomer.
~~~Hello, my name is Alfred.
——What is the occupation of Alfred?
------He is an encumbracer at a funeral home.
——Assistant, you mean.
------Okay, yes. And he is also fascinated with the culture of the ancient Egyptians, the Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx, the investigations of the British archaeologist Howard Carter and the discovery, November 26, 1922, of the tomb of the young pharaoh Tutankhamun in the necropolis of Al Tarif, in.The Valley of the Kings, 750 kilometers south of Giza...
The homolog reads a local morning newspaper, El Occidental (The Westerner). The newcomer goes outside to smoke a Winston cigarette.
Alfred is very concentrated, more than the coffee he is sipping. With narrowed eyes he sees esoterically the liquid; apparently looking again for the image of the eye of Horus falcon into the cup.
After the newcomer came back inside, Alfred told the other two:
~~~~In Egypt, the death is full of life. I will travel back to El Cairo and Giza, on 27 December 2000. I will receive the third millennium in the desert.
------Will you seek death, id est, life, there?
~~~~No, death is already around me in my daily work. I will go after ancient wisdom, and to decipher great mysteries, so silly!
------Hey, supreme universal wise man and simultaneously great intercontinental master, where did you study and what did you study?
~~~~ In the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas, I have concluded my career, I got a degree, and I shall not tell you what my profession is, ignorant.
------Oh, you!
Alfred pays, and say goodbye to his homolog. He dismisses the newcomer.
~~~~Goodby, Matthew.
-------Goodbye, Alfred, see you tomorrow.
~~~~Okay.
Alfred disappeared and no one in Guadalajara ever again heard something about him.
In El Cairo museum there is a "statue" made of apparently ultra-dense wax (so it cannot melt, the same material the statue of Howard Carter is made of) but it is actually Alfred, in a strange alive-dead state, with a sign on the pedestal which reads in Arabic as well as in English: مساعد لعالمة الآثار هوارد كارتر Assistant to archaeologist Howard Carter. Alfred lives-dies at the Museum, thinks, observes, and especially hears (sometimes listens to) the visitors, and stores polylingually such talks and comments. He does not eat anything, nor drinks water, instead, at night, when the Museum is closed, he walks up to the kitchen, and drinks several cups of coffee with sugar, being this his only food.
Then, he returns to his place to adopt the silent and immobile position of the "statue".
By 2016, he will write a book, apparently bithematic: Stories and mysteries of ancient Egypt, and Absurd and nonsense stories I've heard in El Cairo Museum.
~~~~Oh, very much ignorant human kind, you do not know how much you need me; I am one of the thirteen wise entities, I am a direct descendant of Horus!
Nonsense CCXL.
A strange liquid.
On Friday night, a few steps from the lonely lagoon Encantada (Enchanted), Mauro found a pond containing a strange liquid, it smelled like apple juice or cider. In his car he carries a bucket of 5 gallons, he got back to his automobile, in order to take the bucket, he put it into the concavity, and nearly filled it with the rare liquid, covered it, and went back to his car, a Chevrolet sedan 2009.
When he returned home, poured the liquid into a steel container, measured the pH, and found it to be between 2.8 and 3.2.
He allowed it to stand for two days, to be decanted.
On Monday morning, he carefully and slowly emptied about three gallons in another container made of steel also. Filtered this portion of the liquid. he Then centrifuged it in a machine to homogenize it. Drank something like five ounces of that, and a marvelous reversible metamorphosis began...
Nonsense CCXLI
Ghosts and other entities.
Ghosts
spectra
apparitions
phantoms
nahuales, elves, gnomes, alushes (Mayan goblins)
wizards
magicians
sorcerers
witches
shamans
sadhus
mara'akames
golmes
fairies
geniuses of the lamp
jinns
vampires
monsters
demons
succubi
zombies
goatsuckers (chupacabras)
Nonsense CCXLII.
Nicotinic inspiration.
There have been many famous smokers; here, only a few are mentioned:
David Bowie, composer, guitarist and singer of rock, English (1947-2016).
Albert Camus, French writer (1913-1960).
Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (1914-1984).
Sigmund Freud, neurologist, father of psychoanalysis, Jewish-Austrian (1856-1939).
Ricardo Garibay, Mexican writer (1923-1999).
César González Ruano, Spanish journalist and writer (1903-1965), who went to the Café Gijón, then the missing Teide Café in Madrid.Below, a link to a picture of a Mapfre insurance office at the address Rios Rosas 54, in Madrid. —González Ruano lived in Ríos Rosas 54—; perhaps the building shown in the photo is the floor or apartment occupied for years by the Madrilean writer.
https://www.google.com.mx/maps/@40.441712,-3.695666,3a,75y,178.19h,96.08t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sPDNDIhgKW5adntf91f73Ng!2e0!6m1!1e1?hl=en
George Harrison, composer, guitarist and rock singer, English, a former Beatle (1943-2001).
Ernest Hemingway, American writer (1899-1961).
Rudyard Kipling, British writer (1865-1936).
Jimmy Page, songwriter and guitarist of rock, English, formerly of Led Zeppelin (1944).
Arturo Perez-Reverte, Spanish writer and journalist (1951- ).
Max Planck, German (1858-1947) physicist. He smoked a pipe.
Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Peruvian writer (1929-1994).
Dave "The Snake" Sabo, songwriter and guitarist of rock, American, member of Skid Row (1964- ).
Mark Twain, American author (1835-1910). "If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go."
Rodolfo Usigli, Mexican playwright (1905-1979), son of an Italian father. Usigli is the author of the play El gesticulador (The Gesticulator).
Nonsense CCXLIII.
Sand castles.
Sporadic, intermittent, pliant, forgetfulness, multi-purpose projects, unfulfilled intentions, dreams of grandeur, stairs cards, sandcastles... obstinacy.
Nonsense CCXLIV.
Amicable numbers.
The Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española, RAE) defines amicable numbers: A pair of numbers in which each of them is equal to the sum of the aliquots* of the other one; exempli gratia, 220 and 284.
*Aliquot is a part which is an exact divisor of an amount or number.
Let us factor 220, and 284, to analyze and check that those numbers are amicable of each other.
Firstly, let us factor 220:
220 | 2
110 | 2
55 | 5
11 | 11
1 |
Let us add its aliquots:
110 + 55 + 44 + 22 + 20 + 11 + 10 + 5 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 284.
Then, let us factor 284:
284 | 2
142 | 2
71 | 71
1 |
Let us add its aliquots:
142 + 71 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 220.
Other pairs of amicable numbers are:
1184, 1210,
6232, 6368,
17296, 18416,
9363584, 9437056.
Nonsense CCXLV.
Light notes on factoring.
Besides these lines there are the scanned images of three tickets of different routes of urban buses in Guadalajara, Jalisco, March 2014.
A) Let us factor the first ticket, number 8976, from a Guadalajaran transportation enterprise called Servicios y Transportes (SyT) Services and Transportation:
8976 | 2
4488 | 2
2244 | 2
1122 | 2
561 | 3
187 | 11
17 | 17
1 |
When individually considered the dividers that appear in the right column, and also after multiply each other; and when individually consider the numbers in the left column, except the first and the last, we find that the number 8976 is evenly divisible by the following submultiples: 2, 3 , 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 16, 17, 22, 24, 33, 34, 44, 48, 51, 66, 68, 88, 102, 132, 136, 176, 187, 204, 264, 272 , 374, 408, 528, 561, 748, 816, 1122, 2244, 2992, 4488. Maybe some submultiple missing. If you know it, please let me know in the comments area.
The numbers 1 and 8976 are not considered submultiples of 8976, although the number 1 can be considered an aliquot of 8976.
Now, let us factor the number of the bus route: 275 B:
275 | 5
55 | 5
11 | 11
1 |
When individually considered the dividers that appear in the right column, and also after multiply each other; and when individually consider the numbers in the left column, except the first and the last, we find that the number 275 is evenly divisible by the following submultiples: 5, 11, 25, 55.
The numbers 1 and 275 are not considered submultiples, although the number 1 can be considered an aliquot of 275.
Let us see the number of the vehicle, it is a surrogate unit (S): S 8085:
8085 | 3
2695 | 5
539 | 7
77 | 7
11 | 11
1 |
When individually considered the dividers that appear in the right column, and also after multiply each other; and when individually consider the numbers in the left column, except the first and the last, we find that the number 8085 is evenly divisible by the following submultiples: 3, 5, 7, 11, 15, 21, 33, 35, 49, 55, 77, 105, 147, 165, 231, 245, 385, 539, 735, 1155, 1617, 2695.
Perhaps some submultiples are missing. If you know it, please let me know in the comments area.
The numbers 1 and 8085 are not considered submultiples of 8085, although the number 1 can be considered an aliquot of 8085.
B) Let us factor the the numbers of the second ticket. It is a ticket from the Alianza de Camioneros de Jalisco, Asociacion Civil (Truckers Alliance of Jalisco, A.C.).
23940:
23940 | 2
11970 | 2
5985 | 3
1995 | 3
665 | 5
133 | 7
19 | 19
1 |
When individually considered the dividers that appear in the right column, and also after multiply each other; and when individually consider the numbers in the left column, except the first and the last, we find that the number 23940 is evenly divisible by the following submultiples: 2, 3 , 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 28, 30, 35, 36, 38, 45, 57, 60, 63, 70, 76, 84 90, 95, 105.114, 126, 133, 140, 171, 180, 190, 210, 228, 252, 266, 285, 315, 342, 380, 399, 420, 532, 630, 665, 684, 798, 855 , 1140, 1197, 1260, 1330, 1596, 1710, 1995, 2394, 2660, 3420, 3990, 4788, 5985, 7980, 11970.
Most likely there may be missing some submultiples. If you know them, please let me know in the comments area.
The numbers 1 and 23940 are not considered submultiples, although the number 1 can be considered an aliquot of 23940.
Let us see the number of the bus. This is the unit 135:
135 | 3
45 | 3
15 | 3
5 | 5
1 |
When individually considered the dividers that appear in the right column, and also after multiply each other; and when individually consider the numbers in the left column, except the first and the last, we find that the number 135 is evenly divisible by the following submultiples: 3, 5, 9, 15, 27, 45.
The numbers 1 and 135 are not considered submultiples of 135, although the number 1 can be considered an aliquot of 135.
C) Let us factor the numbers of the third ticket. This ticket shows the number 7514276, from the Collective Transport System for the Metropolitan Zone of Guadalajara (Sistema de Transporte Colectivo de la Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara; its acronym: Sistecozome):
7514276 | 2
3757138 | 2
1878569 | 7
268 367 | 11
24397 | 31
787 | 787
1 |
When individually considered the dividers that appear in the right column, and also after multiply each other; and when individually consider the numbers in the left column, except the first and the last, we find that the number 7514276 is evenly divisible by the following submultiples: 2, 4, 7, 11, 14, 22, 28, 31, 44, 62, 77, 124, 154, 217, 308, 341, 787, 868, 2387, 3148, 8657, 9548, 22036, 24397, 34628, 48794, 60599 , 97588, 121198, 170779, 242396, 268367, 341558, 536734, 683116, 1073468, 1878569, 3757138, and maybe some others, in a list which could be built longer than a narwhal tooth.
The number 1 and 7514276 are not considered submultiples of 7514276, although the number 1 can be considered an aliquot of 7514276
Now, let us factor the number of the route (R), 200:
200 | 2
100 | 2
50 | 2
25 | 5
5 | 5
1 |
When individually considered the dividers that appear in the right column, and also after multiply each other; and when individually consider the numbers in the left column, except the first and the last, we find that the number 200 is evenly divisible by the following submultiples: 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 20, 25, 40, 50, 100.
The numbers 1 and 200 are not considered submultiples of 200, although the number 1 can be considered an aliquot of 200.
Nonsense CCXLVI.
Sciences, arts, television, playback.
Public broadcasters, of national, state, regional, provincial, departmental, municipal, public universities and private universities sponsored by private television programs, play an important role in popularizing science, technology, culture, fine arts, ecology, biology, fauna, flora, astronomy, oceanography, transport, communications, economics, international trade, health, travel, cuisine, customs, trade, et cetera, which otherwise would not be available to the general public.
The same take the viewer to an Asian steppe or an African region to observe and learn something about the the life of the antelope, for example, that to a concert hall of a large American or European city, hearing or listening to an orchestra symphony.
This can be a fraction of the "distracted perception" * and "multitasking" **: one can execute two or more tasks simultaneously: for example: post a tweet (in Twitter) or reply to messages on the cell phone or search for something in such search engines as Yahoo!, Google, Ask or Bing, and at the same time watch a television program as mentioned above, or wash the dishes and cutlery, and also hear (but maybe not listen to) a television program, as if the electronic/electric appliance were a radio receiver and not a television set, or indeed have a radio on (not a TV set).
*A concept introduced by a French Jewish intuitive philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941) taken up and widely reported by German Jewish philosopher, essayist and radio announcer Walter Benjamin (Berlin, 1892-Portbou, Catalonia, Spain, 1940), during his confrontations and controversies with also German Jewish philosopher, sociologist and musicologist Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969). For the innovative Benjamin, the chance to multiply by photographing the images of works of art and decoration which are in museums and galleries, and to record concerts and recitals and play them back by using vinyl or acetate records in gramophone turntables (tone arm with a needle), amounted to bring close what is far, the great Benjamin did not live/survive until the age of Flickr, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Facebook, et cetera. Today, the ideas and concepts he postulated, have been extended and, of course, implemented in a grand manner. The listener who hears a recording in his/her home or office (or by using his/her cell phone in its "modality" of radio or "recorder") neither needs to keep silence (differently than in a concert hall, where he/she must be silent) nor pay the greatest possible attention (a difference from being in a museum) to hear and see; to grasp or interpret the message of an artist, a creator, or the additional touch or feeling of a popularizer or exponent of the art other(s).
But for T. W. Adorno, those recordings, reproductions, photographs, et cetera, were falsified or misrepresented works to multiply and reproduce.
Apparently, Walter Benjamin has won the battle; he got his trophy and his triumph in life, while alive, and now, post mortem, also reaps the seeds he sowed.
If most of the world's people have no time, no money, no desire to go to a concert hall in order to hear or listen to a symphony or directly observe a painting by Rembrandt, or be in some football or baseball stadium to watch a game; for example, at the Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers, they can watch it via television airing, recordings, video recording, digital video disks, streaming, or by visiting the websites of museums where paintings, photographs and sculptures are digitally displayed, television transmission/programs and shows aired live or delayed broadcast, podcasts (portable on-demand casts) and so on.
Sure it's not the same as being at the venue/museum/stadium, but is almost equal; id est, replacements, copies, substitutes, may be used.
**Women, teenagers and young people are more apt to multitasking than men and adults.
Nonsense CCXLVII.
On animals.
Ruud Kleinpaste (1952- ), head and conductor of the Buggin 'with Ruud television program transmitted by Animal Planet channel, an Indonesian by birth, probably speaker of Dutch.
Steve Irwin (1962-2006). The Crocodile Hunter. This nature lover and especially the reptilian wildlife owned a zoo in his native Australia. He died when was filming a documentary: during the videotaping of some underwater scenes in Queensland, a stingray barb pierced his chest.
Jeff Corwin (1967- ). This famous American anthropologist and biologist has worked for Disney Channel and Animal Planet. Filmed documentaries on wildlife from the five continents.
Daktari*. Televisual Programme 1966-1969 of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), which deals with animal behavior in East Africa. The protagonist was Doctor Marsh Tracy, interpreted by actor Marshall Thompson (1925-1992), in the role of a fictional veterinarian.
*In Swahili language "daktari" means doctor.
Tarzan. Series of novels written by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), the first in 1912. English nobleman Lord Greystoke becomes Tarzan, the Ape Man, who in the African jungle moves from tree to tree by using lianas, and shouts its classic cry based on the yodeling of some Swiss cantons, although one of the many Tarzanes, actor and swimmer Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984) was Austro-Hungarian-American, not Swiss. Wife or girlfriend or Lord Greystoke Tarzan's was Jane Porter, and the Ape Man has a friendly chimpanzee named Cheetah. There were filmed 89 movies about Tarzan, and there were numerous comics called Tarzan.
Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion. A 1965 film, and a television series of the 1960's.
Born Free. The life of a lioness. Based on the book Born Free, written by Joy Gessner-Adamson, this 96-minute-long British movie was filmed film in 1966, directed by James Hill, about Elsa the lioness, when she was an orphan cub was adopted by a couple of conservationists, Gessner-Joy Adamson and George Adamson, who cared for her and reinserted into the wild in Kenya. In the same decade of the 1960's a weekly television series was recorded.
Flipper. This was a television series of the 1960's in which the protagonist was a bottlenose dolphin.
Lassie. Television series of the 1960's, in which the protagonist was a collie dog.
The Adventures of Rin-Tin-Tin. Television series of the 1960's, broadcast by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), in which the protagonist was a German shepherd dog, who was a soldier at Fort Apache, United States of America. The background was the original Rin-Tin-Tin (1918-1932), a German shepherd dog that was rescued from a battlefield during World War I by American soldier Lee Duncan. —Rin-Tin-Tin starred in 27 Hollywood films.
Nonsense CCXLVIII.
Whoa.
My devil scooter.
Like many children of several generations, I considered a formidable my devil skate. It was made of wood, and iron painted in red. I made it roll the sidewalks when I was eight, nine, ten years old, in 1966-1968... (Calle Sonora Sur) South Sonora Street, between Nicolás Bravo and 6 de Abril (April, 6)*...
*This name and date commemorates the end of the Battle of Caborca, from 1 to 6, April, 1857, and the shooting of dozens of American slavery filibusters who wanted to conquer the Mexican state of Sonora and incorporate it as a slave entity to the United States of America, under the command of Lawyer and General Henry A. Crabb, a native of Nashville, Tennessee, who was the last to be shot to death by a firing squad on April, 6, 1857.
Nonsense CCXXXIV.
Strange underquarks.
A former classmate of nuclear physicist Andreas Rattlefort, whose name is omitted because his acts can be considered dangerous and even illegal, has proposed building three transformers or generators of underquarks for which has already received funding through various U.S., European, and Japanese foundations:
1) One which through unorthodox methodology based on randomness supported by pseudodatabases will allow the search of endoreplicant and self-accelerating special underquarks —and if these do not exist in nature, their creation out of the most most abundant forms or varieties of underquarks, that exponentially will accelerate the expansion and the end of the universe, or at least the extinction of life on this unclean planet (Earth). Id est, a few years are left for all of the human kind. A worthy aim, perhaps, of some political leaders of the more distant past.
2) Another one with a methodology to be fully defined yet, but it would include some sort of hiperentropy within the underquarkic entropy, with unpredictable and terrifying results.
3) The third, with a normalizing methodology that would allow galaxies and clusters of galaxies to not separate from each other, and maintain current distances, simply by orbiting in lengthy ellipsoidal movements. As for quasars, the guy said: "No matter, quasars are far from us; we intend to regulate galaxies, quasars can go wherever they want."
The Most craziness of this individual is that, once completed, he may decide to launch simultaneously two generators: 1 and 2, or 2 and 3 (the combination 1 and 3 is not provided by his crazy mind), or to worse the future situation, all of the three (1, 2 and 3).
Nonsense CCXXXV.
Twenty-four uses of newsprint paper (an uncoated paper).
(1) To read the newspaper.
(2) To write by hand or by using a typewriter: Remington, Underwood, Olympia, Erika, Smith-Corona, Hermes Baby, Olivetti, IBM, Multiplex Hammond, Royal, Voss, Gossen Tippa, et cetera.
(3) To provide content —información— to readers in libraries.
(4) Without printing (and sometimes printed): tortilla* wrapping, or to wrap almost any other product.
*This is the Latin America tortilla, which is a thin unleavened disk of cornmeal about 5½ to 6 inches in diameter, while the tortilla in Spain is a thick one, and it is made out of potatoes and eggs.
(5) To make cornets.
(6) To make sales notes blocks.
(7) To make blocks of paper sheets for handwritten notes.
(8) To read only certain columns of the classifieds section (there are individuals, known in Mexico as "coyotes", who are dedicated to buy and sell used goods, cars, et cetera, and they are not interested at all to waste time reading news)
(9) Toilet paper.
(10) Coiled cylindrical or conically shaped indicator sticks used by teachers in classrooms.
(11) "Wallpapering" motor vehicles before painting them.
(12) To dry glasses and crystals after one has washed them.
(13) To assist in starting fires in braziers and charcoal grills. This competes with plant resin, pitch pine, gasoline, ethyl alcohol, and so on.
(14) To wrap avocados or other fruits and put them inside the oven stove (without lighting this one) or put them over the top of the refrigerator, to make them ripen.
(15) Free (or very low cost) fuel for grilling: steaks, burgers and so on. Famous actor and comedian Foster Brooks (1912-2001) founded the company WETOO, Inc., 8242 Moberly Lane, Dallas, Texas 75227. In October 1977, the telephone number was 1-800-527-7060, and the manager was Boyd Bennett. This company offered to resellers an ecological grill. Foster Brooks says: Sell my incredible Ecology Drill™. With this Ecology Drill, no coal is needed. With only four sheets of newspaper you cook eight burgers or four steaks in less than ten minutes ... BBQ with free fuel. Many ads featuring the Ecology Drill™ were published in the United States of America in the 1970s. If you happen to type in the search box of Google the following: Wetoo Inc. 8242 Moberly Lane... it will appear a link that could lead you to page 24 of a Texas newspaper, The Amarillo Globe-Times of Tuesday, May 24 1977.
(16) To start a fire in a house, business, or almost anywhere in the world.
(17) To dry your hands, face, body...
(18) To wipe off any excess ink when writing with a fountain pen, or a feather.
(19) Origami.
(20) To make piñatas.
(21) To manufacture paper toys.
(22) For coverage/shelter from the the wind, cold et cetera: newspapers are used as if they were blankets, by some street children and street people in general. Some of the homeless who sleep under the sky, sometimes get themselves covered with newspapers.
(23) To damp shock when packing in cartons, wood, plastic boxes... fragile glassware, glass, clay, ceramic or ... crafts, wrapped in several layers of newspaper, previously crumpled or not...
(24) Frequently, newsprint paper is recycled to manufacture paperboard, cardboard, and for other uses.
Nonsense CCXXXVI.
A declined identity.
Oh powerful humanist engineer Moe Moritani!, you who are standing to the left of programmer Cecilia Blackhurst, and at the same time, behind cyber administrator Roger Kanind, but at the same time you are a wreck when one compares you to nuclear physicist Matsuo Yoshida (currently on a course at the Leipzig University, but he would also be in a standing position in front of you), we demand that you give us another identity, because that one that we believed to be ours, has slowly died out.
Nonsense CCXXXVII
Yellowish small sphere.
Oh, powerful yellowish small sphere, you come and go!, you "rotate" and seem to bounce from left to right and back before the icon of the computer when you symbolize the quest for wireless network connections, you seem to come to life, I love watching your swing.
Praise to you.
Nonsense CCXXXVIII.
Spain plums.
The small girl selling plums from Spain who carried those fruits in a medium size bucket while walking along the corridors of the Large municipal market, used to wear jeans and a navy blue blouse with a lower court that allowed a perfect view of her beautiful navel (surely her mother bandaged her womb when she was a baby). He wore shoes of the British brand Hackett, a pair of cobalt blue suede.
In a haberdashery situated in an inside corner of the market, Doña Pachita Sáenz allowed the young woman to keep two or three large boxes with those fruits, while wandering to offer.
Daira actually was more of a student of Sociology, night shift, in the Popular University of the State of Curitiño, who turned into daytime hours in a seller of plums. Year of Our Lord 2003. There were many prowlers in the mornings by the market, especially on Saturdays, they would not buy food, but were attracted by the "dolls".
A heavenly vision, Daira, which Egbert S. never forget and to reaffirm what he considers his misfortune: he is married.
Nonsense CCXXXIX.
Alfred.
In the Espresso Cafeteria, located at avenue Tolsa* 367, Guadalajara, develops a strange conversation.
*Today, the name is Avenida Enrique Díaz de León Sur.
~~~~Alfred.
------Matthew, a homolog of Alfred.
——Newcomer.
~~~Hello, my name is Alfred.
——What is the occupation of Alfred?
------He is an encumbracer at a funeral home.
——Assistant, you mean.
------Okay, yes. And he is also fascinated with the culture of the ancient Egyptians, the Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx, the investigations of the British archaeologist Howard Carter and the discovery, November 26, 1922, of the tomb of the young pharaoh Tutankhamun in the necropolis of Al Tarif, in.The Valley of the Kings, 750 kilometers south of Giza...
The homolog reads a local morning newspaper, El Occidental (The Westerner). The newcomer goes outside to smoke a Winston cigarette.
Alfred is very concentrated, more than the coffee he is sipping. With narrowed eyes he sees esoterically the liquid; apparently looking again for the image of the eye of Horus falcon into the cup.
After the newcomer came back inside, Alfred told the other two:
~~~~In Egypt, the death is full of life. I will travel back to El Cairo and Giza, on 27 December 2000. I will receive the third millennium in the desert.
------Will you seek death, id est, life, there?
~~~~No, death is already around me in my daily work. I will go after ancient wisdom, and to decipher great mysteries, so silly!
------Hey, supreme universal wise man and simultaneously great intercontinental master, where did you study and what did you study?
~~~~ In the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas, I have concluded my career, I got a degree, and I shall not tell you what my profession is, ignorant.
------Oh, you!
Alfred pays, and say goodbye to his homolog. He dismisses the newcomer.
~~~~Goodby, Matthew.
-------Goodbye, Alfred, see you tomorrow.
~~~~Okay.
Alfred disappeared and no one in Guadalajara ever again heard something about him.
In El Cairo museum there is a "statue" made of apparently ultra-dense wax (so it cannot melt, the same material the statue of Howard Carter is made of) but it is actually Alfred, in a strange alive-dead state, with a sign on the pedestal which reads in Arabic as well as in English: مساعد لعالمة الآثار هوارد كارتر Assistant to archaeologist Howard Carter. Alfred lives-dies at the Museum, thinks, observes, and especially hears (sometimes listens to) the visitors, and stores polylingually such talks and comments. He does not eat anything, nor drinks water, instead, at night, when the Museum is closed, he walks up to the kitchen, and drinks several cups of coffee with sugar, being this his only food.
Then, he returns to his place to adopt the silent and immobile position of the "statue".
By 2016, he will write a book, apparently bithematic: Stories and mysteries of ancient Egypt, and Absurd and nonsense stories I've heard in El Cairo Museum.
~~~~Oh, very much ignorant human kind, you do not know how much you need me; I am one of the thirteen wise entities, I am a direct descendant of Horus!
Nonsense CCXL.
A strange liquid.
On Friday night, a few steps from the lonely lagoon Encantada (Enchanted), Mauro found a pond containing a strange liquid, it smelled like apple juice or cider. In his car he carries a bucket of 5 gallons, he got back to his automobile, in order to take the bucket, he put it into the concavity, and nearly filled it with the rare liquid, covered it, and went back to his car, a Chevrolet sedan 2009.
When he returned home, poured the liquid into a steel container, measured the pH, and found it to be between 2.8 and 3.2.
He allowed it to stand for two days, to be decanted.
On Monday morning, he carefully and slowly emptied about three gallons in another container made of steel also. Filtered this portion of the liquid. he Then centrifuged it in a machine to homogenize it. Drank something like five ounces of that, and a marvelous reversible metamorphosis began...
Nonsense CCXLI
Ghosts and other entities.
Ghosts
spectra
apparitions
phantoms
nahuales, elves, gnomes, alushes (Mayan goblins)
wizards
magicians
sorcerers
witches
shamans
sadhus
mara'akames
golmes
fairies
geniuses of the lamp
jinns
vampires
monsters
demons
succubi
zombies
goatsuckers (chupacabras)
Nonsense CCXLII.
Nicotinic inspiration.
There have been many famous smokers; here, only a few are mentioned:
David Bowie, composer, guitarist and singer of rock, English (1947-2016).
Albert Camus, French writer (1913-1960).
Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (1914-1984).
Sigmund Freud, neurologist, father of psychoanalysis, Jewish-Austrian (1856-1939).
Ricardo Garibay, Mexican writer (1923-1999).
César González Ruano, Spanish journalist and writer (1903-1965), who went to the Café Gijón, then the missing Teide Café in Madrid.Below, a link to a picture of a Mapfre insurance office at the address Rios Rosas 54, in Madrid. —González Ruano lived in Ríos Rosas 54—; perhaps the building shown in the photo is the floor or apartment occupied for years by the Madrilean writer.
https://www.google.com.mx/maps/@40.441712,-3.695666,3a,75y,178.19h,96.08t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sPDNDIhgKW5adntf91f73Ng!2e0!6m1!1e1?hl=en
George Harrison, composer, guitarist and rock singer, English, a former Beatle (1943-2001).
Ernest Hemingway, American writer (1899-1961).
Rudyard Kipling, British writer (1865-1936).
Jimmy Page, songwriter and guitarist of rock, English, formerly of Led Zeppelin (1944).
Arturo Perez-Reverte, Spanish writer and journalist (1951- ).
Max Planck, German (1858-1947) physicist. He smoked a pipe.
Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Peruvian writer (1929-1994).
Dave "The Snake" Sabo, songwriter and guitarist of rock, American, member of Skid Row (1964- ).
Mark Twain, American author (1835-1910). "If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go."
Rodolfo Usigli, Mexican playwright (1905-1979), son of an Italian father. Usigli is the author of the play El gesticulador (The Gesticulator).
Nonsense CCXLIII.
Sand castles.
Sporadic, intermittent, pliant, forgetfulness, multi-purpose projects, unfulfilled intentions, dreams of grandeur, stairs cards, sandcastles... obstinacy.
Nonsense CCXLIV.
Amicable numbers.
The Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española, RAE) defines amicable numbers: A pair of numbers in which each of them is equal to the sum of the aliquots* of the other one; exempli gratia, 220 and 284.
*Aliquot is a part which is an exact divisor of an amount or number.
Let us factor 220, and 284, to analyze and check that those numbers are amicable of each other.
Firstly, let us factor 220:
220 | 2
110 | 2
55 | 5
11 | 11
1 |
Let us add its aliquots:
110 + 55 + 44 + 22 + 20 + 11 + 10 + 5 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 284.
Then, let us factor 284:
284 | 2
142 | 2
71 | 71
1 |
Let us add its aliquots:
142 + 71 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 220.
Other pairs of amicable numbers are:
1184, 1210,
6232, 6368,
17296, 18416,
9363584, 9437056.
Nonsense CCXLV.
Light notes on factoring.
Besides these lines there are the scanned images of three tickets of different routes of urban buses in Guadalajara, Jalisco, March 2014.
A) Let us factor the first ticket, number 8976, from a Guadalajaran transportation enterprise called Servicios y Transportes (SyT) Services and Transportation:
8976 | 2
4488 | 2
2244 | 2
1122 | 2
561 | 3
187 | 11
17 | 17
1 |
When individually considered the dividers that appear in the right column, and also after multiply each other; and when individually consider the numbers in the left column, except the first and the last, we find that the number 8976 is evenly divisible by the following submultiples: 2, 3 , 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 16, 17, 22, 24, 33, 34, 44, 48, 51, 66, 68, 88, 102, 132, 136, 176, 187, 204, 264, 272 , 374, 408, 528, 561, 748, 816, 1122, 2244, 2992, 4488. Maybe some submultiple missing. If you know it, please let me know in the comments area.
The numbers 1 and 8976 are not considered submultiples of 8976, although the number 1 can be considered an aliquot of 8976.
Now, let us factor the number of the bus route: 275 B:
275 | 5
55 | 5
11 | 11
1 |
When individually considered the dividers that appear in the right column, and also after multiply each other; and when individually consider the numbers in the left column, except the first and the last, we find that the number 275 is evenly divisible by the following submultiples: 5, 11, 25, 55.
The numbers 1 and 275 are not considered submultiples, although the number 1 can be considered an aliquot of 275.
Let us see the number of the vehicle, it is a surrogate unit (S): S 8085:
8085 | 3
2695 | 5
539 | 7
77 | 7
11 | 11
1 |
When individually considered the dividers that appear in the right column, and also after multiply each other; and when individually consider the numbers in the left column, except the first and the last, we find that the number 8085 is evenly divisible by the following submultiples: 3, 5, 7, 11, 15, 21, 33, 35, 49, 55, 77, 105, 147, 165, 231, 245, 385, 539, 735, 1155, 1617, 2695.
Perhaps some submultiples are missing. If you know it, please let me know in the comments area.
The numbers 1 and 8085 are not considered submultiples of 8085, although the number 1 can be considered an aliquot of 8085.
B) Let us factor the the numbers of the second ticket. It is a ticket from the Alianza de Camioneros de Jalisco, Asociacion Civil (Truckers Alliance of Jalisco, A.C.).
23940:
23940 | 2
11970 | 2
5985 | 3
1995 | 3
665 | 5
133 | 7
19 | 19
1 |
When individually considered the dividers that appear in the right column, and also after multiply each other; and when individually consider the numbers in the left column, except the first and the last, we find that the number 23940 is evenly divisible by the following submultiples: 2, 3 , 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 28, 30, 35, 36, 38, 45, 57, 60, 63, 70, 76, 84 90, 95, 105.114, 126, 133, 140, 171, 180, 190, 210, 228, 252, 266, 285, 315, 342, 380, 399, 420, 532, 630, 665, 684, 798, 855 , 1140, 1197, 1260, 1330, 1596, 1710, 1995, 2394, 2660, 3420, 3990, 4788, 5985, 7980, 11970.
Most likely there may be missing some submultiples. If you know them, please let me know in the comments area.
The numbers 1 and 23940 are not considered submultiples, although the number 1 can be considered an aliquot of 23940.
Let us see the number of the bus. This is the unit 135:
135 | 3
45 | 3
15 | 3
5 | 5
1 |
When individually considered the dividers that appear in the right column, and also after multiply each other; and when individually consider the numbers in the left column, except the first and the last, we find that the number 135 is evenly divisible by the following submultiples: 3, 5, 9, 15, 27, 45.
The numbers 1 and 135 are not considered submultiples of 135, although the number 1 can be considered an aliquot of 135.
C) Let us factor the numbers of the third ticket. This ticket shows the number 7514276, from the Collective Transport System for the Metropolitan Zone of Guadalajara (Sistema de Transporte Colectivo de la Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara; its acronym: Sistecozome):
7514276 | 2
3757138 | 2
1878569 | 7
268 367 | 11
24397 | 31
787 | 787
1 |
When individually considered the dividers that appear in the right column, and also after multiply each other; and when individually consider the numbers in the left column, except the first and the last, we find that the number 7514276 is evenly divisible by the following submultiples: 2, 4, 7, 11, 14, 22, 28, 31, 44, 62, 77, 124, 154, 217, 308, 341, 787, 868, 2387, 3148, 8657, 9548, 22036, 24397, 34628, 48794, 60599 , 97588, 121198, 170779, 242396, 268367, 341558, 536734, 683116, 1073468, 1878569, 3757138, and maybe some others, in a list which could be built longer than a narwhal tooth.
The number 1 and 7514276 are not considered submultiples of 7514276, although the number 1 can be considered an aliquot of 7514276
Now, let us factor the number of the route (R), 200:
200 | 2
100 | 2
50 | 2
25 | 5
5 | 5
1 |
When individually considered the dividers that appear in the right column, and also after multiply each other; and when individually consider the numbers in the left column, except the first and the last, we find that the number 200 is evenly divisible by the following submultiples: 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 20, 25, 40, 50, 100.
The numbers 1 and 200 are not considered submultiples of 200, although the number 1 can be considered an aliquot of 200.
Nonsense CCXLVI.
Sciences, arts, television, playback.
Public broadcasters, of national, state, regional, provincial, departmental, municipal, public universities and private universities sponsored by private television programs, play an important role in popularizing science, technology, culture, fine arts, ecology, biology, fauna, flora, astronomy, oceanography, transport, communications, economics, international trade, health, travel, cuisine, customs, trade, et cetera, which otherwise would not be available to the general public.
The same take the viewer to an Asian steppe or an African region to observe and learn something about the the life of the antelope, for example, that to a concert hall of a large American or European city, hearing or listening to an orchestra symphony.
This can be a fraction of the "distracted perception" * and "multitasking" **: one can execute two or more tasks simultaneously: for example: post a tweet (in Twitter) or reply to messages on the cell phone or search for something in such search engines as Yahoo!, Google, Ask or Bing, and at the same time watch a television program as mentioned above, or wash the dishes and cutlery, and also hear (but maybe not listen to) a television program, as if the electronic/electric appliance were a radio receiver and not a television set, or indeed have a radio on (not a TV set).
*A concept introduced by a French Jewish intuitive philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941) taken up and widely reported by German Jewish philosopher, essayist and radio announcer Walter Benjamin (Berlin, 1892-Portbou, Catalonia, Spain, 1940), during his confrontations and controversies with also German Jewish philosopher, sociologist and musicologist Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969). For the innovative Benjamin, the chance to multiply by photographing the images of works of art and decoration which are in museums and galleries, and to record concerts and recitals and play them back by using vinyl or acetate records in gramophone turntables (tone arm with a needle), amounted to bring close what is far, the great Benjamin did not live/survive until the age of Flickr, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Facebook, et cetera. Today, the ideas and concepts he postulated, have been extended and, of course, implemented in a grand manner. The listener who hears a recording in his/her home or office (or by using his/her cell phone in its "modality" of radio or "recorder") neither needs to keep silence (differently than in a concert hall, where he/she must be silent) nor pay the greatest possible attention (a difference from being in a museum) to hear and see; to grasp or interpret the message of an artist, a creator, or the additional touch or feeling of a popularizer or exponent of the art other(s).
But for T. W. Adorno, those recordings, reproductions, photographs, et cetera, were falsified or misrepresented works to multiply and reproduce.
Apparently, Walter Benjamin has won the battle; he got his trophy and his triumph in life, while alive, and now, post mortem, also reaps the seeds he sowed.
If most of the world's people have no time, no money, no desire to go to a concert hall in order to hear or listen to a symphony or directly observe a painting by Rembrandt, or be in some football or baseball stadium to watch a game; for example, at the Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers, they can watch it via television airing, recordings, video recording, digital video disks, streaming, or by visiting the websites of museums where paintings, photographs and sculptures are digitally displayed, television transmission/programs and shows aired live or delayed broadcast, podcasts (portable on-demand casts) and so on.
Sure it's not the same as being at the venue/museum/stadium, but is almost equal; id est, replacements, copies, substitutes, may be used.
**Women, teenagers and young people are more apt to multitasking than men and adults.
Nonsense CCXLVII.
On animals.
Ruud Kleinpaste (1952- ), head and conductor of the Buggin 'with Ruud television program transmitted by Animal Planet channel, an Indonesian by birth, probably speaker of Dutch.
Steve Irwin (1962-2006). The Crocodile Hunter. This nature lover and especially the reptilian wildlife owned a zoo in his native Australia. He died when was filming a documentary: during the videotaping of some underwater scenes in Queensland, a stingray barb pierced his chest.
Jeff Corwin (1967- ). This famous American anthropologist and biologist has worked for Disney Channel and Animal Planet. Filmed documentaries on wildlife from the five continents.
Daktari*. Televisual Programme 1966-1969 of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), which deals with animal behavior in East Africa. The protagonist was Doctor Marsh Tracy, interpreted by actor Marshall Thompson (1925-1992), in the role of a fictional veterinarian.
*In Swahili language "daktari" means doctor.
Tarzan. Series of novels written by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), the first in 1912. English nobleman Lord Greystoke becomes Tarzan, the Ape Man, who in the African jungle moves from tree to tree by using lianas, and shouts its classic cry based on the yodeling of some Swiss cantons, although one of the many Tarzanes, actor and swimmer Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984) was Austro-Hungarian-American, not Swiss. Wife or girlfriend or Lord Greystoke Tarzan's was Jane Porter, and the Ape Man has a friendly chimpanzee named Cheetah. There were filmed 89 movies about Tarzan, and there were numerous comics called Tarzan.
Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion. A 1965 film, and a television series of the 1960's.
Born Free. The life of a lioness. Based on the book Born Free, written by Joy Gessner-Adamson, this 96-minute-long British movie was filmed film in 1966, directed by James Hill, about Elsa the lioness, when she was an orphan cub was adopted by a couple of conservationists, Gessner-Joy Adamson and George Adamson, who cared for her and reinserted into the wild in Kenya. In the same decade of the 1960's a weekly television series was recorded.
Flipper. This was a television series of the 1960's in which the protagonist was a bottlenose dolphin.
Lassie. Television series of the 1960's, in which the protagonist was a collie dog.
The Adventures of Rin-Tin-Tin. Television series of the 1960's, broadcast by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), in which the protagonist was a German shepherd dog, who was a soldier at Fort Apache, United States of America. The background was the original Rin-Tin-Tin (1918-1932), a German shepherd dog that was rescued from a battlefield during World War I by American soldier Lee Duncan. —Rin-Tin-Tin starred in 27 Hollywood films.
Nonsense CCXLVIII.
Whoa.
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