Old words in English, spelled weird vs. pronounced

 Willing to be a lot of these are simply old words, spelled out when things were not settled, or pronunciations changed over hundreds of years (or moving to the US). Gonna make a little list and probably check it later. Pronunciation is based on common ways to say things in my region of English speakers. 

WORD - PRONUNCIATION

1. What - pronounced "wut" usually.

2. One - "wun"

3. Two - "too"

4. Women - wimmin

5. Fire - fah_ee_yer    or   fiyer  or  fi-er, but one or two syllables... you know what I mean. 

6. Water - waw-ter  ... how the hell is this pronounced like that based on the spelling? Compare to daughter. 

7. 

Local or USA oddities:

• bizzare - pronounced "bizzar"... yeah, I think we say the short "i", but m-w says it is a schwa sound like bazaar. 
• Mary, merry, marry - all said the same way around here. I think the hollywood accent coach on ty said there is one small part of the US where you can hear a difference in one of them. NE i think. 

Funny words that annoy me:

1. Queue - sounds like "cue" as in "kyoo". Doesn't follow any of the damn rules that any other "QU" word would use. And why the EUE at the end? Bothers me a lot. 
1. Examples of normal QU words:
1. quiet - "kwi - it" with the long i sound on first syllable. 
2. quaint - "kwaint" long A
2. xxxxxx

These are fun, often mispronounced words: https://www.yourdictionary.com/articles/mispronounced-words

like

• anemone
  (ah-NEM-oh-nee) not 
  (ah-NEn-oh-nee)
• açaí
  (ah-sah-EE)

• antennae

  (an-TEN-ee) - the plural can also be said "antennas"... Let's just say it like it's really converted to English. Latin is dead, let it die a little bit. 

• Bob wire vs. Barbed wire. It's a fun colloquial way to say it, chill out. 

• barbiturate
  (bar-BIH-chur-ite) not "bar bih chooy ite" ... WRONG, M-W.com says you can use either one as in: bär-bə-ˈtyu̇r-ət

• bon appétit
  (bow nap-uh-TEA) not -TEAT ... interesting, that makes sense, but I wonder about locals locals

• cacophony 

  (cuh-CAW-fone-ee)  WRONG, M-W says it can be ka-ˈkä-fə-nē  -ˈkȯ-,  also  -ˈka-

•  

Microplastics - pods in dishwashers, clothes washers, etc.

 2021 article by forbes says, don't trust. I for one can say, I don't want to eat plastic, I get more than enough of plastic chemicals leaching through plastic stuff I can't void. And if the pods don't totally dissolve, then it's pretty obvious that the plastic is still there. So if they mostly dissolve, how do you know it isn't coating all your plates I ask you? See: 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkart/2021/08/08/study-says-up-to-75-of-plastics-from-detergent-pods-enter-the-environment-industry-says-they-safely-biodegrade/

This website, which sounds like it is a company that sells pods, says they are safe. Not sure I trust it, but here you go:

https://www.cleaninginstitute.org/debunking-myths-about-pva-and-detergent-pods

BTW, UPDATE on the black plastic thing. There was a big fat math error, which when corrected shows that typical usage with hot food and black plastic will keep exposure basically exactly at or below the EPA guidelines. Still too much for me, especially since you-know-who was accidentally melting the ends of our spatulas as they were being cooked. No thank you. 

https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/12/17/0222233/huge-math-error-corrected-in-black-plastic-study

Apparently this yt dude caught the error also. Good on that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58HUM40gDPU&t=717s

Sound effect in Castlevania from The Rah Band?

 The Rah Band's "Messages from the stars" from 1983 has a sound effect you hear 2 or 3 times probably that sounds like a powerup(?) or medusahead or something sound in Castlevania, 1986. Did the Rah Band make up the sound or is it some open license sample type thing? 

See time 0:27 and time 1:00 for the sound effect... it's layered behind probably 3 other sounds, but it sounds very Castlevania to me. :

https://youtu.be/YenvGAdZ8lQ?t=27

Is that a "pick up a whip powerup" sound?! I think it might be that! ... Listening to the game... no, it's close to some of those sounds though. Look at when he picks up the big heart... kinda similar but different tone or speed, time 2:56 - https://youtu.be/tsyeWrFPl5I?t=176

Or cross, time 2:51 -  https://youtu.be/tsyeWrFPl5I?t=152

Time 2:45, the invulnerability potion is pretty different  - https://youtu.be/tsyeWrFPl5I?t=165

The Wicker Man, 1973, lead to a 1977 Children of the Stones TV Miniseries

Disturbing, freaky pagan inspired tales. 

And so was Children of the Corn influenced by Children of the Stones or vice versa? 

The Wicker Man was a big hit. 1973. Influenced lots afterwards. 

Children of the Stones, a Brit series, was a more child oriented PG version of similar themes of ancient pagan rites (gets more scifi though), using ancient rock circles as the focus. 1977. See, https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2012/11/14/children-of-the-stones/

When did Steven King write Children of the Corn? March 1977.  Hmmm.   

Oh, let's not forget HBO's True Detective in Louisiana, with the animal masks. Wait... I can't find an actual shot of Season 1 with animal masks... only was in Season 2? Hmmm. 

The Wicker Man 1973 showed this ancient Springtime game (forgot the name, May dance or something), that you still see around Germany, Austria, and Switzerland today... although it's less and less popular they say. 

Animal mask scene from The Wicker Man 1973. 

True Detective Season 1 antlers on victim. 

True Detective. Unrelated to other movies/shows, but the bird spiral vision similar to the spiral on the victim. Spooky. 

This says animal masks in season 1 (and 2) so I don't think I'm misremembering:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/true-detective-discussion-could-seasons-807841/

quote "The piece notes the bad guys’ penchant for masks in both seasons — mostly animal heads in season one, while the gunman who shot Ray (Colin Farrell) at the end of episode two was wearing a bird headdress (although the wall of Caspere’s apartment featured a bunch of animal heads)."

Vampire Hunter D movies. Not enough monsters in the second?

 Did I write this before? The forst movie had tons of varied monsters… a dinosaur type thing, werewolves, and the Raistlin-tower like gross things. The humanlike mutants… the guy that warps spacetime, the flying batguy with spikes on wrists n heels.  Snake ladies.  

Second movie, Bloodlust, is great but felt like it had less... let's list some:

vampires, zombie-vamps(?), giant manta rays (see Demonsouls), … maybe the small dragon things on the poles (dead?) 1/4 way through. The shadow mutant(?).  A fishman, snake ladies.  Wait, a ton of monsters (or just mutant ppl?) entering the Barbarois (sounds like 'barberroy', a little French twist there) castle… https://vampirehunterd.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Search?scope=internal&navigationSearch=true&query=barbarois

Later on bridge, the werewolfish guy with xray vision and giant maw on torso.  

BTW, Dunpeal is a poor way to spell it, since it is a translation from eastern Europe, Dhampir.  See wikiped, tons of info. Like they often hunt vamps. Very close to vamp hunter D and Blade.  I suppose the fans wanted the Japanese pronunciation for some reason. 

BTW, 1985 D's hand was cooler looking

1985's trio of fairly monstery guys. Love the tongue bridge-present thing. And yeah that green guy definitely was the inspiration for Gen-An in the Samurai Shodown the arcade game, right? 

1985's monsters entering the castle... much grosser but definitely more monster than human. Was Raistlin's tower guardian monsters and spirits an influence on this or vice versa (I've asked this before)? 

Raistlin's gross monsters in his tower, in Dragonlance. 

Bloodlust's monsters (more monster than human is what I'm looking for mostly, and they seem to have a lot of very humanoid monsters. Still pretty good.). 

Oh, and this fellow's music list has some good ones to try out, btw ran into his site before:

https://thedanmancan.blogspot.com/2021/04/vampire-hunter-d-1985.html

https://www.blogger.com/profile/15546325694413183168

Favorite Music

Air, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Aphex Twin, The B-52's, Beach House, Beck, Bikini Kill, Björk, Boards Of Canada, David Bowie, Jonathan Bree, The Breeders, James Brown, R.L. Burnside, Kate Bush, Cake, Can, The Cars, Neko Case, Johnny Cash, The Chemical Brothers, Chromeo, The Clash, Patsy Cline, Concrete Blonde, Sam Cooke, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Cure, Death Cab For Cutie, Deftones, Descendents, Devo, Dinosaur Jr., Eels, El-P, ELO, Electric Six, Brian Eno, Enon, Roky Erickson, Failure, Fear, Fishbone, Ella Fitzgerald, Fleetwood Mac, Fugazi, Fujiya & Miyagi, Peter Gabriel, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Serge Gainsbourg, J. Geils Band, Genesis, The Go! Team, Goblin, Goldfrapp, Hall & Oates, Heart, The Helio Sequence, The Hives, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Interpol, INXS, Jean Michel Jarre, Jawbox, Billy Joel, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Sharon Jones, Joy Division, Juno, The Kinks, KMFDM, The Knife, Kraftwerk, L7, Led Zeppelin, Huey Lewis, The Life And Times, Little Richard, Living Coloür, Madonna, Biz Markie, Maserati, Massive Attack, Metric, Ministry, Mirah, The Misfits, Steve Moore, Morphine, Harry Nilsson, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Gary Numan, Roy Orbison, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, Placebo, The Police, Cole Porter, Poster Children, Perez Prado, Elvis Presley, Pretenders, Primus, Prince, Public Enemy, Queen, Queens Of The Stone Age, Radio Birdman, Radiohead, Ramones, Steve Reich, Jonathan Richman, Röyksopp, The Rolling Stones, Roxy Music, Run-D.M.C., St. Vincent, Erik Satie, Scissorfight, DJ Shadow, Shiner, Nina Simone, Six Finger Satellite, Snowden, Spoon, Bruce Springsteen, Starlight Mints, Steely Dan, Sunny Day Real Estate, Sunshine, Superdrag, The Sweet, T. Rex, Talking Heads, Tears For Fears, Television, The Thermals, Thin Lizzy, Trans Am, The Traveling Wilburys, UNKLE, John Vanderslice, Gene Vincent, Tom Waits, Whale, White Denim, The Who, Hank Williams, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Yes, Susumu Yokota, Neil Young, Zombi, ZZ Top

Favorite Books

And Then There Were None, The Big Sleep, The Black Dahlia, A Clockwork Orange, Murder On The Orient Express, 1984, No Country For Old Men, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Road, The Shining, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being

Oil Spill - Immune issues in dolphins (and people)

 https://www.sciencealert.com/decades-after-the-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-the-local-dolphins-are-still-suffering-from-the-effects

Completely unrelated picture of healthy dolphins. 

"The parallel between findings in dolphins exposed following the Deepwater Horizon spill and laboratory mice experimentally exposed to oil was impressive and really helped build the weight of evidence between oil exposure and specific effects on the immune system," explained De Guise.

...

Both the mice exposed to oil and the dolphins had increased T lymphocyte (white blood cell) proliferation and more cells that suppress the immune system – T regulatory cells. These cells usually prevent autoimmune diseases. ...

Studies in rodents have previously linked such immune system changes to increased susceptibility to disease. De Guise's team showed these immune differences could also be passed down from rodents who had been exposed to oil pollution to their young. And as the changes were not just present in the older dolphins, the team is concerned these impairments are being passed down through the generations of dolphins. ...

Researchers are concerned the long term effects of oil spills may not be limited to dolphins. We still know little about the health outcome from other long-lived species like turtles. Immune effects have also been reported in humans who have worked to clean up oil spills, suggesting there's a common response to oil exposure across mammals.

Meteor Showers- And kid saw one recently

 https://www.sciencealert.com/2024-closes-with-one-of-the-years-best-meteor-showers-heres-how-to-see-it

Completely unrelated picture of a meteor. 

And also kid saw one during trip... it broke apart then broke apart again. Yellowish-orange I think? 

UPDATE 0.5 - this might have some of the best accurate conservative info, not yt hyperbole: https://starwalk.space/en/news/meteor-storms and they say, meteor STORMS are so hard to predict, you never know, but in like 2028 (maybe more than 1000 per hour, AKA "ZHR"), 2094 (850 ZHR) and especially in 2098 (20,000 ZHR) there might be a big one. 

UPDATE: so this December meteor shower is nice for here, longer nights than summer at least. Need clear skies though. 200 meteors per hour is what I read, we saw a ton... I saw like 12 Friday night when it was clear. The whole family saw several. Another site says: "The Geminid Meteor Shower 2024 peaks in mid-December and can bring more than 100 meteors per hour."

UPDATE 2: There are meteor STORMS, that happen not quite randomly. There was one in 1833, where there were an estimated 50,000 to 150,000 meteors per hour... PER HOUR you read that right. Insane!  https://www.astronomytrek.com/the-great-leonids-meteor-storm-of-1833/

Great info here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBFXO9A9-xg ... he has smoke trail video from 1999-2002 Leonid shower (from Chinese video?) around time 17:00. He has a nice graph of when the Earth passes through the old Leonid trail around time 15:33. 

We'll have a better than avg showing maybe in 2027, 2028, 2033-2035, but nothing like 100K per hour. 

Old timey art of the 1833 meteor storm, part of the Leonid's leftover trail from 33 years before or something. 

Another cool story: https://www.astronomytrek.com/the-great-leonids-meteor-storm-of-1833/

Other accounts of unusually large numbers of meteors during the month of November include those from 1799, when German scientist Humboldt and his companion reported the sighting from what is now Venezuela, over which it was said that a similar event had occurred in 1766. As Humboldt stated:

“…thousands of fireballs and falling stars fell in a row for four hours, often with a brightness like Jupiter. Long smoke trails were left behind.”

More crazy info... most meteors are only millimeters in width apparently. Example, Leonids that are on the large size are 10 mm across in diameter and only be of mass around 0.5 grams (0.02 oz.).  

NASA says the smaller ones are super tiny: https://leonid.arc.nasa.gov/meteor.html 

METEORS: Meteors are better known as "shooting stars": startling streaks of light that suddenly appear in the sky when a dust particle from outer space evaporates high in the Earth's atmosphere. We call the light phenomenon in the atmosphere a "meteor", while the dust particle is called a "meteoroid". 

• Size: Most visible Leonids are between 1 mm and 1 cm in diameter. For example, a Leonid meteor of magnitude +5, which is barely visible with the naked eye in a dark sky, is caused by a meteoroid of 0.5 mm in diameter and weights only 0.00006 gram.
• Speed That tiny particle can cause a light so bright that it can be seen over distances of hundreds of kilometers. The reason is the astronomical speed of the meteoroids. Just before they enter the Earth's atmosphere, Leonid meteoroids travel at 71 kilometers per second, or some 2,663 times as fast as a fast pitch in baseball, or, if you want, around the Earth in 3.8 minutes!

• Source of light When meteoroids enter the Earth's atmosphere, they collide with numerous air molecules. Those collisions sputter away the outer layers of the particle, creating a vapor of sodium, iron and magnesium atoms. In subsequent collisions, electrons are knocked into orbits at larger mean distances from the nucleus of the atoms. When the electrons fall back to their rest positions, light is emitted. This is the same process as in gas discharge lamps. 
• Colors of meteors The color of many Leonids is caused by light emitted from metal atoms from the meteoroid (blue, green, and yellow) and light emitted by atoms and molecules of the air (red). The metal atoms emit light much like in our sodium discharge lamps: sodium (Na) atoms give an orange-yellow light, iron (Fe) atoms a yellow light, magnesium (Mg) a blue-green light, ionized calcium (Ca+) atoms may add a violet hue, while molecules of atmospheric nitrogen (N2) and oxygen atoms (O) give a red light. The meteor color depends on whether the metal atom emissions or the air plasma emissions dominate.
• Sounds Meteors do not normally cause audible sounds. Hence, they will pass by unnoticed if not seen. But watch out for hissing sounds that have been reported for very bright meteors. These sounds are thought to be due to very low frequency (VLF) radio waves interacting with the local environment. A sonic boom is sometimes heard for very bright Leonid meteors, called fireballs, that appear near your own observing site high in the sky. If the particle is larger than the mean free path of the air molecules, a high Mach number shock wave forms in front of the meteoroid. Very rarely, this shock wave penetrates deep enough in the atmosphere that it can be heard. It sounds like the sonic boom of an airplane, but as a distant rumble.

NOTE: The SMOKE is really a "train", see below. Complicated. 

PERSISTENT EMISSIONS: Bright meteors leave persistent glows.

• Wake is the brief glow behind the meteor head. The wake is caused mainly by the green light of neutral oxygen atoms. Wakes last 1-10 seconds. Sometimes the term wake is also used to describe the area directly behind the meteor head.
• Afterglow is the persistent metalic atom (Na, Fe,Mg) emission glow in the path of bright fireballs. The afterglow lasts a few seconds.
• Persistent train is the long enduring emission that remains in the path of a bright fireball once the afterglow has faded. Persistent trains can last for 1-30 minutes (typically 4-6 minutes) at an apparent brightness of +4 to +5 magnitude. The optical light of these long enduring trains is from Na (sodium) and FeO (iron oxyde), from airglow-type chemistry of the recombination of oxygen atoms and ozone molecules that is catalised by sodium and iron atoms. Persistent trains last long enough to enable telescopic studies of the path of a meteor. Upper atmosphere winds distort the shape of the train.  

 

Drizzt, love this artwork. Link for more random DnD.

 

BTW, tons of stuff here, click on BY ARTIST then poke around: https://dungeonsdragons.fandom.com/wiki/Rock_gnome?file=Dragon_413.jpg

Dragonlance - the books - some spoilers

 Chronicles were great and all. Some spoilers so stay clear if you didn't read yet. Trying to be a little vague, but it'll still spoil.

But Legends, wow, they really ramped up the stakes/drama... something, b/c wow. And I can't believe, didn't want to believe, what became of my fav dude. Luckily, some redemption there. 

So this dude says read them in this order: https://dragonlancenexus.com/recommended-dragonlance-reading-list/

But I reread Chronicles, then read Legends just finished yesterday. Now I happen to have found one of hte ones (Lost Chronicles) that goes back in that time, written around 2006, has the original characters. I want to stick with the original characters, so I think this makes sense to me. 

Well hang on, he might be saying same thing... he says read the original 6, like I just did, then read the Lost Chronicles, like I am ...

Next, you should read the Lost Chronicles series. Despite the fact that Lost Chronicles series fills in the gaps between novels in the Chronicles series, Weis & Hickman have gone on record as saying that they should be read after the reader has completed both Chronicles and Legends. Dragons of the Dwarven Depths, Dragons of the Highlord Skies, and Dragons of the Hourglass Mage are the novels in this series.

As noted at the beginning of this article, I recommend you read the Classic core novels first, so I would finish that group by reading The Second Generation and Dragons of Summer Flame, and then reading the core Fifth Age books: the Dragons of a New Age trilogy and The Dhamon Saga trilogy.

Next, I would recommend the Age of Mortals core books: the seminal War of Souls trilogy and the Dark Disciple trilogy

LineRider is still the best. And Scratch programming is fun.

Old good stuff:

 https://www.linerider.com/

Be sure to get an orange block to start things off... one of the ones like "click green flag thing" to start. You can also just mouseclick on the top block to start... and that has a different effect, it won't reset it all, so SWIRL for instance, will keep on swirling further and further. 

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=home

Rats love to drive tiny rat-cars. Yeah, lol.

 https://www.extremetech.com/science/rats-enjoy-driving-tiny-cars-scientists-find

This just cracks me up. Am I no better than a rat? Or are rats just cool like us humans. BTW, no flipping traffic please, it sucks. 

QUOTE: Kelly Lambert, neuroscientist and rat driving instructor, for The Conversation. "When I walked into the lab, I noticed something unusual: The three driving-trained rats eagerly ran to the side of the cage, jumping up like my dog does when asked if he wants to take a walk...."

Web browsing popups are back?! How to destroy them.

 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1405122

Is this 1997 all over again? So why in the HELL are popups a thing again? Stupid ass HTML 5 had good stuff but came with all the hidden ways to make it suck. Dirty, scummy computer companies. Let's destroy these popups again. 

(((Ques was, get rid of Gmail login popups)))

Note, you can find a bunch of things to uncheck related to anti-facebook, anti-cookie setting popups, etc. I check all those things off, let's see how it goes. 

Quote:

I found a fix by following a link prvided by jscher2000. The uBlock Origin add-on needs to be installed to Firefox. I made 2 changes in uBlock Origin Preferences. I don't know which change stopped the google sign in pop-ups, So I'll show them both:

Click Firefox's hamburger icon (3 lines) on the right side of the Menu bar. Click Add-ons and Themes. Click the 3 dots on the right side of the UBlock Origin listing, then click Preferences. Click to highlight My filters on uBlock's Menu bar. Click on line 1, in the big open space, and paste: ||accounts.google.com/gsi/*$xhr,script,3p Click the Apply Changes button. I think this is the specific fix, but I also made the following change. Click on the Filter list tab in uBlock's Menu. Scroll down to the line -Annoyances. I put a check in all the boxes in front of anything that had the word Annoyances in the filter name. Click the Apply changes button. Close the uBlock Preferences Firefox tab.

The link that I used: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/#wiki_how_to_apply_filters

My understanding is that a web site that subsribes to the google sign-on service runs a script on Firefox to trigger the pop-up. This fix blocks the script. I'm running Firefox v109.

Maybe read:  

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/ttstre/why_does_every_website_now_have_massive_annoying/

GOT to LOVE how this turned into a "cookie consent is bad"... naturally half the scummy sites out there make it painful, when it's intended to help. But the other popups are also a problem in 2024. 

NOTE, this guy says:

I've built my own websites and intentionally made ever effort to not include any cookies on there because I don't actually need them, but because I use CAPTCHA to keep out the spam and I've embedded a YouTube video somewhere, I have to have cookies. And then I have to have more cookies to manage the cookie consent.

It's basically unavoidable.

Aztecs had a Death Whistle, it's freaky looking (and sounding)

Info here: https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2024/Totenkopfpfeife.html

Sound here: https://caneuro.github.io/blog/2024/study-skullwhistle/

"

Death whistles very, very frightening

The research team also obtained sound recordings of original Aztec death whistles as well as from handmade replicas. Listeners rated these sounds as extremely chilling and frightening. The Aztec death whistle seems to acoustically and affectively mimic other deterring sounds. Most interestingly, human listeners perceived the sound of the Aztec death whistle to be partly of natural and organic origin, like a human voice or scream. “This is consistent ith the tradition of many ancient cultures to capture natural sounds in musical instruments, and could explain the ritual dimension of the death whistle sound for mimicking mythological entities,” explains Frühholz. "

Learning - non-modern shows normal human learning

 https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2024/11/19/study-helps-explain-how-children-learned-for-99-of-human-history/

PULLMAN, Wash. — Unlike kids in the United States, hunter-gatherer children in the Congo Basin have often learned how to hunt, identify edible plants and care for babies by the tender age of six or seven.

This rapid learning is facilitated by a unique social environment where cultural knowledge is passed down not just from parents but from the broader community, according to a new Washington State University-led study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The research helps explain how many cultural traits have been preserved for thousands of years among hunter-gatherer groups across a wide range of natural environments in Africa.

“We focus on hunter-gatherers because this way of life characterized 99% of human history,” said Barry Hewlett, a professor of anthropology at WSU and lead author of the study. “Our bodies and minds are adapted to this intimate, small group living, rather than to contemporary urban life. By examining how children in these societies learn, we aim to uncover the mechanisms that have allowed humans to adapt to diverse environments across the globe.”

Words -ed

 https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/why-do-we-pronounce-ed-at-the-end-of-a-word

We hear /t/ in words like these:

hoped, talked, stopped, jumped, relaxed

We hear /d/ in words like these:

agreed, enjoyed, lived, webbed, snowed

Some adjectives were formed from past participles before the sound of the -ed suffix was reduced, and they retain the older pronunciation with a full syllable for -ed in some contexts:

blessed, learned, aged 

These have an archaic or formal character. The addition of the final syllable gives a more official sound to marked and alleged.

Rearview Glare Killing Me At Night

 

Actually front view glare is 100 times worse, but the rearview vs. super high vehicles with LED lights is terrible also. 

Read this all the way to final post... if want to try double tint on your rearview.

https://www.cadillacforums.com/threads/guys-i-really-need-a-flip-down-shade-for-rear-view-mirror.1122858/

He tried this brand, and while it was a major PITA, he said it was worth it: https://www.vehiclewrapping.com/auto-window-tinting/kdx-anti-glare-mirror-film/

And funny comments here, maybe there will be a good idea:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckyourheadlights

Health - Isometric exercise helps arteries

 They think. It probably applies to all exercise to a degree, but maybe isometric is extra. 

https://www.sciencealert.com/isometric-exercise-why-this-workout-regime-is-so-good-for-you

Then, once the contraction is relaxed, a sudden surge of blood flows into the blood vessels and muscle. This influx of blood brings more oxygen and (crucially) nitric oxide into the blood vessels – causing them to widen. This in turn reduces blood pressure. Over time, this action will reduce stiffness of the arteries, which may lower blood pressure.

Blur your house on google maps

 https://www.bobvila.com/articles/how-to-blur-your-house-on-google-maps/

Saw a house next to an AirBNB house was set to blur. 

White Pocket lady stuck in sand with 4x4 - And Coyote Buttes South

https://www.thewave.info/WhitePocketCode/Map.html   https://thewave.info/ has a ton of info about mult areas. 

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1ekv6sTH3Pkcn7_d5sAvIBmHCJvk&ll=36.95683796233982%2C-111.84235868664236&z=13

This link has ALL THE INFOS for Coyote Buttes South (easier but still nightly try for it permit), which shows a map, and the map also shows the non-permit-needed White Pocket. They say, if no 4x4, can do Coyote Buttes South and just walk extra 2.5 mi in sand. Hmmm, seems too much walking. 

https://nomadsinnature.com/blog/skip-the-wave-hike-south-coyote-buttes

---WHITEPOCKET BELOW---

WHITEPOCKET: Yeah, just stop here at the scary sand sign, and walk the 0.25 miles, no biggie???

Actualy, check these other videos and comments. Sounds like it can get hairy well before the last warning section:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNMyYjrVO0M 

There is a specific route to White Pocket that is suggested - and it's not the sandy road leading from Paw Hole. Not sure if you made there considering your inquiry was 8 months ago.  Nevertheless, check out thewave.info for loads of information on the Coyote Butte/Vermillion Wilderness Area.

Appreciate the feedback. Ended up in a 4x4 Tahoe and made it no problem. However, I was glad I had a compressor, shovel, fix a flat and 2x8 sand ladders because it got very soft in some spots. Thanks!

Also, the off roading team had a "Stock Subaru Forester with 8.7 inch ground clearance (NOTE a Ford Explorer might only have 7.6 to 8.x ground clearance), and made it through the normal dirt road with sands, washboard, and deep rocky bumps with no problem. It DID have a problem getting back up the last 0.25 mi super sand area tho. And they admit that there was a rainstorm recently which made the sand EASIER, believe it or not. TIME 3:17 for that Subaru clearance vs. rock-bumps just fine part. 

GROUND CLEARANCE PER VEHICLE:

SMALL SUVs: Nissan Rogue 2021 has 8.2 inches of clearance... [vs.] ... compact SUVs of 2021. Its closest competitors are cars like the Honda CR-V (8.2 inches), the AWD version of the Hyundai Tucson (8.3 inches), the Toyota RAV4 (8.4 inches), and a little ahead of those the Subaru Forester and Outback (8.7 inches).

 On the lower end of small SUVs are crossover vehicles like the Kia Sportage (6.4 inches), the FWD version of the Hyundai Tucson (6.4 inches), the Mazda CX-5 (7.5 inches), the Chevy Equinox (7.6 inches), and the Ford Escape (7.8 inches).

Then there are the more off-road oriented small SUVs like the Jeep Wrangler (10.8 inches), the Ford Bronco (8.4 to 11.6 inches), and Bronco Sport (8.8 inches).

•  RAV4 (2024) = 8.4 inches 
• Mazda CX-5 (2021) = (7.5 inches) 
• Ford Ecosport (2024) = 7.8inch, (2018 -2020) = 7 in to 7.8 in (fancier version has higher)
•  Hyundai Kona = 6.3 in to 6.7 in
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MEDIUM SUVS: 

• Nissan Pathfinder (2022) = 7.1 in
• Equinox (2020-2022) = 7.9 in for AWD models, 8.0 in for Premiere AWD (7.6 in for non-AWD)
• Sante Fe = 6.9 inch

BIG SUVS:

• Chevy Suburban (2024) = 8 in - 10 in (I see AIRride, u can change it). 
• Ford Explorer MAX (2025) = 7.6 in. to (8.2 in. for Platinum)

---STUCK ppl below. STILL TEMPTING! Read somewhere afterwards that you just need to walk the last 0.25 mile when you see deep sand, and you'll be OK. ... ... I dunno, some of the vids looked pretty dang intense. ---

 See yt Hun.tress.308 video, Hiking white pocket [got stuck in sand and had to be rescued!]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC70embxMiU

***so the trick is, the very last quarter mile rd is the deep sand.  Just walk that part then u r at whote pocket, Arizona.  

Looks like a red ford truck… at time 13:52 it shows 4x4 on the side.  She earliermentioned trying 4 hi and 4 low, but still stuck. Smaller truck and not knobby tires. 

Rescue came and reduced air in tires. Rescuer was a std jeep w big tires.  

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See yt other vid by the off-roading team Jondz Adventuring “passport to: white pocket, az - sand trap!” Very interesting.  Cvt bad for subaru, but other subaru dis ok.  Jeeps and hi clearance did fine.  Gotta speed and momentum thru a lot. Around 15:30 minute mark. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek1Jc1mAg2g

Grand Canyon, Zion area hikes and sights

 Important NOTES up top

1. Candy cliffs drive from east not West --We re in the rockies says: East approach not west. West has sharp decline.
2. Zion's Observation Pt. https://theworldtravelguy.com/observation-point-zion-trail/ -> Gotta do East trail (easier anyhow, nice).
3. Petroglyphs to pools is BETWEEN Many Pools and Keyhole Canyon on google maps. https://www.10adventures.com/hikes/zion-national-park/petroglyph-pools-trail/ shows details and has this MAP link: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=37.22464,-112.90906
1. This map shows going N after get out of car/under road: https://hikestgeorge.com/hiking-trails/secret-petroglyphs-canyon-zion-national-park/
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Page area plus more (below is prior to Oct 27th, 2024 notes)

• Wahweap overlook (vast desert n faraway canyons, some buildings) (entering Page?)
• Wire pass (permit unlimited ) to Buckskin Gulch SLOT canyon (3mi in, 3 mi out… easy but long and best scenery). See WereintheRockies.com site. Other ppl say, You start with a 45 minute drive on a rough road. But once you get to the trailhead there is a huge parking lot. $6 a person for permits.
• https://www.crazyfamilyadventure.com/grand-staircase-escalante/#Hwy_12
• The new wave
• South Coyote Buttes 4-12 mi up to you, (easy permit to get), as good as The Wave, but 4x4 needed for 2.5 mi sand road. https://nomadsinnature.com/blog/skip-the-wave-hike-south-coyote-buttes
• Lone Rock, N. of Page.
• Old Paria - Old Paria Mesa is a big weird cool hunk of a rock, reddish, sitting next to highway as you drive by. 
  
  
  
• SKIP Grand Staircase Escalante - ??? isn't it a HUGE area, how do you "do this"... not a trail. View from afar? Signs on roads. One part showed the Toadstool hoodoos, heh. One guy explained to get the heart, it's a 20 or 40 mi scary dirt road.  
  
  
  
• Kodachrome basin park… only close to BRYCE, otherwise cant.
• Willis Creek SLOT canyon, near Kodachrome. 
• SKIP IF NO TIME. Coral pink sandunes
• Moqui cave museum and sand caves - the manmade sand caves, rly impressive though. 
• Cathedral Wash, Cathedral Rock, Balance Rock, Paria Beach & then Lee’s Ferry (bcuz every pull out is great. ) SW of Page, you'll hit Navajo Bridge also. 
• White Rocks betw Kanab & Page. 100 Toadstools, wow. 4-10 miles up to you. It's the circle. "It’s as if world-renowned animator Dr. Suess met 1960s-era psychedelic rock star Jerry Garcia, on the classic TV show The Twilight Zone" https://www.backroadswest.com/blog/white-rocks-grand-staircase-escalante/
• Toadstool Hoodoos trail, leaving Page halfway to Kanab.

 BRYCE CANYON, see this to pick a hike https://thethoroughtripper.com/best-hikes-in-bryce-canyon/#Is_it_a_Queen_or_a_Wizard. Basically, either the Queen + Navajo combo hike (moderate 3 mi. 652 ft gain at end of queen) or Mossy Cave (easier 1 mi.). 

• Belly of dragon, entering Zion from east. Manmade but fun. 
• SKIP, too far: Red canyon (AKA peekaboo slot) -in the backcountry of Utah’s southern desert so it's hard to get to with pros and cons for each option including experience, time constraints, and cost.
• Best friends animal sanctuary
• East Zion
• SKIP Glen canyon dam, no time. 
• SKIP-Vermillion cliffs and White Pocket. Would LOVE to, but... hours driving on bumpy sand road, getting stuck, no bathroom, etc. 
• GOT IT. -Antelope Canyon X
• Emerald pool lower, easy, magestic views of cliffs n mtns.
• …
• ABOVE HERE IS mostly THE DUDE'S LIST

 

Zion east side i think specifically

• The Hobbit Hole (drive from east?)
• Checkerboard from east.
• Belly of Dragon
• https://theworldtravelguy.com/observation-point-zion-trail/
• Observation pt… Gotta do East trail (easier anyhow, nice)

 

St. George / Zion area more

• Grafton ghost town leaving ZION to St. George (but... Kanab, the 100+ Hollywood westerns thing).
• Petroglyphs EASIEST in neighborhood. Bloomington Petroglyph park.
• Candy cliffs at sunset best, from east road maybe Leeds, Utah (west rd too steep) any car
• Snow canyon’s Jenny's SLOT canyon (easy 0.48 mi for roundtrip)
• Snow canyons Petrified Dunes!!
• Snow canyons white rock amphitheater (take the short trail) (like candy cliffs but no pink swirls).
• Snow canyon volcano / lava tubes. Probably don't walk up volcano, too much loose gravel and steep means you will fall on big jagged rocks. https://thethoroughtripper.com/cinder-cone-trail-snow-canyon/#Trailhead_Basics 
• Snow canyon Overlook via a Hidden trail (horse trail, near Snow canyon trail rides trail, south of their stables) (SW of red mtn trail) that has the best super view!
• Pioneer park has “the crack”, a short SLOT canyon right there. Busy.
• Pioneer park’s ARCHES, 2 medium, other small. See from parking, look up.
• Pioneer park has a TON of easy red rock crazies, like rt by parking. Eventually Dixie Rock.
• Desert garden by pioneer park. Free 

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Zion & nearby hikes

 Canyon overlook trail (1mi). *** best views

• ***Hobbit Hole (lower clear creek). 1.3 mi, 147 ft gain. Rocky.
• Dry hike next to narrows.
• Emerald pools (for the crazy cliff walls)
• Grotto trail ( mile hike nxt to rd)(downhill from grotto to lodge)
• Pa’Rus trail. Paved.

 Outside main canyon- drive self.

1. Willis creek narrows slot canyon. Easy get to.
2. Checkerboard mesa***great. East east.
3. Zion jeep tour
4. Cedar Breaks Ntl Monument (is Bryce Canyon junior, super cool)
5. Snow canyon state oark, is 1 hr away. No snow. Lava tube! Slick rock! Petrified sand dune!
6. TOO FAR - Valley of fire , closer to vegas. Suoer cool looking.
7. Grafton ghost town, Hollywood movies, Butch Cassidy n Sundance kid. . (Kanab town had 100 western movies).

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MORE NOTES 

Hobbit Hole near Zion
Via https://www.alltrails.com/en-gb/trail/us/utah/lower-clear-creek-the-hobbit-hole--2

This is a gem! Parking on the highway is limited east of the canyon overlook trail. Download the trail map before you go. No signs to mark your start but you know you are on the right trail… drop off the north side of highway down some slick rock and sand and look for the cool rock water underpass that goes under the highway. Travel south onto and along the trail. Enjoy some amazing slot canyon trails all to yourself! There is an old creek bed that goes off to the east that you can explore as deep as you wish. Moderate easy trail. Can be as short or long as you wish but if you love the canyons and slots— must try this. Family friendly if you have small ones :-)

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If you stay on the trail marked on All Trails, completely dry (no standing water). There was a branch that still had standing water but that wasn’t the trail mapped…so you don’t have to get wet if you don’t want. Had it completely to ourselves. Just beware of the open area as it could get very hot in direct sun. **tip: as mentioned previously, the slot canyon is near the beginning—so if you want a fun, interesting, short trail…follow the trail through the slot canyon and turn around at the “hobbit hole” arch.

The hobbit hole is a low arch at the end of the first slot canyon. Fun for kids but easy for adults to get through too. We went to the second slot canyon, which had stagnant water in it and planned to turn around. Then we saw hikers coming from a side trail, which we then took and hung out under a spacious rock ledge for about 30 minutes. Great hike for a hot day, with reluctant hikers, or for slot canyon lovers.