Let me start off by saying that I didn’t ever plan to do a post on faulty products. I did want to do a post on “products I like”. We’ll get there.
But I’m very observant. I don’t miss much.
And I just noticed that I went into my first floor bathroom, which days ago I had closed the heat vent off and shut the door to save energy since I rarely go in there, and it is just toasty warm in there! I noticed lately that the heat is always off and the door closed to my son’s bedroom, but every time I go in there, it’s warm.
So that’s my first defective product to list. The floor-mounted close-able heat vents that appear to close but do not impede the flow of heated air.
More to follow.
I’ve had this for almost 40 years, but have no idea what it’s called…
Here are some websites featuring interesting optical illusions I ran across when I was looking in my emails for something.
http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/unplugged/spot-fake-objects-among-real-ones-195357959.html
The link to more anamorphic illusions on youtube in the latter article is fascinating.
Higgs boson discovery confirmed by press release from CERN.
http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2012/PR17.12E.html
Hope it clears up for the transit of Venus this evening since I probably won’t live to 152 to see the next one. In the meantime, I like reading about rare things that have happened before and will happen again but in outrageous time scales. How about this… someone, somewhere might see this in the year 69163 (assuming we don’t destroy the planet and become extinct first):
The simultaneous occurrence of a transit of Mercury and a transit of Venus does occur, but extremely infrequently. Such an event last occurred on 22 September 373,173 BC and will next occur on 26 July 69,163, and again on 29 March 224,508. The simultaneous occurrence of a solar eclipse and a transit of Venus is currently possible, but very rare. The next solar eclipse occurring during a transit of Venus will be on 5 April 15,232. The last time a solar eclipse occurred during a transit of Venus was on 1 November 15,607 BC. It could be noticed that the day after the Venerean transit of 3 June 1769 there was a total solar eclipse, which was visible in Northern America, Europe and Northern Asia.