Hey Roger, not funny indeed. ON the bright side, perhaps this might be
a suitable remedy to COVID-19 endorsed by the immediate past Genius in
Chief. Do you happen to own a SmartPhone of any kind? the reason I ask
is that there are several decent optical character recognition OCR
apps out there that can do a fair job of reading box and product
labels. Sorry that happened to you, My Friend.
Cheers,
Maurice
On 4/9/21, Carl Jarvis <carjar82@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And I thought that I had a bad sense of smell!
Back in 1996 Cathy and I were helping pack up my folks for their move
from Spokane to Marysville, north of Seattle. We were joined by our
son James. He and I headed down to the "canning closet" in the
basement, where we were confronted by 24 years of canned goods, even
some that had been carried from Seattle to Spokane back in 1972. We
set down two large buckets, dumping the contents into one and the
empty jars into the other. Standing for an hour in a very small room
while dumping fermented fruit into a bucket while inhaling the fumes,
had us both giggling mindlessly...and nothing was funny.
Carl Jarvis
On 4/8/21, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm just mentioning this because I thought you guys might find this a
little amusing even if I didn't find it very amusing when it happened.
Now that my mother died I seem to have acquired the contents of a
combination pantry and utility room from her. These are boxes, bags,
jars, bottles and cans and being blind I am having a hard time figuring
out what is in each container. Finally I found the laundry detergent. I
was pretty sure that it was laundry detergent, but I wasn't sure. So I
tried smelling it. I had to get really close to smell it. Let me assure
you that you do not want to do what I accidentally did. You do not want
to sniff laundry detergent up your nose.
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--
Carl Sagan “It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance
between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all
hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great
openness to new ideas. Obviously those two modes of thought are in some
tension. But if you are able to exercise only one of these modes,
whichever one it is, you’re in deep trouble. If you are only skeptical,
then no new ideas make it through to you. You never learn anything new.
You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling the
world. (There is, of course, much data to support you.) But every now
and then, maybe once in a hundred cases, a new idea turns out to be on
the mark, valid and wonderful. If you are too much in the habit of being
skeptical about everything, you are going to miss or resent it, and
either way you will be standing in the way of understanding and
progress. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility
and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot
distinguish the useful as from the worthless ones.” ― Carl Sagan
