The Grandparents dropped by for a visit today on their way home. They haven’t aged a day.
“The Penny”
Antonio Stradivari created this violin at his workshop in Cremona, Italy around the year 1700. It’s now up for auction at Christie’s and is expected to bring in between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000. In May of 2006, Christie’s sold Stradivari’s “The Hammer” to an anonymous telephone bidder for just over $3,500,000. Now that’s a big wad of cash!
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE
(CNN) — Author Arthur C. Clarke, whose science fiction and non-fiction works ranged from the script for “2001: A Space Odyssey” to an early proposal for communications satellites, has died at age 90, associates have said. Visionary author Arthur C. Clarke had fans around the world.
Clarke had been wheelchair-bound for several years with complications stemming from a youthful bout with polio and had suffered from back trouble recently, said Scott Chase, the secretary of the nonprofit Arthur C. Clarke Foundation.
He died early Wednesday — Tuesday afternoon ET — at a hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since the 1950s, Chase said.
“He had been taken to hospital in what we had hoped was one of the slings and arrows of being 90, but in this case it was his final visit,” he said.
Endoscopy
…without sedation, I might add…BIG mistake…
Here we have a photo of my esophagus:
This is a photo of the Pylorus (that’s a bit of lettuce hanging there):
Onward to the Duodenum. It reminds me of the asteroid cave monster on The Empire Strikes Back.
Finally, here’s a photo of the salad I ate last night, which is still in my stomach for some reason. The doctor wasn’t pleased.
Three brown eyes
I’ve been Simpsonized
