How was your weekend? Cincinnati weather made it a hot, humid weekend. We didn’t have a jammed packed weekend for a change. The World Choir Games closed Saturday night, but I started my weekend with a Friday afternoon concert by choirs from Canada, China, and the USA.
Otherwise, we hit the ballroom floor, a couple of long walks, watched The Way (movie rental) (thanks to Rosie, Robin, and travel guru Rick Steves), celebrated National Ice Cream Day (Sunday) with tasty treats from one the ice cream greats – Graeter’s in Cincinnati, and ended Sunday with by grilling a pizza topped with arugula and prosciutto. Yum!
Composer in the Garden (Lynn) provided this article about the data from the Higgs boson (God particle) being set to music. After reading the article and finding the music on YouTube, I knew this was a good way to start the week. Have a good week everyone.
Wow, that Higgs-Boson data based music is pretty cool Frank. I’m watching the Read and Cardinals play right now. It’s good that the rain let up down there and moved up here – because we really needed it! 😀
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Hey Frank? How come you get to post “On Monday” on Sunday? It must have something to do with physics, which I will never comprehend.
Have a great week. Whatever day it starts on!
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Elyse,
Good question. I typically upload my posts at the same time with the idea that it’s the next day’s post. Thanks for asking. 🙂
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Just yankin’ your chain, my friend!
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🙂
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A National Ice-Cream Day? Shame we don’t have that here. Even though you say you didn’t do as much as you’d normally do in a weekend, it still sounds like you know how to keep incredibly busy xx
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Spiced,
There ya go … be on a mission to declare a National Ice Cream Day in Australia … it seems like a noble cause! Thanks for visiting.
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Higgs music. An interesting idea.
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Mobius,
Human creativity strikes again. Thanks for stopping by.
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What an interesting musical piece, Frank. This is certainly new to me. And it sounds like you’ve had a very full weekend, filled with many of the things that I think would be very enjoyable. Nice way to begin a week…a bit refreshed! Debra
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Debra,
A nice, low-key weekend it was … and a busy week ahead! Thanks for commenting.
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It is hot and humid here ,clouds too busy playing Diva and Sun glaring at us when ever it gets a chance 🙂 …. homeschooling, psychotherapy (daughter) Some mondays are 7 days together.. Wish you a lovely week ahead Frank…
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Soma,
Hot and humid is one of my least favorite weather patterns … which also means Delhi won’t be on my “will move to” list. Your description of some Monday made me laugh. Good luck with it … and thanks for commenting.
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Sunday was National Ice Cream Day? The one day I didn’t have any was on this particular day. Oh well. Frank, hoping you have a great week.
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Don,
It’s ok to belatedly celebrate. … thus a reason to have it twice today. Thanks for commenting.
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Nice piece of music to go with what may go down as one of the discoveries of the ages.
sounds like a good weekend, Frank!
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Guapo,
Regarding the music, who would have thunk it! Hope you had a good weekend that was full of adventure! Thanks for commenting.
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Wow! I’m impressed with that music.
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Ellie,
Interesting how it came about … and who would have imagined it! Thanks for visiting.
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Ballroom dancing is something I would love to master. Ice cream and that pizza sounds delicious. Amazing what one can do with a few music notes! 😉 Hope your week is as good as your weekend was.
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Paradise,
As for as the ice cream, go to graeters.com …. On the right you’ll be able to find the stores in Florida that handles them. Believe me … yummy … rich …. chocolate chips are more like chunks of solid chocolate!
I recommend arugula and proscuitto on a pizza. (It was our first time)
Ballroom is a lot of fun, plus good exercise and good fellowship with others. Thanks for commenting.
BTW – more than one South African choir won their category at the recent games!
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I haven’t even seen anything about the choirs in our news. We’re too full of African politics at the moment.
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science, math, music, and language…all compellingly united
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Blissful,
Well said … actually very well said. Thanks for sharing!
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Sounds like you had a good weekend. Funny Navar recently had a prosciutto pizza at work the other day he said it was the best pizza he’s had in a really long time.
I enjoyed both links. Hope your week is pleasant. :+)
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Starla,
That was a first try with prosciutto, but (to me) the arugula was the real surprise! Thanks for visiting.
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I love Lynn’s education of her readers on musical things. She’s so brlliant.
Thanks for this. I need to read more about the God particle. I’ve not learned all that I should about this discovery. Thanks for reminding me.
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E-Tom,
Yep – Lynn provided the article and I tracked down the video. Good ol’ fashion teamwork. 🙂 BTW …. I have some readable God Particle links on this post. https://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/opinions-in-the-shorts-vol-148/
Thanks for stopping by.
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This is a wonderful post and beautiful start for a new week… Thank you dear Frank, fascinated me. Love, nia
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Nia,
Yes … “fascinating” is a good word to describe this. Thanks for sharing.
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High caliber joy! Thanks friend ~ye so thoughtful !
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Voice,
Glad you enjoyed this and thanks for stopping by!
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How was my weekend? Hot, humid, and internet-less, thanks to my dim-witted ISP. Talk about a news blackout! And then Viacom had to go and pull their channels off DirecTV, including Comedy Central. So now no Stewart or Colbert, either! 😦
The music was rather cool, if a bit esoteric. I love the videos of the collision results better. The modern, colorised computer-generated shots are rather pretty, but I really love the old “bubble tank” photos, with impact and breakup trails curving and spiraling away from the collision site. Extremely nerdy, yes, but it’s what I studied all those years ago at Fermilab. Years and years ago. And more years ago…..
Have I mentioned it was a while ago? 😉
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John,
Hot and humid is one thing, but without Internet takes everything to another level … and then the contract negotiations for channels is another story. Thanks for sharing.
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By the by, for you non-uber-geeks out there, try this for just what the heck a Higgs is, and why anyone should care.
Enjoy!
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John,
I always welcome another good source, thus encourage others to learn. A reminder to all that I provided some links last Friday. Thanks for sharing.
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Appropriately cheerful music.
Many artists are examining the cross-overs, or making them, between art and science. It’s an interesting field with huge potential.
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Cuttlefish,
Very interesting indeed. You may enjoy these two past posts that includes at interesting musical treats to mathematics: https://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/on-a-hot-tau/ and https://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/on-a-piece-of-pi/. Thanks for visiting.
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Wonderful music! We celebrated National Ice Cream Day appropriately too, by having ice cream at our favorite local ice cream stand (New Baltimore, where they make their own ice cream).
Thanks for the link shout out, Frank. 🙂
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Robin,
Cheers to the two of you joining in the celebration! Thanks for visiting.
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