The Mitä Kuuluu in English version

[Tero]

Vesa and Leena are talking about painting projects. Vesa could stop here on his way to paint some trim on her house. I have a monument Vesa cn paint.
http://architecture.about.com/library/graphics/stlouisarch-at.jpg

[Eija]

No! But here is some 'food for thought'!

Information on the Golden Arches of McDonald's (http://www.goodlogo.com/cases/mcdonalds/)

McDonald's
The McDonald's Golden Arches logo was introduced in 1962. It was created by Jim Schindler to resemble new arch shaped signs on the sides of the restaurants. He merged the two golden arches together to form the famous 'M' now recognized throughout the world. Schindler's work was a development of the stylized 'v' logo sketched by Fred Turner, which was conceived as a more stylish corporate symbol than the Speedee chef character that had previously been used. The McDonald's name was added to the logo in 1968.

Eero Saarinen, Finnish Architect and the designer of St. Louis Gateway Arch (http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Gateway_Arch.html)

Architect Eero Saarinen
Location St. Louis, Missouri
Date 1947 competition, construction 1961 to 1966
http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/images/cid_gateway_arch_001.150.jpg

So, did Saarinen sue McDonald's? No, but read this:rolleyes:

McDonald's v. Arche.
The McDonald's case involved a design mark, McDonald's Golden Arches. KunNan Enterprise, Ltd., a Taiwanese corporation, adopted a single arch design, used in various colors, as a mark for its computer hardware and software, and obtained its own federal trademark registration in 1989 for its single arch. KunNan transferred ownership of its registration to Arche, its U.S. distributor, which then used the mark in connection with its sale of computers and computer components. McDonald's sued KunNan and Arche for a permanent injunction under trademark infringement, unfair competition and dilution theories.

[Tero]

In Spain, there is a ripoff chain with a B shape, two arches sideways making the B!

[Tero]

Missouri has these wooden vines that have solid roots and encircle trees:
http://pix.etusivu.net/new/MoVines1.jpg
http://pix.etusivu.net/new/MoVINES2.jpg
http://pix.etusivu.net/new/MoVINES3.jpg

[Tero]

The morality test in yleistä:
http://www.philosophersmag.com/bw/games/taboo.htm
I clicked no to all, to see what it gives, without reading any of the text. If you answer NO to all, you get 0.00 factors.

analysis
How did you do compared to other people?

Taboo has been played 7285 times.

Your Moralising Quotient of 0.00 compares to an average Moralising Quotient of 0.19. This means that as far as the events depicted in the scenarios featured in this activity are concerned you are more permissive than average.

Your Interference Factor of 0.00 compares to an average Interference Factor of 0.10. This means that as far as the events depicted in the scenarios featured in this activity are concerned you are less likely to recommend societal interference in matters of moral wrongdoing, in the form of prevention or punishment, than average.

Your Universalising Factor of -1 compares to an average Universalising Factor of 0.31. Your score of -1 indicates that you saw no moral wrong in any of the activities depicted in these scenarios, which means that it is not possible for this activity to determine the extent to which you see moral wrongdoing in universal terms (i.e., without regard to prevailing cultural norms and social conventions).

For more analysis see link at the bottom of the page.
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As many of you know, I read nature books. In the bird world, there are moral issues as well. A bird in a nest is being attacked. Its instincts are torn between survival and defense. Its own survival would maybe allow it to nest again next year. Two instincts conflict. What does the bird do? Initially it does neither. Wiping a beak on some branch or other distracting behavior helps it not decide. At the last possible second, it leaves the nest.

[Tero]

I was out by the river, when a large tree trunk piece of driftwood collapsed into the water. From the pile of driftwood flew out about 6 blackbirds of two species. They all flew to the same branch and exchanged views about this event. ;)

[Tero]

I came home and my kids wanted to wash a car. Mine was dirtier so I let them wash that. I think it was an excuse to mess with the garden hose and get wet. It is still warm, like Finland in June. ;)

[Ville]

I should wash mine, too. I haven't washed it once yet (since I bought it in January ;)).

[Tero]

The kids washed the car, sort of. except for the hood and roof. ;)
How is your Honda? Does the exhaust smell like rotten eggs?

[Tero]

I should go to that same spot and take some pictures now. The leaves are in the trees and you can no longer see thru that spot witha any sky in the background.

[Tero]

Had to look up some info for son to function as scout.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3680/gbm001.htm#variations

[Tero]

I work in a city where there are a hundred car jackings a year (where the owner is robbed or killed). At night. But I avoid it at night, even though some dangers reach to suburbia. Have seen young car thieves handcuffed to each other sitting at the curb.

But mostly not much happens besides traffic accidents. Today a fire truck passed everybody in the right lane, with a few pwople pulled to the actual shoulder.

When I got to it, a lot of smoke was on the road, mostly the shoulder. But then we saw it, a rather old boxy sedan. The fireman was putting out the roof fire with a large fire extinguisher. The engine was also on fire. It had not hit anything, so it was some odd problem. Nobody inside.

In the movies, cars always catch fire in accidents. I have seen this maybe three times in 10 years.

It slowed traffic after me to a jam, people wanted to see it all.

[Tero]

We have a city flag, apparently.
http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=69843
I am more impressed if they can bring life back to the 9-5 downtown. Our last downtown bookstore closed and the mall is doing poorly.

[Tero]

Well, it is FRIIIIIDAYYYY!

We have a boy scout hike saturday, no camping. We are apparently spending some 4 hours or more walking 10 miles. It is in a city park. I would have picked something further away from the city. For me, just for the birds, but for the boys too. We have more scenic areas.

We hike here
http://www.slfp.com/SLFP-FPFEmap.htm
however we can get 10 miles out of that! Two loops?

[Tero]

20 minutes at lunch
Red Tailed Hawk
Song Sparrows
Am Goldfinch
probable, secretive Fox Sparrow
Starling flock
Mocking Birds
Ring Billed Gull

MON
20-30 Starlings on wire
Carolina Wren
Sharp Shinned Hawk

Oct 19 in park with lake:

1 Mocking Bird
Starlings
1 Great Egret
1 Great Blue Heron
Belted Kingfisher
unidentified dark duck, probably grebe
Eastern Bluebirds
Yellow Rumped Warblers
Chickadee

[Tero]

We are in a big metropolitan are, but our rural people lead to news items such as this
http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=70127

very possessive of their property.

[Tero]

I fixed my lawn mower. Cleaned the air cleaner. It was oily, besides grass in it. Needs a new one.

Nothing special, I just wanted to bump off Kalevipoikas message to #2 here.;)

[Zzeus11]

Got up at 7...went on a bike ride with daughter...about 22 miles.
Stopped at Starbucks few miles before getting back home.
At home refilled the water bottle and went by myself another 40 miles. (I thought the second loop was fast, what was I thinking...the watch told the truth)
I feel dead tired!!

[Ville]

I've lost count. Must be the fifth (or sixth, or sevent?) round now. The pool is empty. I bagged 2½ trash bags of half-rotten (but now totally dried) leaves two days ago. Today I'll vacuum the pool with a shop-vac as there's lots of debris that could not be raked and bagged. Now that it seems we'll get to use the pool at least part of the summer before we move, it's time to fill it up (after all, it's Memorial Day tomorrow! :D).

[Zzeus11]

In the middle of my work I decided to go to Dunkin Donuts , get a dozen fresh ones early in the morning.
It is less than 2 mile drive and the same back so it doesn't take very long even in the middle of the (small) city.

At some point during the years while living in Toronto Tim Horton or County Style Donuts , both like Dunkin Donuts, were about the same distance from my home.
While skimming through my 'news sources' over the 'net' I came upon info about a wild cat strike in Toronto by TTC (http://www.toronto.ca/ttc/) and ......just then it all came back to me........
Why it is not a good idea to live in a big city, where leftist labour unions and their paid agitator leadership make life difficult for people who want donuts in a hurry, it would be a 'murder' to sit a car for an hour to get 'fresh ones' ...

Here (http://www.pulse24.com/Front_Page/page.asp) you can follow news from TO..click ...'watch cp24 live'...right side in the middle..live streaming news.

[Tero]

Last bike ride was only 15 miles. Usually we go 20-25. My son lead, no map, and took the wrong way back.

Car service needed. I was going to take it Sat but our Saturn no longer does service Sat, M-F only.:confused: Need car in shape for summer travel, miles 90 000 on meter. Has new timing belt but not the OTHER belt that drives all the attached junk.

[kd]

I fixed my lawn mower. Cleaned the air cleaner. It was oily, besides grass in it. Needs a new one.

Nothing special, I just wanted to bump off Kalevipoikas message to #2 here.;)

I think your lawnmower's air cleaner should be oily; at least mine had to be oiled(Murray with Tecumseh engine). Normal maintenance for most lawnmower air cleaners is to wash and oil them. It is rarely necessary to buy a new one, or to clean them frequently. A more important form of maintenance is to change the crankcase oil, drain the gas in the fall and put oil in the cylinder for the winter. Mine started on the first pull each spring for 15 years with this method.