friday fragment spectrums

I’m reading a book. (what you only thought I read blogs and newspapers?) The book is titled “Spectrums” by David Blatner. It examines the universe by comparing the spectrum or range of values of distance, sound, heat, etc.

You will find a spectrum of fragments at Mrs. 4444’s blog on Fridays.

Once Mrs. 4444 gave me the finger. Actually it was her finger logic via a few comments. Today’s FF post offers you Mrs. 4444’s logic for ranking the importance of your fingers. Seriously where on the spectrum of fragments would you place info like that?

Here at the Institute for Better Postings (I should have used that as a blog name), I started noticing a drop off in blog visits. Taking the lighten-it-up approach, I reported my finding in a post on my rarely seen blog, “I Can’t Blog”. I was pleasantly surprised that a few readers did read it and shared their comment. A few comments confirmed my findings that there is a general loss of the blog linky feeling within the online world. Who knows maybe my post brought back that blog linky feeling for a few.

I found this picture from a favorite creative person, Terry Border, (Bent Objects) to be very informative. Really who knew?

Source: lisleman on Pinterest

I’ve never step foot in Ikea but I’ve been to Hooters. I thought about studying at Hooters once but could not figure out how to sell the idea to my wife.  (oh studying the wings of course)
 

I’ve mentioned Ikea in a post or two before. Do you search your own blog? I search my blog when I remember writing about a topic but can’t remember when or what exactly I wrote. I can only imagine how difficult finding a piece of past prose was for writers back before computers and word processing. I found my Ikea fragment of a thought back in a FF post written last year.

The reason I included this a shareable fragment today was not the Ikea fragment but the comment/reply exchange I had with Mrs. 4444. You could browse back to that post, but I’ve copied the essence of the exchange for you:

Mrs. 4444 - “...(good commenting words)...... I am definitely feeling my age this week--I was trying to muscle-open a jar of garlic when I heard and felt a "pop" in my fingertip; I've been wearing a finger brace ever since....”  

Lisleman - “Ouch - hope your finger is feeling better.... (blah, blah, blah)....”

Mrs. 4444 - “Thanks. It's better but will need more healing time. At least it wasn't a super important finger.”  

Lisleman (note, I found this ranking of fingers odd and funny - how about you?) - “wow I never thought of ranking my fingers.”

Mrs. 4444 - “Come on...You know what "the" finger is; that one's pretty important for driving, and of course the thumb isn't a finger so doesn't count. A teacher has to have a pointer finger for shaking at kids, and how could I drink my tea without a pinky? That leaves the ring finger, and although mine holds an important object, that object could easily be on any finger, so that's the least-important finger.”

Lisleman - “IMHO - this explanation is worthy of a post. I would have thought pinky but of course would have never thought about it in the first place. thanks”

Mrs. 4444 - “Sounds right up your alley, Bill. Go ahead.haha :)” 

Lisleman - “Ok but I thought you would since it was your explanation. Oh and your finger.”