“Unquestioned answers are more dangerous than unanswered questions.” Put another way, “Unanswered questions may be frustrating, but unquestioned answers are dangerous.”
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When you hear "Sistine Chapel", you think of the panel wherein the finger of God is reaching to Adam. And that's about all.
You can see the entire Sistine Chapel at http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html, a Vatican website. Wow!
It's a bit difficult to navigate at first. The controls are down in the lower left corner, but they don't explain what the cursor controls get you. You have to play with it a bit. Moving around isn't intuitive. It took me a half hour to get the snake and the apple right-side-up.
The painting around the sides seem to come from a much later date. They have a more Flemish look.
See if you can find the copyright mark on the floor.
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I don't know about Michelangelo, folks. His men all look like overblown bodybuilders, and his women look like male bodybuilders with globes glued to their chests. Don't real (natural) breasts kind of slope out from the collar bones? Does anyone have creases above as well as below? Even the babies are overdeveloped.
Yeah, I know people, including women, did more physical labor then, and were likely well muscled, but women sans steroids just don't get the same structure as men. That much definition requires more testosterone. Women's layer of fat under the skin softens the "cut". Also, the average woman was probably perpetually either pregnant or nursing, but that still doesn't explain those breasts.
I saw the real Pieta once. My first reaction* was that Mary was HUGE! If Jesus had been standing, he'd have been half her height, and maybe a quarter her weight. (*Well, second reaction. The first was, "That's one honkin' huge hunk of marble!")
It all makes me wonder if maybe old Mikey had some issue with women.
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Daughter and I got into a discussion of infectious waste (that which carries pathogens, as opposed to hazardous waste which is poisonous or otherwise harmful but not necessarily infectious) the other day, while she was waiting out her three-hour glucose test at the vampire's office, when I saw someone drop a blood-spotted bandaid in the waste paper basket.
She said it wasn't enough blood to be considered infectious. She does therapeutic massage in an acupuncture office, and she often works on people right after their acupuncture session. She says they sometimes are covered with little spots of blood. She does the massage with her bare hands.
I was horrified! Viruses are tiny, all it takes is ONE, just ONE, to infect you with hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, whatever, and a single speck of blood can carry a zillion of the hungry little bastards. All it takes is one! How can ANY amount of blood not be considered potentially infectious!
When I was riding the ambulance, we were serious about it. Even a speck went into the red box.
I don't understand.
When I got home I looked up the rules/laws, and yeah, infectious waste requiring special handling is defined as "pourable or drippable amounts of blood or body fluids, or items saturated with blood or body fluids". Saturated being defined as capable of dripping if squeezed.
They have to be kidding me. That makes no sense. All it takes is one viral body, and you don't need to be able to pour it to get that.
I am horrified. I wonder why they bother having any rule at all.
(Oh, yeah. Reading further, the answer is money, of course. Regular waste costs x to dispose of. Non-infectious medical waste costs 3x for disposal. Infectious waste costs 15x for disposal. So the definition is to limit costs while looking like you're making some attempt at controlling infection and protecting other patients and medical workers.)
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Tattoo artist husband gets splattered in the face with blood all the time. He wears gloves to tattoo, but he can't wear goggles or a mask all day long. He gets it on his clothes, on his face, forearms, all over. People getting tattooed drip blood. And it splatters with the vibration of the machine and needle. He's been tattooing since 1998. The way to prevent transmitting pathogens, according to the Dept. of Health in Suffolk County (from when we were on LI, no rules up here), is to not get stuck with a needle that's got someone else's blood on it.
Yeah, it's got to get IN - which usually means a fresh break in the skin so that the virus gets access to your own circulatory system, but it can also get in through the mucosa - eyes or mouth.
...or, um, other mucosa, which is why women are more likely to get HIV from men than the other way around.
Michaelangelo "Maybe ... had some issue with women."
The reason that his women look like men with globes stuck on (and I so agree with that comment) may have something to do with his being gay. He was especially attracted to male beauty, less so to female.
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