Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?

Makeup is so weird. In the glamour mags, when they have 'before' and 'after' pics, I always prefer before. Once you paint people, they all start to look alike.

A lot of them didn't. Old graveyards and ad hoc burial grounds are everywhere to tell the tale.

In 1800, 46 percent of children did not reach their fifth birthday.

Yeah, they had lots of kids and most didn't live to be teenagers.

On old novels, it's shocking to me how common death was.

And, maybe over-dramatized, is how people would get caught in the rain and immediately acquire near-lethal fevers. Jane Austen did that a lot. And there was a lot of "brain fever."

My mom was one of 10 kids, and two died in infancy. That was better than average.

I guess some of the old houses were built with one door a bit oversized. That was to allow room to get a casket into the house. Visitation was at home rather than a funeral home.

And with some of the gold rushes, 'living' in tents quite literally.

Ever read 'Giants in the Earth'. Per Hansa's wife, Beret, survived by slowly going insane. A final straw was when Per whitewashed the cabin interior trying to cheer her up. During winter in Dakota the cabin walls were the only thing within miles that weren't white for miles around.

My grandmother's wake was at home. I was five or six and when I got up in the night to go to the bathroom the candles burning in the living room were spooky.

I don't remember it if I even saw it but moving the casket in must have been interesting. There was a small vestibule with stairs going both up and down to the cellar, with the living room door perpendicular to the street door.

A good wall tent with a wood stove isn't that uncomfortable. It might even be warmer that a hastily built shack with old newspapers for insulation.

Maybe that helps explain why some people treat getting wet like a fatal condition.

Fifth grade. Two classmates went through ice and drowned. Funeral for both was at home, on on the west side of the street, the other a few houses up on the east side.

That was 1950s but it was becoming less common.

Yeah, but I didn't know they spray painted the actors. I'll admit to complete ignorance when it comes to cosmetics. Other than my mother I can't think of a woman in my life that used them. Well, maybe one. She used enough hairspray to build a DOT approved helmet so there might have been other products.

I did paint a couple of fingernails Tamiya XF-59 (desert yellow) but I was really trying for the Panzerkampfwagen II. I don't see pointing the thing at my face.

I don't read glamour mags and have very little experience with makeup. (okay, there is that tube of red lipstick I use for fitting parts). I prefer the original meaning of 'glamour', an enchantment creating an illusion.

Frankly, crap in one ear was mad enough. Stereo crap was unusable

And channel space in MW bands is very limited

Google Shannon.

You're missing the point. It's not just away form the peak of all cones, it's where the y axis reads pretty much zero.

Same thing.

It's just half yellow and half red.

What do you mean distinguish? I can seperate well over 256 colours. Easily proved by looking at a 256 colour image (if you have a computer that old).

Nothing to do with occupation etc. I picked the 5 most obvious colours. If I had to name 10, I'd select orange, but it's simply red and yellow mixed together.

Just as I see orange.

It's no less of a colour than orange.

Wrong. Look at the graph. If someone with only a blue and yellow cone was presented with red, they would pick it up mostly with the yellow cone. If they were presented with green, they'd pick it up equally with both cones. So they could easily tell the difference.

How can seeing less colours possibly let you see camouflaged things better? It's the other way round. Camouflage is because two things look the same. The more things you can distinguish, the more likely you can see it.

When I was buying an airbrush for model railway purposes, I found that the majority of online adverts were for makeup application.

Many died and many had good fires or stoves running 24 hours a day.

How the hell did that work? Did they put short people on the top deck?