Apart from the t-shirt that I bought on the penultimate day in Rapallo, I bought two new t-shirts from Temu. The Italian t-shirt (made in Bangladesh) is thinner than the Temu shirts as well as being twice the price. That must mean something. I bought the Temu shirts primarily for their message, as shown below.
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The 'sarcasm' t-shirt is great. Apart from the elements, there's a further
joke in the 'may occur periodically' line - a reference to the periodic table
of elements. But what are those elements?
- S - Sulphur
- Ar - Argon
- Ca - Calcium
- Sm - This is an element that I couldn't initially name, although I guessed that it was one of the rare earths, or Lanthanides as they are called now
Sm is the symbol for Samarium, which is indeed a Lanthanide. I'm not too sure that I had ever heard of it before, but as fate would have it, the day after I photographed myself wearing the shirt, it featured in a book that I started reading (the so-so 'Shadow State' Jack Ryan Jnr novel), where Samarium was being mined in order to be used in magnets.
This day in blog history:
| Title | Tags | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 207 | This tickled my fancy | Dog | |
| 638 | More books | Literature, Tom Clancy | |
| 1081 | Research questions | DBA | |
| 1346 | Continuing the story of porting an application to Windows 10/Delphi 10.2 | Programming, ClientDataSet | |
| 1535 | Another DBA update | DBA | |
| 1675 | Communal grief (2) | Israel, Obituary, Kibbutz |
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