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My wife and I spent part of the weekend at the Peoria Fine Art Fair. These are a few of the photos I took of the various exhibits. Some of the artists expressed a desire not to have their work shown online and I respect that (so I have not included any photos of those works). We had a great time looking at the many creative ideas and approaches and designs. We were both amazed at the number of artists from neighboring states (and beyond) showcasing their works. Curiously, there did not seem to be that many from the immediate vicinity. Enjoy the photos.

See how many of these well known phrases you can recognize/ decipher without the use of a dictionary or a thesaurus.

1. Scintillate, scintaillate, asteroid minific
2. Surveillance should precede caltation
3. Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate
4. Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity
5. It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed lacteal fluid
6. Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude
7. The stylus is more potent than the scimitar
8. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers
9. Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion
10. The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not reach 212 degrees F.
11. All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly suriferous.
12. Where there are visible vapors having their prevalence in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.

Yes, I got all of them. If you can’t figure them out, just send me a note or post a comment. Thanks Larry for sending this to me…

If I understand correctly, the Internet is 40 years old today (born Sept. 2, 1969). A Cambridge based company – Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) won the initial contract to design and implement and deploy the first computer connected to the ARPANET. A Honeywell minicomputer was selected for this initial connection. This was connected to a host machine at UCLA. A few weeks later (October 29, 1969), this network communicated with another host (located at Stanford Research Institute). Once these connections were established, it was soon realized that this connectivity was rather useless without some means of interfacing the data with the operating ystem and applications. The next big leap was the development of what became known as Transmission Control Protocol ad Internet Protocol. A lot has certainly happened in the intervening years.