tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62788432012-01-28T08:41:15.270-05:00Keeping the family in touchTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367847219758076765noreply@blogger.comBlogger22091100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278843.post-56206354646426497682012-01-27T21:57:00.005-05:002012-01-27T21:57:43.082-05:00

 If you watch it backwards The Sound of Music is about a family that sneaks into Austria, performs a stage audition to stay there then lives in a big house until Julie Andrews gets fed up and goes off to live in a convent. (My submission to this very amusing website)

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Just letting you know I've been absent from The Dinner Table of late due to having started school, and being blessed with several resume clients.  Just sorting out my new routine.

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Has it really been 34 years?  Happy happy!

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There's an app for that!

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Happy Birthday Bro!  Please note that the gratuitous Mexican influence references in the graphic are lamely offered up as a result of your proximity to the place and my inability to find anything more you and fun in a birthday graphic during my very short search!  (All this at no extra charge!)

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At church today I was privileged to be commissioned as a Stephen Minister along with seven others. Another baby step in my new life.

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Fotoshop by Adobé from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

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...Have I NOT noticed this all these years?!?

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Simplistic, yes...but interesting.  Try it.

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Sometimes the way in which information is presented makes all the difference. This simple change in the way flight information is displayed yields a terrific result.  Have a look - I think you'll find it useful.

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Oh for crying out loud.... Employers are facing more uncertainty in the wake of a letter from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission warning them that requiring a high school diploma from a job applicant might violate the Americans with Disabilities Act... ...The “informal discussion letter” from the EEOCsaid an employer’s requirement of a high school diploma, long a standard criterion

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I am overwhelmed when I go to the library, kinda like going to Sam's club....so much stuff. So I go to Sam's and spend $400 or I go to the library and check out twice as many books as I can read in 3 weeks. Cause I can't decide between 'this' and 'that'. So, my new favorite thing is 'ezone'. I got to the libraries web site, plug in the name of he book or any author hat I like, check to see if

Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02838557030679776914noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278843.post-28694563848316525672011-12-31T01:07:00.003-05:002011-12-31T01:07:24.559-05:00

...I can nick myself with a razor, scrape any part of me on a fence post, or suffer the slightest cut opening a can, and I bleed.  Because I take an aspirin daily, I bleed pretty easily! But... Put me in a doctor's office with a nurse armed with a needle, two prominent veins bulging from my arm, a large rubber tube to tie off above my elbow, and my making a strong fist...the nurse can't find

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Oh wow. I don't know exactly how I feel about this.  It is just the tip of the iceberg, if you will, and I've had little time to process it. But I think it is interesting beyond whatever other conclusions I may come to over time. By way of background I've known since high school that I have Hand-Eye Crossed Dominance, although I didn't know there was such a title for it.  In my case it means

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367847219758076765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278843.post-19260675548978400372011-12-28T15:58:00.000-05:002011-12-28T15:58:34.150-05:00

I wish I knew to whom to attribute this bit of budget simplification genius below, but I do not. Those who study such things have concluded that most of us possess an innate understanding of quantities up to four or five.  Beyond these quantities, numbers represent relative abstractions.  We don't truly grasp the number 87; we understand from experience that it is more than 32 and less than 104

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367847219758076765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278843.post-52744307869086279732011-12-26T00:33:00.001-05:002011-12-26T00:36:37.674-05:00

And remember, or perhaps understand for the first time, what was once permitted - shall I say expected -  from the White House at Christmas just 30 years ago.

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Oh, if we could simply program life so things occur when convenient! But, it isn't so...and thus I found myself at the tire store yesterday buying four new ones.   I did a bit of research prior to buying the tires.  Thought I'd share with you some things I learned.   A couple of these things fall into the ridiculously obvious category once pointed out, but I had simply never given that much

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http://www.youtube.com/pramimbasta prepare to be amazed

Frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14435745953001704219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278843.post-20613553012973596282011-12-20T23:56:00.001-05:002011-12-20T23:56:31.607-05:00

  Amazing clouds over Birmingham, Alabama recently.  These are known as Kelvin-Helmholtz waves.  For a cool video and further explanation you can check out this site. I'm a geek.  I know.

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Ormie the pig.

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Based on a post recently about Pachelbel's Canon, I thought I would create a new Pandora Station by the same name to see what the Genomes would come up with. I anticipated many selections with repetive melodies....alas was I surprised. What I got was:New age rootsunsyncopated ensemble rhythmsstraight drum beatsuse of tonal harmonies.Hah! I knew it. Set this station up, you will not be

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Tonight was the Christmas Party for our Transitions group and it was terrific.   Have I mentioned that I am STILL the only guy in the group?  Now there are worse things of course...but it is a cruel irony to be this close to so many single women and all of them "off limits" since I'm one of the group leaders! We did the Chinese gift exchange tonight...and I wound up with a book.  The Ladies'

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The Richter Scale.  By now I think we all understand that a 4.something isn't so terible, but when you start getting into the 6.something territory things get dicey. But to begin to get your head around it all, watch this video.  Keep an eye on the 5.8 used to begin the video...and see how it compares.  Oh...and for those who remember the 1989 World Series earthquake - that is shown here as the

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It's like beer!  "Under the effects of oxytocin, a person can perceive themselves as more extroverted, more open to new ideas and more trusting." 

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 Finished trimming the tree today...This year I made white gauzy bows and have a pure red/white theme.  Fortunately you cannot see the wreck my living room is in this photo...I'm going to clean it all up right now!

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Auntie Silver (not everyone can say Sylvia) explaining why we don't pull the doggie"s tail.I'm thinking Santa isn't a dog person.

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 Have you been listening to Christmas music?  I have been - and I'm beginning to understand there are really not that many songs in the rotation. Plenty of versions of those songs (not necessarily a good thing)...and I'm thinking I might have been just as well off - perhaps better off - if John Mellencamp had never recorded I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - just sayin'. I was doing a little

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367847219758076765noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278843.post-35383372694534947602011-12-08T22:35:00.001-05:002011-12-08T22:36:59.377-05:00

...looks like.

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The Transitions Christmas Party is next Wednesday at Chez Timmy...so I had to get on the ball today!  The inside is mostly done..but it takes a lot longer since Jan convinced me that a thousand lights is not enough for a single Christmas tree.

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Occasionally I hear someone stating the rather obvious reminder that the US Constitution does not guarantee anyone the right to not be offended.  And in my view we might do well as a nation to be reminded more frequently. That being said...I am reminded that ours is a special nation.  Consider this: On December 3, 2010 the municipal court in Randers, Denmark found the Danish Member of

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367847219758076765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278843.post-39775610817496176752011-12-04T10:55:00.001-05:002011-12-04T10:58:44.679-05:00

And she teaches school in New York. A sourpuss teacher in Rockland County ruined Christmas for a class full of second-graders this week, when she told them that there is no Santa Claus during a lesson about the North Pole. The evil educator even told the youngsters — mostly 7- and 8-year-olds — that the presents under their trees were put out by their parents, and not St. Nick... ...The

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We will all wonder how we ever lived without this.  Ever!

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Second most popular Chrome extension download last week at Download.com? I had to look up Malayalam (look! a palindrome!) to find it  is one of the four major Dravidian languages of southern India. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India with official language status in the state of Kerala and the union territories ofLakshadweep and Pondicherry.

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367847219758076765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278843.post-10997646088832322412011-12-01T00:10:00.001-05:002011-12-02T16:37:51.221-05:00

OK - show of hands please from anyone who can name any song written by Pachelbel other than the Canon in D.  Right.  Nada.  In fact someone has put together an album of 15 versions of that song entitled Pachelbel's Greatest Hit. Pachelbel's canon is a musical perpetual motion machine: it simply wants to play on and on and on.  To make a stretched but apt comparison, it reminds me of "The Song

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367847219758076765noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278843.post-90689861160138283472011-11-30T21:52:00.001-05:002011-11-30T21:53:19.356-05:00

Where I am perfectly equipped for the situation....

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Frank and I were discussing this song over the weekend, wondering what the original sounded like. If Wikipedia is believed, the clip below contains the first recording (1932) of the song that has also been covered by ...Ruth Etting and Bing Crosby in 1933. Subsequent recordings and performances were done by such recording artists as Otis Redding, Pat O'Malley in the Jack Hylton's Big Band,

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367847219758076765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278843.post-37462821363028518482011-11-26T19:06:00.001-05:002011-11-26T19:06:37.558-05:00

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367847219758076765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278843.post-6094004769740145192011-11-25T22:49:00.001-05:002011-11-25T22:49:54.540-05:00

Bungee Polling....

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A very cool and informative picture:

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Just for this day....

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Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367847219758076765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278843.post-74886955440939533602011-11-22T20:21:00.001-05:002011-11-22T20:21:39.693-05:00

Walking through doorways causes forgetting, new research shows.

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367847219758076765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278843.post-68611347217306646662011-11-21T22:20:00.000-05:002011-11-21T22:21:40.229-05:00

Of a different sort! Hudson - Against The Grain from Dropbear on Vimeo.

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367847219758076765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278843.post-57467033289005778792011-11-19T01:48:00.000-05:002011-11-19T01:50:49.722-05:00

Please click the image to enlarge so you can read this silliness!

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My hat's off to the creative minds behind this...Enjoy!

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Maybe it is just me but I think Bad Lip Reading is one of the funniest concepts around. Here is a sample.

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367847219758076765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278843.post-20089142454781882582011-11-16T20:56:00.001-05:002011-11-16T20:59:22.760-05:00

Very clever post about the nature of the blues. For instance: 12. No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less you happen to be a old ethnic person, and you slept in it. Go read them all Lame Apple Taft!

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367847219758076765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278843.post-43921897944846845542011-11-14T13:05:00.001-05:002011-11-14T13:41:09.664-05:00

This runners' cool weather shirt comes in five colors. Take a moment to select each color to see which you like. For fun, go from right to left on the shirt colors. Then ask yourself "who made this decision?"

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367847219758076765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278843.post-33300580975234027122011-11-13T15:58:00.001-05:002011-11-13T16:01:41.073-05:00

...because they have so many little ones - this is VERY cool.  Watch what happens to the Hershey's Chocolate Syrup!

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367847219758076765noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278843.post-10656269409362059932011-11-12T20:45:00.000-05:002011-11-13T16:02:54.543-05:00

An Irish thought....

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367847219758076765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278843.post-90145140708698950002011-11-11T08:05:00.001-05:002011-11-11T08:11:29.667-05:00

Regardless of one's political persuasion or world view, if you live in America on this day, such liberties as you enjoy were earned for you and ensured from external erosion by the Veterans of the branches of the United States Military Services.  Around the Dinner Table that would include Scott and Dave.

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367847219758076765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278843.post-6522639442111950072011-11-11T00:42:00.001-05:002011-11-11T00:50:54.527-05:00

And perhaps just a bit related to my previous post. Note the squiggly red lines indicating misspellings in this email typed in my Gmail account. (Click on the picture if needed to see it clearly.) Now note how Gmail is spelled by Gmail itself. Conclusion:  Gmail doesn't know how to spell itself!

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You know that I spend way too much time online.  I hear that everyone needs a hobby - I suppose this is mine.  I am fascinated by this amazing portal that is available to me to answer virtually any question I might have, anytime I have it. Yesterday I took another step in using the abilities of the internet to make life more convenient.  I went to my bank's website and activated a feature to

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The cartoonist hit on what is for me a huge annoyance:  

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Incredible! The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive

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I'm very disappointed.  After all my research and composing the lengthy post about the safety of Halloween, this would turn out to be the year when Halloween indeed became potentially deadly. But the details put the Trick in Trick or Treat.  Turns out the danger was from child to adult! When a woman joked Monday that she was going to take a 10-year-old’s Halloween candy, the boy allegedly

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My inner "neek" (nerd/geek) just loves this: Fighting Violent Gang Crime With Math About 80 percent of the time, the mathematicians could narrow it down to three gang rivalries that were most likely involved in a crime. "Our algorithm placed the correct gang rivalry within the top three most likely rivalries 80 percent of the time ...and that is when we don't know anything about the crime

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Is Senators' pay a good investment? To protect the purity of Vermont's signature crop and to dissuade others from passing off fake maple syrup for the real thing – which sells for about $50 a gallon – Vermont's two U.S. senators have co-sponsored a bill that would make it a felony to sell fake maple syrup as the real thing. It would also increase the penalties in existing law from one year to

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 A better view, I think.

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I went to the grocery today and the checker boy was dressed as a whoopie cushion. And even MORE exciting I got to shovel snow yesterday.

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I was waiting on someone to invent something to make even hot blondes hideous.  Kinda like buying tennis shoes when I was a kid:  Room to grow. Forever Lazy And the name?  Scientifically selected to reinforce European stereotypes of Americans.  How long until this is being worn to WalMart and not just purchased there?

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I hope I never become so jaded as to think we have already unlocked all the wonders science has to offer and therefore discount out of hand the possibility that someone, somewhere has done a thing that is life altering. In this spirit I've been following a test of a gizmo in Italy - referred to as the E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer). A casual reading of the E-Cat premise will quickly remind the

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...you don't need propaganda. But this time of year we are all bombarded with propaganda about Halloween. And if you wish to go along, I'd like to take you on a journey so we may arrive at a sensible conclusion. I have no idea what your views are on the topic of Halloween. You may have no interest in the topic and should that be the case, I hope you will stop reading now and move on to

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I really should have been a physicist.  I would stay up all night playing with quantum toys!  Watch til the end for the really cool part.  

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Worth a read:  When one person takes the property of another, that’s tyranny, but when lots of people get together and do it, that’s democracy. So we should legislate that the 1 percent no longer get to keep that vast wealth and must instead distribute it among the rest of us. (I should get the largest portion because it was my idea.) After we’ve taken care of their wealth, to keep the nation

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Destination:  Mars How to Get There:  Rocket Who's Going:  Rocket Man Things to Note:  Not a good place to raise a family; quite chilly in fact Destination:  New Orleans How to Get There:  Thumb a ride on a diesel Who's Going: Me and Bobbi McGee Things to Note:  Driver has limited song repertoire Destination: America (by way of the New Jersey Turnpike) How to Get There:  Greyhound Who's Going:

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 A new Dinner Table challenge.... Found this at iwastesomuchtime   and thought this crowd can CERTAINLY play this game...for clarity, if needed, I thought we could add who's going and things to note: Here's the start: Let's add to it.  I'll get this going: Destination:  Home How To Get There:  Aeroplane Who's Going:  The Box Tops Things to Note:  Insufficient time to take a fast train.

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I've mentioned the Transitions group before, our ministry for single agains for whom Jackie and I serve as leaders. We have nine members now.  Today I hosted a cookout lunch for all who could attend.  We had five.  This photo includes Jackie (on the right), Vickie and Tracey.  Yes, I am the only guy in the group at the moment though I think that will be changing soon as the next Divorce Care

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Some gold walks into a bar.  The bartender looks up and says AU!

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Jake!  What are you doing?!

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IN the summertime we visited clam shacks. Now that the clam shacks are closed we are going to diners. There are a lot in New England, especially Worcester MA (still pronounced, Wista) so we've been to a couple. This one is very authentic. The food was mediocre. Nice clock.

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From a photo piece at Forbes.com on the Occupy Wall Street participants.  Unemployed?  Inconceivable!

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Forbes.com makes use of a splash page on which a sponsor's ad appears. There is also a Forbes Thought Of The Day. I've copied and pasted that FTOTD below.Forbes Thought Of The Day“ The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err. ”— Thomas Carlyle And I wonder if it is a coincidence, or a deliberate jab at the President's remark during the ABC interview aired last night:"I believe all the

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Two separate investigations are underway Monday after multiple submachine guns and pistols used for SWAT training by the LAPD were found missing.The 21 MP-5 submachine guns and a dozen Colt 45 automatic pistols were taken from a locked container inside the Kennedy Building on San Pedro Street, police officials said.The location — which formerly housed clothing firms before it was donated to the

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$174,000 is the annual salary of a US Senator. So I wondered the question above when I saw this story: SENATE VOTES FOR UNLIMITED POTATOES IN SCHOOLS By Mary Clare Jalonick Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate threw its support behind the potato Tuesday, voting to block an Obama administration proposal to limit the vegetable on school lunch lines. Really? We have the Federal

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Actually, I had NOT seen this on TV...but I bought it anyway. And it works! I've had a problem with a slow draining bathroom sink for a couple of years. The problem seems to correspond with when I've used a trimmer to keep my hair off my ears, or other touchups of the haircut between barber visits. I've used every Drano and Liquid Plumr product out there. And none of them have really

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Thanks to Will for contributing the cleverest thing I've seen in a long while.

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Drudge has a sense of humor. Click to enlarge to better get the joke.

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The dogeared narrative goes topsy turvy as that whole "content of their character" idea is inconveniently applied... Unless there has been a heretofore unnoticed surge of Black voters into the ranks of the South Carolina GOP, this means that one out of every four voters in the most conservative electorate in the United States are now ready to vote for a Black candidate for president... ...when

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German products have a great reputation for their engineering. Know why? Because they are OVER-engineered. Kinda like this German guy trying to sort out an English idiom OVER analyzing the whole thing. Dude...ease up! * A German idiom translating as "I only understand the train station", used when we might say "It's Greek to me!".

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In an article on the real contribution to the world made by Steve Jobs.... Once you figure out why your cell phone gets better and cheaper every year but your public schools get more expensive and less effective, you can apply that model to answer a great many questions about public policy. Not all of them, but a great many. And then there is this... And to the kids camped out down on Wall Street

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My oldest and dearest pal had her gall bladder removed in 1988. She was in the hospital for 8 days, had all that tube stuff.....nasal tube, catheter, etc. And she was out of work for 6 weeks. I had my gall bladder removed Monday (3days ago) at 3pm. I was at home Monday at 7:30pm. This morning I walked 2 miles and went to the local outlet shopping place with Sylvia to get her scrubs for work. My

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It is sad to me that this man's words are remarkable, given our nation's founding principles. I wish this were not noteworthy for its American idealism. Sadly, in 2011, it is. It appears that there is need to clarify the policy affecting speakers at the law school. Student organizations are allocated budget by the Student Bar Association in order to allow them, among other things, to bring

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Circumcision Funding Cuts Hurt, Doctors Say

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I sorta made this up with some ideas taken from other recipes.... Last week I had leg cramps. Decided to buy bananas for the potassium. Helped the cramps tremendously. Today I notice I've got six bananas getting really ripe, soon to go bad. So I decided to make up what I call Elvis Salad...and try it out at our Transitions meeting tonight. It was a hit. Those of a certain age will

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Saturday I was in Bed, Bath and Beyond (I needed to stock up on some Beyond)...and at the check out line the pierced, tattooed girl asked me nicely if I'd like to buy a non-stick pan on special for ten dollars. I wouldn't usually do such a thing, but it crossed my mind that my plan was to bake chicken wings over the weekend, and those things stick to my cookie sheets no matter how much I

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His body, except for the right front leg, seems to have gone missing?????

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This guy did.

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Listed as Fifty Unexplainable Black & White Photographs. Below, a sample.

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Seriously?

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“no, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to own and use a dairy cow or a dairy herd;” “no, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from their own cow;” “no, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of their choice…” Or so says a judge in Wisconsin. No right to consume the milk from one's own cow? Who, pray tell, is empowered

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Cleaver: If Obama wasn't president, we would be ‘marching on the White House’ Where I live if our behavior is determined by someone else's skin color we are called racists...

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Perhaps I was a bit hasty on that Faith in Humanity thing....

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When it really counts, we can be counted on. Be sure to watch the short video.

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New on the tinnitus front...wondering where I can donate if it will hurry things along. Neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are offering hope to the 10 percent of the population who suffer from tinnitus – a constant, often high-pitched ringing or buzzing in the ears that can be annoying and even maddening, and has no cure. Their new findings, published online last week in

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