Month: July 2012
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carriage
The internet: The sum of all human knowledge at your fingertips. You can find anything there. And yet … I have a manual typewriter made by the Royal Typewriter Company. I’m trying to find out how to take the carriage off so I can give it a thorough cleaning. I asked The Mighty Google: “Remove… Read.
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slomo
Interwebs Find O’ The Day: The Slow Mo Guys Check out The Slow Mo Guys Read.
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stoned2
I’ve been to House On The Rock once before we went on our family outing last week with Sean. Many, many moons ago, when I was just a dorky beanpole teenager instead of a dorky beanpole middle-aged guy, my mom and dad stopped there during a family vacation, probably a weekend camping trip, but to… Read.
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mal
My Darling B has a notebook computer that doesn’t work very well. It used to, back in the first few months after she bought it, but then it slowed down, slower and slower until she updated the operating system from Vista to Windows 7. By then it was running so slowly that took the better… Read.
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can’t
The elation of making it to Friday is usually somewhat tempered by the need to find the reserves of energy necessary to get to the end of the day. Fortunately, there’s coffee. Read.
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deluge
It rained again yesterday evening, not regular rain but scary rain, the kind that comes down sideways in thick sheets and made me think that we might be on the front page of a few newspapers in the morning. Are there still newspapers outside of Wisconsin? I went looking for our emergency flashlight even though… Read.
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stoned
My Darling B and I took Sean on a day trip to see The House On The Rock yesterday. “It’s something everyone has to do when they go to Wisconsin, and we haven’t done it yet,” she explained. So, in spite of a tiny bit of reluctance I may have detected from Sean, we jumped… Read.
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magic
It rained! For the first time since, I think, May, it rained! Not much, and not for very long, and all traces of it were dried up and gone about an hour later, but for a while it was pretty magical, so much so that My Darling B went out on the patio and stood… Read.
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crud
Some kind of sticky crud forms on the lip of my coffee cup as I sip from it first thing in the morning. I usually just lick my thumb to wet it and wipe the crud off. This morning, though, I paused just long enough to wonder: What is that crud? The obvious answer is:… Read.
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Alien QandA
How much did Ash know about the alien, and when did he know it? That, boys and girls, is the topic of this morning’s drivel. I just watched the movie Alien a couple nights ago, any maybe you haven’t, so to quickly summarize: The crew of a ship in deep space is directed to investigate… Read.
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