Category: daily drivel
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space fart
Ah, the wisdom that astronauts have to impart upon us: Another fact of space flight I wasn’t aware of until now. From Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” session with Chris Hadfield today. Read.
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backstory
I would love to know the back story that lead up to the video of a person on a scooter running into two cars, another scooter and a bus before finally plunging into a well or a caisson or a pit of despair. There’s got to be one hell of a good story here. Was… Read.
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traveling man
Driving through the Chequamegon Nicolet forest on a business trip this week, I was reminded that there are amazingly vast stretches of northern Wisconsin that are so sparsely populated that it hints at what the place might have looked like before people started tromping through it. And then we’d pass by the radio-controlled “Elk Crossing”… Read.
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FLING!
I just can’t stop watching this and snorting every time it flings the trash all over the sidewalk. I’ll probably still be here when you wake up tomorrow morning, giggling hysterically. And, just to put the needed dark spin on it: This is a vision of the robot apocalypse. We won’t be killed off by… Read.
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man-eating chair
Is it just me, or does the Inada DreamWave massaging chair look like the kind of soul-sucking weaponized Lay-Z-Boy used by the villain of a sci-fi movie to make Our Hero scream like an infant? Read.
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basketfull
This is how I end up with so many tools. When my Mom was preparing to move out of the ancestral manse, she lead me to the bottom of the basement stairs where Dad had built a work bench, waved her hand at the piles of tools he had accumulated over the years and said… Read.
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tools
I’ve got a lot of pegboard on the walls in my basement lair to hang tools on: Pegboard is quick and easy to put up and you can crowd as many tools onto a panel as you can buy hangers for but, as just about everybody knows, the little wire hangers have a tendency, one… Read.
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frivolity
While pouring gallons of coffee down my neck this morning, I ran through the long list of frivolous things I could do with my day off, but kept coming back to one non-frivolous thing that’s been crying for my attention since the end of summer: clean up the basement. In particular, the corner of the… Read.
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home alone
Seeing as how everybody else in my unit took the day off today, and I didn’t want to be all alone at work, I decided to take the day off and be all alone at home. I’ll try to explain later how that makes sense, sort of. I’m not totally alone; at least I’ve got… Read.
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kaZAM
For my final trick today, I’ll make this box spring disappear. Abra kadabra … … ala kaZAM! Nothing left but the mattress. Am I good or what? Read.
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