Category: play
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loopty-loop
From high atop the tallest stepstool I own, I took this aerial view snapshot of the Lost Continent Railway: My phone camera can also do panoramas. Nifty keen neato, right? The latest addition to the LoCo is the benchwork along the backside of the layout. The eastern terminal, yet to be named (although it’s rumored… Read.
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tornado room
For our last Friday the 13th dinner of the year we decided to dine at the Tornado Room on Main Street in downtown Madison. This was our first time at the Tornado despite having heard nothing but good things about it and telling each other for the past six years that we would have to… Read.
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can’t wait for the video
Hypothetical question for you: Pretend for a moment that you have somehow been sucked backward through time. Like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, you find yourself experiencing events that have already happened to you. As a general rule, what’s the one thing you should never, ever do? Anybody? Anybody? Okay, I’ll just tell you:… Read.
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The Astronaut Wives Club
It’s possible that the seven wives of the first American astronauts may have been boring people. I haven’t met any of them. It seems unlikely, though. What I’ve read about them (up until now) suggests that they were at least as interesting as most people. And being military wives, they’d traveled back and forth across… Read.
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57 channels of shit
All those channels of shit TV shows make it easier for you to get the quality shows you like to watch, according to the geniuses who study and write reports about his kind of crap. Having just returned from a business trip to Hayward, Wisconsin, where there is very little to do in early December… Read.
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hannalore gets it
In today’s installment of Questionable Content, a light bulb goes on over Hannalore’s head when she finally gets why Marigold wants to see Dale … and it’s a CFC light bulb. I wonder if this is the first time a CFC light bulb has been used in a toon to illustrate a eureka moment? 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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toejam
The headline I had to click on today: “Scientists make cheese from human toe jam” Selfmade is an exhibit that hosts a number of cheeses crafted from cells collected from human bodies. Part art, part science, it’s the work of Christina Agapakis and Prof. Sissel Tolaas, who sampled microbes from human mouths, toes, navels, and… Read.
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no words
My brother plays this game with me where he texts me a line from a pop song, sometimes familiar, sometimes obscure, and I try to guess what it is. He’s much better at this game than I am. The other day he texted, “He says his name is William, but I’m sure he’s Bill or… Read.
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javaless
I’ve been on the road for a couple days in the service of the Great State of Wisconsin, which means that I haven’t had a decent cup of coffee until just this morning. The hotels we stay in on these trips are all the kind that serve a complimentary breakfast of dried cereal or make-your-own… Read.
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