Hugs and kisses (virtual) for the CenturyLink tech that found and fixed the problem with our DSL. Be a while before I take even so-so internet access for granted.
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Category Archives: Miscellany
Raccoons-1, Humans-0
My friend George kept his cat food in a metal cabinet to keep it from the raccoons. The figured out how to work the latch and open the doors. So he started locking the doors. They found the key (hanging on a hook nearby) and stole it. He had to break the latch to open the doors. Problem solved.
Death by clown
R.I.P. Donald
My friend John spotted this in one of the Kennett cemeteries. Would love to know the story
Advice from Kevin Kelly
On his 68th birthday, Kevin Kelly offers 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice from Kevin Kelly. My two favorites:
“You are what you do. Not what you say, not what you believe, not how you vote, but what you spend your time on.”
“When crisis and disaster strike, don’t waste them. No problems, no progress.”
In my future
This is in my future. I’ve got an electric clipper on the way but I might have a go at this first. How hard can it be?
Un dead?
This might be the best subject line ever. There was some kind of Kim Jung Un meme going around on Google+ back in the day and I created the image above to send to my friend in Bisbee, AZ. He recently resurrected it and it went viral (in Bisbee) under the subject line: “Un Dead?”
Workers on Chrysler Building (1929-1930)
“New York’s Chrysler Building, one of the city’s most iconic skyscrapers, was built in a remarkably short time–foundation work began in November 1928, and the building officially opened in May 1930. Even more remarkably, the steelwork went up in just six months in the summer of 1929 at an average rate of four floors a week.
Fox Movietone’s sound cameras visited the construction site several times in 1929 and 1930, staging a number of shots to maximize viewers’ sense of the spectacular heights.”
One Single Word
“According to scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, there is only one word in existence that’s the same in every language, and that word is ‘huh’. By recording segments of informal language from across five continents, the scientists have revealed that the world ‘huh’ is the same in 31 different languages, making it the most universally understood term in the world.”
“The researchers have suggested that the reason ‘huh’ is the only word to have spontaneously adopted the same meaning in almost every language is because there is no other word that is capable of filling its place. According to the study, ‘huh’ is the only word capable of stating that there is a problem, signaling that it has to do with a lack of knowledge and asking for a response without being aware of what that response may be.”
Junk
We are the sum of what we stuff in rented storage units. I’m considering renting one and leaving it empty.