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Trojan Games

posted about 1 month ago | 4 comments
(Rated R)
The Precision Vault (where things can sometimes go horribly wrong):




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American Pragmatism

posted 2 months ago | 8 comments
My parents were fiscally conservative, but socially very liberal. When they were young, they were “Eisenhower Republicans”. They believed that federal expenses should not exceed taxes. They became Democrats during the Reagan years. They opposed th...

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D.I.Y.

posted 2 months ago, updated 4 minutes later | 4 comments
When I want devilled eggs, I buy them at Kroger's. But in the process of moving, I have also been doing an archealogy experiment on my "spare table / stovetop" -- as I dig deeper, I find objects from further back in time. In a few days, I will be ...

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Harmonic Convergence

posted 4 months ago | 4 comments
I read an interesting article online this past Friday. It was about today’s “Apple iPhone” shindig, and about the convergence of digital devices. I had been thinking about the convergence of digital devices ever since I saw a photo of the new MacB...

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A Healthy Drink

posted 4 months ago | 6 comments
I’ve come up with a new, old-fashioned drink. It combines the highball, with the original Tom Collins, and the healing power of quinine from gin and tonic.

A highball was originally rye whiskey and ginger ale. Ginger ale is carbonated water with ...

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I Support Platypusian Values

posted 5 months ago, updated about 2 hours later | 6 comments
Thank God for the platypus. Or maybe not. Why is it that when “creationists” want to claim that they are rational, they always assert that there is no genetic mutation or evolution, and, therefore, humans are not primates? Why don’t they “prove” t...

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Human sacrifice is not a religious freedom

posted 5 months ago | 3 comments
From the Associated Press:

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Texas child welfare officials say almost 60 percent of the underage girls taken in a raid on a polygamist compound in west Texas either have children or are pregnant.

Of the 53 girls between the ages...

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3,000 !!!

posted 5 months ago, updated 3 minutes later | 4 comments
Woohoo!!! I FINALLY reached the magical plateau of having my profile page viewed 3,000 times!!!

This is no small potatoes! *

I've only been a member since 1/27/07 -- less than 15 months! So that's 3,000 views in LESS THAN 15 MONTHS!!! Do the mat...

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NOT MY FAULT!

posted 6 months ago, updated about 1 hour later | 7 comments
I recently escaped near-certain death. I rode in a car traveling southbound (the MOST TREACHEROUS DIRECTION!!!) down the Pacific Coast Highway from a bit north of Santa Cruz, to a bit south of San Simeon. You should know right here that in an aver...

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Pop Top

posted 6 months ago | 2 comments
In talking with “young people”, I’ve found out that around the age of 35 is the cut-off for having a clue what a “pop top” was. As a lifeguard on a sand beach in the early / mid 1970s, I know exactly what the little “blades from Hell” are. It was ...

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