Category: General
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Festivus
Happy Festivus everyone! Did you air your grievances with your family today? There was no way that was happening for me this year.
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Broken fIlter
Friday night, 21-Dec-2012, I got mail in my work email box from some Area Wildlife Supervisor in northern Minnesota letting everyone know that the USPS had setup a PO Box for condolences for the families and friends of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre; and included a poem written by his sister. As tragic as this…
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Well the end of the world was a bust
I was hoping that at least something would happen this time, but I guess the Mayan’s calendar ending on 21-December-2012 is just the same problem as the Clipper development language that only recognized dates until 31-December-2999 (God help us if those systems are still running then). I’m sure that the *nix date has some finite…
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The end of the world
I watched a show on the History channel, Monday, 21 January, 2008 that said that the Mayans and others had predicted that today, Friday, 21 December, 2012 would be the day that there was a cosmic alignment that would flip the magnetic pole and start a cataclysm that might wipe out civilization as we know…
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Secession
Last Friday, 23-November-2012, I became aware of all the talk by the red states starting a petition to secede from the United States when I read the following editorial in the Star-Tribune. Just what we need… another Civil War.We in the blue states hear from the talking heads on Fox News and MSNBC that many…
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Fruitcake day
No time to post today… time to make the fruitcakes.Made six batches, and ended up with forty loaves, plus one leftover.
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Election Day
Today is the day that you get to participate in the democratic process and vote for the leaders that will represent you for the next two to six years.Minneapolis/Saint Paul Star-Tribune, Sunday, 5 November, 2012Do they think we don’t remember who screwed us over and hollowed out the middle class? People just like Romney!Choose wisely,…