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Monthly Archives: May 2008
Bag of Randomness – My Week Off and Lost Stuff
My week off: Indiana Jones was extremely disappointing – 19 years of anticipation down the drain. From The Earth to the Moon is some pretty good stuff. It’s about 12 hours long and I think I have about three hours … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
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WifeGeeding Caught Us Napping
Speaking of R and R . . . I don’t start my new job for a week and plan on doing a lot of R and R, which means I don’t plan on blogging at all this week. So this … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
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Beans Around The World
The amazing (but true!) journey of a can of S & W® brand black beans as they make their way across this great land of ours, and to other nations! Link
Posted in Goofy
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Autoloc Flame Thrower
This sizzling product can make up to 20 feet of flames shoot from your exhaust tips with a touch of a button! The kit’s main control box can control 2 spark plugs for optimal performance on dual-exhaust vehicles. Easy installation … Continue reading
Posted in Goofy
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Top 10 snacks from U.S. vending machines
Top snacks in dollar sales from vending machines, according to Automatic Merchandiser. 1. Snickers 2. Doritos Big Grab 3. Peanut M&Ms 4. Cheetos Crunchy 5. Cheez-It Original 6. Twix Bar 7. Strawberry Frosted Pop-Tarts 8. Rice Krispies Treat 9. Lay’s … Continue reading
Posted in Pop Culture
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50 Amazingly Helpful Time-Tested Tips for the Kitchen
For cleaning smelly hands after chopping onions or garlic, just rub them on a stainless steel spoon. The steel is supposed to absorb the odor. Burned a pot of rice? Just place a piece of white bread on top of … Continue reading
Posted in Interesting
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Giant ‘telescope’ links London, New York
LONDON, England (CNN) — As the first splinters of sunlight spread their warmth upon the South Bank of the River Thames this morning, it became clear that after more than a century, the vision of Victorian engineer Alexander Stanhope St … Continue reading
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Wrong Roof
I can’t find the article online, but last night WFAA had a report about a roofing mixup in Lewisville. Basically, a roofing company removed the roof of the wrong house all because they were off by one digit of the … Continue reading
Posted in DFW, Texas
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Stunt Man
Need to take your anger out on something? Open this package and throw this guy around for a while. Link
Posted in Goofy
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What it’s like to play Captain Jack Sparrow at Disneyland
It’s not the cleanest of articles, but offers some interesting insight, perhaps PG13-ish. A few hightlights: Disney wanted us to tone Jack down, so they put us through an acting class to discover reasons why Jack walks and talks the … Continue reading
Posted in Interesting, Pop Culture
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YouTomb
YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation. Link
Posted in Goofy
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The Ten Most Important Satellites Orbiting Earth
Today, a satellite was involved in your life. Whether you checked a weather report, watched SportsCenter or looked for your mom’s house on Google Maps, you did something that would have been impossible without an automated spacecraft orbiting hundreds of … Continue reading
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Orthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments in Israel
Orthodox Jews set fire to hundreds of copies of the New Testament in the latest act of violence against Christian missionaries in the Holy Land. Or Yehuda Deputy Mayor Uzi Aharon said missionaries recently entered a neighborhood in the predominantly … Continue reading
Posted in Spiritual
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