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4 days ago

The Limits of Endurance

Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 Man’s Greatest Story of Survival and Rescue, A Sculpture by JackBellis@hotmail.com THIS IS THE STORY of Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914 expedition to Antarctica, captured in breathtaking bas-relief and glorious scale. Put this in your home or business and people will have one reaction: “Wow…

Ernest Shackleton

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The Limits of Endurance
The Limits of Endurance
Ernest Shackleton

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5 days ago

Cheapo Airline Seat Charges

Inspired by Key and Peele’s video “Boarding a Plane Shouldn’t Be This Hard ,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhxlZC8BZJ4 Attendant: Oh, I see you’ve moved over to take the empty window seat, sir. We’ll have to redo your amenities. Would you like our optional armrest service? Half, full, none? Traveler: What? Oh, no the…

Key And Peele

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Cheapo Airline Seat Charges
Cheapo Airline Seat Charges
Key And Peele

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Jan 11

The recent spectacle of John Fetterman in a televised debate, clearly showing signs of having had…

Preface: A January 11, 2023 NYT opinion piece, probably behind their paywall (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/opinion/republican-party-future.html) had David Brooks and Bret Stephens debating how the Republican Party turned into an obnoxious shit-show and what to do about it. Who better to solve what I’ll call “50 years of accumulated anti-coastal-elitist grievance,” than two…

Partisanship

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Partisanship

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Jan 9

The Only Solution to (US) Football Safety

Now that US football’s NFL player Damar Hamlin seems on the road to recovery and our national 15 minutes of outrage has moved on to its next fleeting spotlight, here’s the solution to the problem of concussions in football. I don’t like to tease, so here it is: 1) Stop…

Concussions

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The Only Solution to (US) Football Safety
The Only Solution to (US) Football Safety
Concussions

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Aug 21, 2022

The Incredible Power of Your Cell Phone Camera… at 42 Light-Yards

… At 300 Meters My family was on vacation recently in Lewes, Delaware, USA. From our rental room we were looking across America’s East Coast’s Intracoastal Waterway — essentially a large canal at our location — and noticed some folks doing Zumba on the deck at some building. We wondered what building it was…

Cell Phones

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The Incredible Power of Your Cell Phone Camera… at 42 Light-Yards
The Incredible Power of Your Cell Phone Camera… at 42 Light-Yards
Cell Phones

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Aug 10, 2022

The Correct Instructions for Assembling a Coleman 6-Person River Gorge Tent

I bought this wonderful tent, which is yet another testament to our incredible manufacturing technology… but sadly an example of how some companies refuse to find good techwriters. It is incredibly easy to assemble, but only with the following instructions. You’re welcome. Understand the 4 Parts You’ll Be Assembling. …

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The Correct Instructions for Assembling a Coleman 6-Person River Gorge Tent
The Correct Instructions for Assembling a Coleman 6-Person River Gorge Tent

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Jul 21, 2022

6 Things We Can Do Right Now to Reverse Global Warming

Change the US Postal Service delivery to every-other-day, three days to one set of customers, the other three days to the remaining customers. This will save millions of gallons of gasoline every day, and the commensurate greenhouse gasses. The level of service will not be impacted in any perceptible measure. …

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Jul 8, 2022

People So Big You Can See Them from Outer Space

I recently started wondering how many people are so big you could almost see them from outer space. It reminded me of a 1995 cartoon, Herb Block of the Washington Post, that I saved in my paper scrapbook collection. So it brings up the question, what other names are that…

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People So Big You Can See Them from Outer Space
People So Big You Can See Them from Outer Space

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Jul 8, 2022

A Hopeful Way of Understanding American Anti-Liberalism

Explaining how the American experience predisposes us to a whipsaw effect in our path to a liberal society. Perhaps you’re a young American who worries there won’t be enough guns in the future, or there will be too many abortions. If so, this essay is not for you. This is…

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Feb 27, 2022

Storing Blink Videos without Subscription Payment Plan

If, like me, you couldn’t figure out what the Amazon Blink video storage options actually were, let me clarify: You CAN do motion detection video recording without paying a monthly fee (by connecting your own USB device to the Blink Sync Module)… you just can’t play them back on your…

Blink Recording

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Storing Blink Videos without Subscription Payment Plan
Storing Blink Videos without Subscription Payment Plan
Blink Recording

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