Have an adult beverage if you haven’t had too many already, and let’s get ready for the new year.
Ahh-the good old days. Look ma – no helmet
What a long strange trip its been. And will continue to be. Let’s look back a a memorable year, and forward to what’s to come. And Happy New Year. Hope yours is better than 2020.
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In the early 1920s, Soviet radio engineer León Theremin shocked audiences around the world with what appeared, at first glance, to be a magic trick. Standing in front of a contraption resembling a radio with two antennas, he conducted his hands in precise patterns and shapes, never touching the device itself. As Theremin’s hands moved, an ...
A truly hilarious cartoon from my uncle Ron.
“when the teacher is ready, the student will appear.”
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How are sports faring during the Pandemic? Here are some ideas.
And some non-sports related pictures.
As reported here, the Political Correctness Police have turned their gaze in the direction of InfoTech and CyberSec, replacing terms like Black List and White List with racially neutral terms such as Deny List and Allow List, and White Hat Hackers and Black Hat Hackers with Authorized Hackers and Unauthorized Hackers. How long before Retail feels the heat for Black Friday? My proposed replacement is in the title. And here are some gift ideas for the hard to shop for: ...
Continue Reading →This is from the Smithsonian. Click through for the full article.
The “lost” apples will help restore genetic, culinary diversity to a crop North America once produced in astonishing variety. I think that preserving heritage varieties of anything is important. We have become, as a species, way too dependent on food mono-cultures, that in the event of a blight or plant disease would result in mass ...
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Be sure to expand this article by clicking on the article title, so you don’t miss the funny questions below the image.
This is from an older post from McSweeny’s. We have all set up a number of these “secret security questions” like the ones one the left, and the appropriate answer. These questions are generally used for password ...
Continue Reading →A great article from the Smithsonian. And a solution video from Wired. (24 minutes)
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