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.
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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: ...
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Ten Apple Varieties Once Thought Extinct Rediscovered in Pacific Northwest
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 ...
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A great article from the Smithsonian. And a solution video from Wired. (24 minutes)
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Back in the late 90’s when I worked for USWest, I worked in a call center. We lost our manager to a promotion, and were an unsupervised “self-directed team” during that time. We were also the most productive of the 4 teams that made up our section during that same period. I mentioned this fact to the new boss when he finally was chosen. More from my Pinterest trove
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